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Matthew Thurber s Art Comic is a blunt and hilarious assault on the swirling hot mess that is the art world. From sycophantic fans to duplicitous gallerists, fatuous patrons to self-aggrandizing art stars, he lampoons each and every facet of the eminently ridiculous industry of truth and beauty. Follow Cupcake, the Matthew Barney obsessive; Epiphany nee Tiffany Clydesdale, the divinely inspired performance artist; Ivanhoe, a modern knight in search of artistic vengeance, and his squire, Turnbuckle. Each artist is more ridiculous than the last, yet they are tested and transformed by the even more absurd machinations of Thurber s fantastical art world. Can the Free Little Pigs destroy this blighted system? Will The Group continue its indirect assassination of promising young artists? Can artistic integrity exist in this world amid the capitalist co-opting, petty rivalries, otherworldly portals, heavenly interventions, and murders at sea? Art Comic is brimming with references and cameos, outsize personalities and shuddering nonsense?Robert Rauschenberg smashes a beer bottle, Francesca Woodman, a wineglass. In the center of it all, Thurber s twisted drawings and laugh-out-loud dialogue convey a complicated picture of an industry at the intersection of fantasy and reality. Part scathing condemnation, part irreverent appreciation, Thurber s comics skewer the art world in a way only an art lover can.

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The Necessary Evil event continues as Tommy must prove he’s worthy of becoming the White Ranger, while Jason, Trini and Zack must decide if they will become the new OMEGA RANGERS - even if it means deceiving everyone they hold dear.THE TRUE ORIGIN OF THE WHITE RANGER! The critically-acclaimed Necessary Evil event continues, as the Power Rangers are left reeling from the events of their war with Lord Drakkon in Shattered Grid. But perhaps none is more affected than Tommy Oliver, formerly the Green Ranger, and now without purpose...until Zordon brings him a new opportunity. But what will take for Tommy to prove he’s worth of being the all-new WHITE RANGER? Meanwhile, Jason, Trini and Zack must decide if they will become the new OMEGA RANGERS - even if it means deceiving everyone they hold dear. The writing duo of New York Times bestseller Ryan Parrott (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) and the GLAAD Award-nominated Sina Grace (Iceman) join artists Francesco Mortarino (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) and Eduardo Francisco (Adventures of Superman) to answer some of the biggest questions in Power Rangers history! Collects Saban’s Go Go Power Rangers #25-28.

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The poetry in Humanophone, the third volume from award-winning poet Janet Holmes, celebrates composers and creators such as Harry Partch, Raymond Scott, Leon Theremin, and George Ives, who had to invent new instruments to capture the music heard in their “mind’s ear.” Taking its title from a George Ives invention—an instrument made from a group of humans, each of whom sings a single note, arrayed like a xylophone—Humanophone appears on its surface to be about music. But its real subject is the artist’s creative dilemma—how to deliver a new idea, whether it be a song or a poem, through existing media. Holmes works language into a variety of forms both familiar—syllabics, couplets, villanelles, sonnets—and engagingly new. With everything from kumquats to abandoned wedding pictures, Clara Bow to Bill Robinson, Keats’s belle dame to Dante’s Francesca, feng shui to a recipe for octopus, Humanophone celebrates how the body shapes art from the world it is given. In Humanophone, Holmes not only chronicles events such as Harry Partch’s transformation of glass chemical containers from the Berkeley Radiation Lab into the melodious and beautiful Cloud-Chamber Bowls, but also traces a playful path through the familiar, as a trombone’s upwards glissando becomes “a backwards pratfall/in brass.” Engaging a broad array of subjects, Holmes’s poetry is as delightful as it is thoughtful, as simple as it is complex.

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Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 41 2011, Papers from the forty-fourth meeting, held at the British Museum, London, 22–24 July 2010. Contents: 1) Some observations on women in Omani sources (Olga Andriyanova); 2) Archaeological landscape characterization in Qatar through satellite and aerial photographic analysis, 2009 to 2010 (Paul Breeze, Richard Cuttler & Paul Collins); 3) Fishing kit implements from KHB-1: net sinkers and lures (poster) (Fabio Cavulli & Simona Scaruffi); 4) The distribution of storage and diversion dams in the western mountains of South Arabia during the Himyarite period (Julien Charbonnier); 5) Assessing the value of palaeoenvironmental data and geomorphological processes for understanding Late Quaternary population dynamics in Qatar (Richard Cuttler, Emma Tetlow & Faisal al-Naimi); 6) Les fortifications de Khor Rorī – ‘Sumhuram’ (poster) (Christian Darles); 7) Places of contact, spheres of interaction. The Ubaid phenomenon in the central Gulf area as seen from a first season of reinvestigations at Dosariyah (Dawsāriyyah), Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia (Philipp Drechsler0; 8) khushub musannadah (Qurān 63. 4) and Epigraphic South Arabian ms3nd (Orhan Elmaz); 9) Walled structures and settlement patterns in the south-western part of Dhofar, Oman (poster) (Roman Garba & Peter Farrington);10) The wall and talus at Barāqish, ancient Yathill (al-Jawf, Yemen): a Minaean stratigraphy (Francesco G. Fedele); 11) Through evangelizing eyes: American missionaries to Oman (Hilal al-Hajri); 12) Quantified analysis of long-term settlement trends in the northern Oman peninsula (Nasser Said al-Jahwari); 13) Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba and DMT – New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia (Sarah Japp, Iris Gerlach, Holger Hitgen & Mike Schnelle); 14) The Kadhima Project: investigating an Early Islamic settlement and landscape on Kuwait Bay (poster) (Derek Kennet, Andrew Blair, Brian Ulrich & Sultan M. al-Duwīsh); 15) Typology of incense-burners of the Islamic period (Sterenn Le Maguer); 16) A geomorphological and hydrological underpinning for archaeological research in northern Qatar (Phillip G. Macumber); 17) Recent investigations at the prehistoric site RH-5 (Ras al-Hamrā, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman) (Lapo Gianni Marcucci, Francesco Genchi, Émilie Badel & Maurizio Tosi); 18) Geoarchaeological investigations at the site of Julfār (al-Nudūd and al-Matāf), Ras al-Khaymah, UAE: preliminary results from the auger-hole survey (poster) (Mike Morley, Robert Carter & Christian Velde); 19) Conserving and contextualizing national cultural heritage: the 3-D digitization of the fort at al-Zubārah and petroglyphs at Jabal al-Jusāsiyyah, Qatar (poster) (Helen Moulden, Richard Cuttler & Shane Kelleher); 20) Reassessing Wādī Debayan (Wādī al-Dabayān): an important Early Holocene Neolithic multi-occupational site in western Qatar (poster) (Faisal al-Naimi, Kathryn M. Price, Richard Cuttler & Hatem Arrock); 21) Research on an Islamic period settlement at Ras Ushayriq in northern Qatar and some observations on the occurrence of date presses (Andrew Petersen); 22) Relations between southern Arabia and the northern Horn of Africa during the last millennium BC (David W. Phillipson); 23) Bayt Bin Ātī in the Qattārah oasis: a prehistoric industrial site and the formation of the oasis landscape of al-Ain, UAE (Timothy Power & Peter Sheehan); 24) The Sabaic inscription A–20–216: a new Sabaean-Seleucid synchronism (Alessia Prioletta); 25) Al-Suwaydirah (old al-Taraf) and its Early Islamic inscriptions (Saad bin Abdulaziz al-Rashid); 26) Investigations in al-Zubārah hinterland at Murayr and al-Furayhah, north-west Qatar (poster) (Gareth Rees, Tobias Richter & Alan Walmsley); 27) Pearl fishers, townsfolk, Bedouin, and shaykhs: economic and social relations in Islamic al-Zubārah (Tobias Richter, Paul Wordsworth & Alan Walmsley); 28) Contemporary tribal versions of local history in Hadramawt (Mikhail Rodionov); 29) A view of the defence strategy of Muharraq, a tribal town in the Gulf (poster); 30) Solaiman Abd al-Rahmān al-Theeb, New Nabataean inscriptions from the site of al-Sīj in the region of al-Ulā, Saudi Arabia (Abdulla Al-Sulaiti); 31) Al-Zubārah Archaeological Park as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site – a master plan for its site management, preservation, and presentation (poster) (Ingolf Thuesen & Moritz Kinzel); 32) Oman and Bahrain in Late Antiquity: the Sasanians’ Arabian periphery (Brian Ulrich); 33) From the port of Mocha to the eighteenth-century tomb of Imām al-Mahdī MuΉammad in al-Mawāhib: locating architectural icons and migratory craftsmen (Nancy Um); 34) Drummers of the Najd: musical practices from Wādī al-Dawāsir, Saudi Arabia (Lisa Urkevich); 35) The Jewel of Muscat Project: reconstructing an early ninth-century CE Shipwreck (Tom Vosmer, Luca Belfioretti, Eric Staples & Alessandro Ghidoni); 36) Lateral fricatives and lateral emphatics in southern Saudi Arabia and Mehri (Janet C.E. Watson & Munira Al-Azraqi).

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Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Luca Caravarijs, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Francesco Guardi, Hubert Robert-these renowned view painters are perhaps best known for their expansive canvases depicting the ruins of Rome or the canals of Venice. Many of their most splendid paintings, however, feature important contemporary events. Little explored by scholars, they stand out by virtue of their extraordinary artistic quality, vibrant atmosphere, and historical interest. Imbued with a sense of occasion, even drama, and often commissioned by or for rulers, princes, and ambassadors as records of significant events in which they participated, these occasions motivated some of the greatest artists of the era to produce their most exceptional work. Lavishly illustrated and exhaustively researched, this volume provides the first-ever comprehensive study-in any language-of this type of view painting. In examining these paintings alongside the historical events depicted in them, Peter Bjorn Kerber carefully reconstructs the meaning and context these paintings possessed for the artists who produced them and the patrons who commissioned them, as well as for their contemporary viewers. This vital book represents a major contribution to the field of view painting studies and will be an essential resource to scholars and enthusiasts.

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Tranvía 83 se desarrolla en un indeterminado país africano que vive, a la vez que una profunda recesión, una nueva fiebre del oro. Turistas de todas las nacionalidades y lenguas llegan a la Ciudad-País con un único deseo: hacer fortuna explotando la riqueza mineral escondida en las entrañas de esa tierra. Por el día trabajan en las minas, y por la noche se reúnen para beber, comer y bailar en el club Tranvía 83, una auténtica guarida de forajidos poblada por antiguos niños soldados, turistas con ánimo de lucro, prostitutas, madres solteras, aprendices de brujo. y por Lucien, un escritor que, huyendo de las extorsiones y la censura, encuentra refugio en Ciudad-País e intenta seguir allí su recto camino de afirmación de su escritura, mientras los personajes más turbios del lugar gravitan a su alrededor.Tranvía 83 ha sido considerada como uno de los últimos y más brillantes fenómenos culturales en lengua francesa, razón por la que ha sido traducida a idiomas como el inglés, alemán, ita

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Machiavelli was painfully aware of living in a disastrous moment of Italy's history: foreign invasions, occupations and shattered states. He was harshly critical of Italy's princes (such as Francesco Sforza), its professional military class (especially Cesare Borgia), and the Church (Pope Julius II), and this is a study of his evaluation of their failures and of their underlying causes. He believed that the root of Italy's political weakness was the excessive ambition of its elite classes, who, like their counterparts in ancient Rome, were prepared to overthrow governments that obstructed their ambition. Machiavelli formulates this phenomenon, first theoretically, then historically in the context of the Florentine Republic's descent into family-based factionalism, which culminated in the brittle Medici regime. The most damaging tyranny, according to Machiavelli, was the collective tyranny of wealthy elites ready to undermine law and government to preserve and augment their power and wealth.

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El gran friso narrativo de los Episodios Nacionales sirvió de vehículo a Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) para recrear en él, novelescamente engarzada, la totalidad de la compleja vida de los españoles ?guerras, política, vida cotidiana, reacciones populares? a lo largo del agitado siglo XIX. Baluarte de la resistencia frente a los franceses, Cádiz se convierte en síntesis de una nueva España en la que pugnan el deseo de reformar sus instituciones y las posturas tenaces e irreductibles ante el invasor. A través de Gabriel de Araceli, de guarnición en la Isla, Galdós nos da en el presente episodio una visión directa de aquel denso y brillante mundo gaditano en el que se cruzan y entremezclan héroes de ficción y protagonistas históricos.

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Respondiendo a las indicaciones del Capítulo General XXVII para que se traduzcan las Fuentes Salesianas (CG XXVII n. 67.6), EDITORIAL CCS presenta este esperado volumen. El libro comienza con una introducción que sitúa a Don Bosco en la historia, la pedagogía y la espiritualidad de su tiempo. El contenido está estructurado en tres partes: Escritos y documentos para la historia de Don Bosco y de la obra salesiana (Francesco Motto), Escritos y testimonios de Don Bosco acerca de la educación y la escuela (José Manuel Prellezo), Escritos y testimonios de Don Bosco sobre la vida espiritual (Aldo Giraudo). La obra se completa con las fuentes, la bibliografía y un índice temático que facilitará el empleo sistemático del contenido.

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Cuando apareció Solal, la primera novela de Albert Cohen, el éxito fue inmediato y la crítica francesa le saludó como un escritor extraordinario, a pesar de la novedad y complejidad de su propuesta narrativa. En ella aparecían por primera vez sus inolvidables personajes: el joven Solal y sus atrabiliarios y desternillantes Esforzados, Saltiel, Comeclavos, Salomon, Michaël, Mattathias. También sus grandes temas: la búsqueda del Absoluto a través del amor, los juegos de seducción con reglas refinadas hasta el delirio, el tormento de los celos, la muerte; la omnipresencia del judaísmo: Solal, en una fulgurante carrera, pasa de la efervescencia resignada del ghetto a las intrigas sociopolíticas del mundo occidental

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''An enthralling, layered triumph'' SUNDAY TIMES, Thriller of the Month''An elegant, provocative, twisting thriller hugely entertaining and beautifully written'' CHRIS WHITAKER''So brilliant I stayed up into the early hours to finish it'' PRIMA, Book of the MonthYour mother is not who you think she isWhen the phone rings in Judy McVee's Languedoc farmhouse, she knows her past has finally caught up with her. It's her daughter, frantically asking why there are journalists on her London doorstep making terrible accusations.Decades earlier, Judy was a girl with big plans to ensnare a rich husband, to make something of herself, to rise above her upbringing and leave behind past tragedies. Wealthy young widower Rory Harrington seemed the perfect target but Judy hadn't reckoned on actually falling in love with him.Now her daughter Francesca, who has secrets of her own, must come to terms with the realisation that the mother she thought she knew wasn't real. Where has Judy gone and was anyt

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The Great War rages in Europe. Will two Cornish women overcome tragedy and scandal to expose the truth?Verity Tregorran is one of the local blacksmith’s nine daughters, and madly in love with the boy next door, Ned Chegwidden, who is now serving in the trenches of World War I. She must withhold her true feelings for Ned from her parents, who would be horrified to learn of her attachment to someone outside the family’s strict Christian sect.On the coastal path one evening, Verity witnesses something suspicious on the cliffs which causes her to fear the involvement of German spies. There’s only one person she can turn to: Effie Dawes, wife of the local police constable. Effie faces tragedy as her husband fights overseas, while scandal threatens to rock Verity’s family, but the two friends remain determined in their efforts to discover what really happened on the cliffs…An enthralling wartime saga perfect for fans of Lynn Johnson and Francesca Capaldi.

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'For fans of Maggie O'Farrell and Jojo Moyes, this is a sweeping book of love, motherhood, death and hope' STYLIST'Wonderfully assured' THE TIMES'Pass the tissues...' EVENING STANDARD'Lovely novel. Highly recommend' JENNI MURRAY'Beautifully written' THE SUN'Prepare for heartbreak' WOMAN & HOME'A beautiful story' LAURA PEARSON'Brilliant' BELLABecause there's never enough time to say goodbye... Sylvia knows that she's running out of time. Very soon, she will exist only in the memories of those who loved her most and the pieces of her life she's left behind. So she begins to write her husband a handbook for when she's gone, somewhere to capture the small moments of ordinary, precious happiness in their married lives. From raising their wild, loving son, to what to give their gentle daughter on her eighteenth birthday - it's everything she should have told him before it was too late. But Sylvia also has a secret, one that she's saved until the very last pages. And it's a moment in her past that could change everything...Praise for For When I'm Gone:'Beautifully written, with powerful messages of hope' KATHERINE WEBB'A moving portrait of a modern family in crisis' FRANCESCA HORNAK'Ley took my breath away. Exquisitely written and deeply effective' KATE WEINBERG'Heart-breaking. Beautifully written. Reminded me of Maggie O'Farrell' REBECCA THORNTON'A beautiful, sharply observed tale of motherhood, complicated women and family dynamics' CHARLOTTE PHILBY'Heartbreaking and yet uplifting... Rebecca Ley has written a wonderful debu't JENNY QUINTANA'Rebecca Ley explores the need for love, forgiveness and remembrance that's within us all' WOMAN'S WEEKLY

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In this study of surrealism and ghostliness, Katharine Conley provides a new, unifying theory of surrealist art and thought based on history and the paradigm of puns and anamorphosis. In Surrealist Ghostliness, Conley discusses surrealism as a movement haunted by the experience of World War I and the repressed ghost of spiritualism. From the perspective of surrealist automatism, this double haunting produced a unifying paradigm of textual and visual puns that both pervades surrealist thought and art and commemorates the surrealists’ response to the Freudian unconscious. Extending the gothic imagination inherited from the eighteenth century, the surrealists inaugurated the psychological century with an exploration of ghostliness through doubles, puns, and anamorphosis, revealing through visual activation the underlying coexistence of realities as opposed as life and death. Surrealist Ghostliness explores examples of surrealist ghostliness in film, photography, painting, sculpture, and installation art from the 1920s through the 1990s by artists from Europe and North America from the center to the periphery of the surrealist movement. Works by Man Ray, Claude Cahun, Brassaï and Salvador Dalí, Lee Miller, Dorothea Tanning, Francesca Woodman, Pierre Alechinsky, and Susan Hiller illuminate the surrealist ghostliness that pervades the twentieth-century arts and compellingly unifies the century’s most influential yet disparate avant-garde movement.

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This book presents the Gianfranco Luzzetti collection housed in the historic complex of the former convent of the Clarisse in Grosseto, a new museum in the city. The collection is the result of the donation to the Municipality, in 2018, of over 60 works from the personal heritage of Luzzetti, an antiquarian from Grosseto, deeply linked to his land. The paintings, of great quality, trace Italian art from the 14th to the 19th century, with particular attention to Florentine art of the 17th century. The collection includes masterpieces by Antonio Rossellino, Giambologna, Rutilio Manetti, Passignano, Niccolò di Pietro Lamberti, Corrado Giaquinto, Camillo Rusconi, Pier Dandini and Giovanni di Tano Fei, as well as important works by Donatello and Beccafumi and works already donated to the Municipality of Grosseto in past years, of Santi di Tito and Cigoli. This volume, with introductory texts regarding the history of the site, the birth of the Museum and the Collection, is complemented by an anthology of writings by Luzzetti and bibliographic apparatuses. Research and texts: Sandro Bellesi, Marco Ciampolini, Roberto Contini, Elena Dubaldo, Lucia Ferri, Claudia Ganci, Cecilia Luzzetti, Gianfranco Luzzetti, Andrea Marchi, Mauro Papa, Marcella Parisi, Francesca Perillo, Gianluca Sposato, Angelo Tartuferi. Italian edition, with English translation in the appendix.

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This intriguing book investigates the very rare discovery of a huge, lost, Last Supper painting produced in the workshop of Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titian. The discoloured canvas hung neglected in a parish church for 110 years until the conservator and art historian Ronald Moore removed centuries of discoloured varnish and began to appreciate that something exceptional was being revealed. Following extensive scientific examination, signatures and dates appeared whilst it also became apparent that some faces were actually portraits. The early history of the painting in a Venetian convent was discovered with the enthusiastic help of the modern Venetian, Count Francesco da Mosto, whose family knew Titian. The many painters of Titian's workshop are considered with careful circumspection to determine possible contributors to the Last Supper and the remarkable reason for the many changes, or pentimenti, are explained. After 10,500 hours of research and the translation of countless Italian documents and books, the full history of the painting has been revealed. We now know that the painting is far more than a Last Supper from Titian's workshop, painted by at least five artists over twenty years, but is actually a painting within a painting involving other prominent painters and a denouement unparalleled in Renaissance art.

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Aquesta és la història d'algú que ho havia perdut tot, i es va trobar a si mateix -el seu tresor més preuat- en el centre del laberint.Aquest llibre té dues ales, com la Papallona de la Llum, i no s'ha posat a les teves mans per casualitat.Depèn de tu que segueixi volant per mostrar a qui ho necessiti el camí cap al centre del laberint.Àlex Rovira és coautor del best-seller La bona sort i autor de La brúixola interior i Els set poders, que han obtingut un gran èxit internacional. A banda de collaborar setmanalment a la cadena SER i fer conferències arreu del món, escriu articles d'opinió per a El País Semanal.Francesc Miralles és especialista en llibres d'autoajuda i autor de la novella inspiradora amor en minúsucula i del thriller El Quart Reich. Escriu articles sobre espiritualitat a les revistes Integral i CuerpoMente.

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Túnez, en el corazón del Mediterráneo, es un lugar donde fenicios, romanos, bizantinos, árabes, italianos y franceses dejaron su huella.Si queréis la guía del Trotamundos será vuestro cicerone. La primera escala del viaje es la capital, donde descubriréis una de las medinas más hermosas y su viejo centro colonial, además de los valiosos mosaicos romanos del Museo Nacional del Bardo.No lejos está Sidi-bou-Said, un pueblo costero de paredes blancas, y los restos de la púnica Cartago. Al oeste, la Costa de Coral, que alterna cabos, calas y acantilados, se extiende de Bizerta a Tabarka. También podréis visitar el Parque Nacional de Ichkeul, Patrimonio de la Humanidad. Desde Tabarka el recorrido prosigue hacia los yacimientos romanos de Bulla Regia,Dugga, Makthar, Sbeitla, Haidra y Thuburbo Maius.El cabo Bon, al este de la capital, se distingue por su

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El llibre que teniu a les mans és sorprenent i original. Escrit amb un estil trepidant i punyent, aquesta Història de Catalunya al revés esdevé una revisió irònica dels darrers tres-cents anys d'història de Catalunya. A partir de la hipòtesi que les tropes de Felip V de Borbó no haurien ocupat mai els Països Catalans, els autors basteixen una teranyina argumental protagonitzada per personatges com Rafael Casanova, Josep Bonaparte, Anselm Clavé, Francesc Macià o Jordi Pujol. Què hauria passat si el Decret de Nova Planta no hagués representat un perjudici per a Catalunya? I si Lev Trotsky, Albert Einstein i, fins i tot, Marlene Dietrich s'haguessin convertit en aliats de la causa catalana? I si el primer home en trepitjar la lluna no hagués estat Neil Armstrong? Aquestes i altres respostes les trobareu a l'interior d'aquest llibre.

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En este libro, Basurto y Domínguez plantean por fin seriamente la cuestión de la ausencia de una lengua común como un problema político para el futuro de Europa. Con el fin de abordarlo, emprenden un fascinante recorrido histórico por la formación de las diversas lenguas europeas desde el Imperio Romano hasta el austrohúngaro, pasando por la Revolución Francesa, y nos muestran el intenso entrecruzamiento que siempre ha existido entre política, lengua, educación e identidad nacional. Además de un sugerente repaso al convulso pasado lingüístico del Viejo Continente, en estas páginas se ofrece una aguda visión de la Bruselas actual, con todas sus contradicciones y superposiciones lingüísticas e indentitarias. El presente ensayo no solo resulta innovador por atreverse a plantearla pregunta sobre la unión lingüística europea, sino también por arriesgarse a sugerir posibles y sorprendentes soluciones.

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Say 'arrivederci, lonely harts' with another fabulous page-turner from Kristin Harmel Cat Kennedy has always lived life on the safe side, until the day she wildly accepts an invitation to spend a month with an ex-boyfriend in Italy. But her reunion with the slick and gorgeous Francesco turns out to be short-lived, and soon she finds herself alone in Rome. It will take an unexpected friendship with a fiery Italian waitress, a whirlwind Vespa tour of the Eternal City with a handsome stranger, and a surprise encounter with an old acquaintance to show Cat that life doesn't always work out the way you expect, and that sometimes you have to have to let yourself fall in order to fly.

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El viejo nombre de Trafalgar, la punta de occidente, sigue resonando hoy en día más allá de las cartas náuticas, topónimo impreso en la memoria colectiva de tres naciones europeas merced al encarnizado combate que allí tuvo lugar el 21 de octubre de 1805 entre las escuadras francoespañola y británica. Más de doscientos años después, nuestros conocimientos y nuestra perspectiva sobre la batalla se han enriquecido gracias al trabajo conjunto de investigadores españoles, franceses y británicos, que, en lugar de intercambiar mortales cañonazos desde sus navíos, ponen en común trabajo de archivo, hipótesis y conclusiones.Una labor colosal de la que se nutre este libro, una obra colectiva que ha conseguido reunir en sus páginas a algunos de los más destacados especialistas de España, Francia y Reino Unido sobre la batalla de Trafalgar para ofrecer una síntesis renovada acerca de las cuestiones más importantes relacionadas con este crucial hecho de armas: desde la política internacional h

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Este panfleto, escrito entre el invierno y la primavera de 1814 para preparar el retorno de los Borbones al trono de Francia, fue para Chateaubriand uno de esos gestos resueltos e instintivos que nacen de la imaginación y dinamitan todos los puentes tras de sí. El autor tenía como misión convencer a los franceses de que, para evitar una nueva república o la instauración de un gobierno extranjero, era preciso restituir la confianza en los Borbones y juntos acabar con el poder absoluto, dotando a Francia de una monarquía constitucional. Pero la frialdad y la lucidez del periodista político se mezclan de manera imprevisible y conducen a una marea inquietante. En el cesarismo de Napoleón se entrevé el nacimiento de un mito moderno que no es copia de ninguno antiguo: aparece la figura del dictador, y no del tirano. Chateaubriand quiere esbozar un retrato particular, pero termina describiendo en detalle a los dictadores que hemos visto señorear en el siglo xx.

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Giovanni Battista Franco (before 1510 - 1561) was an Italian mannerist painter, draughtsman and engraver. Native of Venice, he spent the first part of his career in Rome, but by 1536 had settled in Florence. Back in Rome by 1542, he painted a fresco of the Capture of Saint John the Baptist for the Oratorio di San Giovanni Decollato. In 1545 he was summoned by Duke Guidobaldo II to Urbino, where he painted frescoes in the Duomo (destroyed). The last ten years of his career were spent in Venice, where among his significant works are a Baptism of Christ for San Francesco della Vigna and the ceiling decoration of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi and the Biblioteca Marciana. Franco is better known as a draughtsman and recent scholars such as A. E. Popham found much to praise in 'Franco's extraordinary skill, with his rather scratchy but effective line, and his combination of Michelangelesque and Raphaelesque forms.' Among his drawings there are numerous studies of antique subjects taken from Roman sarcophagi. Text in French.

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Reflecting on a range of themes, from extractive industries to the politics of care, this timely exhibition catalog looks at environmental and gender justice as indivisible parts of a global struggle. A culturally diverse selection of works by Laura Aguilar, melanie bonajo, Xaviera Simmons, Minerva Cuevas, Barbara Kruger, Nadia Huggins, Ana Mendieta, Sim Chi Yin, Pamela Singh, Francesca Woodman and others are presented alongside works of an activist nature to demonstrate how women are regularly at the forefront of advocating and caring for the planet. Amplifying these visions are illuminating essays by experts in the field, including Professor Kathryn Yusoff, Professor Astrida Neimanis, Professor Catriona Sandilands and Professor Elizabeth DeLoughrey, that consider a diverse range of pertinent topics such as hydrofeminism, the body as earth, queer ecologies, and environmental racism. Together these texts and important artworks reveal how the oppression of women, feminized bodies and indigenous, Black and trans communities and the degradation of the planet are inextricably linked—and the ways in which understanding our environment can resist and overcome the logic of capitalist economies.

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Offering historical identity fortified by the presence of women belonging to the various areas of creative and intellectual life, this book allows readers to understand greater contexts of their identity. The history of female artists is an indicator of how social identity was erased from the historiography which asserted itself in nineteenth-century Europe. Analysis of the biographical pathways traced here reveals how women in the Middle Ages and beyond have been active protagonists of the arts, received reviews, as well as had an authoritative role as the esteemed and attentive witnesses of the society around them.Reconstruction of social relationships, intellectual and creative production as well as of the life stories of some of Europe’s most important female artists, foregrounds this omission and highlights their extraordinary nature.The different stories contained in this book narrate the lives and works of Hildegard von Bingen, Francesca Caccini, Mary Wollstonecraft, George Sand, Lou Andreas Salomé and Elke Mascha Blankenburg.By reinforcing the awareness of social and historical origins, the informed reader is better equipped to tackle their futures and build up their personalities.

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Found yourself organising a show that you didn’t mean to? Or frustrated that no one else is producing your show and just want to do it yourself? You’re not alone. The Accidental Producer is the first-timer’s guide to getting a play, musical or anything else on stage. This step by step handbook explains every stage of the production process, from funding your project to selling the show and everything in between. Written by an experienced theatre producer this book additionally shares the perspectives of eleven industry specialists you might encounter on your journey. · Park Theatre Artistic Director, Jez Bond on how to connect to a venue decision maker · Fleabag producer, Francesca Moody on the secrets to success at the Edinburgh Fringe · Arts Council England Relationship Manager, Paula Varjack on how securing their funding actually works · Press representative, Chloe Nelkin on how to maximise a show’s press coverage · Agent, Alex Segal on approaching star actors This much-needed book’s liberating message is that anyone can produce a successful show, especially if they have in their armoury the advice of those that have come before.

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El gran friso narrativo de los Episodios Nacionales sirvió de vehículo a Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) para recrear en él, novelescamente engarzada, la totalidad de la compleja vida de los españoles -guerras, política, vida cotidiana, reacciones populares- a lo largo del agitado siglo XIX. Prisionero de los franceses en el episodio anterior ??Napoleón en Chamartín??, Gabriel de Araceli se fuga y se dirige a Zaragoza para incorporarse al ejército que se está organizando con fuerzas dispersas. El destino lo lleva a ser uno de los valerosos defensores de la ciudad en el segundo y más fuerte de los ?sitios?. Junto con otros personajes de total creación literaria, Araceli convive con el general Palafox y las demás figuras históricas que realmente intervinieron en la gran gesta popular.

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Pocas obras dicen tanto en su título como la que aquí se presenta. Porque, en La fiesta revolucionaria de Mona Ozouf, quedan contenidas todas esas políticas de la Revolución francesa de que hablara B. Baczko. Desde las primeras páginas del libro, el lector descubre que es la propia fiesta la que se abre al plural; que no hay fiesta, sino fiestas; que la fiesta es imaginario de la política (el espectáculo de una comunidad como invención de sí misma), combate revolucionario (cada una de las gloriosas jornadas) e institución (y aquí debe considerarse toda la problemática de la fundación). Pero, al hilo del relato, ese mismo lector colige que la fiesta revolucionaria también es Una, que es forma de la que participan el moderantismo de los constituyentes, el ardor de los jacobinos del año II o la reacción de los termidorianos.

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El fenómeno guerrillero español durante la ocupación francesa de 1808 provocó asombro en toda Europa y animó a no pocos rincones del continente en su rebelión contra los ejércitos imperiales. Mezcla de bandoleros, contrabandistas y soldados improvisados, las numerosas y eficaces partidas que en concreto operaron en el sur peninsular tuvieron en jaque a un considerable número de efectivos enemigos y jugaron un importante papel en su ayuda a las tropas regulares españolas e inglesas. Pero tras cada voluntario en la guerrilla había una historia personal, una tragedia cuya catarsis resolvían los fusiles o las navajas. La presente novela se escribe sobre geografías reales y unas bases documentales tan sólidas que muchas veces superan a la más dura e imaginativa de las ficciones.

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'I'm thirty-six, I'm a comedian, and I'm about to kill my boyfriend.' A permanently single, professionally neurotic stand-up comedian finally meets his Mr Right – and then does everything wrong. Is Mr Right quite what he seems? And just how far will the comedian go to get a laugh? Marcelo Dos Santos's play Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen is a dark and bitingly funny one-man show about vulnerability, intimacy, ego and truth. It premiered in the Roundabout at the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, produced by Francesca Moody Productions, directed by Matthew Xia, and starring Samuel Barnett. The critically acclaimed, Fringe First-winning production transferred to the Bush Theatre, London, in November 2023.

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En los años setenta del siglo XX, los mismos de la epopeya castrista, apareció en la escena literaria en lengua española una nueva generación de escritores latinoamericanos, exaltadores de la naturaleza y de la libertad, del vitalismo y del color. Fue la generación del boom, que tiene en García Márquez su exponente más ejemplar. Francesco Varanini recorre los caminos de un mapa imaginario que cruza el continente, a través del cual pone al descubierto a quienes considera malos maestros?Neruda, Carpentier?, relee sus más altas voces?Borges, Lezama Lima?, subraya los autores que se han mantenido fieles a las propias raíces?Cabrera Infante, Cortázar?y nos descubre algún tesoro semienterrado?Felisberto Hernández, Adalberto Ortiz o Andrés Caicedo?. Es un viaje rico en sugestiones, a medio camino entre el ensayo, la biografía y la crítica. Un viaje al centro de la literatura y a su periferia, apasionado, polémico y, por encima de todo, apasionante.

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Qué es el conservadurismo y qué está realmente en juego para sus defensores? Corey Robin analiza el asunto desde sus raíces, en la reacción contra la Revolución francesa. Argumenta que el derecho fue inspirado, y todavía está unido, por su hostilidad para emancipar las órdenes inferiores. Algunos conservadores avalan el libre mercado, otros se oponen a ello. Algunos critican al Estado, otros lo celebran. Detrás de estas diferencias está el impulso de defender el poder y el privilegio contra movimientos que exigen libertad e igualdad, al mismo tiempo que hacen llamamientos populistas a las masas. Pero, a pesar de su oposición a estos movimientos, los conservadores favorecen una concepción dinámica de la política y la sociedad, que involucra a menudo la autotransformación, la violencia y la guerra. Las ideas conservadoras también son altamente adaptables a los nuevos desafíos y circunstancias de cada momento. Esta parcialidad a favor de la violencia y la capacidad de reinvención han sido

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Jean Valjean, un exconvicto al que encerraron durante veinte años por robar un pedazo de pan, se convierte en un hombre ejemplar que lucha contra la miseria y la injusticia y que empeña su vida en cuidar a la hija de una mujer que ha debido prostituirse para salvar a la niña. Así, Jean Valjean se ve obligado a cambiar varias veces de nombres, es apresado, se fuga y reaparece. Al mismo tiempo, debe eludir al comisario Javert, un policía inflexible que lo persigue convencido de que tiene cuentas pendientes con la justicia. El enfrentamiento entre ambos se produce durante las revueltas de 1832 en París, donde, en las barricadas, un grupo de jóvenes idealistas planta cara al ejército en defensa de la libertad. Y, entre todo ello, historias de amor, de sacrificio, de redención, de amistad,.Por que el progreso, la ley, el alma, Dios, la Revolución francesa, la prisión, el contrato social, el crimen, las cloacas de París, el idilio amoroso, el maltrato, la pobreza, la justicia. todo tiene

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La filiación divina constituye el fundamento de toda relación con Dios. Esa es la oración que Jesús enseña a sus discípulos, al explicarles cómo orar: el Padrenuestro. Pero, qué idea podemos formarnos de Dios como Padre? Una idea de ternura? O más bien de respeto, o incluso de temor? El autor, a principios del siglo XX, acude a los escritos de Teresa de Lisieux para desarrollarlos y mostrar al lector la grandeza y hondura que esconden. La joven carmelita francesa es, por este motivo, una de las grandes santas de la historia de la Iglesia. El Padre Gabriel Martin, de los misioneros diocesanos de la Vendée (Francia), escribió este breve tratado poco después de la muerte de Teresa de Lisieux, y fue publicado en castellano en 1924. La joven carmelita fue beatificada un año antes por Pío XI. Este mismo pontífice la canonizará en 1925, y en 1997 Juan Pablo II la nombrará Doctora de la Iglesia.

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El 29 de mayo de 1985, la emoción reina en las calles de Bruselas: va a tener lugar la gran fiesta del fútbol en el Estadio de Heysel entre la Juventus y el Liverpool. Una hora antes de que empiece, dos centenares de hinchas británicos acorralan a los aficionados italianos en una zona del estadio. Aprisionadas contra las vallas protectoras, treinta y nueve personas mueren aplastadas por la multitud y más de seiscientas resultan heridas. Sin embargo, el partido no se cancela: los cuerpos se apilan en un espacio anexo al campo y la final de la Copa de Europa da comienzo.Tres años más tarde, la tragedia ha marcado profundamente a quienes lograron sobrevivir a ese viaje al fin de la noche y sus vidas se entrecruzan en el antes y el después.En la turba, ganadora del Premio de Novela Fnac en 2006, es una soberbia obra escrita por uno de los más talentosos autores de la narrativa francesa actual.

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La descarnada historia autobiográfica de una mujer que acaba ejerciendo la prostitución de lujo.Diario de una ninfómana es el conmovedor relato de una mujer francesa, de buena familia, licenciada en dirección de empresas, que narra su evolución vital a través de las relaciones sexuales que va teniendo: con los sepultureros de un cementerio, con un árabe muy aficionado a la Coca-Cola, con un policía sin escrúpulos, con desconocidos en lugares imprevistos... Multitud de vivencias que asume con la máxima libertad que tiene cualquier persona: la que uno se concede a sí mismo y no la que se ve obligado a tener. Esta peculiar manera de relacionarse la lleva a vivir una verdadera odisea al lado de un hombre maquiavélico empeñado en maltratarla psicológicamente. Para sobrevivir al dolor y debido a sus ilimitadas ansias de curiosidad, ejercerá la prostitución en una agencia de contactos de lujo. Allí se enfrentará a la debilidad de los hombres, a su vulnerabilidad: hombres de reconocido

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EL REGRESO DE ROSA MONTERO A LA NOVELA NEGRA, JUNTO AL GANADOR DEL PREMIO QUAIS DU POLAR OLIVIER TRUCEs de noche y en el puerto de Barcelona un guardia hace su ronda cuando su pastora alemana se para en seco a olfatear desesperadamente un contenedor. Al llegar, los mossos d#esquadra hallan en su interior a una mujer en posición fetal, inconsciente y deshidratada. Tiene una brecha en la sien, quemaduras en la cara y el cuerpo, y no recuerda quién es ni cuál es su lengua materna, pero está viva. Mientras se recupera en el Hospital Clínic, un hombre intenta asesinarla. La inspectora Anna Ripoll, experta en trata de mujeres, parece haber dado con su identidad y su dirección: Alicia Garone; 19, rue du Chariot, Lyon. En la ciudad francesa el inspector Erik Zapori busca el modo de librarse de la investigación a la que asuntos internos lo está sometiendo por delitos de corrupción y proxenetismo. Nada mejor que viajar a España a ayudar en la resolución de un caso, aunque puede que est

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As a Premiership, World Cup and Grand Slam winner, no one better embodies the charisma and the colour of English rugbys greatest era than Lawrence Dallaglio. He has some story to tell, not just of the formidable exploits on the field, but an extraordinary life off it. His only sister, Francesca, was the youngest to perish in the Marchioness disaster and her death at 19 remains the great sadness of his life. In addition to this and his much-talked about England exploits, he also led his club Wasps to the summit of European rugby, winning two Heineken Cups and three consecutive English Premiership titles. Full of drama, controversy and great sadness, Lawrence Dallaglios story the last of the great World Cup heroes is the one every rugby fan has been waiting to read.

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THE PERFECT GIFT FOR THE REMARKABLE WOMAN IN YOUR LIFE! If you could share one lesson from your life with every woman, what would it be?Stylist magazine has asked that question of remarkable women from the worlds of entertainment, politics, sport and fashion. With honesty, wit and a serious no-BS attitude, their lessons address the challenges every woman faces today, from climbing the career ladder and finding inner fulfilment, to forging authentic relationships and overcoming life's setbacks.Each of these impressive women, including actress Romola Garai and comedian Francesca Martinez, has a tale to tell and an experience to share. Empowering, engaging and unapologetically impassioned, their incisive observations will make you think, reflect - and kick serious ass.These are life lessons for women, by women.

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The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, and reportage from around the world. Its aim, to break down barriers and introduce the essence of the place. Packed with essays and investigative journalism; original photography and illustrations; charts, and unusual facts and observations, each volume offers a unique insight into a different culture, and how history has shaped the place into what it is today. Brimming with intricate research and enduring wonder, The Passenger is a love-letter to global travel. IN THIS VOLUME, Marco D’Eramo, Nicola Lagioia, Matteo Nucci, and Francesco Piccolo among other Italian writers tell of a city which, despite appearances, slips further down the ranking of the world’s most liveable cities. To the problems faced by all large capitals, Rome has added a list of calamities of its own: widespread corruption, the resurgence of fascist movements, rampant crime. A seemingly hopeless situation perfectly symbolised by the fact that Rome currently leads the world in the number of self-combusting public buses. However, if we look closer, this narrative is contradicted by just as many signs that point in the opposite direction. The majority of Romans wouldn’t consider “betraying” their hometown, and the many newcomers are often indistinguishable from the natives in the profound love that binds them to the city, leading to a lack of the mass emigration. Rome is a place of contradictions, yet to understand Rome and “fix” its problems, we should consider it a normal city, “not unlike Chicago or Manchester.” Only, incomparably more beautiful.

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Ona y Leo coinciden por casualidad en el mismo avión con destino a París. Con todos los tópicos típicos de las comedias románticas, los protagonistas se reencontrarán en la sonada 'Secret Fairy Day', una fiesta secreta que tiene lugar una vez al mes, con la intención de compartir una noche de pasión a la francesa. Pero justo antes de entregarse a su primer beso, el chico vomita sobre la alfombra del vecino de abajo, que no es otro que el mismísimo Alejandro Jodorowsky, quien sufre los desmanes de los invitados a la 'soirée'. Harto de ser tomado por el pito del sereno, el escritor, cineasta, tarotista y psicomago los condenará eternamente con una maldición: De la fiesta no podréis escapar, en París para siempre os quedaréis, condenados a quererse, obligados a odiarse?.Desde ese momento, lo que parecía ser un relato naíf y cursi se transformará en toda una peripecia surrealista por las nebulosas calles de París: polacos mutantes, un agente secreto clavadito a Ryan Gosling, un puticlu

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Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden (1822–1865) produced over eight hundred photographs during her all-too-brief life. Most of these were portraits of her adolescent daughters. By whisking away the furniture and bric-a-brac common in scenes of upper-class homes of the Victorian period, Lady Hawarden transformed the sitting room of her London residence into a photographic studio—a private space for taking surprising photos of her daughters in fancy dress. In Carol Mavor’s hands, these pictures become windows into Victorian culture, eroticism, mother-daughter relationships, and intimacy.With drama, wit, and verve, Lady Hawarden’s girls, becoming women, entwine each other, their mirrored reflections and select feminine objects (an Indian traveling cabinet, a Gothic-style desk, a shell-covered box) as homoerotic partners. The resulting mise-en-scène is secretive, private, delicious, and arguably queer—a girltopia ripe with maternality and adolescent flirtation, as touching as it is erotic. Luxuriating in the photographs’ interpretive possibilities, Mavor makes illuminating connections between Hawarden and other artists and writers, including Vermeer, Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Lewis Carroll, and twentieth-century photographers Sally Mann and Francesca Woodman. Weaving psychoanalytic theory and other photographic analyses into her work, Mavor contemplates the experience of the photograph and considers the relationship of Hawarden’s works to the concept of the female fetish, to voyeurism, mirrors and lenses, and twins and doubling. Under the spell of Roland Barthes, Mavor’s voice unveils the peculiarities of the erotic in Lady Hawarden’s images through a writerly approach that remembers and rewrites adolescence as sustained desire. In turn autobiographical, theoretical, historical, and analytical, Mavor’s study caresses these mysteriously ripped and scissored images into fables of sapphic love and the real magic of photography.

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The artist’s studio occupies a unique place in the popular imagination. Its environment is both the site of the artist’s creative production, and a deeply private, personal space that nourishes and bears witness to the artist’s working process, in a continuous interplay with its location, layout, interior and ambience. This rare access to the studio by a trusted visitor provides a unique opportunity to experience the lives of artists working in New York, through their methods, materials and influences, contained within the intimate space of the studio, and observed with an acutely sensitive eye. Artist Studios in New York – which Marco Anelli has been exploring since 2011 - leads the viewer into the creative process of internationally famous artists such as Alex Katz, Alfredo Jaar, Cecily Brown, Dan Colen, Elisabeth Peyton, Francesco Clemente, Jack Pierson, Joan Jonas, Joyce Pensato, Jonas Mekas, Jordan Wolfson, Julian Schnabel, Julie Mehretu, Kiki Smith, Lawrence Weiner, Mariko Mori, Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Mickalene Thomas, Nate Lowman, Pat Steir, Rob Wynne, Robert Longo, Stanley Whitney, Tony Oursler, Ugo Rondinone, Urs Fisher, Vik Muniz.

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Catalogue of the exhibition dedicated by La Galleria Nazionale di Roma to Vasco Bendini on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth, which opened in March 2022. The volume accompanies the discovery of the career of one of the major artists of the second half of the Italian 20th century, from his early training with Giorgio Morandi, up to the great Roman solo exhibitions and the Biennales of his maturity. The work of Vasco Bendini, dear to critics such as Francesco Arcangeli and Maurizio Calvesi, opens in the immediate postwar period, following an informal language in search of the volto as a universal archetype, to then focus on gesture and matter, under the influence of, among others, Jean Fautrier. The 1960s are characterised by the inclusion in the paintings of heterogeneous objects and materials, in an approach to Arte Povera and then, with actions and installations, to the Neodada way of doing things. The central objective for Bendini remains in fact the involvement of the viewer, in a fruitful dialogue necessary for the development of his poetics. A large selection of archival photos, along with essays and alleri productions of the works, is flanked by a critical anthology and unpublished writings by the Master. Text in English and Italian.

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The story of the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the life of the extraordinary man who created it: Federico da Montefeltro. 'Painstakingly researched and yet unfailingly readable' Ross King 'An insight into one of Renaissance Italy's most glamorous courts' Catherine Fletcher 'The perfect tour guide to the past' Literary Review 'A fabulous merging of seductive design with bravura scholarship' Alexandra Harris 'A superior study... Packed with detail' TLS The one-eyed mercenary soldier Federico da Montefeltro, lord of Urbino between 1444 and 1482, was one of the most successful condottiere of the Italian Renaissance: renowned humanist, patron of the artist Piero della Francesca, and creator of one of the most celebrated libraries in Italy outside the Vatican. From 1460 until her early death in 1472 he was married to Battista, of the formidable Sforza family, their partnership apparently blissful. In the fine palace he built overlooking Urbino, Federico assembled a court regarded by many as representing a high point of Renaissance culture. For Baldassare Castiglione, Federico was la luce dell'Italia – 'the light of Italy'. Jane Stevenson's affectionate account of Urbino's flowering and decline casts revelatory light on patronage, politics and humanism in fifteenth-century Italy. As well as recounting the gripping stories of Federico and his Montefeltro and della Rovere successors, Stevenson considers in details Federico's cultural legacy – investigating the palace itself, the splendours of the ducal library, and his other architectural projects in Gubbio and elsewhere.

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The volume The Many Faces of Beauty joins the rich debate on beauty and aesthetic theory by presenting an ambitious, interdisciplinary examination of various facets of beauty in nature and human society. The contributors ask such questions as, Is there beauty in mathematical theories? What is the function of arts in the economy of cultures? What are the main steps in the historical evolution of aesthetic theories from ancient civilizations to the present? What is the function of the ugly in enhancing the expressivity of art? and What constitutes beauty in film? The sixteen essays, by eminent scientists, critics, scholars, and artists, are divided into five parts. In the first, a mathematician, physicist, and two philosophers address beauty in mathematics and nature. In the second, an anthropologist, psychologist, historian of law, and economist address the place of beauty in the human mind and in society. Explicit philosophical reflections on notoriously vexing issues, such as the historicity of aesthetics itself, interculturality, and the place of the ugly, are themes of the third part. In the fourth, practicing artists discuss beauty in painting, music, poetry, and film. The final essay, by a theologian, reflects on the relation between beauty and God. Contributors: Vittorio Hösle, Robert P. Langlands, Mario Livio, Dieter Wandschneider, Christian Illies, Francesco Pellizzi, Bjarne Sode Funch, Peter Landau, Holger Bonus, Pradeep A. Dhillon, Mark W. Roche, Maxim Kantor, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Mary Kinzie, Dudley Andrew, and Cyril O’Regan.

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For Heaven's Sake was produced for the Damien Hirst: Forgotten Promises inaugural exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong in 2011. The book title, named after the artwork "For Heaven's Sake" (2008), includes full-color plates of the skull, including fabrication shots and installation shots at the Hong Kong exhibition where this life-size human baby skull cast in platinum and covered in 8,128 pavé-set perfect diamonds: 7,105 natural fancy pink diamonds and 1,023 white diamonds on the fontanel was shown for the first time. Also included are 8 unique preliminary drawings by the artist. This spectacular memento mori was cast from an original skull that formed part of a nineteenth-century pathology collection that Hirst acquired some years ago. As Hirst says: "Diamonds are about perfection and clarity and wealth and sex and death and immortality. They are a symbol of everything that's eternal, but then they have a dark side as well." The book includes a short text by curator, writer and critic, Francesco Bonami published in both Chinese and English. Bonami is the Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. He is also the artistic director of the Fondazione Sandretto ReRebaudengo per l'Arte in Turin, Fondazione Pitti Discovery in Florence and the Centro di Arte Contemporanea Villa Manin. He was the director of the 50th Biennale di Venezia of Visual Arts in 2003.

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