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After the death of his wife, Andre Kertesz consoled himself by
taking up a new camera, the Polaroid SX70. As with earlier
equipment, he mastered the camera and produced a provocative body
of work that both honored his wife and lifted him out of
depression. Here Kertesz dips into his reserves one last time,
tapping new people, ideas, and tools to generate a whole new body
of work through which he transforms from a broken man into a
youthful artist. Taken in his apartment just north of New York City
s Washington Square, many of these photographs were shot either
from his window or in the windowsill. We see a fertile mind at
work, combining personal objects into striking still lifes set
against cityscape backgrounds, reflected and transformed in glass
surfaces. Almost entirely unpublished work, these photographs are a
testament to the genius of the photographer s eye as manifested in
the simple Polaroid."
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Finsler geometry
in the language of present-day mathematics. Through Finsler
geometry, it also introduces the reader to other structures and
techniques of differential geometry. Prerequisites for reading the
book are minimal: undergraduate linear algebra (over the reals) and
analysis. The necessary concepts and tools of advanced linear
algebra (over modules), point set topology, multivariable calculus
and the rudiments of the theory of differential equations are
integrated in the text. Basic manifold and bundle theories are
treated concisely, carefully and (apart from proofs) in a
self-contained manner. The backbone of the book is the detailed and
original exposition of tangent bundle geometry, Ehresmann
connections and sprays. It turns out that these structures are
important not only in their own right and in the foundation of
Finsler geometry, but they can be also regarded as the cornerstones
of the huge edifice of Differential Geometry. The authors emphasize
the conceptual aspects, but carefully elaborate calculative aspects
as well (tensor derivations, graded derivations and covariant
derivatives). Although they give preference to index-free methods,
they also apply the techniques of traditional tensor calculus. Most
proofs are elaborated in detail, which makes the book suitable for
self-study. Nevertheless, the authors provide for more advanced
readers as well by supplying them with adequate material, and the
book may also serve as a reference.
Computer simulation has become a basic tool in many branches of
physics such as statistical physics, particle physics, or materials
science. The application of efficient algorithms is at least as
important as good hardware in large-scale computation. This volume
contains didactic lectures on such techniques based on physical
insight. The emphasis is on Monte Carlo methods (introduction,
cluster algorithms, reweighting and multihistogram techniques,
umbrella sampling), efficient data analysis and optimization
methods, but aspects of supercomputing, the solution of stochastic
differential equations, and molecular dynamics are also discussed.
The book addresses graduate students and researchers in theoretical
and computational physics.
Hungarian Imre Kertesz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in
2002 for "writing that upholds the fragile experience of the
individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history." His
conversation with literary historian Thomas Cooper that is
presented here speaks specifically to this relationship between the
personal and the historical. In The Holocaust as Culture, Kertesz
recalls his childhood in Buchenwald and Auschwitz and as a writer
living under the so-called soft dictatorship of communist Hungary.
Reflecting on his experiences of the Holocaust and the Soviet
occupation of Hungary following World War II, Kertesz likens the
ideological machinery of National Socialism to the oppressive
routines of life under communism. He also discusses the complex
publication history of Fateless, his acclaimed novel about the
experiences of a Hungarian child deported to Auschwitz, and the
lack of interest with which it was initially met in Hungary due to
its failure to conform to the communist government's simplistic
history of the relationship between Nazi occupiers and communist
liberators. The underlying theme in the dialogue between Kertesz
and Cooper is the difficulty of mediating the past and creating
models for interpreting history, and how this challenges ideas of
self. The title The Holocaust as Culture is taken from that of a
talk Kertesz gave in Vienna for a symposium on the life and works
of Jean Amery. That essay is included here, and it reflects on
Amery's fear that history would all too quickly forget the fates of
the victims of the concentration camps. Combined with an
introduction by Thomas Cooper, the thoughts gathered here reveal
Kertesz's views on the lengthening shadow of the Holocaust as an
ever-present part of the world's cultural memory and his idea of
the crucial functions of literature and art as the vessels of this
memory.
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Fateless (Paperback)
Imre Kertesz
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'While the average reader cannot pretend truly to understand the
reality of those who suffered in concentration camps, Kertesz draws
us one step closer' Observer Gyuri, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian
Jew, gets the day off school to witness his father signing over the
family timber business - his final act before being sent to a
labour camp. Two months later, Gyuri finds himself assigned to a
'permanent workplace'. This is the start of his journey to
Auschwitz. On his arrival Gyuri finds that he is unable to identify
with other Jews, and is rejected by them. An outsider among his own
people, his estrangement makes him a preternaturally acute
observer, dogmatically insisting on making sense of the barbarity -
and beauty - he witnesses.
'A fine and powerful piece of work... Dark, at times cryptic, and
hugely energetic' Irish Times "No!" is the first word of this
haunting novel. It is how a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer
answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has a child, and it is
how he answered his wife years earlier when she told him that she
wanted one. The loss, longing and regret that haunt the years
between these two 'No!'s give rise to one of the most eloquent
meditations ever written on the Holocaust. As Kertesz's narrator
addresses the child he couldn't bear to bring into the world, he
takes readers on a mesmerising, lyrical journey through his life,
from his childhood to Auschwitz to his failed marriage.
At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish
section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a
train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate.
He doesn't particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow
prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, "You
are no Jew." In the lowest circle of the Holocaust, Georg remains
an outsider.
The genius of Imre Kertesz's unblinking novel lies in its refusal
to mitigate the strangeness of its events, not least of which is
Georg's dogmatic insistence on making sense of what he witnesses-or
pretending that what he witnesses makes sense. Haunting, evocative,
and all the more horrifying for its rigorous avoidance of
sentiment, Fatelessness" "is a masterpiece in the traditions of
Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Tadeusz Borowski.
The field of statistical physics has undergone a spectacular
development in recent years. The fundamentals of the subject have
advanced dynamically with multidisciplinary approaches involving
physicists, chemists and mathematicians. Equally spectacular has
been the development of applications of statistical mechanics to
shed light on a wide range of problems, many of them arising in
fields quite distant from traditional physics disciplines. Recent
applications range from such topics as oil recovery from porous
rock to protein folding, DNA structure, morphogenesis and the
cooperative behavior of living creatures. Concepts and methods of
statistical physics have been applied successfully to "exotic"
problems that seem to be far from physics, such as vehicular and
pedestrial traffic, or economy and finance. This book presents not
only the keynote invited talks, but a number of high quality,
interesting, contributed communications from senior scientists and
young students active in the field. Topics covered include DNA
migration, wetting, chemical waves, granular media, molecular
motors, biological pattern formation and motion, as well as
practical problems such as heart diagnosis, internet traffic
jamming, oil recovery and econophysics.
Curator and historian, gallerist and writer: Klaus Kertess has long
been a decisive and forward-thinking presence in the art world. He
founded the Bykert Gallery in 1966, where he represented artists
including Chuck Close, Ralph Humphrey, Brice Marden and Dorothea
Rockburne; three decades later, he curated the 1995 Whitney
Biennial, the follow-up to the famously political 1993 iteration.
"What is being proposed here," he wrote in a catalogue essay for
the 1995 exhibition, "is not a return to formalism but an art in
which meaning is embedded in formal value. An acknowledgment of
sensuousness is indispensable--whether as play or sheer joy or the
kind of subversity that has us reaching for a rose and grabbing a
thorn." The art world has changed considerably from the relatively
convivial world of the 60s to today's globalized milieu, but
Kertess has been a constant throughout the years, curating shows of
provocative new work and writing critical essays on artists whose
work challenges and engages him, while also maintaining a vital
literary sideline (his short stories are collected in 2000's "South
Brooklyn Casket Company"). This volume collects Kertess' critical
works from the past 30 years, including meditations on Agnes
Martin, Joan Mitchell, John Chamberlain, Vija Celmins, Chris Ofili
and Matthew Richie. With each essay accompanied by full-color
reproductions of works discussed, "Seen, Written" provides a
priceless opportunity to see art through the eyes of a lifelong
viewer.
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Liquidation (Paperback)
Imre Kertesz
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'Liquidation, suspenseful and bleakly comic, reads like a treatise
on the mystery of the end of life and the mystery of suicide... A
compelling if deeply unsettling work' Independent Kingbitter, an
editor at a failing publishing house, believes himself to have been
the closest friend of B., a celebrated writer and Auschwitz
survivor, who recently committed suicide. Amongst the papers B. has
left him, Kingbitter finds a play entitled Liquidation that
uncannily predicts the behaviour of B.'s ex-wife, his mistress and
Kingbitter himself. As he obsessively reads and rereads the play,
Kingbitter becomes transfixed with the idea that buried within
these papers is B.'s great novel: the book that will explain his
relationship with Auschwitz.
Das vorliegende Buch ist aus einer sechzehnstiindigen Vorlesung
hervorgegangen, die ich im Jahre 1971 am Mathematischen Institut
der Universitat zu Jyvaskyla in Finnland gehalten habe. Mit diesem
Buch wende ich mich an Studenten der Mathematik, die eine gewisse
Fertigkeit und Sicherheit in der Anwendung transfiniter Methoden
auf die Untersuchung unendlicher algebraischer Strukturen erwerben
mochten. Ich war bestrebt, aus zumeist klassischem Material eine
geeignete und abwechslungsreiche Auswahl zu treffen. Obwohl diese
Schrift yom Inhalt her dem Spezialisten kaum etwas Neues zu bieten
hat, diirfte sie in methodischer Hinsicht an einigen Stellen mehr
oder weniger neue Gesichtspunkte enthalten. Die Lektiire dieses
Buches erfordert keine besonderen mathemati- schen Vorkenntnisse,
doch setzt sie eine gewisse Vertrautheit mit der abstrakten Algebra
und der Mengenlehre sowie vielleicht ein wenig Routine im
mathematischen Denken voraus, iiber die aber ein Student in hoheren
Semestern verfiigt. Die im Rahmen dieses Buches nicht defi- nierten
Begriffe kann der Leser in jedem ausfiihrlicheren Lehrbuch der
Algebra und der Mengenlehre, z. B. in dem von REDEl [1]1 und HALMOS
[1], finden. Das Literaturverzeichnis am Ende dieses Buches solI
bei einem vertiefteren Studium helfen. Mein aufrichtiger Dank gilt
den Herren Prof. Dr. G. FODOR und Dr. G. POLLAK, die das Manuskript
dieses Buches sorgfaltig durchgelesen und mir durch kritische
Bemerkungen geholfen haben. Mein besonderer Dank gilt meinem
Freund, Herrn Dr. CARL-GuNTER D'AMBLY, der den Text des
Manuskriptes kritisch gepriift und mich in Fragen des deutschen
Stils beraten hat.
Bei der Bearbeitung des vorliegenden Materials ging Verfasser von
der Ansicht aus, dass zur Forderung einer Industrie vor allem eine
moglichst klare Ubersicht uber ihren allgemeinen Stand er
forderlich ist und diese am besten durch Benutzung und Prufung der
vorhandenen statistischen Daten erhalten wird. Von diesen hat die
Textilindustrie bisher kaum genugenden Gebrauch machen konnen, weil
ihr hierzu die entsprechenden Behelfe fehlten. Die Ausarbeitung
musste sich dementsprechend in erster Reihe auf die einheitliche
Gruppierung der statistischen Unterlagen Deutschlands und der
anderen Lander -- soweit diese zuganglich waren - erstrecken.
Verfasser ist sich wohl bewusst, dass das Buchelchen auf V 0-
standigkeit keinen Anspruch erheben kann. Es soll die erste
Grundlage fur die statistische Ubersicht uber die Textilindustrie
Deutschlands im Vergleich zu der der anderen Lander bieten. Die
erforderlichen Erganzungen werden dann spater leicht folgen konnen.
Mainkur bei Frankfurt a. M., September 1915. Der Verfasser.
Inhaltsverzeichnis. Allgemeiner Teil. Seite Arbeiterzahl in den
Betrieben der Hauptindustrien . . . . . . 2 Beteiligung der
Textilindustrie an der Ein- und Ausfuhr. . . Die finanziellen
Ergebnisse der Hauptindustrien Deutschlands 2 Die deutsche
Textilindustrie auf dem Weltmarkt. . . . . . . 3 6 Die Neuerungen
Deutschlands auf dem Gebiete der Textilindustrie 6 Bleichen und
Farben in mechanischen Apparaten Das Merzerisieren der Baumwolle 7
Die Herstellung der Kunstseide 8 Textilose (als J ute-Ersatzstoff)
. 9 Stranfafaser (als Jute-Ersatzstoff) 10 Stickautomaten . . . . .
. . . 11 12 Die Forderung der Textilindustrie Deutschlands
Spezieller Teil. Die Textilindustrie der verschiedenen Staaten. A.
Die Baumwollindustrie."
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Paul Mogensen (Hardcover)
Paul Mogensen; Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist; Text written by Lynda Benglis, Nancy Princenthal, Klaus Kertess, …
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