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  1. J.G. Farrell's empire novels
    the decline and fall of the human condition
    Author: Ziegler, Rebecca
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Four Courts Press, Dublin ; Chicago

    Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The idea; Rebels: symbols, ceremonies and abstractions; Subversive language; The grip pried loose: bodies, lands and possessions;... more

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    Englisches Seminar der Universität, Bibliothek
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    XX 1100/111
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    Universitätsbibliothek Trier
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    Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The idea; Rebels: symbols, ceremonies and abstractions; Subversive language; The grip pried loose: bodies, lands and possessions; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index Despite its name, the real subject of J.G. Farrells three-and-a-half-book Empire Series is not the British empire, but the human condition, a state characterized by ‘fall like the empire, like the human race itself according to the biblical story of the Fall from Eden. Farrell lets us know that this is his primary interest by giving one of his major characters a dog named The Human Condition. He actually uses the falling empire as an overarching metaphor, as well as a rich source of imagery and incidents, to illustrate the worsening human situation. In Farrells darkly funny books, all sorts of things, concrete and abstract, display independent wills with which they oppose the will of human beings. Ideas, symbols, ceremonies, human communication, human bodies, lands and possessions all act as rebels or subversives to undermine the human condition

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781846827570; 1846827574
    Subjects: Kolonialismus <Motiv>; Conditio humana; Roman
    Other subjects: Farrell, James G. (1935-1979)
    Scope: 203 Seiten
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. Celestina and the human condition in early modern Spain and Italy
    Author: Scott, Rachel
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Tamesis, Woodbridge, Suffolk

    Location:
    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn
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    2019/5419
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781855663183
    RVK Categories: IN 8275
    Series: Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 372
    Subjects: Menschenwürde; Spanisch; Italienisch; Conditio humana; Literatur
    Other subjects: Rojas, Fernando de (1470-1541): Comedia de Calisto y Melibea
    Scope: 215 Seiten, Illustrationen
  3. Black paper
    writing in a dark time
    Author: Cole, Teju
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    In Black Paper, Teju Cole meditates on what it means to keep our humanity and witness the humanity of others in a time of darkness. "Darkness," Cole writes, "is not empty." Through art, politics, travel, and memoir, he returns us to the wisdom latent... more

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    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Georg Forster-Gebäude / USA-Bibliothek
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    In Black Paper, Teju Cole meditates on what it means to keep our humanity and witness the humanity of others in a time of darkness. "Darkness," Cole writes, "is not empty." Through art, politics, travel, and memoir, he returns us to the wisdom latent in shadows, and sets the darkness echoing. The opening essay sets the mood for the book, as Cole travels to southern Italy and Sicily to view a series of Caravaggio paintings. He ponders the suffering that Caravaggio ("a murderer, a slaveholder, a terror, and a pest") both dealt out and experienced, and the disquieting echoes of that suffering in the abandoned boats of migrants arriving on nearby shores. This collection also gathers several of Cole's recent columns on photography for the New York Times Magazine and offers a suite of elegies to lost friends who show him and us ways of mourning in times of death.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780226823867; 9780226641355
    RVK Categories: LH 60200 ; HV 98000
    Edition: Paperback edition
    Series: The Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin family lectures
    Subjects: Schwarz; Ästhetik; Conditio humana; Ethik; Fotografie; Kunstsoziologie; Moral; Philosophie; Rassismus
    Scope: xi, 264 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
  4. Modern art & the remaking of human disposition
    Author: Butterfield-Rosen, Emmelyn
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; London

    Figures of Thought: Poseuses and the Controversy of the Grande Jatte -- Beethoven's Farewell: The Creative Genius "in the Claws of the Secession" -- The Mise-en-scène of Dreams: L'Après-midi d'un faune "Human Dispositions explores new conventions for... more

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Figures of Thought: Poseuses and the Controversy of the Grande Jatte -- Beethoven's Farewell: The Creative Genius "in the Claws of the Secession" -- The Mise-en-scène of Dreams: L'Après-midi d'un faune "Human Dispositions explores new conventions for posing and positioning human figures in pictorial, architectural, and theatrical space in Europe in the decades leading up to WWI. The author contends that questions of "disposition" are vital to understanding a key transitional period in the history of Western modernism. Around 1885, avant-garde artists began to present human figures in strictly frontal, lateral, and dorsal postures. The effect, compared with standard, classical representations of the human figure, was both archaic and advanced, in keeping with contemporary theories of evolution and human psychology. These new ways of posing figures was how modern artists challenged long, deeply held assumptions about human consciousness and the human being's privileged status in the world. Featured are three major works: the painting Poseuses (1886-1888) by the French Neo-Impressionist artist Georges Seurat; the Beethovenfries mural (1902) by the Austrian Secessionist painter Gustav Klimt; and the ballet L'Après-midi d'un faune (1912) by the Russian dancer and Ballets Russes choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky. Each work created an uproar when first presented. They were meant to be manifestos for the new values of a modern world and to overturn the superior, cerebral, moral status of the human subject"--

     
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  5. Modern art and the remaking of human disposition
    Author: Butterfield-Rosen, Emmelyn
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; London

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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  6. Modern art & the remaking of human disposition
    Author: Butterfield-Rosen, Emmelyn
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; London

    Figures of Thought: Poseuses and the Controversy of the Grande Jatte -- Beethoven's Farewell: The Creative Genius "in the Claws of the Secession" -- The Mise-en-scène of Dreams: L'Après-midi d'un faune "Human Dispositions explores new conventions for... more

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    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek
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    Figures of Thought: Poseuses and the Controversy of the Grande Jatte -- Beethoven's Farewell: The Creative Genius "in the Claws of the Secession" -- The Mise-en-scène of Dreams: L'Après-midi d'un faune "Human Dispositions explores new conventions for posing and positioning human figures in pictorial, architectural, and theatrical space in Europe in the decades leading up to WWI. The author contends that questions of "disposition" are vital to understanding a key transitional period in the history of Western modernism. Around 1885, avant-garde artists began to present human figures in strictly frontal, lateral, and dorsal postures. The effect, compared with standard, classical representations of the human figure, was both archaic and advanced, in keeping with contemporary theories of evolution and human psychology. These new ways of posing figures was how modern artists challenged long, deeply held assumptions about human consciousness and the human being's privileged status in the world. Featured are three major works: the painting Poseuses (1886-1888) by the French Neo-Impressionist artist Georges Seurat; the Beethovenfries mural (1902) by the Austrian Secessionist painter Gustav Klimt; and the ballet L'Après-midi d'un faune (1912) by the Russian dancer and Ballets Russes choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky. Each work created an uproar when first presented. They were meant to be manifestos for the new values of a modern world and to overturn the superior, cerebral, moral status of the human subject"--

     
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  7. Modern art and the remaking of human disposition
    Author: Butterfield-Rosen, Emmelyn
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; London

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    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek

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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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    Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte
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