A Defense of Ardor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Defense of Ardor write by Adam Zagajewski. This book was released on 2014-10-28. A Defense of Ardor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ardor, inspiration, the soul, the sublime: Such terms have long since fallen from favor among critics and artists alike. In his new collection of essays, Adam Zagajewski continues his efforts to reclaim for art not just the terms but the scanted spiritual dimension of modern human existence that they stake out. Bringing gravity and grace to his meditations on art, society, and history, Zagajewski wears his erudition lightly, with a disarming blend of modesty and humor. His topics range from autobiography (his first visit to a post-Soviet Lvov after childhood exile; his illicit readings of Nietzsche in Communist Poland); to considerations of artist friends past and present (Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz); to intellectual and psychological portraits of cities he has known, east and west; to a dazzling thumbnail sketch of postwar Polish poetry. Zagajewski gives an account of the place of art in the modern age that distinguishes his self-proclaimed liberal vision from the "right-wing radicalism" of such modernist precursors as Eliot or Yeats. The same mixture of ardor and compassion that marks Zagajewski's distinctive contribution to modern poetry runs throughout this eloquent, engaging collection.
A Defense of Ardor
A Defense of Ardor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Defense of Ardor write by Adam Zagajewski. This book was released on 2005-10-19. A Defense of Ardor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ardor, inspiration, the soul, the sublime: Such terms have long since fallen from favor among critics and artists alike. In his new collection of essays, Adam Zagajewski continues his efforts to reclaim for art not just the terms but the scanted spiritual dimension of modern human existence that they stake out. Bringing gravity and grace to his meditations on art, society, and history, Zagajewski wears his erudition lightly, with a disarming blend of modesty and humor. His topics range from autobiography (his first visit to a post-Soviet Lvov after childhood exile; his illicit readings of Nietzsche in Communist Poland); to considerations of artist friends past and present (Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz); to intellectual and psychological portraits of cities he has known, east and west; to a dazzling thumbnail sketch of postwar Polish poetry. Zagajewski gives an account of the place of art in the modern age that distinguishes his self-proclaimed liberal vision from the "right-wing radicalism" of such modernist precursors as Eliot or Yeats. The same mixture of ardor and compassion that marks Zagajewski's distinctive contribution to modern poetry runs throughout this eloquent, engaging collection.
Wanderers Across Language
Wanderers Across Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wanderers Across Language write by Kinga Olszewska. This book was released on 2017-12-02. Wanderers Across Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Exile has become a potent symbol of Polish and Irish cultures. Historical, political and cultural predicaments of both countries have branded them as diasporic nations: but, in Adorno's dictum, for an exile writing becomes home. Olszewska offers a multifaceted picture of the figure of exile in postwar Poland and Ireland, juxtaposing politics and culture: whereas Irish exile appears more in an economic and cultural context, the essence of Polish exile is political. This comparative study of works by Polish and Irish authors - Stanislaw Baranczak, Adam Zagajewski, Marek Hlasko, Kazimierz Brandys, Brian Moore, Desmond Hogan and Paul Muldoon - shows a literature which not only depicts the experience of exile, but which uses exile as a literary device."
Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski
Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski write by Eric Karpeles. This book was released on 2018-11-06. Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A compelling biography of the Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski that takes readers to Paris in the Roaring Twenties, to the front lines during WWII, and into the late 20th-century art world. Józef Czapski (1896–1993) lived many lives during his ninety-six years. He was a student in Saint Petersburg during the Russian Revolution and a painter in Paris in the roaring twenties. As a Polish reserve officer fighting against the invading Nazis in the opening weeks of the Second World War, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. For reasons unknown to this day, he was one of the very few excluded from Stalin’s sanctioned massacres of Polish officers. He never returned to Poland after the war, but worked tirelessly in Paris to keep alive awareness of the plight of his homeland, overrun by totalitarian powers. Czapski was a towering public figure, but painting gave meaning to his life. Eric Karpeles, also a painter, reveals Czapski’s full complexity, pulling together all the threads of this remarkable life.
Planets on Tables
Planets on Tables - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Planets on Tables write by Bonnie Costello. This book was released on 2008. Planets on Tables available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduction : crude foyers -- Wallace Stevens : local objects and distant wars -- William Carlos Williams : contending in still life -- Elizabeth Bishop's ethnographic eye -- Joseph Cornell : soap bubbles and shooting galleries -- Richard Wilbur : Xenia -- Conclusion : domestic disturbance.
