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Forms of Attention
Forms of Attention
Kermode, Frank
¥129.49
Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, instructor, and author, was an inspired critic.?Forms of Attention is based on a series of three lectures he gave on canon formation, or how we choose what art to value. The essay on Botticelli traces the artist's sudden popularity in the nineteenth century for reasons that have more to do with poetry than painting. In the second essay, Kermode reads Hamlet from a very modern angle, offering a useful (and playful) perspective for a contemporary audience. The final essay is a defense of literary criticism as a process and conversation that, while often conflating knowledge with opinion, keeps us reading great art and working with-and for-literature.?"e;Kermode's volume has the virtue of a lecturer's accessible style designed for a listening audience. It is also self-consciously spare of 'naked criticism.' There is, nonetheless, an abundance of learned commentary, steady substance, and unveiled critical excellence. Which is to say the volume is a useful and engaging reflection of its learned author."e;-London Review of Books
Learning to Look
Learning to Look
Taylor, Joshua C.
¥123.61
Sometimes seeing is more difficult for the student of art than believing. Taylor, in a book that has sold more than 300,000 copies since its original publication in 1957, has helped two generations of art students "e;learn to look."e;This handy guide to the visual arts is designed to provide a comprehensive view of art, moving from the analytic study of specific works to a consideration of broad principles and technical matters. Forty-four carefully selected illustrations afford an excellent sampling of the wide range of experience awaiting the explorer.The second edition of Learning to Look includes a new chapter on twentieth-century art. Taylor's thoughtful discussion of pure forms and our responses to them gives the reader a few useful starting points for looking at art that does not reproduce nature and for understanding the distance between contemporary figurative art and reality.
Rembrandt's Jews
Rembrandt's Jews
Nadler, Steven
¥175.40
There is a popular and romantic myth about Rembrandt and the Jewish people. One of history's greatest artists, we are often told, had a special affinity for Judaism. With so many of Rembrandt's works devoted to stories of the Hebrew Bible, and with his apparent penchant for Jewish themes and the sympathetic portrayal of Jewish faces, it is no wonder that the myth has endured for centuries.Rembrandt's Jews puts this myth to the test as it examines both the legend and the reality of Rembrandt's relationship to Jews and Judaism. In his elegantly written and engrossing tour of Jewish Amsterdam-which begins in 1653 as workers are repairing Rembrandt's Portuguese-Jewish neighbor's house and completely disrupting the artist's life and livelihood-Steven Nadler tells us the stories of the artist's portraits of Jewish sitters, of his mundane and often contentious dealings with his neighbors in the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam, and of the tolerant setting that city provided for Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews fleeing persecution in other parts of Europe. As Nadler shows, Rembrandt was only one of a number of prominent seventeenth-century Dutch painters and draftsmen who found inspiration in Jewish subjects. Looking at other artists, such as the landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael and Emmanuel de Witte, a celebrated painter of architectural interiors, Nadler is able to build a deep and complex account of the remarkable relationship between Dutch and Jewish cultures in the period, evidenced in the dispassionate, even ordinary ways in which Jews and their religion are represented-far from the demonization and grotesque caricatures, the iconography of the outsider, so often found in depictions of Jews during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.Through his close look at paintings, etchings, and drawings; in his discussion of intellectual and social life during the Dutch Golden Age; and even through his own travels in pursuit of his subject, Nadler takes the reader through Jewish Amsterdam then and now-a trip that, under ever-threatening Dutch skies, is full of colorful and eccentric personalities, fiery debates, and magnificent art.
Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History
Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History
Gillespie, Michael Allen
¥182.47
In this wide-ranging and thoughtful study, Michael Allen Gillespie explores the philosophical foundation, or ground, of the concept of history. Analyzing the historical conflict between human nature and freedom, he centers his discussion on Hegel and Heidegger but also draws on the pertinent thought of other philosophers whose contributions to the debate is crucial-particularly Rousseau, Kant, and Nietzsche.
Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere
Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere
Perec, Georges
¥147.15
Puckish and playful, Georges Perec infused avant-garde and experimental fiction with a wit and wonder that belied the serious concerns and concepts that underpinned it. A prominent member of the OuLiPo, and an abiding influence on fiction writers today, Perec used formal constraints to dazzling effect in such works as A Void-a murder mystery that contains nary an "e;e"e;-and Life A User's Manual, in which an apartment building, systematically canvassed, unfolds secrets and, ultimately offers a reflection on creation, destruction, and the devotion to art.?Before embarking on these experiments, however, Perec tried his hand at a relatively straightforward novel, Portrait of a Man. His first book, it was rejected by publishers when he submitted it in 1960, after which he filed it away. Decades after Perec's death, David Bellos discovered the manu*, and through his translation we have a chance to enjoy it in English for the first time. What fans will find here is a thriller that combines themes that would remain prominent in Perec's later work, such as art forgery, authenticity, and murder, as well as craftsman Gaspard Winckler, who whose namesakes play major roles in Life A User's Manual and W or The Memory of Childhood.?Engaging and entertaining on its own merits, and gaining additional interest when set in the context of Perec's career, Portrait of a Man is sure to charm the many fans of this postmodern master.
Wandering Mind
Wandering Mind
Corballis, Michael C.
¥147.15
If we've done our job well-and, let's be honest, if we're lucky-you'll read to the end of this de*ion. Most likely, however, you won't. Somewhere in the middle of the next paragraph, your mind will wander off. Minds wander. That's just how it is.?That may be bad news for me, but is it bad news for people in generalDoes the fact that as much as fifty percent of our waking hours find us failing to focus on the task at hand represent a problemMichael Corballis doesn't think so, and with The Wandering Mind, he shows us why, rehabilitating woolgathering and revealing its incredibly useful effects. Drawing on the latest research from cognitive science and evolutionary biology, Corballis shows us how mind-wandering not only frees us from moment-to-moment drudgery, but also from the limitations of our immediate selves. Mind-wandering strengthens our imagination, fueling the flights of invention, storytelling, and empathy that underlie our shared humanity; furthermore, he explains, our tendency to wander back and forth through the timeline of our lives is fundamental to our very sense of ourselves as coherent, continuing personalities.?Full of unusual examples and surprising discoveries, The Wandering Mind mounts a vigorous defense of inattentioneven as it never fails to hold the reader's.
Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes
Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes
Valencius, Conevery Bolton
¥247.21
From December 1811 to February 1812, massive earthquakes shook the middle Mississippi Valley, collapsing homes, snapping large trees midtrunk, and briefly but dramatically reversing the flow of the continent's mightiest river. For decades, people puzzled over the causes of the quakes, but by the time the nation began to recover from the Civil War, the New Madrid earthquakes had been essentially forgotten.?In The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes, Conevery Bolton Valencius remembers this major environmental disaster, demonstrating how events that have been long forgotten, even denied and ridiculed as tall tales, were in fact enormously important at the time of their occurrence, and continue to affect us today. Valencius weaves together scientific and historical evidence to demonstrate the vast role the New Madrid earthquakes played in the United States in the early nineteenth century, shaping the settlement patterns of early western Cherokees and other Indians, heightening the credibility of Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa for their Indian League in the War of 1812, giving force to frontier religious revival, and spreading scientific inquiry. Moving into the present, Valencius explores the intertwined reasons-environmental, scientific, social, and economic-why something as consequential as major earthquakes can be lost from public knowledge, offering a cautionary tale in a world struggling to respond to global climate change amid widespread willful denial.Engagingly written and ambitiously researched-both in the scientific literature and the writings of the time-The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes will be an important resource in environmental history, geology, and seismology, as well as history of science and medicine and early American and Native American history.
12 szabály az élethez - ?gy kerüld el a káoszt!
12 szabály az élethez - ?gy kerüld el a káoszt!
Jordan B. Peterson
¥70.80
A ?Védtelen város” elnevezés? irodalmi és fotópályázatot 2015 szeptemberében indította útjára az Underground Kiadó szerkeszt?sége. A beérkezett m?vekb?l állt ?ssze ez a válogatás. Kett?s célunk volt. Egyrészt terepet adni szépíróknak és fotósoknak, hogy végzettségt?l, kortól, minden címkét?l függetlenül, csupán a m?vészetcsinálás ?r?méért alkothassanak. Másrészt olyan tematikát akartunk k?rbejárni, amely sokaknak sokfélét jelent. ?gy teremtettünk meg egy városi kaleidoszkópot, egy életb?l merített, mégis fiktív teret, amely folyamatosan változik – a szemlél?t?l függ?en. /a szerkeszt?: Sós Dóra/
A legszebb hastáncosn?
A legszebb hastáncosn?
Abby Green
¥18.56
A legszebb hastáncosn?
?l ?zel ?daresi Kanunu
?l ?zel ?daresi Kanunu
Simge Ceylan
¥2.70
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Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)
Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)
Charlotte Mary Yonge
¥24.44
Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)
T?bb mint ügyvéd
T?bb mint ügyvéd
Trish Wylie
¥18.56
T?bb mint ügyvéd
Vendég a farmon
Vendég a farmon
Margaret Way
¥18.56
Vendég a farmon
Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
William Hazlitt
¥16.27
Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Ami a szemnek láthatatlan/ Szerencsés ballépés
Ami a szemnek láthatatlan/ Szerencsés ballépés
Fiona Lowe, Caroline Anderson
¥37.20
Ami a szemnek láthatatlan/ Szerencsés ballépés
Luxusmodell
Luxusmodell
Rebecca Winters
¥18.56
Luxusmodell
Olthatatlan vágy/ Hiába futsz/ K?nny? kaland, extrákkal
Olthatatlan vágy/ Hiába futsz/ K?nny? kaland, extrákkal
Natalie Anderson, Heidi Rice, Kate Hardy, Brenda Jackson
¥42.92
Olthatatlan vágy/ Hiába futsz/ K?nny? kaland, extrákkal
Mastering Family Finances: The Family Budgeting Crash Course
Mastering Family Finances: The Family Budgeting Crash Course
Suzzie Santos
¥24.44
Mastering Family Finances: The Family Budgeting Crash Course
?rd?gb?l ?rangyal
?rd?gb?l ?rangyal
Amy Andrews
¥18.56
rdgbl rangyal
Ponovo voljena
Ponovo voljena
Dženifer Gordon
¥37.03
Ponovo voljena
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Kül?n?s állásinterjú
Kate Hardy
¥18.56
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