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This ground-breaking new history of modern art explores the
relationship between art and knowledge from the beginning of the
twentieth century to the present day. Each chapter examines
artistic responses to a particular discipline of knowledge, from
quantum theory and theosophy to cybernetics and ethnic futurisms.
The authors argue that art’s incursion into other intellectual
disciplines is a defining characteristic of both modernism and
postmodernism. Throughout, the volume poses a series of larger
questions: is art a source of knowledge? If so, what kind of
knowledge? And, ultimately, can it contribute to our understanding
of the world in ways that thinkers from other fields should take
seriously? -- .
'Extraordinary. An intellectual feast as well as a visual one'
Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes The world comes
to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it
does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book reveals. Each
chapter immerses the reader in a single colour, drawing together
stories from the histories of art and humanity to illuminate the
meanings it has been given over the eras and around the globe.
Showing how artists, scientists, writers, philosophers, explorers
and inventors have both shaped and been shaped by these wonderfully
myriad meanings, James Fox reveals how, through colour, we can
better understand their cultures, as well as our own. Each colour
offers a fresh perspective on a different epoch, and together they
form a vivid, exhilarating history of the world. 'We have projected
our hopes, anxieties and obsessions onto colour for thousands of
years,' Fox writes. 'The history of colour, therefore, is also a
history of humanity.'
This ground-breaking new history of modern art explores the
relationship between art and knowledge from the beginning of the
twentieth century to the present day. Each chapter examines
artistic responses to a particular discipline of knowledge, from
quantum theory and theosophy to cybernetics and ethnic futurisms.
The authors argue that art’s incursion into other intellectual
disciplines is a defining characteristic of both modernism and
postmodernism. Throughout, the volume poses a series of larger
questions: is art a source of knowledge? If so, what kind of
knowledge? And, ultimately, can it contribute to our understanding
of the world in ways that thinkers from other fields should take
seriously? -- .
Jeffrey Rubinoff is one of the great sculptors in steel of the
second half of the twentieth century. In the 1970s and '80s he
exhibited widely in the United States and Canada alongside Anthony
Caro, Mark di Suvero and George Rickey, among others. However, in
the early 1990s Rubinoff withdrew from the art world altogether and
concentrated on creating an extraordinary sculpture park on Hornby
Island. This book is the first major account of his remarkable
career. The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff considers Rubinoff's life, work
and ideas from a variety of perspectives. Barry Phipps describes
Rubinoff's working methods; James Purdon examines the meanings that
derive from Rubinoff's use of steel; Joan Pachner focuses on the
formative influence of the abstract Expressionist sculptor David
Smith on his work; Maria Tippett examines Rubinoff through the lens
of the broader arts scene in postwar Canada; and Aaron Rosen
attempts to understand Rubinoff's values and ambitions in light of
his Jewish heritage. Other contributing scholars include Alistair
Rider, Mark E. Breeze, Tom Stammers, Alexander Massouras, David
Lawless and Peter Clarke. The book's foreword is written by the
distinguished Yale historian Jay Winter. Drawing on interviews and
correspondence with Rubinoff himself, as well as uncatalogued
archives and unpublished documents in the artist's possession, The
Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff makes available for the very first time a
significant quantity of primary material, both textual and visual,
for scholars and students of the future.
As someone who has spent nearly half his life wondering about the
relationship between Helicobacter and gastric cancer, I find this
textbook on the subject exciting and timely. In fact, I am not
aware of any other volume that has been able to distil so much new
knowledge into such a comprehensive account of a poorly understood
field. Taking my own view, as a scientist placed in the middle of
the spectrum between basic science and clinical medicine, I can see
that the editors, Jim Fox, Andy Giraud, and Timothy Wang, provide a
broad mix of expertise, which ensures that the subject is treated
with the right balance. From clinicopathologic observations in
humans, to epidemiology, through animal models, to molecular and
cell biology, this team has hit the mark for most readers. Fox is a
well-known leader in animal models with broad expertise. He
pioneered the field with observations on Helicobacter species in
animals, from the time when only one spiral gastric bac- rium was
known, "Campylobacter pyloridis. " Fox partners with Wang, whose
team recently announced a dramatic advance in the field of
carcinogenesis-the obser- tion that bone marrow-derived stem cells
participate in the changes that become cancer. To this nice mix has
been added Andy Giraud from my own country, who brings to the table
some remarkable genetic models of gastric cancer based on
alterations in the gp130/stat3-signaling pathway.
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Keith Richards, James Fox
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The long-awaited autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter,
singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Ladies and
gentlemen: Keith Richards.
With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that
roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life.
Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the
crossfire hurricane. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy
Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger
and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones's first fame and the notorious
drug busts that led to his enduring image as an outlaw folk hero.
Creating immortal riffs like the ones in "Jumping Jack Flash" and
"Honky Tonk Women." His relationship with Anita Pallenberg and the
death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the
U.S., isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen.
Estrangement from Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Marriage,
family, solo albums and Xpensive Winos, and the road that goes on
forever.
With his trademark disarming honesty, Keith Richard brings us the
story of a life we have all longed to know more of, unfettered,
fearless, and true.
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not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or
access to any online entitlements included with the product.
Leverage your Oracle DBA skills on Microsoft SQL Server
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Just before 3am on January 24th, 1941, when Britain was preoccupied with surviving the Blitz, the body of Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was discovered lying on the floor of his Buick, at a road intersection some miles outside Nairobi, with a bullet in his head. A leading figure in Kenya's colonial community he had recently been appointed Military Secretary, but he was primarily a seducer of other men's wives. Sir Henry Delves Broughton, whose wife was Erroll's current conquest, had an obvious motive for the murder, but no one was ever convicted and the question of who killed him became a classic mystery, a scandel and cause celebre. Among those who became fascinated with the Erroll case was Cyril connolly. He joined up with James fox for a major investigation of the case in 1969 for the SUNDAY TIMES magazine. After his death James Fox inherited the obsession and a commitment to continue in pursuit of the story both in England and Kenya in the late 1970s. One day, on a veranda overlooking the Indian Ocean, Fox came across a piece of evidence that seemed to bring all the fragments and pieces together and convinced him that he saw a complete picture.
Few people know that Ypres, centre of First World War remembrance,
was once home to a thriving British community that played a heroic
role in the Second World War. This expatriate outpost grew around
the British ex-servicemen who cared for the war memorials and
cemeteries of 'Flanders Fields'. Many married local women and their
children grew up multi-lingual, but attended their own school and
were intensely proud to be British. When Germany invaded in 1940
the community was threatened: some children managed to escape,
others were not so lucky. But, armed with their linguistic skills
and local knowledge, pupils of the British Memorial School were
uniquely prepared to fight Hitler in occupied territory and from
Britain. Still in their teens, some risked capture, torture and
death in intelligence and resistance operations in the field. An
exceptional patriotism spurred them on to feats of bravery in this
new conflict. Whilst their peers at home were being evacuated to
the English countryside, these children were directly exposed to
danger in one of the major theatres of war. James Fox was a pupil
at the British Memorial School in 1940 and he has made it his
mission to trace his former school friends. The Children Who Fought
Hitler is their story: a war story about people from an unusual
community, told from a fresh and human perspective. Gardens of
Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance, published recently by
Hodder & Stoughton, tells the story of one of James's former
school friends, Stephen Grady, and his role in the French
Resistance.
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