Author: Jorge J. E. GraciaPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438441770
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
A provocative examination of the artistic interpretation of twelve of Borges’s most famous stories.
Painting Borges
Author: Jorge J. E. GraciaPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438441770
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
A provocative examination of the artistic interpretation of twelve of Borges’s most famous stories.
Norah Borges
Author: Eamon McCarthyPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786836319
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Norah Borges (1901–98) was the sister of the celebrated Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. She first began producing art in Switzerland, where her family was trapped during the First World War, and travelled to Spain before returning to her native Argentina with her new styles of painting. In the 1920s, her work was published on the covers of important cultural magazines, but she is now largely forgotten. In her works, Borges created a world full of almost angelic figures – describing it as a smaller, more perfect world – mostly a serene space dominated by women. This book explores how Borges created that space and developed her own unique style of painting, studying the connections she made with the leading artists and writers of her time.
Borges' Paintings
Author: Ramón Felipe BorgesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781034549871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
BORGES' PAINTINGS: Paintings that tell storiesIn this book, Borges' Paintings, we take a fascinating journey through his poems and pictorial interpretation of myths, metaphors, and memories giving meaning to our history and culture. Employing the language of art and poetry, in this series of paintings, Borges examines the mythology and allegories defining our identity, character, and experiences in life. Various aspects of our existence dealing with morality, creativity, emotion, heroism, and tragedy are represented in these paintings of myths, landscapes, and still lifes, to convey the intended narrative from a region. A must reading for art lovers and in particular for those seeking to understand or discover, that paintings also tells stories. These are our stories.
Labyrinths
Author: Jorge Luis BorgesPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.
Borges and His Successors
Author: Edna AizenbergPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826207128
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"In the first book devoted to the impact made by Borges on the contemporary aesthetic imagination, Aizenberg brings together specially commissioned essays from international scholars in a variety of disciplines to provide a wide-ranging assessment of Borges's influence on the fiction, literary theory, and arts of our time."--Publishers website.
The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges
Author: Oxford HandbooksPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197535275
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
"The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges consists of thirty-five chapters, organized into four main categories: Borges's life, his representative work traced across the many decades of his writing, his work in collaboration, and his reception in literature and other disciplines. The volume highlights current debates among Borges scholars as a way to reevaluate how the physical forms and sociopolitical contexts of Borges's writings both shaped and determined specific readerships around the world. Alongside these novel approaches to Borges's fictions and nonfictions, this Handbook is the first of its kind to dedicate space to the reception of Borges's works in the fields of philosophy, the visual arts, film, political science, media theory, mathematics, and law. The collection also goes further to trace Borges's activity in the public sphere, including local and national politics and the functioning of cultural institutions. To date, no other collection devoted to his writings or life addresses these issues in depth, nor do they consider how his affiliations and interests change over the course of his long life. Incorporating these broader perspectives into this Handbook serves to bring out tensions, continuities, and discontinuities in Borges's work, allowing for a much more nuanced understanding of it. Jorge Luis Borges, literary studies, literary history, reception, Argentine literature, Latin American literature"--
Norah Borges
Author: Eamon McCarthyPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786836327
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This is the first book to give an overview of Norah Borges’s artistic output as whole. This is important as other studies have limited themselves to her work as an illustrator or have focussed wholly on her early works. It contains 30 images of her work, which will allow readers to gain a sense of the changes in her style. This is the first book-length study of Norah Borges to be written in English, which opens up her works to a non Spanish-speaking audience for the first time.
Reading Borges after Benjamin
Author: Kate JenckesPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791480569
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This book explores the relationship between time, life, and history in the work of Jorge Luis Borges and examines his work in relation to his contemporary, Walter Benjamin. By focusing on texts from the margins of the Borges canon—including the early poems on Buenos Aires, his biography of Argentina's minstrel poet Evaristo Carriego, the stories and translations from A Universal History of Infamy, as well as some of his renowned stories and essays—Kate Jenckes argues that Borges's writing performs an allegorical representation of history. Interspersed among the readings of Borges are careful and original readings of some of Benjamin's finest essays on the relationship between life, language, and history. Reading Borges in relationship to Benjamin draws out ethical and political implications from Borges's works that have been largely overlooked by his critics.
The Lizard
Author: Jose SaramagoPublisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609809343
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A story by Nobel Prize-winning writer Jose Saramago, gorgeously illustrated in woodcuts by one of Brazil's most famous artists. When a lizard appears in the neighborhood of Chiado, in Lisbon, it surprises passers-by, and mobilizes firefighters and the army. With a clear and precise style, the fable offers a multitude of senses, reaching audiences of all ages. "The Lizard" is a short story included in A Bagagem do Viajante (1973), a volume that brought together the Saramago chronicles for the newspaper A Capital and the weekly Jornal do Fundão between 1971 and 1972. Translated by Nick Caistor and Lucia Caistor, The Lizard, is an illustrated version of the chronicle by J. Borges.
The Mobility of Modernism
Author: Harper MontgomeryPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477312560
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Arvey Foundation Book Award, Association for Latin American Art, 2018 Many Latin American artists and critics in the 1920s drew on the values of modernism to question the cultural authority of Europe. Modernism gave them a tool for coping with the mobility of their circumstances, as well as the inspiration for works that questioned the very concepts of the artist and the artwork and opened the realm of art to untrained and self-taught artists, artisans, and women. Writing about the modernist works in newspapers and magazines, critics provided a new vocabulary with which to interpret and assign value to the expanding sets of abstracted forms produced by these artists, whose lives were shaped by mobility. The Mobility of Modernism examines modernist artworks and criticism that circulated among a network of cities, including Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Havana, and Lima. Harper Montgomery maps the dialogues and relationships among critics who published in avant-gardist magazines such as Amauta and Revista de Avance and artists such as Carlos Mérida, Xul Solar, and Emilio Pettoruti, among others, who championed esoteric forms of abstraction. She makes a convincing case that, for these artists and critics, modernism became an anticolonial stance which raised issues that are still vital today—the tensions between the local and the global, the ability of artists to speak for blighted or unincorporated people, and, above all, how advanced art and its champions can enact a politics of opposition.