Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Man and Africa
Author: Ciba FoundationPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A Carnival Of Losses
Author: Donald HallPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1328826317
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall’s final collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, once again “alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny.”* *(New York Times) “Why should a nonagenarian hold anything back?” Donald Hall answers his own question in these self-knowing, fierce, and funny essays on aging, the pleasures of solitude, and the sometimes astonishing freedoms arising from both. Nearing ninety at the time of writing, he intersperses memories of exuberant days in his youth, with uncensored tales of literary friendships spanning decades—with James Wright, Richard Wilbur, Seamus Heaney, and other luminaries. Cementing his place alongside Roger Angell and Joan Didion as a generous and profound chronicler of loss, this final work is as original and searing as anything Hall wrote during his extraordinary literary lifetime.
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author: Wolf Hall
Author: Hilary MantelPublisher: HarperCollins Canada
ISBN: 1443402842
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe oppose him. The quest for the king’s freedom destroys his advisor, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum and a deadlock. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. The son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a bully and a charmer, Cromwell has broken all the rules of a rigid society in his rise to power. Narrowly escaping personal disaster—the loss of his young family and of Wolsey, his beloved patron—he picks his way deftly through a court where “man is wolf to man.” Pitting himself against parliament, the political establishment and the papacy, he is prepared to reshape England to his own and Henry’s desires. In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel presents a picture of a half-made society on the cusp of change, where individuals fight or embrace their fate with passion and courage. Wolf Hall re-creates an era when the personal and political are separated by a hair’s breadth, where success brings unlimited power, but a single failure means death.
Collected papers
Author: Henry Fairfield OsbornPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Guide Leaflet
Author: American Museum of Natural HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Gardeners' Chronicle
Author: Annual Report of the American Museum of Natural History
Author: American Museum of Natural HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history museums
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Malvina Hoffman's Races of Mankind and the Materiality of Race in Early Twentieth-century Sculpture and Photography
Author: Linda KimPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bronze sculpture, American
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
"Malvina Hoffman's Races of Mankind and the Materiality of Race in Early Twentieth-Century Sculpture and Photography" is a monographic study of a racial exhibit created in the 1930s for the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History. The exhibit, the Races of Mankind, was comprised of 104 figurative sculptures made by a single sculptor, Malvina Hoffman. The dissertation focuses on Hoffman's attempts to reconcile the demands of anthropology and racial science with the constraints of her artistic training and medium. Sculpture, the dissertation argues, was both the most ideal and most tendentious vehicle for the Field Museum's representation of race. Hoffman's training as a sculptor and her sensibility to form and embodiment offered a distinct and compelling mode with which to encode and embed race in real bodies. Yet Hoffman's sculptures co-existed with photographs, plaster casts, and mannequins, in the museum and had to differentiate themselves from these other objects while incorporating their tactile and visual effects into the representation of race. The dissertation studies the problem of sculpture in the natural history museum from a diverse range of media, disciplines, and histories, with special reliance on recent theoretical and methodological advances in museum studies, histories of anthropology, and postcolonial and critical race studies, in order to produce an expanded account of sculpture and American art
The Hall of the Age of Man
Author: Henry Fairfield OsbornPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 57
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