Автор: Nardelli Matilde Название: Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity: Remaking the Image in the 1960s ISBN: 1474444040 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474444040 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 100320.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Discusses Antonioni's cinema in relation to art and other media
Critically and comprehensively explores the relation between Antonioni's cinema and art in the 1960s and 1970s, at a time of profound transformation in, and dialogue between, both cinema and art
Moves away from traditional readings of Antonioni's cinema in terms of 'purity' by addressing its engagement with mixed and mass media
Approaches Antonioni's work through a comparative - trasnational and transmedial - lens
Addresses the legacy of Antonioni's cinema in contemporary art
Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960s films are widely recognized as both exemplars of cinema and key texts in ushering in cinema's 'modern' incarnation. Reconnecting Antonioni's aesthetically audacious films of the 1960s to the ferment of their historical time, Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity addresses these works' crucial, yet overlooked, affinity with the new 'impure' art practices that emerged in the period. At the same time, the book also offers a novel reading of the films' dialogue with postwar pictorial abstraction. Revealing an Antonioni who embraced both mixed and mass media and reflected on them via his cinema, the book replaces auteuristic accounts of the director's work with a new understanding of its critical significance in late-twentieth century cinema and visual culture.
In Salman Rushdie's novels, images are invested with the power to manipulate the plotline, to stipulate actions from the characters, to have sway over them, seduce them, or even lead them astray. Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture sheds light on this largely unremarked - even if central - dimension of the work of a major contemporary writer. This collection brings together, for the first time and into a coherent whole, research on the extensive interplay between the visible and the readable in Rushdie's fiction, from one of the earliest novels - Midnight's Children (1981) - to his latest - The Enchantress of Florence (2008).
Автор: Klawans, Jonathan Название: Impurity and sin in ancient judaism ISBN: 0195177657 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195177657 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 71810.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Examines the ways in which two distinct biblical conceptions of impurity -"ritual" and "moral"- were interpreted in the "Hebrew Bible", the Dead Sea Scrolls, rabbinic literature, and the New Testament. This book also examines the evolution of ancient Jewish attitudes towards sin and defilement.
Автор: Goldstein, Elizabeth W. Название: Impurity and gender in the hebrew bible ISBN: 149850082X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498500821 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 38610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Impurity and Gender in the Hebrew Bible explores the role of female blood in the Hebrew Bible and considers its theological implications for future understandings of purity and impurity in the Jewish religion.
Influential, innovative and aesthetically experimental, the films of Michelangelo Antonioni are widely recognized as both exemplars of cinema and key in ushering in its ‘new’ or ‘modern’ incarnation around 1960. Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity offers a radical rethinking of the director’s work. It argues against prevalent understandings of it in terms of both cinematic purity and indebtedness to painting. Reconnecting Antonioni’s aesthetically audacious films of the 1960s and 1970s to the ferment of their historical time, Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity brings into relief these works’ crucial, yet overlooked, affinity with the new, ‘impure’, art practices – of John Cage, Franco Vaccari, Robert Smithson, Piero Gilardi and Andy Warhol among others – that precipitated the demotion of painting from its privileged position as a paradigm for all the arts. Revealing an Antonioni who embraced both mixed and mass media and reflected on them via cinema, the book replaces auteuristic, if not hagiographic, accounts of the director’s work with a new understanding of its critical significance across the modern visual arts and culture more broadly.
Influential, innovative and aesthetically experimental, the films of Michelangelo Antonioni are widely recognized as both exemplars of cinema and key in ushering in its ‘new’ or ‘modern’ incarnation around 1960. Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity offers a radical rethinking of the director’s work. It argues against prevalent understandings of it in terms of both cinematic purity and indebtedness to painting. Reconnecting Antonioni’s aesthetically audacious films of the 1960s and 1970s to the ferment of their historical time, Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity brings into relief these works’ crucial, yet overlooked, affinity with the new, ‘impure’, art practices – of John Cage, Franco Vaccari, Robert Smithson, Piero Gilardi and Andy Warhol among others – that precipitated the demotion of painting from its privileged position as a paradigm for all the arts. Revealing an Antonioni who embraced both mixed and mass media and reflected on them via cinema, the book replaces auteuristic, if not hagiographic, accounts of the director’s work with a new understanding of its critical significance across the modern visual arts and culture more broadly.
Автор: Thiessen Matthew Название: Jesus and the Forces of Death: The Gospels` Portrayal of Ritual Impurity Within First-Century Judaism ISBN: 154096194X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781540961945 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 36770.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Although most people acknowledge that Jesus was a first-century Jew, interpreters of the Gospels often present him as opposed to the Jewish law and customs--especially when considering his numerous encounters with the ritually impure. Matthew Thiessen corrects this popular misconception by placing Jesus within the Judaism of his day. Thiessen demonstrates that the Gospel writers depict Jesus opposing ritual impurity itself, not the Jewish ritual purity system or the Jewish law. This fresh interpretation of significant passages from the Gospels shows that throughout his life, Jesus destroys forces of death and impurity while upholding the Jewish law.
