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Après une nuit à feu et à sang sur les quais, la journée de jeudi sera-t-elle plus calme à Darkwood et dans la Grande Forêt ; ? Sans doute pas... Le Cerf et ses compagnons d'infortune ne sont pas au bout de leur peine dans leur quête au sein des bois sombres d'Another. Le danger les guette et peut se cacher derrière le moindre tronc. Le périple de l'inspecteur Rhys Overlake, accompagné de la revêche veuve Lisbeth Other, n'est pas non plus une promenade de courtoisie. Les ruelles sordides du quartier de Filenza n'ont pas gagné leur surnom de "Magister" sans raison. Mais pour résoudre le mystère "Else Other" , il faut être prêt à se frotter à d'inquiétants individus. Ca s'agite vraiment en Heaven Forest. Les esprits s'échauffent et le spectre du passé et de la Grande Peste hante les esprits. Camps angéliques et sacrifiés resserrent leurs rangs et chacun se tient prêt. A l'orée d'une possible nouvelle guerre, la vérité sur les meurtres des derniers jours paraît pourtant à portée de main.

Bohemian Rhapsody, Another One Bites the Dust, We Are the Champions, We Will Rock You, The Show Must Go On... La simple évocation de ces chansons fait résonner une voix : celle de Freddie Mercury. Star extravagante et énigmatique, inoubliable interprète sur scène et compositeur, le leader de Queen a marqué des générations de fans à travers le monde. Sa disparition en 1991 - il meurt du sida à 45 ans - fut un véritable choc à la mesure de sa légende. Après avoir mené l'enquête plusieurs années et rencontré de nombreux proches de l'artiste, Selim Rauer va au-delà du mythe, révèle les failles et les secrets de Freddie Mercury. Il raconte l'incroyable destin de Farrokh Bulsara, Indien parsi né à Zanzibar, élevé près de Bombay et devenu l'un des chanteurs britanniques les plus célèbres du xxe siècle. Un portrait intime et inattendu. Né à Paris, Selim Rauer est écrivain et enseignant-chercheur en philosophie et en études théâtrales. Il est notamment l'auteur d'un roman, La Passion de Pier (Les Perséides, 2007). Préface inédite

"Je suis à la recherche du beau dans la douleur". La nuit est son univers poétique favori. Alisa Resnik explique que sa poésie, elle "la trouve plutôt la nuit" . C'est à ce moment-là, qu'elle photogra- phie inlassablement, que ce soit à Berlin, sa ville d'adoption, ou à Saint-Pétersbourg où elle est née. L'artiste russe, née en 1976, photographie un peu comme elle respire : en couleur. Parce que ça l'aide à "décrire l'atmosphère [qu'elle] recherche" , les émotions de la ville et ses lieux de passage, les cafés, les rues, mais aussi des hommes, des femmes, seuls ou enlacés, qui semblent égarés. Ils ont le visage marqué, le corps fragile, blessé. Equilibre instable. Alisa Resnik a été lauréate du prix European Publishers Award en 2013 avec sa série "One Another". Son livre a été publié en 5 langues. ON THE NIGHT THAT WE LEAVE Alisa Resnik 152 Pages - Relié 85 photographies 215 mm x 280 mm Novembre 2021 35, 00 ? 9782492920004

In today's security-conscious environment, the loyalties and allegiances of migrant communities are increasingly being brought into question. Drawing on the collected knowledge of a number of Australian experts investigating interwar issues of security, surveillance and civic rights from the perspective of migration studies, this book aims, through the examination of individuals and groups in Oceania who were targeted for potential subversion or believed to hold National Socialist sympathies (including local National Socialists, Italian-Australians, Russian exiles, members of the right-wing movements the New Guard and Australia First), to consider how issues of security were regarded at another critical point in world history and what lessons we may learn from that period today. This book examines a variety of motives for embracing National Socialism and investing hope in the Third Reich. Attitudes shifted over time from enthusiasm to scepticism and disappointment. But, most importantly, beyond support and opposition, there was a surprising level of disengagement and indifference from sister movements on the radical right. This groundbreaking study defies easy answers and previously-held understandings, and will stimulate debate and further research.

Marin Montagut has always collected objects imbued with a poetic soul that sparks the imagination. In his travels across France, he has met remarkable antique dealers and passionate amateurs ; here, he takes us into the magical world of their extraordinary collections. Before embarking on this enchanted voyage, Marin welcomes us into his home and his studio-a lyrical mix of colors and styles where every object has a story to tell. He invites us to stroll through Paris's Saint-Ouen flea market on an exhilarating treasure hunt. We discover folk art and antique glassware in the Perche and rare Provençal ceramics and basketry in an hôtel particulier. An unusual museum of shops from another century allows us to travel back in time. We marvel at sculptures from antiquity in a plaster cast workshop and admire the ethereal beauty of articulated artists' mannequins in a Parisian apartment. Following in the footsteps of a set designer, we search for a film prop, before getting lost in a thousand-book maze inside a writer's realm. This book is an invitation to rediscover childhood memories that will enhance each day.

De leur rencontre dans une petite cuisine de Dublin aux plus grands stades du monde, les quatre membres de U2 sont devenus en une trentaine d'années les acteurs du plus grand groupe de rock du monde. Concerts gigantesques, albums mythiques vendus à des millions d'exemplaires, U2 enchaîne les succès et les records sans jamais décevoir les fans. Un groupe désormais légendaire emmené par un Bono tout aussi capable de s'engager dans les plus grandes causes humanitaires. Quand le rock va à la rencontre de l'intelligence, quand la musique flirte avec l'engagement politique U2 n'est jamais très loin. De "Another Day" à "Zooropa" , en passant par "Bloody Sunday" , "Nelson Mandela" ou encore "Jean-Paul II" , sans oublier toutes les références à la France, revivez à travers plus de 100 mots, l'histoire incroyable et inattendue de quatre adolescents, bouleversés par une Irlande déchirée par la guerre civile, et devenus, depuis, quatre monstres du rock mondial. Hubert ALLIN est journaliste et auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur la musique, notamment une biographie de Serge Gainsbourg et un dictionnaire sur les Rolling Stones.

Writing with Scripture, the ancient sages of Judaism made use of Scripture by making Scripture their own, and making themselves into the possession and instrument of Scripture as well, a reciprocal process in which both were changed, each transformed into the likeness and image of the other. This they did by effecting their own selections, shaping a distinctive idiom of discourse, all the while citing, responding to, reflecting upon, Scripture's own words in Scripture's own context and for Scripture's own purpose : the here and now of eternal truth. And the rabbis of the first six centuries A.D. through the compilation presented here not only wrote with Scripture, but set forth a statement that was meant to be coherent and proportioned, well-crafted and well-composed. Since the statement concerned the distinctively-theological question of God's and Israel's relationship with one another, we must classify the writing as theological and find out how, in the compilation before us, their theological structure accomplished the authorship's goals. This anthology aims at doing just that. It presents a complete account of how the classical Midrash-text treat a theme of urgent interest to the world today : how Judaism writes with Scripture about the issues of religion that confront all the faithful.

Writing with Scripture, the ancient sages of Judaism made use of Scripture by making Scripture their own, and making themselves into the possession and instrument of Scripture as well, a reciprocal process in which both were changed, each transformed into the likeness and image of the other. This they did by effecting their own selections, shaping a distinctive idiom of discourse, all the while citing, responding to, reflecting upon, Scripture's own words in Scripture's own context and for Scripture's own purpose : the here and now of eternal truth. And the rabbis of the first six centuries A.D. through the compilation presented here not only wrote with Scripture, but set forth a statement that was meant to be coherent and proportioned, well-crafted and well-composed. Since that statement concerned the distinctively-theological question of God's and Israel's relationship with one another, we must classify the writing as theological and find out how, in the compilation before us, theirtheological structure accomplished the autorship's goals. This anthology aims at doing just that. It presents a complete account of how the classical Midrash-text treats a theme of urgent interest to the world today : how Judaism writes with Scripture about the issues of religion that confront all the faithful.

Hiroo Mochizuki est le premier Japonais à enseigner le karaté en France. Venu à la demande de Henry Plée, il s'installa à Paris, se maria à une Française et finalement épousa la France, sans pour autant rompre avec sa culture. Cet ouvrage est une biographie non exhaustive, une sorte de livre de souvenirs illustré de photos, d'archives personnelles et de documents d'époque. Il est émaillé d'anecdotes autour de certains des personnages, parents, relations, qui ont joué à un moment ou à un autre, de près ou de loin, un rôle sur son parcours personnel et celui de sa famille. Ecrites à la demande de nombreux proches, enseignants, élèves, ces chroniques intéresseront le lecteur pratiquant d'arts martiaux mais aussi ceux s'intéressant au Japon. / Hiroo Mochizuki was the first Japanese to teach Karate in France. He came to France at Henry Plée's request, and settled in Paris. He got married to a French lady, and eventually wed France too, without breaking with his own culture however. This work is a non-exhaustive biography, a book which collects memories, and is accompanied by photos, personal archives and contemporary documents. It is dotted with anecdotes that are centered around some people, relatives, acquaintances... who, at some time or another, from near or from far, have played a role on his personal path or on his family's. They were written at the request of numerous relatives, teachers, students. Those chronicles will be interesting to martial arts students, but also to those who are interested in Japan.

Groupe phare des années 70 et 80, Blondie est l'auteur de tubes intemporels ("Call Me", "Heart Of Glass", "The Tide Is High" ou encore "One Way Or Another") que l'on retrouve dans toutes les compilations pop-rock. Issu du mouvement punk américain puis classé new wave, Blondie a su très tôt se jouer des étiquettes en adoptant un son power pop reconnaissable entre mille et en expérimentant avec la curiosité et l'enthousiasme pour ligne directrice. Mais si Blondie est bel et bien un groupe de rock, sa figure de proue féminine, Deborah Harry, immortalisée sur des photographies glamour, qui n'a pas laissé indifférentes Madonna ou Shirley Manson, a semé la confusion. Blondie, était-ce Deborah Harry ou un véritable groupe ? Ce livre offrira une réponse à cette question légitime. Cette promenade dans le monde réel vous permettra de suivre le parcours de chacun de ses membres, sans négliger leurs efforts en solo, discographiques et même cinématographiques. Arpentons ensemble les pavés de l'enfer du CBGB, l'ascension foudroyante du groupe jusqu'à son départ précipité par la petite porte puis son retour triomphal au crépuscule des années 90 et sa longévité qui se vérifie encore de nos jours, le groupe ne cessant d'enregistrer de nouveaux albums et de tourner aux quatre coins de la planète. Donnons la parole à un guitariste adepte de soli stratosphériques, un batteur jamais avare de coups, une chanteuse tendrement psychopathe, un claviériste rutilant, un manager méphistophélique et bien d'autres... Croisons des figures familières comme Andy Warhol, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, James Woods ou encore Paul McCartney. Il est temps de dénouer les noeuds de l'affaire Blondie !

In London in 1770 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) remarked, 'What a work could be written on Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick ! There is something similar in the genius of all three. ' Two-and-a-half centuries on, Robin Simon's highly original and illuminating book takes up the challenge. William Hogarth (1697-1764) and David Garrick (1717-1779) closely associated themselves with Shakespeare, embodying a relationship between plays, painting and performance that had been understood since Antiquity and which shaped the rules for history painting drawn up by the Académie royale in Paris in the seventeenth century. History painting was considered the highest form of art : a picture illustrating a moment drawn from just a few lines in a revered text. Hogarth's David Garrick as Richard III (1745) transformed those ideas because, although it looked like a history painting, it was also a portrait of an actor in performance. With it, Hogarth established the genre of theatrical portraiture, a new and distinctively British kind of history painting. This book offers a fresh examination of theatrical portraits through close analysis of the pictures and of the texts used in performance. It also examines the central role of the theatre in British culture, while highlighting the significance of Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick in the European Enlightenment and the rise of Romanticism. In this context another trio of genius features prominently : Lichtenberg, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Denis Diderot. Familiar paintings and performances are seen in an entirely new light, while unfamiliar pictures are also introduced, including major paintings and drawings that have never been published. The final chapter shows that the inter-relationship between plays, painting and performance survived into the age of cinema, revealing the pictorial sources of Laurence Olivier's legendary film Richard III.

The Transcultural Dictionary of Misunderstandings. European and Chinese Horizons is the result of an initiative which forges a radically new path for promoting transcultural understanding by studying culture-bound keywords. The stimulating idea is to create and address with intention that which is generally held to be by all means avoided : namely, misunderstandings. The experiment starts with a level of communication that is not political per se but cultural. Cultures have no rigid borders like nation-states. They are more dynamic and meandering, open to influence, and translatable. Like cultures themselves, keywords are saturated with history, long-term experience, values, and collective emotions. They carry a load of tacit knowledge and implicit axioms that have the advantage of not having to be unpacked, explained, or spelled out. Working through various semantic layers of keywords on both sides helps to create a more transparent language for transcultural dialogue. The creation of such a language is the effect of producing, exchanging, and working through misunderstandings on both sides. Within the framework of transcultural dialogue, misunderstandings turn out to be an innovative tool for mutual learning by seeing oneself through the eyes of the other. It is high time for researchers in various parts of the world to join forces and translate basic concepts from one language and culture into another. Every translation is a transformation, marking similarities and differences which can lead to an uncovering of new ideas, values, and cultural practices. This unconventional dialogue is a great source of inspiration because it works through hardened assumptions and misrepresentations, unsettles schematic thinking, and leads to unexpected insights and new points of contact. Aleida Assmann Professor of English Literature and Literary Theory, University of Konstanz, Germany

Few will deny that 11th Bristish Armoured Division, the "Charging Bulls" of this story, was the finest armoured division on any side in the Normandy campaign in 1944. Soon after the end of the war, the history of the Division, Taurus Pursuant, was published in England in 1946. About 30 years later, Jean Brisset published his French-language book, La Charge du Taureau, about the same Division. It quickly went through two editions in France. What ensured its success was that it enlivened and humanized the well-know official accounts of the Division's battles in Operations EPSOM, GOODWOOD, BLUECOAT and others with the personal stories of participants in those battles who were often soldiers of humble but honourable rank. In addition, he paralleled the British military story with accounts of the experiences of French civilians caught up in the terror of thoses same battles, the anguish of theur tragedies and losses and the joy of their liberation. It is a history unique of its kind and deserves to be presented in this English translation. In addition to the story about 11th Armoured Division an Appendix telles about the battles in the Normandy bocage fought alongside the "Charging Bulls" by the hard-fighting 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division and how the local civilians and Resistance fighters helped them. Another Appendix recounts, among other adventures, how a little 5-year-old French girl saved an Australian Spitfire pilot from recapture by the Germans after he had been shot clown in the bocage. Finally, an Epilogue brings the story up to date. It pays homage to those, both British and French, who strove to keep alive the flames of remembrance, mutual gratitude and friendship. Containing over 100 photographs and illustrated by 9 maps, specially draw for this edition, The Charge of the Bull is a nostalgic trip back for those who fought in Normandy in 1944 and an important addition to the litterature about that campaign.

We might take numbers and counting for granted, but we shouldn't. Our number literacy rests upon centuries of human effort, punctuated here and there by strokes of genius. In his successor and companion volume to Gnomon: From Pharaohs to Fractals, Midhat Gazalé takes us on a Journey from the ancient worlds of the Egyptians, the Mesopotamians, the Mayas, the Greeks, the Hindus, up to the Arab invasion of Europe and the Renaissance. Our guide introduces us to some of the most fascinating and ingenious characters in mathematical history, from Ahmes the Egyptian scribe (whose efforts helped preserve some of the mathematical secrets of the architects of the pyramids) through the modern era of Georg Cantor (the great nineteenth-century inventor of transfinite numbers). As he deftly blends together history, mathematics, and even some computer science in his characteristically compelling style, we discover the fundamental notions underlying the acquisition and recording of "number", and what "number" truly means. Gazalé tackles questions that will stimulate math enthusiasts in a highly accessible and inviting manner. What is a natural number? Are the decimal and binary systems the only legitimate ones? Did the Pythagorean theorem and the discovery of the unspeakable irrationals cost the unfortunate mathematician Hippasus his life? What was the Ladder of Theodorus of Cyrene and how did the ancient Greeks calculate square roots with such extraordinary proficiency? An original generalization of Euler's theorem is offered that explains the pattern of rational number representations. Later on, the field of Continued Fractions paves the way for another original contribution by Gazalé, that of cleavages, which sheds light on the mysterious nature of irrational numbers as it beautifully illustrates Dedekind's famous Schnitt. In the end the author introduces us to the Hilbert Hotel with its infinite number of rooms, guests, and an infinite number of people waiting to check in, where he sets the debate between Aristotle and Cantor about the true nature of infinity. This abundantly illustrated book, remarkable for its coherency and simplicity, will fascinate all those who have an interest in the world of numbers. Number will be indispensable for all those who enjoy mathematical recreations and puzzles, and for those who delight in numeracy.

Les Villes de la plaine est un roman antique, campé dans une civilisation imaginaire qui emprunte des traits à l’Egypte et à la Babylonie, mais aussi à l’Ancien Testament. Une civilisation du Livre, monothéiste avant l’heure, qui malgré son exotisme nous est bien plus proche qu’il n’y paraît. Asral, le personnage-clef du roman, est scribe : sa mission est de produire une copie neuve du « testament d’Anouher », ce héros mythique qui donna des lois à la ville de Sir. Très vite il s’avise que la langue sacrée qu’il transcrit est vieillie, que ses mots ont changé de sens, et que par conséquent la vraie fidélité à l’esprit des lois consisterait à les reformuler, afin qu’elles soient à nouveau comprises telles qu’elles avaient été pensées quatre ou cinq siècles plus tôt. Il se lance dès lors, secrètement, dans la rédaction d’une deuxième « copie », qui est en fait une traduction. Son garde, un fruste montagnard, est pour lui un soutien précieux : pas seulement pour aller chercher des rouleaux de papyrus supplémentaire dans les magasins du haut palais, en prétextant que la réserve a brûlé. Mais aussi pour l’aider, par son bon sens et son recul d’étranger nouvellement arrivé, à trouver le mot juste : c’est qu’Ordjeneb (Ordjou pour les intimes, écrit malicieusement l’auteur) ne maîtrise ni la langue ni les codes de cette ville, qui en est confite. Il le paie chèrement le jour de son arrivée, c’est la première scène du livre, quand, demandant sur la place du marché le sens des paroles d’une chanson, il transgresse un interdit en prononçant le nom d’Anouher. Trois solides gaillards le tabassent et il ne doit le salut qu’à une jeune veuve qui l’héberge pour la nuit… Le lendemain matin, elle lui conseille d’aller voir le scribe, dont elle est la lingère et dont elle sait qu’il cherche un domestique. C’est tout le talent de Diane Meur que de parvenir, dès les premières pages de son livre, à incarner ses personnages dont les puissants affects embarquent le lecteur pour des épisodes haletants. Car il n’est pas question que de lettre et d’esprit dans ce formidable roman. Ordjou s’est follement épris de la belle lingère dont tout le sépare pendant qu’Asral soupire pour un jeune chanteur du faubourg des vanniers… Quant à l’entreprise de traduction du scribe, elle n’est pieuse qu’en apparence : les juges de la ville, exégètes attitrés de l’Ecriture, ont tôt fait d’en avoir vent et d’en mesurer le caractère subversif. Et les découvertes d’Asral sur un texte dont il comprend qu’au fil du temps il a été amendé, interpolé, voire amplifié, seront démystifiantes sur un plan religieux et, sur un plan politique, proprement révolutionnaires. Au point que, l’entreprise d’élucidation devenue hérésie et schisme, le cadre figé de la vie à Sir explose, entraînant une guerre civile qui devient rapidement guerre tout court. Car l’autre ville de la plaine, peuplée de transfuges et de bannis de la première (elle est à Sir ce que le Nouveau Monde est à l’ancien), se lance dans un jeu retors d’alliances. La dissension religieuse tournera à l’affrontement territorial et ethnique… La ville de Sir survivra-t-elle ? A long terme, il semble bien que non, quelques flash-forwards nous montrent une expédition d’archéologues prussiens, vers 1840, en train de mettre au jour ses premiers vestiges. Diane Meur, entre mythe et archéologie, érudition et parodie, brosse une fresque d’autant plus éblouissante qu’elle donne d’intéressantes clefs de réflexion sur le monde d’aujourd’hui… sans que jamais ne soit perdu le pur plaisir du mensonge romanesque.

Learning GLIM will almost certainly change the way you do statistics. The flexibility and generality of the GLIM language encourage a different approach to statistical analysis, which stresses parameter estimation and model criticism rather than hypothesis testing. The GLIM package can handle most of the models that ecologists are likely to fit to their data, including log-linear models of count data using Poisson errors, logistic regression of proportion data using binomial errors, and a wide variety of models for the analysis of survival data. It also allows an extremely general approach to more familiar procedures such as analysis of variance, multiple regression and the analysis of contingency tables. The book provides a practical approach to learning the rationale and methods of linear modelling, starting from absolute basics and progressing in simple steps to cover the critical analysis of experimental and observational data. Minimal background in mathematics or statistical theory is assumed, and the book is aimed at all ecologists front students to experienced researchers. Statistical modelling in GLIM is introduced through an extensive series of ecological examples, where graphical display, model criticism, model simplification, plots of residuals and tests of assumptions about error specification are explained in full. The reader is encouraged to work through examples while sitting at a computer, and all of the necessary data, along with numerous exercises and fully worked answers, are provided on a disk supplied at the back of the book. GLIM for Ecologists is not a statistical recipe book; it informs and educates on the proper use of statistics in ecology, on experimental design and on how to get the most out of your data. Learning GLIM Will certainly bc worth the effort. It's not a question of finding out how to do the same old tests in yet another new statistics package. On the contrary, it involves mastering a powerful set of tools that were originally developed for professional statisticians, but which are now accessible to ecologists through the simple step-by-step approach adopted in this book. The Methods in Ecology Series The aim of this series is to provide ecologists with concise and authoritative books that will guide them in choosing and applying an appropriate methodology to their problem. New technologies are a feature of the series.

Civil Society versus State In Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese Tradition Proceeding of the American-European Symposium, Paris, May 29-31 The study of the social nature of man has been given a new dimension by work like those of Jürgen Habermas that no longer simply analyze the relations between the individual and the group, but that take into account both the effects the members of a group acting freely and spontaneously among themselves have upon the organization of a community and the constraints the very structure of the group exert upon itself, and these two aspects of the problem are now seen as interacting dialectically. How is a civil society created in the context of state rule ? How do the private and public sectors intrude upon one another ? What cultural and ideological conditions are necessary to create a given form of civil society ? A colloquium of specialists on East Asia who gathered together in Paris in 1991 tried to find at least partial answers to these questions as they concern the history of societies in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. This collection of the papers presented - in English and French - gives us a striking panoramic view of some of the most characteristic forms of the social systems of ancient, medieval and China, of feudal and post-feudal Japan, of traditional Korea and of Vietnam in the seventeenth century. La société civile face à l'Etat Dans les traditions chinoise, japonaise, coréenne et vietnamienne Actes du colloque américano-européen de Paris, 29-31 mai 1991, édités par Léon Vandermeersch La problématique de la sociabilité a été renouvelée par les travaux qui, comme ceux de Jürgen Habermas, engagent l'analyse non plus simplement sur les rapports de l'individu et du groupe, mais sur l'organisation de la collectivité sous l'effet de la libre spontanéité de ses membres d'une part, et du pouvoir contraignant d'autre part, en interaction dialectique. Comment se constitue la société civile face à l'Etat ? La sphère privée en interférence avec la sphère publique ? Dans quelles conditions de la production culturelle et idéologique ? A ces questions, un colloque de spécialistes de l'Asie orientale, réuni à Paris en 1991, a voulu apporter des éléments de réponse relativement à l'histoire des sociétés chinoise, japonaise, coréenne et vietnamienne. Le recueil des communications présentées - en anglais et en français - met en perspective certaines des formes les plus caractéristiques du système social de la Chine ancienne, médiévale et moderne, du Japon féodal et postféodal, de la Corée traditionnelle, du Viet-nam du XVIIè siècle.

Accompanying a major exhibition of new and recent works by Peter Doig at The Courtauld, London, this publication will present an exciting new chapter in the career of one of the most celebrated and important painters working today and will include paintings and works on paper created since the artist's move from Trinidad to London in 2021. Doig (born Edinburgh, 1959) is widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading artists. He secured his early reputation in the 1990s as a highly original figurative painter, producing large-scale, immersive landscape paintings that exist somewhere between actual places and the realms of the imagination. Layered into his paintings is a rich array of inspirations, such as scenes from films, album covers, and the art of the past. His works are often related to the places where he has lived and worked, including the UK, Canada and Trinidad. In 2021, Doig moved back to London where he has set up a new studio. This new studio has become the crucible for developing paintings started in Trinidad and New York and elsewhere, which are being worked up alongside completely fresh paintings, including a new London subject. The works produced for the exhibition at The Courtauld convey this particularly creative experience of transition, as Doig explores a rich variety of places, people, memories and ways of painting that have accompanied him to his new London studio. For Doig, printmaking is an integral part of his artistic life : his prints and his paintings often work in dialogue with one another. The catalogue will also showcase the artist's work as a draughtsman and printmaker by exploring a series of his new and recent drawing and prints, allowing readers to consider the full span of Doig's creative process. Doig has long admired the collection of The Courtauld Gallery. The Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists who are at its heart have been a touchstone for his own painting and printmaking over the course of his career. His works presented here will reflect his current artistic preoccupations, from remarkable landscapes to monumental figure paintings. Readers will be able to consider Doig's contemporary works in the light of paintings by earlier artists in The Courtauld's collection that are important for him, such as those by Cézanne, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Pissarro and Van Gogh. The publication will explore how Doig recasts and reinvents traditions and practices of painting to create his own highly distinctive works.

Les hommes et les femmes de l'Antiquité entendaient-ils comme nous ? Etaient-ils sensibles à certaines sonorités plutôt qu'à d'autres ? Ces simples questions nous rappellent que les sons et leurs interprétations font l'objet de constructions culturelles. Cacophonie et musique, bruit et silence sont au coeur d'un ouvrage qui se propose, pour l'Orient, l'Egypte, les mondes grecs et romains antiques, d'explorer les manières dont les perceptions acoustiques étaient alors nommées, ressenties, construites et interprétées. Les hommes et les femmes de l'Antiquité entendaient-ils comme nous ? Etaient-ils sensibles à certaines sonorités plutôt qu'à d'autres ? Ces simples questions nous rappellent que les sons et leurs interprétations sont inscrits dans des constructions culturelles, à tel point que la définition même de la cacophonie et de la musique, du bruit et du silence, change en fonction des époques et des contextes. L'historicité de ces notions est au coeur de l'ouvrage qui se propose, pour l'Egypte, l'Orient, les mondes grecs et romains antiques, de décrypter les perceptions acoustiques des Anciens en cherchant à comprendre comment les sons, ou leur absence, deviennent signifiants. Derrière l'ampleur de l'arc chronologique se trouve un objet commun, l'étude du vocabulaire et des expressions qui relèvent du champ sémantique du son. Le lexique est ici analysé dans une démarche historique nourrie par les problématiques développées par l'anthropologie du sonore. Tout au long des diverses contributions de ce volume, le lecteur est invité à se mettre à l'écoute des mots des Anciens. Cette approche au plus près des discours antiques a le mérite de nous révéler toute la complexité des valeurs sociales, politiques et religieuses dont les sons sont porteurs. --- Did the men and women of antiquity hear as we do ? Which sonorities were particularly significant to them ? Those simple questions remind us that the sounds as well as their possible interpretations belong to cultural constructions, so that the definitions of cacophony and music, of noise and silence, vary with times and from one context to another. The historicity of such usual notions is at the heart of the book, which sets out, for the ancient Eastern, Egyptian, Greek and Roman worlds, to explore the ways in which the sounds or their absence become meaningful. Behind the breadth of the chronological arc lies a common object, the study of terms and expressions related to sounds. The book provides an analysis of this corpus in a historical approach nourished by anthropology of sound. All the papers collected here invite the reader to listen carefully to ancient words and, by focusing on ancient discourses, reveal all the complexity of social, political and religious values carried by sounds in particular settings.

Salomé est une tragédie d'Oscar Wilde dont la version originale de 1891 est en français. Une traduction en anglais a suivi trois ans plus tard. La pièce, en un acte, repose sur l'épisode biblique de Salomé1, belle-fille du tétrarque de Galilée Hérode Antipas, qui, à la consternation de son beau-père, mais au grand plaisir de sa mère Hérodiade, demande qu'on lui apporte la tête de Iokanaan (Jean le Baptiste) sur un plateau d'argent comme récompense pour avoir exécuté la danse des sept voiles. Versions et premières Wilde écrivit cette pièce à Paris, où il s'était retiré après avoir achevé L'Eventail de Lady Windermere. Il la dédia à Pierre Louÿs, qui apporta quelques corrections au texte mais n'intervint que très peu. Séduite par le rôle-titre, Sarah Bernhardt décida de l'interpréter elle-même, et les répétitions commencèrent au Palace Theatre de Londres. Ces répétitions durent toutefois s'interrompre lorsque la censure du Lord Chamberlain eut interdit Salomé au motif qu'il était illégal de représenter sur scène des personnages bibliques. Indigné, Wilde envisagea de renoncer à sa nationalité britannique et de devenir français afin de ne plus avoir à subir de telles restrictions. Le texte de la pièce fut publié pour la première fois en français en 1893. Dans un article intitulé "The Censure and Salomé" , publié dans la Pall Mall Gazette du 29 juin 1892, interrogé sur la raison pour laquelle il avait écrit Salomé en français, Wilde déclare : "I have one instrument that I know I can command, and that is the English language. There was another instrument to which I had listened all my life, and I wanted once to touch this new instrument to see whether I could make any beautiful thing out of it. Of course, there are modes of expression that a Frenchman of letters would not have used, but they give a certain relief or color to the play. A great deal of the curious effect that Maeterlinck produces comes from the fact that he, a Flamand by grace, writes in an alien language. The same thing is true of Rossetti, who, though he wrote in English, was essentially Latin in temperament". 3, a La traduction en anglais parut en 1894 chez les éditeurs Charles Elkin Mathews & John Lane, avec des illustrations dues à Aubrey Beardsley. Sur la page de dédicace, Wilde indique comme traducteur lord Alfred Douglas. En fait, Wilde s'était querellé avec lui au sujet de la traduction, peu satisfait de ce travail dont "le résultat fut décevant4" . Il semble que le texte anglais soit l'oeuvre de Wilde lui-même, qui s'est fondé sur ce qu'avait fait Alfred Douglas.

Longtemps attendu et extrêmement bien accueilli, A History of Arcadia de Paul Holberton constitue l'examen approfondi et minutieux d'un grand nombre de textes originaux de poésie pastorale classique des époques moderne et contemporaine, de littérature et de théâtre en grec ancien, en latin, en italien, en français, en espagnol, en portugais, en néerlandais, en allemand et en anglais et d'un large éventail d'images prenant fin juste avant 1800. L'ouvrage analyse le développement de la pastorale comme moyen de représentation du bonheur humain sur Terre à travers la cour réciproque entre un garçon et une fille, et leurs sentiments auxquels la pastorale de l'époque donne voix. This tremendous book is an iconographic study of Renaissance and Baroque pastoral and related subject matter, with an important chapter on the 18th century, both in the visual arts, where pastoral is very poorly understood, and in words and performance, about which many false preconceptions prevail. The study begins with Virgil's use of Theocritus and an analysis of what basis Virgil provided for Renaissance pastoral and what, by contrast, stemmed from the medieval pastourelle. Pastoral developed notably in the Venetian High Renaissance. Its texts incorporated Petrarchist and Neoplatonic ideas of love, of which this book charts the development and evolution with unprecedented precision, considering also the female nude in art. There is a novel and polemical discussion of the development of landscape subjects in art, from Giorgione to Claude. The contributions of the most influential or representative authors - Petrarch, Sannazaro, Montemayor, Tasso, Guarino, Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Honoré d'Urfé, Cornelis de Hooft, Shakespeare and lastly Salomon Gessner - are considered beside many interesting more minor ones - Arsocchi, Bernardim Ribeiro, Clément Marot, Cieco d'Adria, John Fletcher, Fontenelle - and the verses of madrigals. There is a chapter on 'Being Rural' - what we can say about the reality of life in the country in the early modern period. There is a chapter on 'Et in Arcadia Ego' that introduces new evidence for the dating of Poussin's famous work by reference to a neglected work by Sébastien Bourdon in Yale ; another on a pastoral composition by Rubens that has not been considered as such. There is an important and bold discussion of self-projection ('metachronic' representation) by monarchs and courtiers across Europe in the 17th century, both within pastoral and without, which illuminates profound differences between Protestant and Catholic culture. Coming from the study of earlier periods, the author is able to throw new light on the Rococo - figures such as John Gay, Watteau, Gessner and Gainsborough - and to explain the termination of pastoral writing and art with the embrace of modernity in form and means of expression. All texts are given in the original language and all translated into English, while the visuals are beautifully reproduced : the book is also an anthology.

Longtemps attendu et extrêmement bien accueilli, A History of Arcadia de Paul Holberton constitue l'examen approfondi et minutieux d'un grand nombre de textes originaux de poésie pastorale classique des époques moderne et contemporaine, de littérature et de théâtre en grec ancien, en latin, en italien, en français, en espagnol, en portugais, en néerlandais, en allemand et en anglais et d'un large éventail d'images prenant fin juste avant 1800. L'ouvrage analyse le développement de la pastorale comme moyen de représentation du bonheur humain sur Terre à travers la cour réciproque entre un garçon et une fille, et leurs sentiments auxquels la pastorale de l'époque donne voix. This tremendous book is an iconographic study of Renaissance and Baroque pastoral andrelated subject matter, with an important chapter on the 18th century, both in the visual arts, where pastoral is very poorly understood, and in words and performance, about which many false preconceptions prevail. The study begins with Virgil's use of Theocritus and an analysis of what basis Virgil provided for Renaissance pastoral and what, by contrast, stemmed from the medieval pastourelle. Pastoral developed notably in the Venetian High Renaissance. Its texts incorporated Petrarchist and Neoplatonic ideas of love, of which this book charts the development and evolution with unprecedented precision, considering also the female nude in art. There is a novel and polemical discussion of the development of landscape subjects in art, from Giorgione to Claude. The contributions of the most influential or representative authors - Petrarch, Sannazaro, Montemayor, Tasso, Guarino, Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Honoré d'Urfé, Cornelis de Hooft, Shakespeare and lastly Salomon Gessner - are considered beside many interesting more minor ones - Arsocchi, Bernardim Ribeiro, Clément Marot, Cieco d'Adria, John Fletcher, Fontenelle - and the verses of madrigals. There is a chapter on 'Being Rural' - what we can say about the reality of life in the country in the early modern period. There is a chapter on 'Et in Arcadia Ego' that introduces new evidence for the dating of Poussin's famous work by reference to a neglected work by Sébastien Bourdon in Yale ; another on a pastoral composition by Rubens that has not been considered as such. There is an important and bold discussion of self-projection ('metachronic' representation) by monarchs and courtiers across Europe in the 17th century, both within pastoral and without, which illuminates profound differences between Protestant and Catholic culture. Coming from the study of earlier periods, the author is able to throw new light on the Rococo - figures such as John Gay, Watteau, Gessner and Gainsborough - and to explain the termination of pastoral writing and art with the embrace of modernity in form and means of expression. All texts are given in the original language and all translated into English, while the visuals are beautifully reproduced : the book is also an anthology.

Venetian Disegno : New Frontiers circa 1420 to 1620 offers a fresh perspective on the art of Venice and the Veneto. The volume brings together the contributions of scholars and curators specialist on a wide variety of artists and art forms including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture and architecture. Venetian Disegno : New Frontiers circa 1420 to 1620 takes disegno as its central theme, that in its plurality of meaning allows for a consideration of the conceptual role of design and the act of drawing. The relationship between disegno and Renaissance Venetian art has historically been a problematic one, with emphasis instead being placed on the Venetian predilection for colore. This volume is reflective of an ongoing challenge to this perspective and draws attention to the importance of Venetian disegno and the study of drawings for understanding various art forms. The book commences with a critical study of what constitutes disegno in Venetian art. It does so through questioning the historiography of Venetian artistic scholarship and the restrictive framework and preconceptions that have emerged before setting out the merits of a broader, more inclusive approach. Disegno is applied in its multifaceted nature to address the physical act of drawing, the tangible drawn object and the role of design in artistic practice. The term 'Venetian' is taken to encompass both Venice and its mainland territories not least because of the mobility of artists across and beyond the region. Contributions are divided into five thematic sections. The first, entitled 'Peripheries', frames the art of Venice within a wider discourse on the movement of ideas across and beyond the Veneto in locations including Padua, Verona and Rome. A section on Media considers the origins and innovations that took place in the use of materials such as blue paper, oil and coloured chalks. In another, the theories that have developed on Venetian notions of disegno are brought under scrutiny, addressing topics such as the long upheld perspective that Venetian artists did not draw, the role of sculpture in Tintoretto's drawing practice and the interrelation between the written and drawn line in Palma Giovane's draftsmanship. The section on Invention reflects on the technical innovations that were facilitated through the uptake of printmaking and the intellectual freedom granted by humanist patrons. Finally, Function gets to the heart of the practical purpose of disegno. Contributions focus on the workshops of the Bellini family and Titian to consider the diverse ways they used drawing within their artistic practices with an emphasis on technical analysis. These sections are all preceded by introductions that provide an overview on each theme while the volume is bookended by two reflections on the state of research into Venetian disegno and the potential for further progress. Sumptuously illustrated with over 100 images with a comprehensive bibliography, Venetian Disegno : New Frontiers circa 1420 to 1620 represents a significant contribution to scholarship on the art of Venice, Renaissance workshops and drawing studies.

We thought we had gone through the topic in the first volume, those two games opened new pists of reflexions. The in-depth analysis of Hidetaka Miyazaki's Dark Souls saga continues with this volume 2, decoding the Bloodborne and Dark Souls III episodes. An indinspensale ebook for all the fans of the game Dark Souls !EXTRACT"The project, christened Project Beast, began soon after the Astorias of the Abyss DLC was released in August 2012. At the time, FromSoftware was also beginning to build Dark Souls II, its cash cow. Miyazaki kept his distance from this sequel, which was handed off to Tomohiro Shibuya and Yui Tanimura, with support from the FromSoftware president and creator of King's Field, Naotoshi Zin, who supervised the game system. On his end, Hidetaka Miyazaki formed a trusted team of regular collaborators, such as lead programmer Jun Itô (who had already filled this role for Demon's Souls and Dark Souls), composer and lead sound designer Tsukasa Saitô (Armored Core games), and most of his regular artists: Daisuke Satake, Masanori Waragai and Hiroshi Nakamura. The success of Demon's Souls, and the even greater success of Dark Souls, allowed FromSoftware to grow its ranks significantly. In total, no fewer than fifty programmers participated in the project, along with around twenty game system designers and fifty people working on visual creation (animation, scenery, characters, etc.). Thanks to financial support from Sony, many Japanese, Chinese and Taiwanese studios were sub-contracted during the production to help with graphics and visuals."ABOUT THE AUTHORSPassionate about films and video games, Damien Mecheri joined the writers team of Gameplay RPG in 2004, writing several articles for the second special edition on the Final Fantasy saga. He continued his work with the team in another publication called Background, before continuing the online adventure in 2008 with the site Gameweb.fr. Since 2011, he has come aboard Third Éditions with Mehdi El Kanafi and Nicolas Courcier, the publisher's two founders. Damien is also the author of the book Video Game Music: a History of Gaming Music. For Third Éditions, he is actively working on the "Level Up" and "Année jeu vidéo" collections. He has also written or co-written several works from the same publisher: The Legend of Final Fantasy X, Welcome to Silent Hill: a journey into Hell, The Works of Fumito Ueda: a Different Perspective on Video Games and, of course, the first volume of Dark Souls: Beyond the Grave. Curious by nature, a dreamer against the grain and a chronic ranter, Sylvain Romieu is also a passionate traveler of the real and the unreal, the world and the virtual universes, always in search of enriching discoveries and varied cultures. A developer by trade, he took up his modest pen several years ago to study the characteristics and richness of the marvelously creative world of video games. He writes for a French video game site called Chroniques-Ludiques, particularly on the topic of RPGs, his preferred genre.

Ce livre est un hommage rendu à un homme, à un artiste sans qui rien ne se serait peut-être passé ou alors pas du tout de la même manière... Si l'on considère que l'émergence du punk a révolutionné le monde de la musique fin 76, début 77, il n'est pas illogique de vouloir retrouver la trace des débuts de ce mouvement artistique (certes un peu brut de décoffrage) et de ses initiateurs. Car, comme dans toutes les révolutions, il a forcément dû y avoir, au départ, une première personne à se lever pour lancer les premiers slogans, pour allumer la première mèche, pour entraîner les autres à sa suite. Quitte à être totalement dépassée par les événements ou l'ampleur que ceux-ci prendraient par la suite, quitte aussi à être ensuite oubliée par l'histoire. Voici l'histoire du punk originel, celui qui fut à l'origine des premiers pas de ce mouvement avec Television, le groupe formé par Hell avec son ami Tom Verlaine, sans conteste la formation qui marque la naissance de la nouvelle scène newyorkaise, bien avant l'apparition des Ramones ou l'avènement de Patti Smith, longtemps même avant que l'on ne commence à parler des Sex Pistols. Assez curieusement, ce premier punk était surtout un artiste, un poète bien plus intéressé par la portée des mots que par celle des notes. Un nihiliste, un rebelle sans cause qui, tel un ver(s) dans le fruit, s'abreuvait du désoeuvrement de la société et de la grande ville qu'il avait rejointe seul dès son plus jeune âge. Un homme qui restera attaché à l'écriture bien après avoir renoncé aux turpitudes du monde du rock, non sans en avoir largement testé tous les travers. Un artiste qui sera adoubé par ses pairs mais dont les excès et une certaine forme d'indolence opiacée l'empêcheront d'obtenir la place qu'il méritait au panthéon du mouvement punk. Lui qui avait lancé Television et lui avait donné son côté sauvage, lui qui avait formé the Heartbreakers avec Johnny Thunders (très certainement le meilleur groupe issu de ce mouvement), lui qui avait été un des premiers à sortir un single avec the Voidoids, fin 1976, juste avant la déferlante des jeunes groupes britanniques, lui qui avait si bien capté l'état d'esprit de l'époque en parlant de Blank Generation était aussi un incroyable romantique, capable d'écrire une chanson d'amour - "(I Could Live You In) Another World" - en l'honneur d'une jeune Française, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, dont il s'était follement épris. Un poète amoureux à la base du mouvement punk, avouez qu'il fallait oser. Voilà qui devrait éveiller votre curiosité, vous faire prendre conscience qu'il s'agissait bien d'un mouvement artistique et vous donner envie d'en savoir plus sur cet homme complexe qui se lassa vite de la petitesse du monde du rock et jeta sa carrière aux orties dès que la chose ne l'amusa plus. Une attitude typiquement punk...