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Author | : Jaan Valsiner |
Publisher | : IAP |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2018-10-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1641134704 |
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Ornamented Lives is a theoretical synthesis of cultural psychology, aesthetics, and philosophy of meaning construction. It is an extension of the author’s theory of Semiotic Dynamics (Culture in Minds and Societies, 2007) to the field of ornaments. Ornaments are not merely “decorations” but play the important role of guiding the affective depths of the human minds. This is done by capturing the whole fields of perceivable peripheral spaces and filling them with highly recursive forms. The book concentrates on the visual ornaments of various kinds, indicating in them the tensions between basic forms—linear and curvilinear. This tension is present in human construction of environments—natural growth involves curvilinear forms while human constructions introduce linearity. The basic tension between linear and curvilinear infinities is expressed in the use of spiral forms in art and architecture. The book builds a theoretical account of human beings constantly creating sublime life occasions that give them affective charge for dramatizations of ordinary living. Episodically the sublime acquires new quality—becomes aesthetic. The coverage in this book links the aesthetic, the sublime, and the mundane into one theoretical scheme within cultural psychology.
Author | : Kennedy Fraser |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2014-01-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0804152039 |
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From one of The New Yorker’s most revered writers comes “a brilliant collection” (The New York Times Book Review) about women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families—from Virginia Woolf and Flaubert’s mistress to Russian novelist Nina Berberova and English naturalist Miriam Rothschild. In these fourteen essays, Fraser focuses on women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families; in relation to one another and to the talented men who so often rendered them invisible. In Ornament and Silence we see Virginia Woolf, haunted and eventually destroyed by the sexual secrets of her childhood. We meet Flaubert's theatrically importunate mistress, Louise Colet, the one woman who could briefly slip past the master's misogyny. Fraser offers vibrant portraits of the Russian novelist Nina Berberova and the English naturalist Miriam Rothschild. And here is Fraser herself, learning her craft at The New Yorker, tending her English garden and—on every page—delighting us with the manifold felicities of her prose.
Author | : Theodore H. Fleming |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 615 |
Release | : 2013-10-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 022602332X |
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The average kilometer of tropical rainforest is teeming with life; it contains thousands of species of plants and animals. As The Ornaments of Life reveals, many of the most colorful and eye-catching rainforest inhabitants—toucans, monkeys, leaf-nosed bats, and hummingbirds to name a few—are an important component of the infrastructure that supports life in the forest. These fruit-and-nectar eating birds and mammals pollinate the flowers and disperse the seeds of hundreds of tropical plants, and unlike temperate communities, much of this greenery relies exclusively on animals for reproduction. Synthesizing recent research by ecologists and evolutionary biologists, Theodore H. Fleming and W. John Kress demonstrate the tremendous functional and evolutionary importance of these tropical pollinators and frugivores. They shed light on how these mutually symbiotic relationships evolved and lay out the current conservation status of these essential species. In order to illustrate the striking beauty of these “ornaments” of the rainforest, the authors have included a series of breathtaking color plates and full-color graphs and diagrams.
Author | : Adolf Loos |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-05-30 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0141392983 |
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Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture Adolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of stripped down, clean simplicity. He was also a writer of effervescent, caustic wit, as shown in this selection of essays on all aspects of design and aesthetics, from cities to glassware, furniture to footwear, architectural training to why 'the lack of ornament is a sign of intellectual power'. Translated by Shaun Whiteside With an epilogue by Joseph Masheck
Author | : Bonnie Mackay |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2016-09-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1101991836 |
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A beautifully illustrated look at Christmas ornaments and the memories they hold on our trees First highlighted in the New York Times, Bonnie Mackay’s annual Christmas tree showcases a lifetime collecting almost 3,000 ornaments. Now, through beautiful photography and illuminating vignettes, Tree of Treasures shares the heartfelt stories behind a hundred of those cherished possessions, whether it’s the story of a family member, like Mackay’s grandfather, a well-known vaudeville performer; long-held relationships with friends and colleagues in the international community of Christmas crafts makers; a memory of a beloved pet; and much more. From serene lace angels and vintage Santas, to exquisite glass-blown spheres and small silk purses, Tree of Treasures showcases ornaments both beautiful and well-loved, illuminating how ornaments, as we unpack and hang them each holiday season, tell the story of our lives.
Author | : Emily Ecton |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2009-03-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 143916374X |
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When Arlie, Ty, and the ever-present Mr. Boots discover an old dragonfly pendant, they don't think much of it -- it's just another thing to keep mr. Boots from trying to swallow. But when the pendant turns out to have odd powers -- powers to make all of the lawn ornaments and decorationsin town come to life -- it's time for Arlie and Ty (and Mr. Boots, if they can drag him out from under the couch cushions) to put a stop to all this supernatural nonsense!
Author | : Mrs. Hughs (Mary) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1833 |
Genre | : Moral education |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Garry R. Kennedy |
Publisher | : Hillcrest Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2008-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0979824648 |
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In the never ending battle between good and evil, who will triumph? The Jesus Tree Ornaments is a spiritual action-adventure that may make you question what you really believe about Christmas.
Author | : Sir George Abraham Grierson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 728 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sir George Abraham Grierson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Bihar (India) |
ISBN | : |
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