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Author: Jack Leonard Publisher: Jack Leonard ISBN: Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 491
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Brooding in the back of his social worker’s car, Kashif Lewis is on his last chance. Outside the mist gathers as he speeds towards yet another foster home. Following a terrifying attack en route, Kashif is thrust into an adventure that will lead him to the truth about his unstable mother and the mystery surrounding his birth. Guided by his new foster family, Kashif learns of the dark creatures lurking between the lines of every story, the sinister organisation that has been pursuing him since birth and the threat he poses to everyone around him. As his new life spins out of control, Kashif is immersed in a world of intrigue and horror that could decide the fate of billions of lives. But is he killer or cure?
Author: Jack Leonard Publisher: Jack Leonard ISBN: Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 491
Book Description
Brooding in the back of his social worker’s car, Kashif Lewis is on his last chance. Outside the mist gathers as he speeds towards yet another foster home. Following a terrifying attack en route, Kashif is thrust into an adventure that will lead him to the truth about his unstable mother and the mystery surrounding his birth. Guided by his new foster family, Kashif learns of the dark creatures lurking between the lines of every story, the sinister organisation that has been pursuing him since birth and the threat he poses to everyone around him. As his new life spins out of control, Kashif is immersed in a world of intrigue and horror that could decide the fate of billions of lives. But is he killer or cure?
Author: Paul Carter Publisher: University of Hawaii Press ISBN: 0824862147 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 329
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We do not see empty figures and outlines; we do not move in straight lines. Everywhere we are surrounded by dapple; the geometry of our embodied lives is curviform, meandering, bi-pedal. Our personal worlds are timed, inter-positional, and contingent. But nowhere in the language of cartography and design do these ordinary experiences appear. This, Dark Writing argues, is a serious omission because they are designs on the world: architects and colonizers use their lines to construct the places where we will live. But the rectilinear streets, squares, and public spaces produced in this way leave out people and the entire environmental history of their coming together. How, this book asks, can we explain the omission of bodies from maps and plans? And how can we redraw the lines maps and plans use so that the qualitative world of shadows, footprints, comings and goings, and occasions—all essential qualities of places that incubate sociality—can be registered? In short, Dark Writing asks why we represent the world as static when our experience of it is mobile. It traces this bias in Enlightenment cartography, in inductive logic, and in contemporary place design. This is the negative critique. Its positive argument is that, when we look closely at these designs on the world, we find traces of a repressed movement form. Even the ideal lines of geometrical figures turn out to contain traces of earlier passages; and there are many forms of graphic design that do engage with the dark environment that surrounds the light of reason. How can this "dark writing"—so important to reconfiguring our world as a place of meeting, of co-existence and sustaining diversity—be represented? And how, therefore, can our representations of the world embody more sensuously the mobile histories that have produced it? Dark Writing answers these questions using case studies: the exemplary case of the beginnings of the now world-famous Papunya Tula Painting Movement (Central Australia) and three high-profile public place-making initiatives in which the author was involved as artist and thinker. These case studies are nested inside historical chapters and philosophical discussions of the line and linear thinking that make Dark Writing both a highly personal book and a narrative with wide general appeal.
Author: Joanna Story Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199206341 Category : Languages : en Pages : 428
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Charlemagne and Rome is a wide-ranging exploration of cultural politics in the age of Charlemagne. It focuses on a remarkable inscription commemorating Pope Hadrian I who died in Rome at Christmas 795. Commissioned by Charlemagne, composed by Alcuin of York, and cut from black stone quarried close to the king's new capital at Aachen in the heart of the Frankish kingdom, it was carried to Rome and set over the tomb of the pope in the south transept of St Peter's basilica not long before Charlemagne's imperial coronation in the basilica on Christmas Day 800. A masterpiece of Carolingian art, Hadrian's epitaph was also a manifesto of empire demanding perpetual commemoration for the king amid St Peter's cult. In script, stone, and verse, it proclaimed Frankish mastery of the art and power of the written word, and claimed the cultural inheritance of imperial and papal Rome, recast for a contemporary, early medieval audience. Pope Hadrian's epitaph was treasured through time and was one of only a few decorative objects translated from the late antique basilica of St Peter's into the new structure, the construction of which dominated and defined the early modern Renaissance. Understood then as precious evidence of the antiquity of imperial affection for the papacy, Charlemagne's epitaph for Pope Hadrian I was preserved as the old basilica was destroyed and carefully redisplayed in the portico of the new church, where it can be seen today. Using a very wide range of sources and methods, from art history, epigraphy, palaeography, geology, archaeology, and architectural history, as well as close reading of contemporary texts in prose and verse, this book presents a detailed 'object biography', contextualising Hadrian's epitaph in its historical and physical setting at St Peter's over eight hundred years, from its creation in the late eighth century during the Carolingian Renaissance through to the early modern Renaissance of Bramante, Michelangelo, and Maderno.
Author: Sheila Blair Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 900466081X Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 323
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Inscriptions on buildings are a distinctive feature of Islamic architecture, and this book studies the 79 surviving monumental inscriptions in the Iranian world from the first five centuries of the Muslim era (A.D. 622-1106), the period in which all the major trends of monumental epigraphy in the area were set. These foundation, commemorative, and funerary texts come from the region between Iraq and Soviet Central Asia. Written primarily in Arabic, they embellished architectural monuments and furnishings whose nature implies the construction of major buildings. An extended introduction discusses such general topics as titulature, patronage, and stylistic development. Each text is then presented individually with photographs, drawings, transcriptions, translations and an extensive commentary, which presents the inscription in its larger palaeographic and historical contexts.
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