The Act of Creation
Author | : Arthur Koestler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 752 |
Release | : 2014-04 |
Genre | : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
ISBN | : 9781939438980 |
"First published by Hutchinson & Co. 1964"--Page 6.
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Author | : Arthur Koestler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 752 |
Release | : 2014-04 |
Genre | : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
ISBN | : 9781939438980 |
"First published by Hutchinson & Co. 1964"--Page 6.
Author | : Robert Welch |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
A group of essays dedicated to the noted Anglo-Irish scholar, Derry Jeffares, by distinguished colleagues, pupils and friends.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Eerdmans Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0802852718 |
Every element of creation glorifies God in its own way.
Author | : George Steiner |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-04-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1480411868 |
DIV“A fresh, revelatory, golden eagle’s eye-view of western literature.” —Financial Times/divDIV Early in Grammars of Creation, George Steiner references Plato’s maxim that in “all things natural and human, the origin is the most excellent.” Creation, he argues, is linguistically fundamental in theology, philosophy, art, music, literature—central, in fact, to our very humanity. Since the Holocaust, however, art has shown a tendency to linger on endings—on sundown instead of sunrise. Asserting that every use of the future tense of the verb “to be” is a negation of mortality, Steiner draws on everything from world wars and the Nazis to religion and the word of God to demonstrate how our grammar reveals our perceptions, reflections, and experiences. His study shows the twentieth century to be largely a failed one, but also offers a glimpse of hope for Western civilization, a new light peeking just over the horizon./div
Author | : Peter Conrad |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
A book of breathtaking scope, in which the mystery of how the world began infolds in an epic narrative that sets the Gods against the world's great artists, their rivals in creative energy. Despite the best efforts of scientists, theologians and aestheticians, creation and creativity both remain mysterious. How did our world begin? Where do we come from? And how can we understand or describe that obscure source we call imagination, from which works of art emerge? Peter Conrad’s book investigates these mysteries, in a survey of cultural history that begins with the differing accounts of creation and advances to our own world, where creativity seems to have warped into a fierce delight in destruction. He describes the long illness and eventual demise of the Christian God, and shows how artists and scientists were ready and eager to take over a creative role that was once a heavenly prerogative. At the same time, he probes the creative impulse of writers, painters and musicians, celebrating the audacity of the restless, rebellious beings who first questioned the limits placed on thoughts and dreams, supplemented nature with their own creations, and came to be known as artists.
Author | : Tone Roald |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9401209049 |
Art has the capacity to shape and alter our identities. It can influence who and what we are. Those who have had aesthetic experiences know this intimately, and yet the study of art’s impact on the mind struggles to be recognized as a centrally important field within the discipline of psychology. The main thesis of Art and Identity is that aesthetic experience represents a prototype for meaningful experience, warranting intense philosophical and psychological investigation. Currently psychology remains too closed-off from the rich reflection of philosophical aesthetics, while philosophy continues to be sceptical of the psychological reduction of art to its potential for Subjective experience. At the same time, philosophical aesthetics cannot escape making certain assumptions about the psyche and benefits from entering into a dialogue with psychology. Art and Identity brings together philosophical and psychological perspectives on aesthetics in order to explore how art creates minds.
Author | : Mindy MacDonald |
Publisher | : Multnomah |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Creation |
ISBN | : 9781590524084 |
Very simple text describes how God created the stars, sun, animals, man, and trees.
Author | : Nicole R. Fleetwood |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2020-04-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 067491922X |
"A powerful document of the inner lives and creative visions of men and women rendered invisible by America’s prison system. More than two million people are currently behind bars in the United States. Incarceration not only separates the imprisoned from their families and communities; it also exposes them to shocking levels of deprivation and abuse and subjects them to the arbitrary cruelties of the criminal justice system. Yet, as Nicole Fleetwood reveals, America’s prisons are filled with art. Despite the isolation and degradation they experience, the incarcerated are driven to assert their humanity in the face of a system that dehumanizes them. Based on interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated artists, prison visits, and the author’s own family experiences with the penal system, Marking Time shows how the imprisoned turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art. Working with meager supplies and in the harshest conditions—including solitary confinement—these artists find ways to resist the brutality and depravity that prisons engender. The impact of their art, Fleetwood observes, can be felt far beyond prison walls. Their bold works, many of which are being published for the first time in this volume, have opened new possibilities in American art. As the movement to transform the country’s criminal justice system grows, art provides the imprisoned with a political voice. Their works testify to the economic and racial injustices that underpin American punishment and offer a new vision of freedom for the twenty-first century."
Author | : Edward Carpenter |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2014-03-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781498005159 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1904 Edition.
Author | : Giorgio Agamben |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2019-05-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1503609278 |
The acclaimed Italian philosopher interrogates the concept of creation in art, religion, and economics in this collection of five essays. Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues the injunctions known as the Ten Commandments. The arche, or origin, is always also a command, and a beginning is always the first principle that governs and decrees. This is as true for theology, where God not only creates the world but governs and continues to govern through continuous creation, as it is for the philosophical and political tradition according to which beginning and creation, command and will, together form a strategic apparatus without which our society would fall apart. The five essays collected here aim to deactivate this apparatus through a patient archaeological inquiry into the concepts of work, creation, and command. Giorgio Agamben explores every nuance of the arche in search of an an-archic exit strategy. By the book’s final chapter, anarchy appears as the secret center of power, brought to light so as to make possible a philosophical thought that might overthrow both the principle and its command.