This "Copyright" Edition is the authoritative presentation in English of the text as Burckhardt left it at his death in 1897. Shockingly fresh condition for such a rabidly consulted text in the mid-century West. Some light patina and minor rubbing to tips, otherwise very clean and sharp. 421 bold black & white photogravure illustrations on 239 plates. 4to, finished kahki cloth, gilt stamped lettering. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. This concept of the Renaissance has been much discussed, as has Burckhardt's cultural pessimism. This 19th-century survey of the Renaissance propounds the view that it was at this time that man became aware of himself as a spiritual individual. A fascinating description of an era of cultural transition, this nineteenth-century masterpiece was to become the most influential interpretation of the Italian Renaissance, and anticipated ideas such as Nietzsche's concept of the 'Ubermensch' in its portrayal of an age of genius. In this landmark work he depicts the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice and Rome as providing the seeds of a new form of society, and traces the rise of the creative individual, from Dante to Michelangelo. For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics.
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On Monday, July 8, 1889, history was made in the small sawmill community of Richburg, Mississippi, located three miles south of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and 104 miles northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana. Kelly himself is painfully aware of what that means for him and his culture: they are a people with no cultural memory, adrift, rootless, and left without any meaningful future. The past has long been dead or silenced for the transported, as if the memory of what was left behind is too painful to talk about. His own father was an Irish convict, shipped along with his mother to Australia during the Great Transportation. In these letters, he attempts to explain why he first became an outlaw-because he had no choice, he says-and provide her with a true history because, he explains, he knows what it is to be raised on lies and silences. In True History of the Kelly Gang, Kelly is writing a series of letters to his unborn daughter. It is the fictional first-person account of Ned Kelly, the notorious nineteenth-century bushranger and outlaw who is as well-known to Australians, and as fascinating to them, as Jesse James is to Americans or Robin Hood is to the English. True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) is no different. Since the publication in 1974 of The Fat Man in History, Australian novelist and short story writer Peter Carey has often played with the literal truth, blurring the line between history and fiction and combining fact with fable. to her family, her real self, and the truth about her magic. Villified by those closest to her, Naema heads to the Southwest where she is determined to stage a comeback. Everyone loves her? until she's cast as the villain who exposed a Siren to the whole world.ĭragged by the media, and canceled by her fans, no one understands her side: not her boyfriend, not her friends, not even her fellow Eloko. Teen influencer Naema Bradshaw has it all: she’s famous, stylish, gorgeous and she’s an Eloko, a charismatic person gifted with a melody that people adore. Meet Naema Bradshaw: a beautiful Eloko, once Portland-famous, now infamous, as she navigates a personal and public reckoning where confronting the limits of her privilege will show Naema what her magic really is, and who it makes her. And Carrion, along with his fiendish grandmother, Mater Motley, suspects that whatever Candy is, she could spoil his plans to take control of the Abarat. What would Carrion want with a girl from Minnesota? And why is Candy beginning to feel that the world of the Abarat is familiar to her? Why can she speak words of magic she doesn’t even remember learning? Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, has sent his henchmen to capture her. In this, the third volume in Clive Barker’s extraordinary fantasy for both adults and children, Candy’s adventures in the amazing world of the Abarat are getting stranger by the Hour. The Abarat: a magical otherworld composed on an archipelago of twenty-five islands – one for each hour of the day, plus an island out of time.Ĭandy Quackenbush, escaping her dull, dull life from the most boring place in our world, Chickentown, USA, finds that in the Abarat she has another existence entirely, one which links her to marvels and mysteries and even to murder… Harper Voyager, 2011, First Edition (Hardback)Ī dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the third part of a quintet appearing at two yearly intervals, richly illustrated by the author. Abarat (Absolute Midnight) by Clive Barker “I’ve been interested in is this new form of video that has this sense of place,” says Clark. You can see a film anywhere, but Clark makes his films site-specific. His installation has aspects of both sculpture and bits of narrative. After he shoots, he goes through “the elaborate process of stitching them together.” To make the film, Clark visited the locations with a 360-degree array made up of six GoPro cameras. Clark’s film seeks to contrast the present-day locations with the novel’s descriptions of 1917. Julianne SteevesĪ booming voice recites passages from the novel as disjointed and sometimes jarring footage of Halifax landmarks appear as they are today. “So as you’re reading it, you’re like, ‘there’s Barrington Street, there’s the Citadel,’ and you can map it.” The novel Barometer Rising was on display during Nocturne as part of Clark’s installation. “It’s the first novel that uses Halifax as a recognizable city,” Clark says of the book, first published in 1941. Lately, he has worked on incorporating new media like virtual reality and 360-degree video into his art. Using augmented reality to remember the Halifax Explosion (November 9, 2017)Ĭlark teaches in the intermedia department at NSCAD University, where he mixes film, sculpture and web media. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier takes readers on a fascinating odyssey behind the scenes of video game development, where the creator may be a team of 600 overworked underdogs or a solitary geek genius. NATIONAL BESTSELLER Developing video games-hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. Sub Title : The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made Book Name : Blood, Sweat, and Pixels_x000D_ Together, the Berenstains created The Berenstain Bears children's book series. In 1962, Berenstain and his wife published their first children's book The Big Honey Hunt. The Berenstains were also co-creators of "It's All in the Family," an illustrated feature first published by McCall's magazine. Stan and Jan Berenstain began their collaborative career drawing cartoons for magazines. In 1946, he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 1946, he married JanGrant, an author and illustrator, with whom he had two sons, Leo and Michael.īerenstain attended The Philadelphia College of Art from 1941 to 1942, where he met Janice Grant, his future wife. His parents were Harry and Rose Berenstain. Stanley (Stan) Berenstain was born on September 29, 1923, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |