The morbid anatomy anthology
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Since 2008, the Morbid Anatomy Library of Brooklyn, New York, has hosted scholars, artists and writers working along the intersections of the history of anatomy and medicine, death and the macabre, religion and spectacle. The Morbid Anatomy Anthology collects some of the best of this work in 28 illustrated essays.
The morbid anatomy anthology
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Since 2008, the Morbid Anatomy Library of Brooklyn, New York, has hosted scholars, artists and writers working along the intersections of the history of anatomy and medicine, death and the macabre, religion and spectacle. The Morbid Anatomy Anthology collects some of the best of this work in 28 illustrated essays.
Art Theory
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In this collection of essays, Borges discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and the many translators of 1001 Nights. Varied and enthralling, these pieces examine the very nature of our lives, from cinema and books to history and religion.
The perpetual race of Achilles and the tortoise. Great Ideas V
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In this collection of essays, Borges discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and the many translators of 1001 Nights. Varied and enthralling, these pieces examine the very nature of our lives, from cinema and books to history and religion.
Literature and poetry
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Examining the evolving place of green in art, clothes, literature, religion, science, and everyday life, Michel Pastoureau traces how culture has profoundly changed the perception and meaning of the color over millennia—and how we misread cultural, social, and art history when we assume that colors have always signified what they do today.
Green : the history of a color
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Examining the evolving place of green in art, clothes, literature, religion, science, and everyday life, Michel Pastoureau traces how culture has profoundly changed the perception and meaning of the color over millennia—and how we misread cultural, social, and art history when we assume that colors have always signified what they do today.
Colour Theory and Design
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After World War II, America’s religious denominations spent billions on church architecture as they spread into the suburbs. In this illustrated history of midcentury modern churches in the Midwest, Gretchen Buggeln shows how architects and suburban congregations joined forces to work out a vision of how modernist churches might help reinvigorate Protestant worship and(...)
The suburban church: modernism and community in postwar America
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After World War II, America’s religious denominations spent billions on church architecture as they spread into the suburbs. In this illustrated history of midcentury modern churches in the Midwest, Gretchen Buggeln shows how architects and suburban congregations joined forces to work out a vision of how modernist churches might help reinvigorate Protestant worship and community. The result offers a new perspective on postwar architecture, religion, and society. Drawing on the architectural record, church archives, and oral histories, The Suburban Church focuses on collaborations between architects Edward D. Dart, Edward A. Sövik, Charles E. Stade, and seventy-five congregations. By telling the stories behind their modernist churches, the book describes how the buildings both reflected and shaped developments in postwar religion—its ecumenism, optimism, and liturgical innovation, as well as its fears about staying relevant during a time of vast cultural, social, and demographic change.
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Panopticon
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes the title for this collection of short essays on topical themes—politics, economics, religion, society—not from Jeremy Bentham’s famous prison but from a mid-1930s Cabinet of Curiosities opened in Germany by Karl Valentin. ''There,'' writes Enzensberger, ''viewers could admire, along with implements of torture, all manner of abnormalities(...)
Panopticon
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes the title for this collection of short essays on topical themes—politics, economics, religion, society—not from Jeremy Bentham’s famous prison but from a mid-1930s Cabinet of Curiosities opened in Germany by Karl Valentin. ''There,'' writes Enzensberger, ''viewers could admire, along with implements of torture, all manner of abnormalities and sensational inventions.''
Literature and poetry
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Montreal's Other Museums is an illustrated user-friendly pocket guide to an intriguing number of 'little' museums mostly unknown to Montrealer and visitor alike. They specialize in subjects such as medecine, ecology, rare books, sports, history, religion, aviation, printing, computers, music, the military, the circus, and the unconventional - each one reflecting the(...)
Montreal's other museums: off the beaten track
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Montreal's Other Museums is an illustrated user-friendly pocket guide to an intriguing number of 'little' museums mostly unknown to Montrealer and visitor alike. They specialize in subjects such as medecine, ecology, rare books, sports, history, religion, aviation, printing, computers, music, the military, the circus, and the unconventional - each one reflecting the passion of their founders and curators.
Architecture de Montréal
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The history of the book in Tibet involves more than literary trends and trade routes. Functioning as material, intellectual, and symbolic object, the book has been an instrumental tool in the construction of Tibetan power and authority, and its history opens a crucial window onto the cultural, intellectual, and economic life of an immensely influential Buddhist(...)
The culture of the book in Tibet
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The history of the book in Tibet involves more than literary trends and trade routes. Functioning as material, intellectual, and symbolic object, the book has been an instrumental tool in the construction of Tibetan power and authority, and its history opens a crucial window onto the cultural, intellectual, and economic life of an immensely influential Buddhist society.Spanning the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Kurtis R. Schaeffer envisions the scholars and hermits, madmen and ministers, kings and queens who produced Tibet's massive canons. He describes how Tibetan scholars edited and printed works of religion, literature, art, and science and what this indicates about the interrelation of material and cultural practices. The Tibetan book is at once the embodiment of the Buddha's voice, a principal means of education, a source of tradition and authority, an economic product, a finely crafted aesthetic object, a medium of Buddhist written culture, and a symbol of the religion itself.
Arch Southwest Asia & North Africa
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Number 9 tells the story of Enjil, a boy mathematician who is challenged by a spirit to solve the riddle, "What is the fixed point of the wind?" As Enjil searches for the answer, he and the reader embark on a journey through myth, legend, and religion. Enjilís adventures lead readers to an appreciation of symmetry within asymmetry, classical ideas, and modern impulses.
Architectural Theory
November 2008, Munich, Berlin, London, New York
Number 9 : the search for the Sigma Code
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Number 9 tells the story of Enjil, a boy mathematician who is challenged by a spirit to solve the riddle, "What is the fixed point of the wind?" As Enjil searches for the answer, he and the reader embark on a journey through myth, legend, and religion. Enjilís adventures lead readers to an appreciation of symmetry within asymmetry, classical ideas, and modern impulses.
Architectural Theory
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On the Beyond is a far-reaching conversation between the Los Angeles-based artists Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw and art historian John C. Welchman. Touching on religion, dreams, hallucination, UFOs and other forms of experiential or speculative transcendence, the trio also discusses the American landscape and the sublime, utopian and memorial architectures, and the defiantly(...)
On the beyond: A conversation between Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, and John C. Welchman
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On the Beyond is a far-reaching conversation between the Los Angeles-based artists Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw and art historian John C. Welchman. Touching on religion, dreams, hallucination, UFOs and other forms of experiential or speculative transcendence, the trio also discusses the American landscape and the sublime, utopian and memorial architectures, and the defiantly complex capacity of art itself to go beyond.
Art Theory
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Cette chronique biographique de Pierre Lescot, nous plonge au coeur de la Renaissance, siècle tourmenté par les guerres de religion. Au jour le jour, nous suivons, la construction des différents bâtiments dont le plus célèbre est le nouveau Louvre. Durant trente-deux années, Pierre Lescot, architecte et familier des rois, oeuvrera tour à tour sous François 1er, Henri II,(...)
Pierre Lescot: 1515-1578. Histoire
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Cette chronique biographique de Pierre Lescot, nous plonge au coeur de la Renaissance, siècle tourmenté par les guerres de religion. Au jour le jour, nous suivons, la construction des différents bâtiments dont le plus célèbre est le nouveau Louvre. Durant trente-deux années, Pierre Lescot, architecte et familier des rois, oeuvrera tour à tour sous François 1er, Henri II, François II, Charles IX et Henri III.
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