Het verhaal van een man die wanhopig probeert zijn daden gescheiden te houden van zijn gedachten

Binnen een artistiek milieu vormen de relaties een patroon dat lijkt op dat van de opera "Don Giovanni" van Mozart.

ABC-boek van satirische stroming in de literatuur en cultuur

Tijdens de Duitse bezetting stonden de drukpersen niet stil. Integendeel: aan beide kanten waren artistiek en ideologisch gezien zeer goede en zeer foute ontwerpers uiterst productief. Sommige vormgevers, uitgevers en drukkers vochten voor het behoud van intellectuele en artistieke vrijheid, anderen voedden juist de op volle toeren draaiende Duitse propagandamachine. Ondanks de erbarmelijke omstandigheden was de vormgevingssector in deze periode springlevend. Tussen 1940 en 1945 werden zo'n 1000 clandestiene uitgaven geproduceerd, onder vele anderen door De Bezige Bij, H.N. Werkman en Helmut Salden. Tegelijkertijd verschenen talloze bruine boeken, brochures en posters. Voor het eerst brengt Alton W. Purvis in Goed fout de grafische vormgeving gedurende de Tweede Wereldoorlog, met beeldbepalende vormgevers als Fré Cohen, Frans Duwaer, A.A. Balkema, Willem Sandberg en Lou Manche, in haar volle omvang in beeld. Exhibition: Bijzondere Collecties, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (April - September 2015).

"This book is the first to describe the growing convergence during the last decade towards a new classical style - a return to painting and building within the western classical tradition. Often misread as Neo-Conservatism, this style cuts across the socio-political spectrum as a radical departure from Modernism. Like the revolutionary classicism of the 1790s and the Free-Style Classicism of the 1900s, it has social and moral roots and is variable in genre. With his customary style and originality, Jencks places this international movement in a historical context and defines the intentions which inform it, the rules which govern it, and the salient characteristics of its various manifestations. In art, five major trends are distinguished: Metaphysical Classicism, which includes Carlo Maria Mariani, Gerard Garouste and Malcolm Morley; Narrative Classicism, which embraces the work of Hockney and Kitaj; Allegorical Classical as exemplified by the work of, among others, Stone Roberts, Bruno Civitico and Lincoln Perry; Realist Classicism, including artists as diverse as John De Andrea and Ben Johnson; and Classical Sensibility, which covers, among others, Avigdor Arikha, Michael Andrews and Milet Andrejevic. Architecture is split into four major groups - the Fundamentalists, Revivalists, Urbanists and Eclectics - and the work of architects as diverse as Takefumi Aida, Leon Krier, Robert Venturi, James Stirling and Michael Graves is discussed."--BOOK JACKET.

Behandelt en toont werk van 13 architecten uit diverse landen. Waaronder Norman Foster en Rem Koolhaas

Uncle Oswald, the great rogue and fornicator, has discovered the world's most powerful aphrodisiac and a method of quick-freezing sperm. So with the help of the gorgeous Yasmin Howcomely, he sets out to preserve 51 living geniuses and crowned heads, from James Joyce to King Albert and Henry Ford.

Two children, Dan and Una, acting out their version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, miraculously conjure up Puck himself. Small and as old as time itself, he brings back the past for them to witness. He re-creates a Roman centurion, a Renaissance craftsman and the villages of time gone by.

I have read the book twice in my life and find it a fascinating character study of the fallible priest who still feels called to minister the Eucharist to the poor who need him. The setting in Mexico is powerful as the priest ministers illegally in the season of Mexico's history where he could be arrested and killed at any time. Greene's character study is methodical and intense, not a light read. Still the "power and the glory" of the book is obvious in self-sacrifice of a man who seems unsure of redemption for himself, yet still offers it humbly through the Eucharist to the people.

This edition of The Lost Girl offers a text corresponding to Lawrence"s expectations.

"This revised Norton Critical Edition, like its predecessor, is the only edition available that includes both the 1890 Lippincott's and the 1891 book version of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Under the editorial guidance of Wilde scholar Michael Patrick Gillespie, students have the opportunity to read comparatively both published versions of this controversial novel." ""Backgrounds" and "Reviews and Reactions" allow readers to gauge The Picture of Dorian Gray's sensational reception when the 1890 version appeared and to consider the heated public debate over art and morality that followed its publication. Joris-Karl Huysmans, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde offer a sense of the diverse opinions on these topics. Eight contemporary reviews and comments on the novel are reprinted, among them four opinions from the St. James's Gazette immediately after publication in 1890, each followed by Oscar Wilde's vehement reply." ""Criticism" includes seven new essays on the novel that reflect key changes in interpretive theory in recent years and reveal the broad range of perspectives associated with Wilde and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Simon Joyce, Donald L. Lawler, Sheldon W. Liebman, Maureen O'Connor, Ellie Ragland-Sullivan, John Paul Riquelme, and Michael Patrick Gillespie provide their varied assessments. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are also included."--BOOK JACKET.