The Fashionable Mind

The Fashionable Mind
Author: Kennedy Fraser
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2014-01-08
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0804152012

In these thirty-two essays, the fashion critic of The New Yorker inquires into the meaning of fashion and the resonance that exists between fashion trends and the undercurrent of change in American culture

Songsmith

Songsmith
Author: Andre Norton
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1993-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780812511079

Eydrth is a Master Songsmith...who has no magic. She will do anything to save her father from the evil that has stolen his mind. But the paths to the magic of the Witch World are many--and to save the ones you love, the truest magic must come from the heart... Andre Norton has been called "one of the most popular writers of our time" (Publishers Weekly) and has for over twenty-five years enchanted readers with the most famous and popular of her works: the enthralling Witch World. With bestseller A.C. Crispin, Norton has woven an eternal love story, filled with magic and wonder. Songsmith is the novel that Witch World fans have been waiting for--a shining jewel in the Witch World cosmos.

Ornament and European Modernism

Ornament and European Modernism
Author: Loretta Vandi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2017-09-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351668587

These in-depth, historical, and critical essays study the meaning of ornament, the role it played in the formation of modernism, and its theoretical importance between the mid-nineteenth century and the late twentieth century in England and Germany. Ranging from Owen Jones to Ernst Gombrich through Gottfried Semper, Alois Riegl, August Schmarsow, Wilhelm Worringer, Adolf Loos, Henry van de Velde, and Hermann Muthesius, the contributors show how artistic theories are deeply related to the art practice of their own times, and how ornament is imbued with historical and social meaning.

Afraid of the Light

Afraid of the Light
Author: Cynthia Ruchti
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-06-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0825446570

She helps others manage their desperate lives--but who will help her? Clinical psychologist Camille Brooks isn't put off by the lifestyle of her hoarding clients. After all, she lost her mother to the crippling anxiety disorder. She'll go a long way to help others avoid the same pain and loss. Despite Camille's expertise, her growing audience for her Let in the Light podcast, and the national recognition she's gaining for her creative coaching methods, there are some things she isn't prepared for. A client who looks far too much like her mom catches her off guard. And the revelation that she's also hoarding something sends her spinning. Can she stand to let the light into her own life with the help of a friend who wants to stand by her for life and the God who created and loves her? Or will she find that defeating her demons proves too much to bear?

The Mass Ornament

The Mass Ornament
Author: Siegfried Kracauer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1995
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780674551633

The Mass Ornament today remains a refreshing tribute to popular culture, and its impressively interdisciplinary writings continue to shed light not only on Kracauer's later work but also on the ideas of the Frankfurt School, the genealogy of film theory and cultural studies, Weimar cultural politics, and, not least, the exigencies of intellectual exile.

The Wonder Garden

The Wonder Garden
Author: Lauren Acampora
Publisher:
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2015
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780802123558

In a series of interconnected short stories, the residents of Old Cranbury, Connecticut face unseen battles and creeping truths, dreaming the massive dreams that each person holds close-- and that hold them close to each other.

The Concept of Woman

The Concept of Woman
Author: Prudence Allen
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2006-01-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802833471

The culmination of a lifetime's scholarly work, this study by Sister Prudence Allen traces the concept of woman in relation to man in Western thought from ancient times to the present. This volume is the second in her study, in which she explores claims about sex and gender identity in the works of over fifty philosophers (both men and women) in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods.

Ornament and Silence

Ornament and Silence
Author: Kennedy Fraser
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1996
Genre: Art
ISBN:

In 13 superb essays that first appeared in Vogue and The New Yorker, Kennedy Fraser explores the uniquely female voice and presence in literature and art. Interspersing vignettes from her own life with history and anecdotes surrounding such notable literary personages as Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton, Fraser provides a personal, informative, brilliant, and compassionate book.