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September 2013Venezianische Vignetten
by Cees Nooteboom, Helga Beuningen
Wer Venedig kennenlernen will, muss sich darin verirren. Cees Nooteboom lässt sich auf das Wagnis ein und findet dabei seine ganz eigene Lagunenstadt. Kleine, versteckte Wege verlocken zum Betreten, vor allem, wenn ein Schild genau das verbietet. Die Gondeln schaukeln sanft auf dem Wasser und verführen schließlich auch den, der sich gegen solch touristischen Zeitvertreib immer gewehrt hat. Die Kostbarkeiten des Museo Correr betören den Besucher. Und über allem ruhen die Dogen, in ihren Sarkophagen auf halber Höhe der Kirchenmauer von Santi Giovanni e Paolo. In den Texten des großen Reisenden Cees Nooteboom und den Fotos von Simone Sassen ist eine der schönsten Städte der Welt neu zu entdecken.
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August 2009Landschaftszeichnungen
by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Javier Arnaldo, Hermann Mildenberger, Klassik Stiftung Weimar
Herausgegeben, im Auftrag der Klassik Stiftung Weimar, von Javier Arnaldo und Hermann Mildenberger. Die Klassik Stiftung Weimar besitzt einen einmaligen Bestand von eigenhändigen Zeichnungen Goethes – ein Schatz, der nach aufwendiger Restaurierung erstmals wieder in der Öffentlichkeit gezeigt wird: Im Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid wird von Ende Januar bis Ende April 2008 eine repräsentative Auswahl von über 70 Landschaftszeichnungen ausgestellt. Das Buch zu dieser Ausstellung enthält alle ausgestellten Bilder und erscheint parallel auf deutsch im Insel Verlag. Im historischen Teil seiner Farbenlehre kommt Goethe auch – in einer "Konfession des Verfassers" – auf sich selbst zu sprechen: "Ich war in einsamen Stunden früherer Zeit auf die Natur aufmerksam geworden, wie sie sich als Landschaft zeigt, und hatte, da ich von Kindheit auf in den Werkstätten der Maler aus und ein ging, Versuche gemacht, das, was mir in der Wirklichkeit erschien, so gut es sich schicken wollte, in ein Bild zu verwandeln; ja ich fühlte hiezu, wozu ich eigentlich keine Anlage hatte, einen weit größern Trieb als zu demjenigen, was mir von Natur leicht und bequem war." Das zeichnerische Werk Goethes steht also zumindest zeitweise mit im Zentrum von Goethes Schaffen. Essays von Javier Arnaldo, Werner Hofmann, Petra Maisak, Margarete Oppel und anderen vertiefen den Eindruck, den Goethes Landschaften hinterlassen, und stellen sie in ihren lebens- und werkgeschichtlichen Kontext.
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Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's/YA)October 2021El año de la rata
by Jorge Alderete
Our forests are shrinking every year due to fires forestry. Trees and all life that inhabits them, from tiny microorganisms to families of birds and animals are destroyed by flames that in most cases, are caused by we, humans.
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Traditional stories (Children's/YA)2008Bestiario azteca (Aztec bestiary)
by Ianna Andréadis, Élisabeth Foch
Eagle, grasshopper, jaguar, butterfly, dog, monkey, feathered serpent, all these animals, real or mythological, tiny or majestic, carry a message. Forty works drawn with pen or brush have a dialogue with the texts of Elisabeth Foch, By taking us to a journey through the museums of Anthropology, the Templo Mayor in Mexico and the collections of the musée du quai Branly in Paris, this book takes us into the world of an ancient Mexico.
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November 2001Das Schweißtuch der Veronika
Museumsspaziergänge
by László F. Földényi, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, György Jovánovics, Francisco de Goya, Arnold Böcklin, Francisco de Zurbarán, Max Klinger, Francis Bacon, Jacopo Bellini, Ákos Birkás, Michelangelo Michelangelo Buonarroti, Jan Vermeer, Vincent van Gogh, Guido Reni, Madrid Museo Arquologico, Madrid, René Magritte, Hans Skirecki, Zsuzsanna Gahse
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Humanities & Social SciencesThe Gospel of Prosperity
Literary and critical perspectives about the science of getting right quick
by Luis Miguel Estrada
In 2020, amidst the whirlwind of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ideas from books about the science of becoming a millionaire returned to Luis Miguel Estrada whom, since he left a financial job, has dedicated himself fully to literature. In this book, he thinks some of the key questions raised by bestsellers from Napoleon Hill to Kiyosaki. Do we stop seeking money just because we pursue art? More importantly: regardless of what we do, how do we seek money? Why have narratives like positive thinking and the law of attraction become a universal language that gains strength during each economic crisis? Is there a link between bestsellers about the science of getting rich and great universal literature? This book attempts to answer these questions, beginning with the origins of books on becoming a millionaire, which delve into the agile 19th-century United States, transition through the fast-paced turn of the century, and explode in the years after the Great Depression. The journey continues with examples of wild successes (real-life fraudsters like Elizabeth Holmes or fictional criminals like Walter White from Breaking Bad) that prompt us to question the influence of success-at-any-cost ideas on popular culture, as well as their ethical limits. How can one reconcile readings, cultural products, and experiences that seem so distant? The broader reading audience responds more to "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill than to "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck. Is there a way to read them alongside each other and emerge renewed from the experience? This book invites you on that adventure.
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December 2001
La Bohème
Szenen aus Henri Murgers La Vie de Bohème in vier Bildern von Guiseppe Giacosa und Luigi Illica. Ein Opernführer
by Giacomo Puccini, Archiv des Insel Verlags, Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, Carol Beckwith, Brassaï, Getty Images, Barbara Klemm, Arnaldo Marchetti, André Kertész, Museo Teatrale alla Scala, National Archives, Washington, Popperfoto, Orthampton, Privatarchiv Lindy Hume, Michael Bollig, Roger-Viollet, Paris, Archiv der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Staatsoper unter den Linden, Guiseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica
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The ArtsFebruary 2022"I am Jugoslovenka!"
Feminist performance politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism
by Jasmina Tumbas, Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon
"I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically enabled by socialist Yugoslavia's unique history of patriarchy and women's emancipation. Spanning performance and conceptual art, video works, film and pop music, lesbian activism and press photos of female snipers in the Yugoslav wars, the book analyses feminist resistance in a range of performative actions that manifest the radical embodiment of Yugoslavia's anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies. It covers celebrated and lesser-known artists from the 1970s to today, including Marina Abramovic, Sanja Ivekovic, Vlasta Delimar, Tanja Ostojic, Selma Selman and Helena Janecic, along with music legends Lepa Brena and Esma Redzepova. "I am Jugoslovenka" tells a unique story of women's resistance through the intersection of feminism, socialism and nationalism in East European visual culture.
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The ArtsSeptember 2019SHEILA HICKS. Reencounter
by Carolina Arévalo, Monique Lévi-Strauss, Soledad Hoces de la Guardia, Michel Gauthier
Reencounter, is the publication of the exhibition presented at the Museo de Arte Precolombino held from August 2019 to January 2020 in Santiago, Chile. The book presents the artist's work that dialogues with contemporary art and the legacy of american indigenous art. As a student of Josef Albers and with an artistic formation based on Bauhaus philosophy, in 1975 Sheila Hicks set out on a trip through South America, from Venezuela to Tierra del Fuego, a fundamental experience in her formation. It was in that journey through the Andes where she learned about textile techniques and ancestral cosmovisions that would change her life and where, inspired by the landscape and architecture of the south of America, she began her own textile artwork.
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AnthropologySeptember 2020Stories as Stones
Violence of World War II
by Antonio Riccio
The work collects the results of an ethnographic research carried out by a museum (Museo della pietra) in Ausonia, on the memory of the Second World War, which in this place – also known as the “land of martyrology” – is still a living memory. The area of Monti Aurunci still constitutes a widespread museum rich in archaeological and ethnographical sites, and cultural itineraries. Ethnography brings to this vast heritage, both intangible and material, an educational contribution of knowledge and reflection: by proposing an interpretative reading of the local memory of the war, it offers matter for critical knowledge and ethical commitment, in order not to forget, without however falling into resentment.
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September 2018Horizontes culturales de la historia del arte: aportes para una acción compartida en Colombia
by Editor académico: Diego Salcedo Fidalgo. Autores: Karen Cordero Reiman, María Clara Cortés Polanía, Claudia Angélica Reyes Sarmiento, Isabel Cristina Ramírez Botero, Mario Alejandro Molano Vega, Diego Salcedo Fidalgo, Julián Sánchez González, María Margarita Malagón-Kurka, Ana María Franco, Jesús Pedro Lorente, Antonio Sánchez Gómez, Gabriela Gil Verenzuela, Paula Jimena Matiz López, Carlos Rojas Cocoma, Daniel García Roldán, Anne-Marie Losonczy, Jairo Enrique Salazar Chaparro, Mariana Dicker Molano.
Horizontes culturales de la historia del arte. Aportes para una acción compartida en Colombia da cuenta de reflexiones que van desde los silencios u omisiones en la historia del arte, pasando por las conexiones complejas entre estética e historia del arte, hasta las vicisitudes de su práctica en el museo o lugares alternativos. También examina la memoria del arte como nuevo modo de representación, relectura y construcción de subjetividad.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2019Nosotros, Colombia… Comunicación, paz y (pos)conflicto
by Sergio Roncallo-Dow, Juan David Cárdenas Ruiz, Juan Carlos Gómez Giraldo
Peace seems to have been elusive in Colombian history. The ups and downs in the negotiation processes, the unfulfilled promises, and the political polarization have made Colombia a nation in a state of continuous crisis and that, in spite of itself - to take up the old Bushnell phrase - has managed to stay afloat and, above all, do not lose hope for a stable and lasting peace. There have been numerous attempts to build it and they seem to have been unsuccessful, especially because a good part of the collective representation that we have of them has been built from the media apparatus that, in the case of our country, has been at the service of power and that it has resulted in skepticism that, especially since the 1990s, has tended to transform into a strong polarization. With this book, we want not only to think about peace and (post) conflict from communication but to remind (us), once again, that we can still be we.
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The ArtsDecember 2016Marcela Correa. Sculptures 1986-2015
by Patricio Mardones, Smiljan Radic, Alberto Sato
Marcela Correa, sculptor, graduated in Art at Universidad Católica de Chile. Her work is based on the various materials such as wood, stone and collected metal pieces that she combines, taking advantage of their own shapes and characteristics to achieve harmonious compositions that refer to the organic and the natural environment. Throughout her career, she has worked in partnership with the architect Smiljan Radic. Among his exhibitions are: Sculptures (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago, 1998), Natural Sintético (Natural Synthetic (Galería Animal, 2002), El Niño Escondido en un Pez (The Boy Hidden in a Fish) (XII Venice Architecture Biennale, 2010), Peso Muerto (Dead Weight) (Galería Animal, 2011 ), The Wardrobe and the Mattress (Hermes Tokyo Japan Gallery, 2013), and Difunta Correa (Galería AFA, 2014), Corral (Galería Patricia Ready, 2016). Her works form part of the collection of various museums and are located in public places.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersHemingway, Cuba and The Cuban Works
by Larry Grimes (editor), Bickford Sylvester (editor)
The profound impact of Cuba on Ernest Hemingway's life and workErnest Hemingway resided in Cuba longer than he lived anywhere else in the world, yet no book has been devoted to how his life in Cuba influenced his writing. Hemingway, Cuba, and the Cuban Works corrects this omission by presenting contributions by scholars and journalists from the United States, Russia, Japan, and Cuba, who explore how Hemingway absorbed and wrote from the culture and place around him.The volume opens with an examination of Hemingway’s place in Cuban history and culture, evaluations of the man and his work, and studies of Hemingway’s life as an American in Cuba. These essays look directly at Hemingway’s Cuban experience, and they range from the academic to the journalistic, allowing different voices to speak and different tones to be heard. The first section includes reflections from Gladys Rodriguez Ferrero, former director of the Museo Finco Vigía, who describes the deep affection Cubans hold for Hemingway; and recollections from the now-adult members of “Gigi’s All Stars,” the boys’ baseball team that Hemingway organized in the 1940s.In the second part of the collection, Hemingway scholars— among them, Kim Moreland, James Nagel, Ann Putnam, and H. R. Stoneback—employ a variety of critical perspectives to analyze specific works set in Cuba or on its Gulf Stream and written during the years that Hemingway actually lived in Cuba. Also included are a long letter by Richard Armstrong describing the Machado revolution in Cuba and Hemingway’s photographs of fishermen at Cojimar, which provide vivid visual commentary on The Old Man and the Sea.Appended to the collection are Kelli Larson’s bibliography of scholarly writing on Hemingway’s Cuban works and Ned Quevedo Arnaiz’s sample of Cuban writing on those works. A chronology placing Hemingway’s life in Cuba beside historical events is also provided.This important volume illuminates Hemingway’s life and work during the Cuban years, and it will appeal to Hemingway fans and scholars alike.
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The ArtsLa experiencia del espacio
Una aproximación desde la escultura
by Robert Holmes Lezaeta
Esta publicación sintetiza una extensa investigación y experimentación sobre el espacio en la escultura a partir de un análisis interdisciplinar desde la arquitectura y otras artes que abordan el tema de la espacialidad. La reflexión teórica sobre el origen y desarrollo experimental de la escultura se genera a partir de la obra como conclusión proyectual y desde la misma se observan sus resonancias en este contexto interdisciplinario de la experiencia del espacio. Complementan este trabajo una serie de imágenes que constituyen universos comprimidos de ideas y mensajes codificados en un lenguaje que es propio de las artes visuales. En el libro se revisa el pensamiento teórico que permite una reflexión sobre la experiencia del espacio y las relaciones entre la escultura, la arquitectura y otras disciplinas. Se analizan obras de diversos autores en las que se manifiesta el paso de la objetualidad a la espacialidad escultórica. Se indaga la condición iterativa del proceso y los instrumentos proyectuales que establecen el vínculo entre la imaginación y la representación física de lo imaginado. Se reflexiona sobre el proceso compositivo del espacio escultórico y su efecto en la inducción de una experiencia poética. Finalmente, en el anexo se presenta una mirada diferente, a modo de ficciones espaciales, a partir de un conjunto de croquis inspirados en las esculturas, dibujados por Mario Ubilla Sanz. "Aunque está plagado de ejemplos y demuestra un conocimiento acucioso de la materia que desarrolla, no constituye, en rigor, un texto de estudio. No es tampoco un ensayo o un manual. Lo que el libro hace es más bien construir, paso a paso, las bases de una experiencia y, más precisamente, de una experiencia creativa". Fernando Pérez, Director del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Chile.
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2016DaViD I Art and Poetry: El Artista
Art and Poetry
by David Guerra, Author, Ann A. Guerra, Editor
This is a compilation of my poems and art work. Art live within us and we must insist in sharing them to the world. The world is our canvas and, we are every bit of the colours paint into it. Our final conclusion and master piece is our imagination. It is infinite.....
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2019Lugares, recorridos y sentidos de la memoria histórica: Acercamientos metodológicos
by Laura Fonseca Durán, Diana Vernot, Tatiana Rojas Roa, Laura Giraldo Martínez, Edwin Corena Puentes, David J. Luquetta Cediel
This book is an initiative of the Regional Groups of Historical Memory (GRMH), which, together with the National Center for Historical Memory since 2013, generated proposals for the construction of historical memory in Colombia. The objective of the consolidation of the GRMH has been to recognize local research processes carried out by university professors to build bridges between the country's institutions and communities victimized in the framework of the internal armed conflict in Colombia. Although the participatory social research bets are nourished by multiple edges, disciplines, and schools of thought, there are methodological peculiarities in the investigations that are formulated in the key of historical memory that, on this occasion, are transversal and are deepened in each chapter.
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RomArte
Passeggiando alla scoperta dei cuori di Roma
by Alessandro Di Leginio
A photographic journey where art, memories, emotions and poetry intersect, narrating the infinite beauty of the Eternal City. Alessandro Di Leginio walks in the streets of Rome, immortalizing the beauty typical of that city and he knows how to love it and value it, further embellishing it with the emotionality of his personal experience. The statues, palaces, monuments, alleys and every element, even the simplest or most anonymous, tell us about all of its stories. --- Un viaggio fotografico dove arte, ricordi, emozioni e poesia si incrociano, raccontando l’infinita bellezza della città eterna. Alessandro Di Leginio percorre Roma fotografandola con i suoi occhi, immortalando la bellezza che caratterizza la sua città che sa amare e valorizzare, impreziosendola ulteriormente con l’emotività del vivere. Ogni incontro, casuale o ricercato, porta a fermare un momento ben preciso e questa è stata la magia che vent’anni di passeggiate romane hanno generato, modellato e poi trattenuto nel tempo e nello spazio.Le statue, i palazzi, i monumenti, i vicoli e ogni elemento, anche il più semplice o anonimo, ci parlano di storie vissute, di donne e uomini che hanno calpestato un selciato, un prato, il pavimento di un museo lasciando la propria impronta tangibile quanto invisibile. RomArte è un modo diverso per visitare Roma, una guida tutt’altro che fredda, distaccata, didascalica. Questo volume vive di vita propria, perché racchiude i vissuti dell’autore come fossero un’estensione della sua essenza.
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June 2023Der Schnee und die Angst
Eingeschneit und gefangen im Haus eines religiösen Fanatikers und mörderischen Psychopathen.
by Klaus Hansen
English:No man had ever experienced anything like it, no man could have imagined such a catastrophe, and no man was on it prepared. One could only watch as the snow inexorably covered and buried all life. It just didn't stop: snow, nothing but snow!The curator Henny Butenschön rents a room at Oltmanns Hof in Dithmarschen to find out whether the painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder hidden there is real. J. comes from the depots of Nazi-looted art. The excessively religious householder who hides more than just a dark secret stands in her way.Another guest at Oltmann's farm: Holm Martens, who is secretly looking for a sign of life from his sister, who disappeared here under mysterious circumstances.At the same time, two brothers are struggling through the snowstorm who have unwittingly come into possession of a shipment of drugs. On your heels: a cold-blooded killer. When the three paths cross, outrageous truths come to light and suddenly it is a matter of life and death.Deutsch:Kein Mensch hatte so etwas je zuvor erlebt, kein Mensch hätte sich solch eine Katastrophe vorstellen können, und kein Mensch war darauf vorbereitet. So konnte man nur zusehen, wie der Schnee unaufhaltsam alles Leben zudeckte und unter sich begrub. Es hörte einfach nicht auf: Schnee, nichts als Schnee!Die Kuratorin Henny Butenschön mietet sich auf Oltmanns Hof in Dithmarschen ein, um herauszufinden, ob das dort versteckte Gemälde von Pieter Brueghel d. J. aus den Depots der NS-Raubkunst stammt. Dabei stellt sich ihr der exzessiv religiöse Hausherr in den Weg, der mehr als nur ein dunkles Geheimnis verbirgt.Ebenfalls Gast auf Oltmanns Hof: Holm Martens, der verdeckt nach einem Lebenszeichen seiner Schwester sucht, die hier unter mysteriösen Umständen verschwunden ist.Zur gleichen Zeit kämpfen sich zwei Brüder durch den Schneesturm, die unwissentlich in den Besitz einer Lieferung Drogen gelangt sind. Ihnen auf den Fersen: ein kaltblütiger Killer. Als sich die drei Wege kreuzen, kommen ungeheuerliche Wahrheiten ans Licht und auf einmal geht es um Leben und Tod. Aber auch um Geborgenheit und Liebe.
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October 1997Cara o Sello
by Mario Salazar Montero
Kurzinformation ISBN 978-3-9525331-3-0 Titel “Cara o Sello”. Mario Salazar Montero. Cuentos Cualquiera que sea la forma permitida, obligada o seleccionada por hombres y mujeres como el recurso personal válido disponible para dejar atrás el estigma de una pobreza, heredada o impuesta, esta implica una interacción con una realidad en tiempo presente. En esa realidad suramericana, con sus circunstancias inherentes, existe sin embargo una gama bien diversa, tanto de víctimas como de abusadores. El afán de algunos por equilibrar un déficit de bienestar económico recurriendo al crimen no siempre encuentra la mansedumbre de los abusados. Existe la ley tácita del desquite, a falta de una justicia que merezca su nombre. Estos cuentos intentan desentrañar la esencia de algunos desquites y despojos, sin ánimo de definir estereotipos. De eso ya hay bastante, es difícil quitarselos de encima y no sirven más. Mario Salazar Montero. Geboren in Kolumbien, Südamerika. Lebt seit vielen Jahren in der Schweiz. Schriftsteller und Ingenieur. Hat mehrere Romane und Kurzgeschichten veröffentlicht. Spanisch und Deutsch. Mehr zum Autor und seinem literarischen Werk unter www.mariosalazar.ch
