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Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawings
Manet, Pissarro, Morisot, Cezanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh and their colleagues made some of the most beautiful drawings in the history of art. This book sets drawings by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists in the context of late nineteenth-century France and explains why these particular works are as important as their paintings in the representation of modernity.
A new approach to materials and a wholly inclusive attitude to exhibitions gave drawings a more elevated status in this period than ever before, which avant-garde artists welcomed in their preference for scenes from contemporary life. For the first time also, painting and drawing shared the same stylistic principles of spontaneity, freer handling and lack of finish. Pastels by Degas, watercolors by Cezanne, pen-and-ink drawings by Van Gogh and mixed media works by Toulouse-Lautrec have an autonomy of their own, which proved instrumental in the development of modern art.
The distinguished art historian Christopher Lloyd examines the drawings of twenty of the leading Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists, highlighting an aspect of French avant-garde art that remains relatively unexplored and was of immense importance for the art movements that followed
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Post-Truth
How we arrived in a post-truth era, when "alternative facts" replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence.
Are we living in a post-truth world, where "alternative facts" replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of "fake news," from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into "information silos."
What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples-claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote-and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn't begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial. Add to this the wired-in cognitive biases that make us feel that our conclusions are based on good reasoning even when they are not, the decline of traditional media and the rise of social media, and the emergence of fake news as a political tool, and we have the ideal conditions for post-truth. McIntyre also argues provocatively that the right wing borrowed from postmodernism-specifically, the idea that there is no such thing as objective truth-in its attacks on science and facts.
McIntyre argues that we can fight post-truth, and that the first step in fighting post-truth is to understand it.
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Doc Frankenstein The Post Modern Prometheus
The complete collection of Doc Frankenstein, including issues #1-6 with an additional 64 first-time-in-print pages, which conclude a story 15 years in the making!
The complete epic, in its first deluxe hardcover edition.
For more than two centuries, Doc Frankenstein has fought against monsters both the human and the supernatural to carve a place for himself and the world's dispossessed. Now the soldiers of the sacrosanct want him returned to the grave. With unlimited wealth and an army of disciples, they will kill anything in their way, and anyone standing by his side. Beyond good and evil, this is the Clash of the Rational against the Irrational and all that stands between the Earth and the Apocalypse is the Messiah of Science: Doc Frankenstein!
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Katyn
Katyn: A sztálini vérengzés és a lengyel feltámadás ígérete mesterien szövi egybe Lengyelország második világháború alatti "makrotörténelmét" a huszadik század megpróbáltatásai által elsodort családok sorsának "mikrotörténelmével". Manapság Katyn története Kelet-Európán kívül alig ismert, ám amikor a brutálisan meggyilkolt lengyel tisztek ezreinek holttesteit 1943-ban megtalálták, a hír csaknem lebénította a nyugati Szövetségeseket, és soha többé be nem gyógyuló törést okozott. A katyni felfedezést követő vita a legitim lengyel kormány elsorvadásához és csaknem fél évszázados szovjetek diktálta önkényuralomhoz vezetett.
A könyv olyan családok életét beszéli el, akiknek családfőit a szovjetek kivégezték. Kettőjüket Szibériába deportálták, ahol nagy nehezen sikerült csak életben maradniuk. A harmadik család Krakkóban, a német Protektorátus uralma alatt maradt. A szerző megrázó elbeszélést sző a szörnyű eseményeket átélt túlélőkkel folytatott beszélgetésekből.
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Miseducation of Cameron Post
Now a major motion picture starring Chloë Grace Moretz * Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner
"LGBTQ cinema is out in force at Sundance Film Festival," proclaimed USA Today. "The acerbic coming-of-age movie is adapted from Emily M. Danforth's novel, and stars Chloë Grace Moretz as a lesbian teen who is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after she gets caught having sex with her friend on prom night."
The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a stunning and provocative literary debut that was named to numerous best of the year lists.
When Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they'll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl.
But that relief doesn't last, and Cam is forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother. She knows that from this point on, her life will forever be different. Survival in Miles City, Montana, means blending in and leaving well enough alone, and Cam becomes an expert at both.
Then Coley Talor moves to town. Beautiful, pickup-driving Coley is a perfect cowgirl with the perfect boyfriend to match. She and Cam forge an unexpected and intense friendship, one that seems to leave room for something more to emerge. But just as that starts to seem like a real possibility, Aunt Ruth takes drastic action to "fix" her niece, bringing Cam face-to-face with the cost of denying her true self--even if she's not quite sure who that is.Don't miss this raw and powerful own voices debut, the basis for the award-winning film starring Chloë Grace Moretz.
Post This
Post This is the first book that empowers you to rediscover creativity and fun - and post the results to your social network. This is the first book of its kind for book lovers and the online generation, whatever social media platforms you use. Respond to the ingenious prompts to create a fabulous online feed: share colouring pages, photos of what you're doing, video clips, patterning, doodling and inspirations on and off the page. Express yourself without need for perfection, share your images via social media and interact with the worldwide community on the hashtag #PostThisBook.
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City Quitters: An Exploration of Post-Urban Life
City Quitters portrays creative pioneers pursuing alternative ways of living and working away from big cities.
What does it mean to leave city life behind? Can the reality of living in the countryside fulfil our desire for a better, simpler, more creative life? This book is an attempt to shed light on what rural life can be like today, with all its joys and challenges, providing a fresh look at the people and scenes thriving outside urban spaces.
From experimental co-habitation in a renaissance castle to oversized artworks on a farm, City Quitters offers a global perspective on creative post-urban life: 22 stories from 12 countries and five continents, all based in places with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants.
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Post-Photography
The real world is full of cameras; the virtual world is full of images. Where does all this photographic activity leave the artist-photographer? Post-Photography tries to answer that question by investigating the exciting new language of photographic image-making that is emerging in the digital age of anything-ispossible and everything-has-been-done-before. Found imagery has become increasingly important in post-photographic practice, with the internet serving as a laboratory for a major kind of imagemaking experimentation. But artists also continue to create entirely original works using avant-garde techniques drawn from both the digital and analogue eras. This book is split into five sections Something Borrowed, Something New; Layers of Reality; All the World Is Staged; Hand and Eye; and Post- Photojournalism which cover the key strategies adopted by 53 of the most exciting and innovative international artist-photographers of the 21st century.
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Post Office
Henry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, Post Office" is a landmark in American literature. The new edition is augmented with an anecdotal introduction by the modern Welsh cult-literary author, Niall Griffiths - a writer who was working in a British post office when he first read Bukowski's "Post Office"."
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Traces of the Virgin Mary in Post-Communist Europe
Even though Jesus had only one Mother, and there is only one Virgin Mary, tracing her mundane faces and varieties of her devotion across the centuries and continents has led us to the conclusion that there are as many Marys as there are people and nations who are devoted to her. This publication observes the current diversity of the forms of Marian devotion in post-Communist countries through different national and geographically defined contours and, in particular, the ability of the Virgin Mary to satisfy the hunger for modern spirituality and authentic religiousness, give voice to unofficial and popular religions, revitalise and redefine old places of cult and add new ones, appease war conflicts, speak out on behalf of nations and marginalised ethnic groups, and guard national and conservative values.
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Post-Capitalism
From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change, and how we can build a more equal society. Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone continual change - economic cycles that lurch from boom to bust - and has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason wonders whether today we are on the brink of a change so big, so profound, that this time capitalism itself, the immensely complex system by which entire societies function, has reached its limits and is changing into something wholly new. At the heart of this change is information technology: a revolution that, as Mason shows, has the potential to reshape utterly our familiar notions of work, production and value; and to destroy an economy based on markets and private ownership - in fact, he contends, it is already doing so. Almost unnoticed, in the niches and hollows of the market system, whole swathes of economic life are changing. Goods and services that no longer respond to the dictates of neoliberalism are appearing, from parallel currencies and time banks, to cooperatives and self-managed online spaces. Vast numbers of people are changing their behaviour, discovering new forms of ownership, lending and doing business that are distinct from, and contrary to, the current system of state-backed corporate capitalism. In this groundbreaking book Mason shows how, from the ashes of the recent financial crisis, we have the chance to create a more socially just and sustainable global economy. Moving beyond capitalism, he shows, is no longer a utopian dream. This is the first time in human history in which, equipped with an understanding of what is happening around us, we can predict and shape, rather than simply react to, seismic change.
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Post Scriptum
Post Scriptum Christer Strömholm is by far the largest monograph to detail one of Sweden?s best known photographers and his life. With nearly 270 of Christer Strömholm?s best photographs and around 60 complement pictures, a biography by author Johan Tell and essays by journalist Carole Naggar and gallery owner Christian Caujolle, it forms something which may well come to be a future standard work within the subject of photography. Christer Strömholm (1918-2002) was one of the most important Swedish photographers of our time. He spent most of his life in Sweden but early on made France his second home. He founded the legendary photography college Fotoskolan in Stockholm in 1962 and inspired an entire generation of Swedish photographers. He is most famous for his depiction of transsexuals in the Paris of the 1960s, resulting in his book Vännerna från Place Blanche (The Friends from Place Blanche). His photographs from travels in Japan, Spain and the United States have also won wide acclaim and are represented in several of the world?s leading museums. Christer Strömholm was appointed professor of photography by the Swedish government and was honoured with the prestigious Hasselblad Award in 1997.
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Vzpomínka na Zemi
Velkolepé finále nejoceňovanější sci-fi série současnosti.
Půl století po Bitvě soudného dne mezi lidmi a Trisolarany stále trvá napjaté přiměří, jehož zárukou je fundamentální princip temného lesa. Země díky trisolaranským technologiím zažívá dosud nevídanou éru prosperity. Lidská věda postupuje mílovými kroky kupředu a Trisolarané zase přejímají pozemskou kulturu. Zdá se, že obě civilizace budou záhy schopny rovnoprávně koexistovat v míru bez strašlivé hrozby vzájemného zničení. Lidstvo ve zlatém věku má však sklon k samolibosti.
V nové éře se z hibernace probouzí Ccheng Sin, letecká inženýrka z jednadvacátého století. Přináší s sebou informace o dávno zapomenutém projektu z počátku trisolaranské krize a sama její existence může narušit křehkou rovnováhu mezi oběma světy. Dosáhne lidstvo ke hvězdám, nebo zahyne už v kolébce?
Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-Socialist Europe: Perspectives in Curating Series
Comradeship collects 16 essays by the forward-thinking Slovenian curator, museum director and scholar Zdenka Badovinac (born 1958). Appointed director of Ljubljana's Museum of Modern Art in 1993 in the wake of Slovenian independence, Badovinac has become an influential voice in international conversations rethinking the geopolitics of art after the fall of communism. She is a ferocious critic of unequal negotiations between East and West and a leading historian of the avant-garde art that emerged in socialist and post-socialist countries at the end of the last century. One of the longest-serving and most prominent museum directors in the region, Badovinac has pioneered radical institutional forms to create a museum responsive to the complexities of the past, and commensurate with the demands of the present. Collecting writing from disparate and hard-to-find sources, as well as new work, this book offers a transformative perspective on a major thinker. It is a crucial handbook of alternative approaches to curating and institution-building in the 21st century. A dialogue between Badovinac and art historian J. Myers-Szupinska introduces her history and ideas. Comradeship is the third book in the series Perspectives in Curating by Independent Curators International. "Whip smart, politically astute, curatorially inventive: Zdenka Badovinac is nothing less than the most progressive and intellectually rigorous female museum director in Europe. This anthology includes key essays accompanying her series of brilliant exhibitions in Ljubljana, and is essential reading for anyone interested in the differences between former East and former West. For anyone seeking curatorial alternatives to the neoliberal museum model of relentless expansion and dumbed-down blockbusters, Badovinac is a galvanizing inspiration." -Claire Bishop, author of Artificial Hells
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Neobyčejná Grace
Někdy se ve vás zvedne taková vlna vzteku, že vás to až vyděsí. Lingvistka a bývalá televizní hvězda Grace Adamsová přišla o všechno a teď jí došla i trpělivost. Nestýká se s manželem ani s vlastní dcerou, a navíc ji po dvaceti letech vyhodili z práce. Grace, vyzbrojená dortem za dvě stě liber, se vydává na cestu přes severní Londýn a je odhodlaná v den dceřiných šestnáctých narozenin znovu získat její přízeň. Zatímco Grace bojuje s horkem, vyčerpáním a otravnými lidmi, v hlavě se jí vynořují vzpomínky na její kdysi šťastné manželství a spokojenou dceru. Ví, že minulost ani bolestivé události, které jí zničily život, už nezmění, ale je odhodlaná udělat cokoli, aby svou dceru získala zpátky.
Materializing Identities in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities
Kolektivní monografie se zabývá tématem materializace identit v prostoru socialistického a post-socialistického města. Vychází z předpokladu, že městský prostor sehrával důležitou roli v procesu formování národních identit těchto měst, přičemž formulace nových identit výrazně ovlivňuje vzhled (post)socialistických měst. Různé projevy a formy interakce mezi městským prostorem a identit jsou předmětem jednotlivých případových studií, které pokrývají prostor Běloruska, Makedonie, Kazachstánu a Moldavska.
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Soukromá vyšetřovatelka Julie Starková přijímá u sebe v kanceláři neohlášenou návštěvu. Per Günter Mott, který je jedním z majitelů úspěšné rodinné firmy, se předchozího dne zúčastnil schůze správní rady firmy a povečeřel na svém panství v severozápadním Švédsku. Ráno pak v mobilu našel fotografii zkrvaveného svázaného muže s pytlem na hlavě. Kvůli výpadkům paměti způsobeným velkým množstvím vypitého alkoholu ale netuší, jak se snímek do jeho telefonu dostal a kdo je na něm zachycený. Ze strachu o svoji pověst si Per Günter chce Julii najmout, aby očistila jeho jméno, než se do případu vloží policie.
Julie požádá svého bývalého manžela Sidneyho Mendelsona, který pracuje u městské policie, aby si vzal volno a s vyšetřováním jí pomohl. Stále ještě trochu doufá, že by to mohla být šance získat ho zpět. Julie a Sidney se společně vydají do honosného sídla, kde se postupně seznamují se všemi členy rodiny Pera Güntera. A jak se brzy ukáže, každý z nich má své tajemství.
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Veľká kniha keltských povestí
Úspešná spisovateľka Zuzana Kuglerová, ktorá sa svojim vstupom do historických tém Slovenska natrvalo zapísala do dejín slovenskej literatúry, prichádza s povesťami z ďalekého obdobia našich predkov – Keltov. Ako je u nej zvykom, mieša mystično s realitou. Každý, kto sa čo i len trochu zaujíma o svet Keltov, v tejto knihe nájde množstvo cenných a doteraz neuverejnených informácii. Zuzana Kuglerová zostáva aj v nej verná svojmu neskrotnému, zvedavému duchu a objavuje to, čo bolo očiam iných skryté. Čitatelia tak majú možnosť spoznať širokú plejádu keltských bohov, ich lásky a boje, ale aj legendárnych hrdinov, ktorí sa svojimi skutkami prepracovali až do ríše nesmrteľných. Tak, ako v predchádzajúcom diele – Veľká kniha staroslovanských povestí – aj v keltských povestiach načiera spisovateľka do oblastí, ktoré by ste v povesťovej knihe nečakali. V každom prípade sú však jej obohatením. Prináša nielen príbehy, ale aj recepty keltskej kuchyne a liečiteľstva či register keltských bájnych bytostí. Precízna práca s podkladovým materiálom dodáva knihe nielen hodnovernosť, ale aj príťažlivosť, ktorá čitateľa presvedčí, že Zuzane Kuglerovej právom patrí titul kráľovnej slovenských povestí. Veď sa už ich zbieraniu venuje viac ako 25 rokov. Výtvarníčka Alexandra Geschwandtnerova vstúpila do publikácie krásnymi ilustráciami, ktoré zvýrazňujú bohatý fantazijný svet Keltov. Spolupráca týchto dvoch autoriek sa osvedčila už v minulosti, keď za knihu Rozprávky pre moje kvety dostali cenu Zlatá pečať od Slovenského polygrafického zväzu.
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Stín bohů
Uplynulo celé století od doby, kdy spolu bohové bojovali a navzájem se vyhubili. Zůstaly pouze jejich kosti, slibující velkou moc těm, kdo jsou dost stateční na to, aby se je vydali hledat.
Vigrídem se šíří zvěsti o válce a osud následuje kroky tří bojovníků: lovkyně na nebezpečné výpravě, urozené ženy toužící po válečnické slávě a otroka, který usiluje o pomstu mezi žoldnéři známými jako Krvopřísežní. Všichni tři budou utvářet osud světa, když na něj opět padne stín bohů.
Stín bohů zahajuje novou epickou fantasy ságu Krvopřísežní, zasazenou v severském světě plném mýtů, magie a odplaty.
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