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Author | : Douglas Bauer |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2014-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1609382684 |
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Luther Mathias sells “snake oil” in scrubby West Texas dirt towns. He learns that substance is never a substitute for style and eventually develops his own remedies that promise to cure any ailment a man might suffer. In time, his imagination and ambition combine to mold him into medicine’s version of Elmer Gantry: loved and hated, imponderably wealthy and famous, powerful and pursued. The Very Air is a compelling exploration of human motives and hidden meanings. It is a detailed picture of America’s myth of the rugged individual in the psychological and narrative tradition of The Great Gatsby and Citizen Kane. With a resonant sense of the period and culture, Douglas Bauer evokes the freewheeling feel of the old Southwest in the charlatans of our own era. The Very Air shows, through storytelling both exhilarating and chilling, that the past is prologue and that our personal histories indeed shape the course of our individual futures.
Author | : bella m |
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Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2009-08-13 |
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ISBN | : 9780984065547 |
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Total Pages | : 810 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
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Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Technology |
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Author | : Paul Carus |
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Total Pages | : 830 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Release | : 1891 |
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Author | : Margareta Ingrid Christian |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2021-06-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 022676480X |
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Margareta Ingrid Christian unpacks the ways in which, around 1900, art scholars, critics, and choreographers wrote about the artwork as an actual object in real time and space, surrounded and fluently connected to the viewer through the very air we breathe. Theorists such as Aby Warburg, Alois Riegl, Rainer Maria Rilke, and the choreographer Rudolf Laban drew on the science of their time to examine air as the material space surrounding an artwork, establishing its “milieu,” “atmosphere,” or “environment.” Christian explores how the artwork’s external space was seen to work as an aesthetic category in its own right, beginning with Rainer Maria Rilke’s observation that Rodin’s sculpture “exhales an atmosphere” and that Cezanne’s colors create “a calm, silken air” that pervades the empty rooms where the paintings are exhibited. Writers created an early theory of unbounded form that described what Christian calls an artwork’s ecstasis or its ability to stray outside its limits and engender its own space. Objects viewed in this perspective complicate the now-fashionable discourse of empathy aesthetics, the attention to self-projecting subjects, and the idea of the modernist self-contained artwork. For example, Christian invites us to historicize the immersive spatial installations and “environments” that have arisen since the 1960s and to consider their origins in turn-of-the-twentieth-century aesthetics. Throughout this beautifully written work, Christian offers ways for us to rethink entrenched narratives of aesthetics and modernism and to revisit alternatives.
Author | : Herbert George Wells |
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Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Imaginary wars and battles |
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Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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