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Rock
Welcome to my jungle. 100 albums rock et autres anectodes dépareillées
Le livre que vous tenez entre les mains ne consiste pas en un classement des albums incontournables du rock. Pas tout à fait en tout cas. Il ne s'agit pas non plus du récit de la vie d'une célébrité. Gilles Rolland n'a pas composé de tubes, n'a pas réalisé le grand film de toute une génération et n'a pas collaboré avec des pointures. Ce qu'il fait, c'est écrire. Un journaliste furieusement indépendant né dans la froidure de l'Aveyron, élevé à Carmaux, soit l'ex-ville la plus punk de l'ouest de l'Europe comme aiment à le dire celles et ceux qui ont de tout temps oeuvré à sa reconnaissance à travers la musique binaire à crête (ou pas) et qui aujourd'hui, exerce depuis la campagne toulousaine. Ce livre raconte donc son amour pour le rock and roll au sens large, à travers une sélection somme toute personnelle de 100 albums. Et s'il y est donc question de l'importance capitale de Lemmy Kilmister, de l'âge d'or de la musique psychédélique à San Francisco pendant les années 60, de Grace Slick du Jefferson Airplane, de Janis Joplin, de Dave Grohl, de Rammstein, des Guns N' Roses et de Johnny Cash, l'auteur en profite pour disserter au sujet de son obsession pour les T-shirts rock, raconte ses années passées au sein de plusieurs groupes de reprises comme s'il avait joué avec les Rolling Stones, déclare sa flamme aux Beatles et aux Doors, tente de réhabiliter une gloire oubliée de la country et exprime sa passion concernant les lieux qui ont vu jadis se produire de grandes choses, égrainant ici ou là des souvenirs relatifs (ou non) à ses séjours aux Etats-Unis. Ici, on parle d'Ozzy Osbourne avec la même déférence que si ce dernier avait trouvé un remède miracle à une maladie obscure pour mieux souligner le pouvoir du rock and roll. Un livre habité par un désir de transmission, que Gilles adresse à ses enfants mais aussi à toutes celles et ceux qui comme lui, ne peuvent pas concevoir l'existence sans musique. Un voyage dans la psyché un peu bordélique d'un quadragénaire qui quelque-part, pense qu'il a toujours 20 ans, ici en pleine introspection, au coeur d'un univers dans lequel il se peut que vous vous reconnaissiez...
03/2021
Tourisme étranger
Moroccan tracks Volume 11. The sagho djebel
The Sagho djebel is the eastern extension of the Anti-Atlas, a volcanic mountain with granitic mamelons, basaltic organs, chaos of black shales, pink sandstones... at the gates of the Sahara. As far as the eye can see, large wild, arid spaces. A desolate land made for the lonely DPM. And for a thousand miles around, silence is the only companion. Absolute plenitude and the desire to take to the track. From flat expanses to rolling hills, from sharp relief to steep canyons : pure, original nature. The character is strong, rustic but the heart is soft. The colours are soft and gentle. Ochre, pink, brown, violet, the colour chart stretches in a gradation of shimmering pastels, sometimes accompanied by an overwhelming heat. Eldorado in the heart of the desert, rare are the oases ; modest green spots in the infinitely large, they are the reminders that we are on African soil. The wild charm of the Sagho is due to its exceptional geology : high cliffs and steep peaks, tabular escarpments and deep canyons in the middle of which caravans of camels and mules circulate. When you arrive on these immense plateaus, the lunar horizon is so vast that you want to go everywhere at once to see if it is really as beautiful elsewhere ! The Sagho also surprises by the richness of its lights : limpid like those of the nearby Sahara, or sometimes in half-tone, as in the neighbouring Dades valley. The Sagho is also the Morocco of the last Berber nomads, descendants of the ancient lords Aït Atta. In autumn, after leaving the snows of the High Atlas, they set up their dark wool tents on the slopes of the jebel until spring. They can neither read nor write, but they are sure of their way through the Atlas Mountains and the Moroccan desert. In the Sagho, they have built houses of unbaked stone, dug wells, planted almond trees, grown wheat, barley and various vegetables. Others built herds of goats and sheep, and caravans of camels. Most of them are now sedentary, semi-nomadic or nomadic...
08/2022
Histoire internationale
Early Soviet Postmodernism
Soviet postmodernism is part of a long-term cultural development that began with the death of Stalin in 1953 and has continued on up to the present day. The book treats the early phase of Soviet postmodernism, which began to emerge in the late 1950's and lasted until the mid-1970's. Early Soviet postmodernism agrees with later, neoavantgardist postmodernism in that it distrusts modernist figures of thought such as utopianism, dialectical argumentation, and mythopoetic "grand narratives." Unlike late postmodernism, which appropriates these figures ironically, early Soviet postmodernism is still involved in a serious, agonized attempt to "correct" or rework them in a serious way. The epistemological failure of these efforts marks this literature as specifically postmodern. The book charts the development of this epoch in four important "genres" of postwar Soviet literature : in village prose (Nagibin, Solženicyn, Belov, Rasputin); in Vasilij Suksin's short stories about eccentric characters ; in Jurij Trifonov's urban prose ; and in the lyric poetry of Evgenij Evtusenko and Andrej Voznesenskij.
07/1997
Sciences de la terre et de la
The Biomechanics of Insect Flight. Form, Function, Evolution
From the rain forests of Borneo to the tenements of Manhattan, winged insects are a conspicuous and abundant feature of life on earth. Here, Robert Dudley presents the first comprehensive explanation of how insects fly. The author relates the biomechanics of flight to insect ecology and evolution in a major new work of synthesis.
The book begins with an overview of insect flight biomechanics. Dudley explains insect morphology, wing motions, aerodynamics, flight energetics, and flight metabolism within a modern phylogenetic setting. Drawing on biomechanical principles, he describes and evaluates flight behavior and the limits to flight performance. The author then takes the next step by developing evolutionary explanations of insect flight. He analyzes the origins of flight in insects, the roles of natural and sexual selection in determining how insects fly, and the relationship between flight and insect size, pollination, predation, dispersal, and migration. Dudley ranges widely - from basic aerodynamics to muscle physiology and swarming behavior - but his focus is the explanation of functional design from evolutionary and ecological perspectives.
The importance of flight in the lives of insects has long been recognized but never systematically evaluated. This book addresses that shortcoming. Robert Dudley provides an introduction to insect flight that will be welcomed by students and researchers in biomechanics, entomology, evolution, ecology, and behavior.
01/2000
Critique littéraire
To catch the sun in the water
Marie was born around the end of World War II in a small village near Chaveniac-Lafayette where General Lafayette lived. It is the mountainous region of Auvergne known as the heart of France. Take Marie's hand and she will guide you through her humble childhood. Through her eyes you will see what it was like to live in the country in France. With Marie's many brothers end sisters you will participate in hay making, harvesting... At this time, they used traditional methods and tools. Her parents will demonstrate the making of bread, butter and cheese... It's here that you meet Mathias, a boy her age, who becomes her best friend. Later, their love story unfolds... Just after the war, it was a time when the French countryside was populated with farmers that still lived in economic self-sufficiency. In the story, the author makes these peasants from depths of France come alive. The feeling, the candor, and the authenticity of the book will remind you of the Little House on the Prairie
07/2001
Accessoire de mode
Sneaker Obsession
Hype ? Collabs ? Drops ? Resellers ? Raffles ? Customizations ? Welcome to the sneakerverse ! Discover the evolution of the sneaker, from its origins as a sports shoe to its skyrocketing rise as a cultural phenomenon. Adopted by rappers like Run-DMC and break-dancers, the sneaker transitioned from the athletic field to the street, becoming a must-have statement accessory. Now an essential emblem of streetwear, the sneaker has become a global sensation, a coveted collectible, and a multi-billion-dollar industry. Showcasing the stories and iconic models behind the biggest brands-Nike, Jordan, Adidas, Puma, Reebok, Converse, New Balance, Asics, Vans, and more-this volume features the major collaborations and influential personalities who have sparked incredible hype, from Michael Jordan to Virgil Abloh to Travis Scott. Interviews with sneaker experts and highlights of how leading brands are incorporating sustainability, gender equality, and customization provide insight on the future of sneakers. With a glossary of terms, a sneaker diagram, and an authentication checklist, this indispensable reference covers everything you need to know about sneaker culture and its history, codes, jargon, innovators, and trends.
03/2023
Non classé
Cognitive Perspectives on Language
The papers collected in the present volume show that the terms cognitivism and cognitive, so common in present day linguistic discourse, do not refer to a single theoretical mode or approach to language. Firstly, the papers show that cognitivism is a lively research area accommodating a wide spectrum of approaches. Secondly, they address a number of issues ranging from grammaticalization, event structure, semantic representation, equivalence, image schematic representations and lexicography to poetry, metaphor, metonymy, and national mentality. Some of the contributions deal with the linguistic phenomena in one language, while others take up a cross-linguistic approach.
11/1999
Non classé
Jorge Semprún
Jorge Semprún is a leading writer from the first generation of Spanish Civil War exiles, yet studies of his work have often focused solely on his literary testimony to the concentration camps and his political activities. Although Semprún's work derives from his incarceration in Buchenwald and his expulsion from the Spanish Communist Party in 1964, limiting the discussion of his works to the autobiographical details or to the realm of Holocaust studies is reductive. The responses by many influential writers to his recent death highlight that the significance of Semprún's work goes beyond the testimony of historical events. His self-identification as a Spanish exile has often been neglected and there is no comprehensive study of his works available in English. This book provides a global view of his oeuvre and extends literary analysis to texts that have received little critical attention. The author investigates the role played by memory in some of Semprún's works, drawing on current debates in the field of memory studies. A detailed analysis of these works allows related concepts, such as exile and nostalgia, the Holocaust, the interplay between memory and writing, politics and collective memory, and postmemory and identity, to be examined and discussed.
04/2014
Histoire internationale
Strange Adventures
Strange Adventures examines portrayals of womanhood in the works of prize-winning French author Pierrette Fleutiaux. Fleutiaux's refreshing pictures of womanhood offer insights into how women can become more whole, substantial and free in themselves and in their relationships, as well as how they can contribute to the external world through their creativity and leadership. The study demonstrates how Fleutiaux's heroines navigate the external, bodily and inner situations of adolescence, early adult life, marriage, motherhood, maturity, leadership and death, in the process developing greater inner resources of wisdom, compassion and resilience. This volume considers selections from Fleutiaux's oeuvre, from her first short fiction Histoire de la chauve-souris to her recent Loli le temps venu, including Métamorphoses de la reine (Goncourt de la nouvelle) and Nous sommes éternels (Prix Femina). Using a theoretical framework which draws on Jungian concepts and the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir, the study analyses women's individuation trajectories at each stage of life. Throughout, Fleutiaux's depictions are shown to pose a challenge to existing conceptions of womanhood and individuality, thus opening up new understandings of what it means to be a woman, and to be human.
03/2016
Anglais apprentissage
Tales from Longpuddle
Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he's not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks fora ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it. These stories are set in an English country village of the nineteenth century, but Hardy's tales of mistakes and muddles and marriages belong in any place, at any time.
07/2010
Informatique
ELEMENTS OF PROGRAMMING WITH PERL
Here's a complete introduction to programming using Perl, written so its accessible to those learning Perl as their first programming language.
With examples ranging from a useful utility to search the Perl FAQs to a web client for tracking and charting stock quotes to an object-oriented student grading system, this book offers you a practical, hands-on approach to learning programming the Perl way.
What's inside
• Style and design issues and the software development cycle
• Full descriptions of Perl's data types, variables, operators, and control structures In-depth coverage of Perl's regular expressions
• References and nested data structures
• Documentation and Literate Programming
• Text and list manipulation
• Debugging techniques
• Using and writing modules
• Object-oriented programming and abstract data structures
12/1999
Histoire de France
CRASH IN BAYEUX - The Last Flight of Sergeant Ferguson
Normandy, France, January 15, 1943. The weather is clear, the sun is shining. Two Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft fly over the Bayeux-Caen railroad. The target is a German freight train - and its locomotive. Aboard the first Spitfire, Sergeant Ferguson is aligning his gun sights on the target. It is 02 : 30 p. m. This will be his very last flight... HARASSING THE OCCUPYING FORCES TO PREPARE THE INVASION The RAF and RCAF had been flying hundreds of similar sorties over France for months, in order to weaken the German forces, particularly the Luftwaffe. The pilots of No. 401 Squadron were among those who took part in this patient work, made up of constant patrols and attacks. Among the 63 men mentioned in this book, 25 were killed in action between 1942 and 1944. A CRASH THAT AWOKE THE SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE Touched by William Ferguson's sacrifice, some French citizens decided to bury the young Canadian flier with dignity, honour and respect. The Germans took this as a provocation. A few weeks later, the Sipo-SD (the "Gestapo") arrested a dozen of them. They were sent to concentration camps - some of them later died in Büchenwald, Dachau and Mauthausen. Others did survive, including Paul Le Caër. He is the one who has supported the author and told him what happened. Today, he is signing the preface of this book. UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENTS AND TESTIMONIES Based on an in-depth analysis of unpublished documents, including the Fergusons' archives and No. 401 Squadron Operation Record Book, this work depicts the very last flight of the young Canadian pilot in detail. With a striking truthfulness, you will relive the squadron's daily life, the faith of the pilots, as well as the beginning of the sortie and "Bill" Ferguson's last minutes. FIVE YEARS OF RESEARCH AND EMOTION A young and talented historian involved in the field of remembrance in Normandy, François Oxéant has spent over five years fitting the pieces of the puzzle together. This book will help you discover all aspects of his fascinating investigation with a methodical and rigorous approach. He has met some of the last witnesses of the events and has been in touch with the pilot's family for a few years, making us share his emotion and admiration for Bill, who was barely younger than himself.
09/2014
Shonen/garçon
Your Turn to Die Tome 2 . Death Game by Majority
A ton tour de mourir ! L'entrée en scène de Risette, un personnage pour le moins énigmatique, a entraîné la mort inattendue de Mishima. Cette tragédie a semé la terreur parmi les participants au jeu, qui ne parviennent pas à s'en relever. Bon gré mal gré, ils se remettent à chercher un moyen de s'échapper, mais la confiance est rompue et le doute commence à envahir leurs coeurs... Série en cours au Japon - 4 tomes parus
10/2023
Seinen/Homme
Goblin Slayer Daikatana. Tome 1 The Singing Death
Préquel de Goblin Slayer se déroulant dix ans avant les événements de la série principale. Dix ans avant les événements de l'histoire principale de Goblin Slayer, tout au nord de ce monde, se trouve l'imprenable Donjon de la Mort. En effet, seule la mort attend ceux qui s'y aventurent, jusqu'à ce que ce défi soit relevé par un certain groupe d'aventuriers, six hommes et femmes qui seront un jour appelés des Héros... Mais avant cela, ils devront gagner en expérience.
09/2023
Livres 3 ans et +
Penelope at the Louvre
Penelope and Grandpa visit the Louvre Museum : the Mona Lisa, the mummies, the Venus de Milo... Penelope wants to see everything ! And what if she gives a pen to the Egyptian scribe... Penelope is full of good ideas... Would you like to help ? It's easy to do with the magic tabs.
01/2009
Livres 0-3 ans
YAOUNDÉ BABA SCARED?....ME?....NO WAY!
YAOUNDE BABA SCARED ? ... ME ? ... NO WAY ! YAOUNDE goes off in search of his little goat, BEEE, who, in spite of the young boy's watchful eye, has gone missing. On the way he meets ZOULÏA, a friendly mouse, and ARWANE, a little ant, who help him to find the little goat. Their search will lead them to an isolated hill where a very strange creature lives - a creature capable of transforming itself into unimaginably frightening shapes and forms to scare away anybody who dares to set foot on its steep hill. In order to find BEEE, YAOUNDE and his two friends will have little choice. They will have to cross its territory and confront this incredible and terrifying creature. 6 to 10 Years.
10/2017
Critique littéraire
Ancient Greek by Its Translators
When not familiar with the language itself, most readers over the centuries have had access to the ancient Greek texts only or mostly through (Latin or vernacular) translations. Such an approach is not only indirect and mediated, but also distorted and even impoverishing : meaning then prevails over the linguistic form and substance of the texts themselves. What do later or modern readers read when they read translated texts written in an ancient so-called dead language ? They read a given meaning - sometimes unfaithful, often inaccurate - dictated by a genuine understanding, the blind continuation of tradition, or an untold hidden intention. The complex range of significances conveyed by meaning simultaneously reflects the time and space (called synchrony) of when and where a text has been translated, the historical learning and linguistic skills of the translators, as well as their ideas and style. As a contribution to the perennial debate about translation (mere literary transliteration vs. creative transposition), this volume aims at analyzing some striking cases of various (literary or not) texts translated from ancient Greek showing how much for the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries aesthetics and ideology matter as much as - and often even more than - rigorous philology.
02/2022
Non classé
A Life of Her Own
This study reconstructs Brittain's feminist theory, which mainly refutes assumptions made about women, supports companionate marriage, and demands the communal reorganization of child care and domestic work to enable a married woman to work outside her home. It compares her theory to her five novels. Doing so, it uncovers revealing feminist 'flaws', above all that marriage remains, the sine qua non for a woman's happiness. The study describes Brittain's way to the top as a formidable obstacle race, in which she constantly had to fight the men she loved, her children, her parents, and resulting domesticity in order to find time to write "the book of the decade". She reached her goal with the publication of Testament of Youth in 1933.
11/1996
Romance sexy
Say Yes to the Boss
Embrasser mon boss ? Jamais ! A 27 ans, Mona Vargas est encore célibataire, au grand désespoir de sa mère. Chaque dimanche, c'est le même refrain : cette dernière cherche à lui coller un mec dans les pattes ! Alors quand son boss, Hugo Capelli, aussi horripilant que sexy, lui demande de jouer sa fausse fiancée et de l'accompagner à la garden-party organisée par son ex, elle décide d'accepter. A une condition : qu'il consente lui aussi à se faire passer pour son petit ami auprès de sa famille. Avec lui, pas d'ambiguïté, puisqu'ils n'ont rien en commun ! Il est aussi sûr de lui, arrogant et égocentré qu'elle est désintéressée et dévouée. Et de toute façon, c'est son patron ! Mais ça, c'est sur le papier...
04/2022
Réalistes, contemporains
Walk me to the corner
Walk Me to the corner est le nouveau roman graphique d'Anneli Furmark, l'une des voix les plus importantes de la bande dessinée suédoise. Depuis son premier livre publié en 2002, elle raconte des histoires centrées sur l'intime et sur ses personnages. Walk me to the corner est - comme le disent les protagonistes de l'histoire - une sorte de "Brokeback Mountain pour dames d'un certain âge" . Le personnage principal du récit est Elise, la cinquantaine, mariée depuis plus de 20 ans, dont les enfants ont grandi et ont déménagé. Elle tombe soudainement éperdument amoureuse d'une femme du même âge, Dagmar, également en couple, avec qui elle commence une relation. Bien que leur passion soit mutuelle, aucune des deux femmes n'est prête à quitter sa famille. Des complications surviennent lorsque le mari d'Elise tombe amoureux d'une jeune étudiante et qu'il divorce, tandis que Dagmar refuse de divorcer... A travers l'histoire de ces deux femmes et les questionnements d'Elise, Walk me to the corner explore avec délicatesse et empathie ce qu'implique de quitter la sécurité d'une vie routinière à la cinquantaine pour se jeter dans l'inconnu.
10/2021
Suspense
The Last One to Die
Elle pensait vivre le meilleur été de sa vie... ce sera peut-être le dernier. Niamh, 17 ans, a travaillé comme une dingue pour pouvoir se payer des cours d'été dans la plus grande école d'art dramatique de Londres. Elle s'imagine découvrir une ville accueillante mais se heurte à une ambiance glaçante : de nombreuses jeunes filles, dont ses nouvelles amies, se font violemment agresser. Toutes ont le même profil, celui de Niamh... qui va se retrouver au coeur du plus effrayant des films d'horreur ! Un thriller haletant sur fond de légendes urbaines.
09/2021
Manga
Descendants. Rotten to the Core
Afin d'être punis, tous les pires méchants de l'histoire sont désormais prisonniers de l'île de l'Oubli, un endroit sans magie dont il est impossible de s'échapper. C'est pourquoi les enfants de Maléfique, la Méchante reine. Jafar et Cruelle d'Enfer n'ont jamais pu s'aventurer à l'extérieur de l'île... jusqu'à aujourd'hui ! Invités dans le parfait royaume d'Auradon, ils vont en effet se retrouver à devoir aller dans la même école que les enfants de nos héros Disney préférés. Mais Mal, Evie, Jay et Carlos auront surtout pour tâche d'exécuter le plan machiavélique de leurs parents pour que ces derniers puissent répandre la terreur à nouveau. Nos jeunes adolescents rebelles vont-ils suivre les traces de leurs horribles parents ou choisiront-ils d'écouter la bonté de leur coeur et de sauver le royaume ?
10/2018
12 ans et +
Love letters to the dead
Tout a commencé par une lettre... Une simple rédaction demandée par un prof : écrire à un disparu. Laurel a choisi Kurt Cobain, parce que sa grande soeur May l'adorait. Et qu'il est mort jeune, comme May. Si elle ne rend jamais son devoir, très vite le carnet de Laurel se remplit de lettres à Amy Winehouse, Heath Ledger... A ces confidents inattendus, elle raconte sa première année de lycée, sa famille décomposée, ses nouveaux amis, son premier amour. Mais avant d'écrire à la seule disparue qui lui tient vraiment à coeur, Laurel devra se confronter au secret qui la tourmente et faire face à ce qui s'est vraiment passé la nuit où May est décédée.
10/2015
Photographes
Jerusalem. To the Last Path
A la fin des années 1990, David Sauveur est un photojournaliste habitué aux chaos de l'histoire, reconnu internationalement. Lorsqu'il découvre Jérusalem, c'est pour d'autres raisons : non plus dénoncer la violence des hommes, mais sentir vibrer leur besoin de beauté. Pendant cinq ans, par une immersion méditative dans l'épaisseur de la cité millénaire, il recueille au Polaroid la matière de To The Last Path ("Vers le dernier chemin"). Naît une série de photographies subtiles, tout en lenteur et délicatesse, portées par une rare intelligence de la pluralité et des contradictions de la ville aux trois religions. Ce livre, accompagné d'un texte de l'historien Vincent Lemire, présente pour la première fois l'oeuvre de David Sauveur, dont une agression en août 2011 a interrompu la carrière.
01/2022
Monographies
Paris - The Place to be
From Montmartre to Montparnasse, from the Elysée to the Trocadéro, from the Louvre Museum to the Orsay Museum, from the Latin Quarter to the Butte aux Cailles and the Monceau plain, each district of Paris conceals unsuspected treasures ! This Paris off the beaten track can be discovered along the alleys, parks, bridges and great monuments... Discover the small and the great history of these high places.
03/2024
Photographes
To dance with the devil
"Corpus développé autour du personnage de Catherine, la mère du photographe. Le livre document le principe de marginalité et de dérive à travers la complexité de la famille et questionne la place de la normalité dans l'anormal, à travers différents schémas temporels et narratifs, liant images d'archives, documents, textes et images contemporaines".
06/2022
Littérature française
Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba)
Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba) This book is dedicated to the unique One who has assumed a form and name to lead the play of universal existence. He throbs in our loving heart ; He breathes in our living soul. He sings in our fervent spirit and he thinks in our purified mind. That infinite Ancient One from his supernal height, bends towards us to embrace us in his love, and to feed our soul with the nectar of his bliss. Blessed are they that have the mind to know him, the heart to feel him and the love to live in his consciousness ! He may have been born to human parents in Poona, studied in a college, played cricket, left home, have seen great souls, sat alone silent, spoken in gestures, written books - but that is not his history. Many live such a life ; many scholars write books ; many saints sit in contemplation ; many monks leave home for mountain resorts ; but they cannot be one like him. Millions of bulbs challenge in vain the darkness of night. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. We have seen monks, yogins and saints. Some live alone for peace. Some open Ashrams and collect donations to run them. Some comercialise their name and form. Some display miracles to surprise human minds ; some offer boons ; some predict the future ; some curse you when you do not offer them what they want. Some seek pleasure and treasure. But who seeks God and finds God in the self to awaken God-awareness in other men and women ? Who says "I am God and you are God too"? Who rises above the prattle of words, the rattle of weapons and battle of ideologies to the lofty peace of supersonic silence and pours his blessings from the dizzy height of the soul in tune with God ? Who is he that embraces all in the heart and awakens the soul which has none of the human creations of caste, religion, race, pedigree nor colour ? Editions ASSA, Christian Piaget
07/2017
Non classé
The German Effect on D.H. Lawrence and his Works 1885-1912
This study analyzes in depth the German effect upon D.H. Lawrence and his works from his birth in 1885 to his departure from England in 1912. German literary, philosophical and musical works had considerable impact on Lawrence's formation as an artist. They also influenced the creation of his own literary theory, entering his life concurrently with the three problems of class, woman and religion, which evolved into his major literary themes. The German effect is thus demonstrated to be the confirmation of Lawrence's strong tendency toward subjectivism in literary art : it strengthened his conviction that his art set him apart from all classes of society ; it encouraged the development of his view of women as the sexual, not the maternal, mediatrix to art ; and it fortified his denial of traditional Christianity and assisted his creation of his personal vitalistic creed.
12/1978
Monographies
Gustave Moreau. The Fables
Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) is one of the most brilliant and enigmatic artists associated with the French Symbolist movement. This book accompanies an exhibition of some of the most extraordinary works he ever made, unseen in public for over a century. Moreau's watercolours of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were created between 1879 and 1885 for the art collector Antony Roux and their stylistic range encompasses historicism and the picturesque, orientalist fantasies and near-abstract chromatic experiments. They were exhibited to great acclaim in Paris in the 1880s and in London in 1886, where critics compared the artist to Edward Burne-Jones. One critic commented on Moreau's ' keen apprehension of the weird. ' There were originally 64 works in the series, which was subsequently acquired by Miriam Alexandrine de Rothschild (1884-1965), but nearly half were lost during the Nazi era. The surviving works have not been exhibited since 1906 and they have only ever been published in black and white. This book is the first to reproduce them in colour - many shown actual size. Created at the height of the French 19th-century revival of watercolour, the variety of subject matter and technique, their colouristic effects and the sophistication of Moreau's storytelling, will be a revelation to readers. Preparatory drawings for the Fables, including animal studies made from life in the Jardin des Plantes demonstrate the wide-ranging research that informed Moreau's visions. Prints after Moreau's Fables by Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) translate the jewel-like colours into monochrome in some of the most innovative etchings of the age, while the most delicate effects of the watercolours were also transformed into vitreous enamels. In-depth accounts of each watercolour, explaining the story and exploring Moreau's response to it. The introduction will place the series in the long history of illustrations of La Fontaine's canonical work, whose sources include Aesop's fables and traditional European and Asian tales, as well as considering Moreau in the context of his own, turbulent, times.
08/2021
Allemagne
Secret Potsdam
A piece of the summit of Kilimanjaro at the New Palace, a swastika in Sanssouci Park, a remnant of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the starry ceiling of a villa alluding to the Masonic setting of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, a spectacular Expressionist tomb, a stone that sings in the heart of the city, a copy of the music pavilion of one of King Louis XV's mistresses, a luminous art installation under a bridge, a carved monkey from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, chimneys replicating those at Hampton Court in London, the esoteric passions of Emperor Frederick William II, a column to commemorate the death of a parrot, a tower to calculate the displacement of the Earth's rotational axis, the last witness to the extraordinary epic of silk production in the Babelsberg district, a woman who disguised herself as a man to fight Napoleon, the spectacular hidden remains of Katharinenholz firing range, the forgotten mock-ups in Zeppelin Park ...
11/2023
