“…Memory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York—three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas. …”

“…These, as well as religious art, portraiture and illuminated manuscripts are copiously illustrated, revealing the wealth, culture and longevity of the Order. …”

“…The book details the industry’s foundational concepts, including aviation law and regulation, airline credit analysis, maintenance reserves, insurance, transaction cost modeling, risk management tools, such as fuel hedging, and the art of lease negotiations. Different types of aircraft are explored, highlighting their purposes, as well as when and why airline operators choose specific models over others. …”

“…Da quando Baudelaire ha fissato, sublimato nelle mille concrete o potenziali “Corrispondenze” dell’Universo, e insieme dell’Arte, il fulcro della propria dichiarazione di poetica – ogni modernità che si rispetti più non può fare a meno di rincorrere questa selva di colori e suoni, toni e suadenze, questo bosco di umori, amori, ardori, dolori e fervori insieme... …”

“…Postcards turns a history of cinema into a profound meditation on the art and politics of film. Daney's passionate and lucid engagement with film, combined with his concern for journalistic clarity, effectively created film criticism as a genre. …”

“…Una vez más el pensamiento, la literatura y el arte se transforman en belleza -- Contracubierta…”

“…In quest'ottica emerge l'importanza di conoscere le città e i paesi, l'architettura in tutte le sue forme: quella anonima, frutto senza mediazioni dell'arte di abitare, e quella colta che consente da secoli un dialogo tra le generazioni attraverso il tempo e lo spazio…”

“…As such, Law and History in Cervantes' Don Quixote illustrates how Cervantes' art highlighted the inconsistencies of juridical-historical texts and practice, as well as anticipated the ultimate resolution of their paradoxes."…”

“…The volume contains chapters on pseudo-epigraphy and fictional letters, as well as the use of texts as authoritative in philosophical schools, and the ancient ascription of authorship to works of art…”

“…In HIM, a creatively blocked artist and his lover, Me, struggle to bridge the impasse in their relationship and in his art. In Anthropos, a Platonic parable, three "infrahumans" brainstorm slogans while a man sketches on a cave wall; and in Santa Claus, Death and Saint Nick exchange identities. …”

“…Die Filmemacher begleiten den Naturfotografen und Umweltaktivisten Markus Mauthe, der die Stämme fotografiert, um über ihr Schicksal aufzuklären, aber auch, um eine Art 'Vermächtnis' zu formulieren. Denn fast alle diese Gruppierungen sind durch Fortschritt, zunehmenden Kontakt mit der 'Moderne' und brutale Verdrängungsmechanismen in ihrer Lebensgrundlage gefährdet. …”
Recurso relacionado

“…Attraverso l’applicazione di questo metodo di indagine, è possibile comprendere in profondità e tracciare il preciso perimetro delle relazioni interpersonali intrattenute dal grande storico dell’arte e archeologo tedesco Johann Joachim Winckelmann nel corso della sua vita…”
Sumario

“…El volumen recopila varias historias cuyo denominador común es la mentira, con sus múltiples variantes y su capacidad de construir hechos alternativos para el beneficio, el disimulo, la gloria... de quienes divulgaron embustes sin renunciar al arte de los fabuladores. Desenmascarados mediante dosis de investigación y humor, sus mentiras ayudan a comprender la mentalidad del franquismo más allá de las historias y los personajes habitualmente estudiados" (contracubierta)…”

“…This book provides a state-of-the-art account of past and current research in the interface between linguistics and law. …”

“…To present this case Lucretius deploys the full range of poetic and rhetorical registers, soberly prohibitive, artfully decorative or passionately emotive as best suits his argument, reinforcing it with vivid and compelling imagery. …”

“…It coherently grounds the linguistic understanding of these concepts in basic cognitive mechanisms such as categorization, frames, mental spaces, and viewpoint; and it fits them into a consistent framework which is applied to cross-linguistic data and also to figurative structures in gesture and the visual arts. Comprehensive and practical, the book includes analyses of figurative uses of both word meanings and linguistic constructions. …”

“…Concebida como un intercambio epistolar entre Max Eisenstein, un comerciante de arte judío residente en San Francisco, y su socio comercial, Martin Schulse, que había regresado a Alemania en 1932 y escribe a su socio desde allí, Paradero desconocido cuenta el trágico desarrollo de una amistad y la historia de una amarga venganza.Construida con un suspense insuperable, desconcertantemente breve, en el que no sobra ni falta una palabra, esta novela magistral describe vívidamente el veneno en descomposición del nacionalsocialismo. …”

“…Deploying a range of methodologies on materials ranging from Egyptian obelisks to human skeletal remains, via Christian art and Latin poetry, the contributors to this volume weave a series of pathways through the world-city, exploring the different kinds of centrality Rome had in the empire. …”

“…Intelligence Unbound explores the prospects, promises, and potential dangers of machine intelligence and uploaded minds in a collection of state-of-the-art essays from internationally recognized philosophers, AI researchers, science fiction authors, and theorists. …”

“…This collection of essays explores ‘the end’ in various contexts, including art, politics, and the philosophy of time and existence. …”