How science changed the way artists understand reality
Exploring the Invisible shows how modern art expresses the first secular, scientific worldview in human history. Now fully revised and expanded, this richly illustrated book describes two hundred years of scientific discoveries that inspired French Impressionist painters and Art Nouveau architects, as well as Surrealists in Europe, Latin America, and Japan.
Lynn Gamwell describes how the microscope and telescope expanded the artist's vision into realms unseen by the naked eye. In the nineteenth century, a strange and exciting world came into focus, one of microorganisms in a drop of water and spiral nebulas in the night sky. The world is also filled with forces that are truly unobservable, known only indirectly by their effects--radio waves, X-rays, and sound-waves. Gamwell shows how artists developed the pivotal style of modernism--abstract, non-objective art--to symbolize these unseen worlds. Starting in Germany with Romanticism and ending with international contemporary art, she traces the development of the visual arts as an expression of the scientific worldview in which humankind is part of a natural web of dynamic forces without predetermined purpose or meaning. Gamwell reveals how artists give nature meaning by portraying it as mysterious, dangerous, or beautiful.
With a foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson and a wealth of stunning images, this expanded edition of Exploring the Invisible draws on the latest scholarship to provide a global perspective on the scientists and artists who explore life on Earth, human consciousness, and the space-time universe.
Автор: Hale-Bucklin Linda Название: The Love of Angels (Spiritual Encounters) ISBN: 1614178879 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781614178873 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3861.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Hale-Bucklin Linda Название: Love of Angels (Spiritual Encounters) ISBN: 1614178682 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781614178682 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2688.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "Ms. Bucklin's inspiring stories bring comfort, inspiration, healing and hope." Charlie C, Verified Reviewer Heartwarming stories from real people, in their own voices, that comfort and uplift in turbulent times. Discover how angels have helped, comforted or directed in specific and unique ways during times of great need. You'll be profoundly moved by these well-written and moving encounters with angels that will rekindle hope and energize your spirit. As one contributor's eight year old son said: "If I knew for sure that there was a heaven, it would make all the difference in the world." And now, you will know Publisher's Note: Readers of the Christian faith as well as those seeking to understand the role of angels, death, dying and the hereafter will be among those who enjoy this inspirational and uplifting book. Fans of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and similar inspirational and motivational writings will not want to miss this book. "I started reading and before I knew it, I had enjoyed half of the book " Anita, Reader "This is a thoughtful, quietly powerful book." Priscilla, Verified Reviewer "After reading "The Love of Angels," I started to define who or what is an angel in a much different way." N.C. Hooper, Verified Reviewer
Автор: Jackson Robert Louis Название: Close Encounters: Essays on Russian Literature ISBN: 1618118110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781618118110 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5960.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Drawing on the prose, poetry, and criticism of a range of Russian writers, including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Solzhenitsyn, Close Encounters explores themes of chance and fate, freedom and responsibility, beauty and disfiguration, and loss and separation, as well as concepts of criticism and the moral purpose of art.
Автор: Lyons Barr Velma Название: Spiritual Encounters My Testimony ISBN: 1735173967 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781735173962 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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"For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."2 Corinthians 5:1 KJV
In heaven, I felt a love, peace, and joy unlike anything I had ever experienced. I was wrapped in a blanket of love. I was wrapped in a blanket of love. It was like liquid love coming directly from Jesus. I wanted to stay in heaven but He said, "It's not your time." Spiritual Encounters My Testimony is a story of incredible God encounters.
Описание: What is "the shadow" in these stories? It's what lurks in the dark, and it's different for everyone. -For Isabel, it's the whisper from the basement that invites her to come on down. -For second-grader Emma, it's the tortured spirit that has haunted her family for generations. -For Deacon William, it's the damaged android that frightens visitors in the retreat house halls. All ten short stories in this collection are about how the different characters deal with what they find in the dark. Two of these stories received recognition from Writer's Digest and others won awards or were published. They ask: -What's inside the car that prowls a lonely street at night? -Can Brent save himself from the deadly creature he's sure his wife has become? -Donald teaches a night class, but what's behind those thick glasses he turns upon his shyest student? Night Cruiser offers an unusual perspective. With a background in pastoral ministry, the author bases her stories on insights from psychologist Carl Jung's concept of the Shadow, from J.R.R. Tolkien's belief that even the worst catastrophe can be redeemed, and from the faith of the medieval woman mystic Julian of Norwich. If you're intrigued by the thing that takes shape at the foot of your bed at night, if you enjoy a little sly humor, if you crave tales that offer hope, and if you like stories that make you wonder, take a ride on the Night Cruiser
Автор: Adams Peter J. Название: How to Talk about Spiritual Encounters ISBN: 3030452107 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030452100 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 14635.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book develops a new and innovative way of understanding how language is used when people describe their spiritual and mystical encounters.
Автор: Reynolds Susan Название: The Angel Lady: A Journey with My Spiritual Companions ISBN: 147729564X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781477295649 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5470.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this collection of essays, contributors ask how overlooked literature in the 1950s addressed or anticipated the struggles of disenfranchised groups to receive rights and recognition. Scholars analyse the many ways in which the decade`s culture stigmatized women, minorities, and the poor, and they uncover work that illustrates how groups and individuals challenged or resisted that oppression.
Автор: Rutter, Emily Ruth, Название: Invisible ball of dreams : ISBN: 1496817125 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496817129 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 13794.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when considering the story of segregation in baseball, a long history of tragedies and triumphs precede Robinson's momentous debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. From the pioneering Cuban Giants (1885-1915) to the Negro Leagues (1920-1960), black baseball was a long-standing staple of African American communities. While many of its artifacts and statistics are lost, black baseball figured vibrantly in films, novels, plays, and poems. In Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line, author Emily Ruth Rutter examines wide-ranging representations of this history by William Brashler, Jerome Charyn, August Wilson, Gloria Naylor, Harmony Holiday, Kevin King, Kadir Nelson, and Denzel Washington, among others.Reading representations across the literary color line, Rutter opens a propitious space for exploring black cultural pride and residual frustrations with racial hypocrisies on the one hand and the benefits and limitations of white empathy on the other. Exploring these topics is necessary to the project of enriching the archives of segregated baseball in particular and African American cultural history more generally.
