Author: Philostratus (the Athenian)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Philostratus
Author: Philostratus (the Athenian)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Opera In The Flesh
Author: Sam AbelPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000308154
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Verdi, Wagner, polymorphous perversion, Puccini, Brunnhilde, Pinkerton, and Parsifal all rub shoulders in this delightful, poetic, insightful, sexual book sprung by one man's physical response to the power and exaggeration we call opera. Sam Abel applies a light touch as he considers the topic of opera and the eroticized body: Why do audiences respond to opera in a visceral way? How does opera, like no other art form, physically move watchers? How and why does opera arouse feelings akin to sexual desire? Abel seeks the answers to these questions by examining homoerotic desire, the phenomenon of the castrati, operatic cross-dressing, and opera as presented through the media. In this deeply personal book, Abel writes, ‘These pages map my current struggles to pin down my passion for opera, my intense admiration for its aesthetic forms and beauties, but much more they express my astonishment at how opera makes me lose myself, how it consumes me.’ In so doing, Abel uncovers what until now, through dry musicology and gossipy history, has been left behind a wall of silence: the physical and erotic nature of opera. Although Abel can speak with certainty only about his own response to opera, he provides readers with a language and a resonance with which to understand their own experiences. Ultimately, Opera in the Flesh celebrates the power of opera to move audiences as no other book has done. It is indeed a treasure of scholarship, passion, and poetry for everyone with even a passing interest in this fascinating art form.
Monsieur
Author: Jean-Philippe ToussaintPublisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 156478505X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The hero, Monsieur, is a successful young executive in Paris whose daily life is examined with precision. He is nothing if not unremarkable. Here, he muses on everything from the night sky to a Rotring pen. And he is very funny.
The Complete Book of Glass Beadmaking
Author: Kimberley AdamsPublisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781579905729
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A guide to the popular craft offers beadmakers instructions for how to torch, wind, and cool beads; directions for creating various designs, including barrels, cones, and discs; and strategies for achieving a variety of colors and patterns.
Kaj Franck
Author: Kaj FranckPublisher:
ISBN: 9789529878758
Category : 1900-2000
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Analecta: Or, Materials For a History of Remarkable Providences; Mostly Relating to Scotch Ministers and Christians
Author: Robert WodrowPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385129664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
A Guide to Czech & Slovak Glass
Author: Diane E. FouldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A Guide to Czech & Slovak Glass is the first resource book ever written on a nation's glass industry. In 208 pages it outlines the artists, factories, associations, museums, schools, shops, and history of Bohemian glass. -- Amazon.
The Jewels of Lalique
Author: René LaliquePublisher: Flammarion-Pere Castor
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Showcases the work of the Art Nouveau glass craftsman and jewelry designer.
Michael Glancy
Author: Barry FriedmanPublisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH
ISBN: 9783897903449
Category : Glass art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Michael Glancy is widely recognised as a prominent innovator in the field of studio glass. After studying with the critically acclaimed glass artist Dale Chihuly, he found his own artistic personality by combining different techniques: Glancy works with
Blind
Author: Sophie CallePublisher: Actes Sud Editions
ISBN: 9782330000585
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
No stranger to the art of staging and to the act of disclosure, Sophie Caile returns again here to the theme of autobiography and to the notion of the Other, revealing in all their difference and singularity those who have been blind since birth or who have gone blind following an accident. By establishing a dialectic between the testimonies of several generations of blind people and the photographs taken by her on the basis on these accounts, Sophie Caile offers readers a reflection on absence, on the loss of one sense and the compensation of another, on the notion of the visible and the invisible. In this publication, she revisits three earlier works constructed and conceived around the idea ofblindness, setting up a dialogue between them; in Les Aveugles (The Blind), created in 1986, she questioned blind people on their representation of beauty; in 1991, in La Couleur aveugle (Blind Colour), she asked non-sighted people what they perceived and compared their descriptions to artists musings on the monochrome; La Dernière Image (The Last Image), produced in 2010 in Istanbul, historically dubbed the city of the blind, gives a voice to men and women who have lost their sight, questioning them on the last image they can remember, their last memory of the visible world. The work, which is structured as an introspective triptych, uncovers sensibilities, perceptions and events that are painful, sincere. Sophie Calles idea is to underline the permanence and irony of a particular situation, with the aim of redeeming and highlighting the importance of sight.