Self-Portrait with Cephalopod - 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 Self-Portrait with Cephalopod write by Kathryn Smith. This book was released on 2021-02-09. Self-Portrait with Cephalopod available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Environmental collapse. The betrayals and alliances of the animal world. A father who works in a timber mill. The celebrities in our feeds, the stories we tell ourselves. Loss, never-ending loss. Self-Portrait with Cephalopod—selected by francine j. harris as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize—is an account of being a girl, and then a woman, in the world; of being a living creature on a doomed planet; of being someone who aspires to do better but is torn between attention and distraction. Here, Kathryn Smith offers observations and anxieties, prophecies and prayers, darkness and light—but never false hope. Instead, she incises our vanities and our hypocrisies, “the bloody hand holding back / the skin,” revealing “the world’s inner workings, / rubbery and caught between the teeth.” These are the poems of someone who feels her and our failings in the viscera, in the bones, and who bears witness to that pain on the page. Self-Portrait with Cephalopod is an urgent and necessary collection about living in this precarious moment, meditative and resolutely unsentimental.
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer - 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 Hans Bellmer write by Sue Taylor. This book was released on 2002. Hans Bellmer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of Hans Bellmer's eroticized images and the psychological origins of his disturbing art.
The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde
The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde - 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 The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde write by Alyce Mahon. This book was released on 2020-05-26. The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This is the first book to examine the cultural history of Marquis de Sade's (1740-1814) philosophical ideas and their lasting influence on political and artistic debates. An icon of free expression, Sade lived through France's Reign of Terror, and his writings offer both a pitiless mirror on humanity and a series of subversive metaphors that allow for the exploration of political, sexual, and psychological terror. Generations of avant-garde writers and artists have responded to Sade's philosophy as a means of liberation and as a radical engagement with social politics and sexual desire, writing fiction modelled on Sade's novels, illustrating luxury editions of his works, and translating his ideas into film, photography, and painting. In The Sadean Imagination, Alyce Mahon examines how Sade used images and texts as forms that could explore and dramatize the concept of terror on political, physical, and psychic levels, and how avant-garde artists have continued to engage in a complex dialogue with his works. Studying Sade's influence on art from the French Revolution through the twentieth century, Mahon examines works ranging from Anne Desclos's The Story of O, to images, texts, and films by Man Ray, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean-Jacques Lebel, and Peter Brook. She also discusses writings and responses to Sade by feminist theorists including Angela Carter and Judith Butler. Throughout, she shows how Sade's work challenged traditional artistic expectations and pushed the boundaries of the body and the body politic, inspiring future artists, writers, and filmmakers to imagine and portray the unthinkable"--
Dynamic Paleontology
Dynamic Paleontology - 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 Dynamic Paleontology write by Mark A.S. McMenamin. This book was released on 2016-06-10. Dynamic Paleontology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using a series of case studies, the book demonstrates the power of dynamic analysis as applied to the fossil record. Written in an engaging and informative style, Dynamic Paleontology outlines the best application of quantitative and other tools to critical problems in the paleontological sciences including such topics as analysis of the Cambrian Explosion and the question regarding the presence of life on Mars. The book considers how we think about certain types questions and shows how we can refine our approach to analysis right from the beginning of any particular research effort. The analytical tools presented here will have wide application to other fields of knowledge; as such the book represents a major contribution to our deployment of modern scientific method.
Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods
Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods - 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 Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods write by Danna Staaf. This book was released on 2020-09-15. Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the author of Nursery Earth, a “nimble, fast, surprising, smart, and weird in the very coolest sense of the word” (Sy Montgomery) exploration of the sometimes enormous, often bizarre creatures that ruled the seas long before the first dinosaurs—a Science Friday Book Club Pick Cephalopods, Earth’s first truly substantial animals, are still among us: Their fascinating family tree features squid, octopuses, nautiluses, and more. The inventors of swimming, cephs presided over the sea for millions of years. But when fish evolved jaws, cephs had to step up their game (or end up on the menu). Some evolved defensive spines. Others abandoned their shells entirely, opening the floodgates for a tidal wave of innovation: masterful camouflage, fin-supplemented jet propulsion, and intelligence we’ve yet to fully measure. In Monarchs of the Sea, marine biologist Danna Staaf unspools how these otherworldly creatures once ruled the deep—and why they still captivate us today. Publisher’s Note: Monarchs of the Sea was previously published in hardcover as Squid Empire.
