5/11/2023 0 Comments Félix vallotton paintingsAs his career evolved, Vallotton turned his dispassionate eye more and more towards painting. Through these new associations he was able to plot a more singular path that saw him make his name via a collection of groundbreaking satirical woodcuts for avant-garde left-wing journals. Though he never really settled as a member of Nabis, his affiliation with the group brought him into contact with a circle of literary bohemians. His early printmaking caught the eye of Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard who invited him to join the Nabis group. His status stands on a body of work that encompasses portraits, satirical prints, interior narratives, landscapes and still lifes. Vallotton never quite reached the heights of fame of some of his avant-garde contemporaries, but he developed his own unique style and history now views him as one of the most original artists of his era.
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Drawing on extensive research in textual, visual, and materials sources, the author disproves the beliefs that the corset was dangerously unhealthy and was designed primarily for the oppression of women. health and comfort, Steele contends that women's experiences of corsetry varied considerably and cannot be fully understood within these narrow frames. Whereas most historians have framed the history of the corset in terms of oppression vs. Valerie Steele, one of the world's most respected fashion historians, explores the cultural history of the corset, demolishing myths about this notorious garment and revealing new information and perspectives on its changing significance over the centuries. Why did women continue to don steel and whalebone corsets for four hundred years? And why did they finally stop? This lavishly illustrated book offers fascinating and often surprising answers to these questions. Although regarded as an essential element of fashionable dress from the Renaissance into the twentieth century, the corset was also frequently condemned as an instrument of torture and the cause of ill health. The corset is probably the most controversial garment in the history of fashion. ‘ The first stage of research applied to architecture and constructive systems was largely inspired and fueled by traditional Japanese Tsugite and Shiguchi assembly systems for frame structures,’ Kei Atsumi and Nicholas Préaud (see more here) share with designboom. Beyond optimizing a traditional technique, Atsumi and Préaud also looked to new sustainable uses for discarded wood materials through wood-based PLA filament found in all construction elements. The exhibition highlighted the finalized construction and the assembly process, whereby 900+ unique 3D-printed and double-curved pieces were assembled easily and with high precision thanks to an innovative patented joint system. This small pavilioncrystalizes three years of research on 3D printing technology and its application in common-use architecture, particularly in ancestral Japanese woodjoinery. In April 2023, architects Kei Atsumi and Nicholas Préaud unveiled their ‘Tsuginote Tea House’ at the Kanazawa Shrine in Japan. ‘tsuginote tea house’ by kei atsumi and nicholas préaud 5/11/2023 0 Comments Severance ling ma coverShe remembers how her mother was active in their local church, and burns offerings of money and skin cream for her parents after they die. She doesn’t particularly want to be doing Bibles, but it’s the job she’s got, and there’s no shortage of work to be done. At her book production company, Candace is in charge of Bibles, overseeing the design and manufacture of endless novelty and gift editions. Likewise, Ma’s novel is steeped in religious themes. It’s no surprise that both works-among countless others written and developed around the same time-picked up on the toxicity of corporate life. Ma’s novel was published two years before the pandemic began, and director Ben Stiller read the first Severance script five years before the show’s premiere. Of course, we were disgruntled with office culture long before Covid. The brief loosening of office workers’ leashes during Covid gave us the space we needed to see the rhetoric for the lie that it is. Corporate culture leans hard into lofty idealism to keep its workers in line, calling them family and pronouncing their work a sacred vocation. Those of us who were lucky enough to be able to work from home did so, and found that our offices didn’t crumble into dust without our butts warming our Steelcase-fabricated chairs. Severance points to the strange marriage of capitalism and spiritualityĬovid, and the extended quarantines it spawned in many parts of the world, changed the way we look at office culture. 5/11/2023 0 Comments The forgotten man by amity shlaesThe Forgotten Man was a bestseller in America, although Shlaes has been accused of being economical with the economic facts. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression is a book by Amity Shlaes and published by HarperCollins in 2007. FDR should have trusted in the market to right itself, she argues, while she eulogises the forgotten men (or small businessmen): those rugged individualists who funded FDR's government activism but were scapegoated by him for their trouble. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. In fact, she argues, Obama's - sorry - FDR's Soviet-inspired, New Deal philosophy of redistribution and state control actually prolonged the depression through over-regulation and punitive taxation (her previous book was called The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do About It). This book is the sequel, treating the Great Society programs of the 1960s, as well as the underdescribed efforts of the private sector- far more important than. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression is written by Amity Shlaes and published by HarperCollins e-books. The myth Shlaes proposes to bust is that government intervention dug America out of the great depression. E arlier this year, the American columnist Amity Shlaes wrote an article for under the heading "Cheering for Obama stimulus buys into 1930s myth", and it's hard not to see this revisionist history as a sideswipe at the Obama administration's efforts to tackle the recession. But when Ana, a ghost from his past, corners him and promises pain for what he so recently did to her, she and her empty threats captivate him, and he decides to keep her around.In spite of themselves, Ana and Famine are drawn to each other. Try as he might, he can't forget what they once did to him. And how these blighted bastards deserve it. But if the horseman remembers her at all, he must not care, for when she comes face to face with him for the second time in her life, she's stabbed and left for dead.Only, she doesn't quite die.If there's one thing Famine is good at, it's cruelty. They came to earth, and they came to end us all.Īna da Silva always assumed she'd die young, she just never expected it to be at the hands of Famine, the haunting immortal who once spared her life so many years ago. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth-Pestilence, War, Famine, Death-four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Scandal wears satin loretta chaseIs she a strong heroine? You bet! Despite falling in love with her, can Longmore overcome society's condemnation of an aristocrat marrying a dressmaker? How can it work? (It helps that her sister married a duke). Her beauty and intellect had him from their first meeting. Sophie does cartwheels around him due to her amazing ability with disguises and flair for drama, whether in the shop or with a pen. Loretta Chase does it again! This time Sophie Noirot has hero, the Earl of Longmore tied up in knots as he tries to keep up with her while trying to find his sister Clara who has bolted from London to avoid marrying a fortune hunter. With the paucity of written sources available for the Early Middle Ages, Gregory and Bede have often been seen as representing the dying embers of Classical civilization. ‘If among all our people there is not one man to be found who can write about what is happening today, the pursuit of letters is dead in us!’ ‘What a poor period this is!’ they have been heard to say. Many people have complained about this, not once but time and time again. In fact, in the towns of Gaul the writing of literature has declined to the point where it has virtually disappeared altogether. The vision of the Early Middle Ages as an era of decline and pessimism continues to have “a strong hold on the European historical imagination.” The following passage from Gregory’s introduction to the Histories has often been used as proof that the bishop recognized that he lived in an era of decline: Its value, however, as an accurate sources for Merovingian Gaul remains controversial. It is one of the most important medieval histories to survive from Late Antiquity. Today’s blog take a quick look at some of the disputes surrounding Gregory of Tours’ History of the Franks, composed late in the sixth century. 5/10/2023 0 Comments A shorter summaThis little book is designed for beginners, either for classroom use or individually. The Summa Theologica is timeless, but particularly important today because of his synthesis of faith and reason, revelation and philosophy, and the Biblical and the classical Greco-Roman heritages. He is a master of metaphysics and technical terminology, yet so full of both theoretical and practical wisdom. His writings combine the two fundamental ideals of philosophical writing: clarity and profundity. Thomas Aquinas is universally recognized as one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived. In it, there is also much philosophy, which is selected, excerpted, arranged, introduced, and explained in footnotes here by Kreeft, a popular Thomist teacher and writer. The reason for the double shortening is pretty obvious: the original runs some 4000 pages! (The Summa of the Summa was just over 500.) The Summa is certainly the greatest, most ambitious, most rational book of theology ever written. A shortened version of Kreeft's much larger Summa of the Summa, which in turn was a shortened version of the Summa Theologica. Urn:isbn:1907616616 Republisher_date 20120828090040 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120824051806 Scanner . Van Booys first novel, Everything Beautiful Began After, was released in 2011, and was nominated for the 2012 Indies Choice Book Award for Fiction,5. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:13:18 Boxid IA155016 Boxid_2 CH120601 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st ed. |