Author: Giuseppe PupilloPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291269002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Lasciami guardare un occhio umano
Author: Giuseppe PupilloPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291269002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Canto per ingannare l'attesa
Author: Chiara PagliochiniPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1471685128
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 73
Book Description
Paladino
Author: Mimmo PaladinoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
A word that recurs frequently in the titles of paintings by Mimmo Paladino is silence. The artist, who portrays a silence formed by shadows and magical mysteries, says : "Art is not what surface, not what sociological, not poetic storm. Art is a slow pace around the sign language." Paladino considers his art nomadic, based on repeated passages and explains that for nomadic means a crossing of various territories from art, both in geographical or temporal, made with the greatest technical and creative freedom. The monograph, which documents some 400 works, including paintings and sculptures, testifies over thirty years of his creative career .
The Man Who Laughs
Author: Victor HugoPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775452786
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 821
Book Description
Moving away from the explicitly political content of his previous novels, Victor Hugo turns to social commentary in The Man Who Laughs, an 1869 work that was made into a popular film in the 1920s. The plot deals with a band of miscreants who deliberately deform children to make them more effective beggars, as well as the long-lasting emotional and social damage that this abhorrent practice inflicts upon its victims.
Athanor
Author: Lucia Moholy (1894-1989)
Author: Lucia MoholyPublisher: Silvana Editoriale
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Photographer, writer and intellectual, Lucia Moholy (born Lucia Schulz, Karolinenthal, Prague, 1894 - Zollikon, Zurich, 1989) is a central figure in the 20th century history of photography, although the fame of her husband, the renowned artist László Moholy-Nagy, overshadowed her work for a long time. Through her photographs, an example of the German avant-garde and of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), it is possible to understand the complexity of her artistic personality and to reconstruct the role she played in the cultural history of the past century. Her major photographic work is on the Bauhaus: pictures of the school, of teachers, objects and furniture are considered as true icons of modern times. The essays published in this volume allow us to understand and outline Lucia Moholy's complex artistic personality, thus giving her the correct place she is due in 20th century culture. 0Exhibition: Museo MAX, Chiasso, Italy (24.11.2012-31.1.2013).
Other Lives But Mine
Author: Emmanuel CarrèrePublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473567599
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Read this an expansive meditation on death, grief and the limtless reach of the human spirit from the bestselling author of The Adversary ‘Compelling... Carrère has the gift of speaking simply and directly of the essentials’ Evening Standard Beset by arguments and the fear that things between them may be falling apart, writer Emmanuel Carrère and his partner, Hélène, journey to Sri Lanka to spend Christmas along the coast. But when the 2004 tsunami devastates the country, sweeping their friends’ young daughter away, the couple are bound in their search among the dead. As further tragedy strikes back home, with the news that Hélène’s sister is dying of cancer, Carrère turns his characteristic eye to the subject of these two lives, documenting the dramatic effect that their deaths have on those around them. Precise, sober, and suspenseful, Other Lives But Mine offers an intimate portrait of the fragility of life and the restorative processes of grief, that illuminates the astonishing richness of human connection.
Verso la Calabria
Author: Emanuele KanceffPublisher: CIRVI
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : it
Pages : 572
Book Description
Maybe Esther
Author: Katja PetrowskajaPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062337580
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
The International Bestseller Maybe Esther is the inventive, unique, and extraordinarily moving debut memoir that pieces together the fascinating story of one woman’s family across twentieth-century Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Germany. Katja Petrowskaja wanted to create a kind of family tree, charting relatives who had scattered across multiple countries and continents. Her idea blossomed into this striking and highly original work of narrative nonfiction, an account of her search for meaning within the stories of her ancestors. In a series of short meditations, Petrowskaja delves into family legends, introducing a remarkable cast of characters: Judas Stern, her great-uncle, who shot a German diplomatic attaché in 1932 and was sentenced to death; her grandfather Semyon, who went underground with a new name during the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, forever splitting their branch of the family from the rest; her grandmother Rosa, who ran an orphanage in the Urals for deaf-mute Jewish children; her Ukrainian grandfather Vasily, who disappeared during World War II and reappeared without explanation forty-one years later—and settled back into the family as if he’d never been gone; and her great-grandmother, whose name may have been Esther, who alone remained in Kiev and was killed by the Nazis. How do you talk about what you can’t know, how do you bring the past to life? To answer this complex question, Petrowskaja visits the scenes of these events, reflecting on a fragmented and traumatized century and bringing to light family figures who threaten to drift into obscurity. A true search for the past reminiscent of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated, Daniel Mendelsohn’s The Lost, and Michael Chabon’s Moonglow, Maybe Esther is a poignant, haunting investigation of the effects of history on one family.
The Heaven of Animals
Author: David James PoissantPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476729964
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A first collection by an award-winning writer features characters at relationship crossroads in such stories as "Lizard Man," in which two men race to save a sick alligator; and "The End of Aaron," in which a girl helps her boyfriend face his greatest fears.