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Category : Success
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Success
Author: Scribbling through History
Author: Chloé RagazzoliPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474288820
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
For most people the mention of graffiti conjures up notions of subversion, defacement, and underground culture. Yet, the term was coined by classical archaeologists excavating Pompeii in the 19th century and has been embraced by modern street culture: graffiti have been left on natural sites and public monuments for tens of thousands of years. They mark a position in time, a relation to space, and a territorial claim. They are also material displays of individual identity and social interaction. As an effective, socially accepted medium of self-definition, ancient graffiti may be compared to the modern use of social networks. This book shows that graffiti, a very ancient practice long hidden behind modern disapproval and street culture, have been integral to literacy and self-expression throughout history. Graffiti bear witness to social events and religious practices that are difficult to track in normative and official discourses. This book addresses graffiti practices, in cultures ranging from ancient China and Egypt through early modern Europe to modern Turkey, in illustrated short essays by specialists. It proposes a holistic approach to graffiti as a cultural practice that plays a key role in crucial aspects of human experience and how they can be understood.
Scribble
Author: Richard Walker JenningsPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618433674
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
With only his dog Scribble for companionship, a twelve-year-old boy mourns the death of his best friend and tries to understand the meaning of strange, otherworldly visitations from the likes of Sam Walton and Nat King Cole.
The Conflict and the Victory of Life
Author: Caroline Phebe KeithPublisher:
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Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
A Practical Guide to Architectural Drawing
Author: Edward DenisonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1040039758
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A visually stunning guide to architectural drawing from the RIBA Collections for students and those wanting to understand how to develop their graphic and representation skills. Illustrated exclusively with drawings from the world's largest and most prestigious architectural drawing collection, it features an international span of works ranging from the Palazzo Porto Festa by Andrea Palladio to the Viceroy’s House in New Delhi by Edwin Lutyens; from the illustration of Altun Kupri, Iraq, by Charles Felix Marie Texier to a coastal housing scheme by Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi. The book delves into the reasons behind why we draw and the various methods used, covering the entire design process – from nurturing the earliest ideas to aiding construction, as well as surveying, recording, communicating, and representing architecture in spatial, structural, and material terms. Focusing primarily on drawing techniques, it showcases a rich variety of different graphic styles, types, and modes of representation, presented thematically, offering a comprehensive overview. This primer elevates the acquisition of practical drawing skills into a pleasurable experience, acquainting students with some of the most exquisite and accomplished graphic representations in the world.
Scribbles from the Den
Author: Dibussi TandePublisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956558915
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
"49 insightful essays ... which originally appeared on his award-winning blog 'Scribbles from the den'"--Page 4 of cover
Idly Scribbling Rhymers
Author: Robert TuckPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231547226
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
How can literary forms fashion a nation? Though genres such as the novel and newspaper have been credited with shaping a national imagination and a sense of community, during the rapid modernization of the Meiji period, Japanese intellectuals took a striking—but often overlooked—interest in poetry’s ties to national character. In Idly Scribbling Rhymers, Robert Tuck offers a groundbreaking study of the connections among traditional poetic genres, print media, and visions of national community in late nineteenth-century Japan that reveals the fissures within the process of imagining the nation. Structured around the work of the poet and critic Masaoka Shiki, Idly Scribbling Rhymers considers how poetic genres were read, written, and discussed within the emergent worlds of the newspaper and literary periodical in Meiji Japan. Tuck details attempts to cast each of the three traditional poetic genres of haiku, kanshi, and waka as Japan’s national poetry. He analyzes the nature and boundaries of the concepts of national poetic community that were meant to accompany literary production, showing that Japan’s visions of community were defined by processes of hierarchy and exclusion and deeply divided along lines of social class, gender, and political affiliation. A comprehensive study of nineteenth-century Japanese poetics and print culture, Idly Scribbling Rhymers reveals poetry’s surprising yet fundamental role in emerging forms of media and national consciousness.
Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered
Author: Kate ParkerPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611484847
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered beginswith the brute fact that poetry jostledup alongside novels in the bookstallsof eighteenth-century England. Indeed,by exploringunexpected collisions and collusionsbetween poetry and novels, this volumeof exciting, new essays offers a reconsideration of the literary and cultural history of the period. Thenovel poached from and featured poetry, and the “modern” subjects and objects privileged by “rise of the novel” scholarship are only one part of a world full of animate things and people with indistinct boundaries. Contributors: Margaret Doody, David Fairer, Sophie Gee, Heather Keenleyside, ShelleyKing, Christina Lupton, Kate Parker, Natalie Phillips, Aran Ruth, Wolfram Schmidgen, Joshua Swidzinski, and Courtney Weiss Smith.
Ao-chan Can't Study!
Author: カワハラ恋Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1642125385
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Ao's grades are in, and they don't look good; by the standards of her school of choice, she's getting a D- average. She needs to study now more than ever, but Kijima had to ask her out at the worst possible time...and every little thing he does fills her head with sinful fantasies! And if that weren't bad enough, she's got to contend with Miyabi, her confident, experienced childhood friend who's going after Kijima, and her father, who won't lay off the unsolicited kinky advice! When's a girl supposed to find time to study?!
Between Greece and Babylonia
Author: Kathryn StevensPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108419550
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Focusing on Greece and Babylonia, this book provides a new, cross-cultural approach to the intellectual history of the Hellenistic world.