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Cities That Think like Planets: Complexity, Resilience, and ...

Cities That Think like Planets: Complexity, Resilience, and ...

Marina Alberti

Cities That Think like Planets advances strategies for planning a future that may look very different from the present, as rapid urbanization could tip the Earth toward abrupt and nonlinear change.
On the Art of Building in Ten Books

On the Art of Building in Ten Books

Leon Battista Alberti

Its importance for the subsequent history of architecture is incalculable, yet this is the first English translation based on the original, exceptionally eloquent Latin text on which Alberti's reputation as a theorist is founded.
Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: ...

Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: ...

Liane Lefaivre

A critical-theoretical reading of the strange, dreamlike work of Leon Battista Alberti.
Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance

Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance

Anthony Grafton

In this volume, one of our most distinguished Renaissance scholars offers the superlative biography and cultural history that Alberti has long deserved. It is a compelling portrait of a mysterious and original intellectual.
Marina

Marina

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Thus begins Oscar's friendship with Marina and her father Herman Blau, a portrait painter. Marina takes Óscar to the gardens of the nearby cemetery to watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the fourth Sunday of each month.
The Crucified Mind: Rafael Alberti and the Surrealist Ethos ...

The Crucified Mind: Rafael Alberti and the Surrealist Ethos ...

Robert Havard

... ground with this subject matter. In effect she opened his eyes to the Dadaist or anti-art possibilities that are implicit in his reference to subterranean galleries. This recognition was long overdue on Alberti's part, as he told Geoffrey Connell in ...
Marina Carr: Plays 1: Low in the Dark, The Mai, Portia ...

Marina Carr: Plays 1: Low in the Dark, The Mai, Portia ...

Marina Carr

Marina Carr: Plays 1 introduces the work of a major new voice in playwrighting.
Marina Abramović: Objects, Performance, Video, Sound

Marina Abramović: Objects, Performance, Video, Sound

Marina Abramovic

"Marina Abramovic (born 1946) is one of the foremost contemporary performance artists.
Leon Battista Alberti O Painting

Leon Battista Alberti O Painting

Leon Battista Alberti

The second book puts the art in the hand of the artist, distinguishing its parts and demonstrating all. The third introduces the artist to the means and the end, the ability and desire of acquiring perfect skill and knowledge in painting.'
Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and Her ...

Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and Her ...

Marina Soroka

Marina Soroka, Charles A. Ruud. Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, ... printed edition as follows: Soroka, Marina. Becoming a Romanov: Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and her world (1807-1873)/by Marina Soroka and Charles ...
Multiple Spaces: The Poetry of Rafael Alberti

Multiple Spaces: The Poetry of Rafael Alberti

Salvador Jiménez-Fajardo

III. a Sobre los dngeles » Sobre los dngeles is the most important collection written by Alberti before his exile; indeed, many critics consider it his highest poetic achievement, and Geoffrey Connell sees it as «the greatest poetic work of the ...
Marina

Marina

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I have seen that boy wandering through the mist of the railway station, and the name of Marina has flared up again like a fresh wound. We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine.
Marina Abramović: cleaning the house

Marina Abramović: cleaning the house

Marina Abramović

There are very few books that consider the artist's motivations and emotions. Many different impulses and inspirations can produce an artwork. This book shows the processes you never see.
Mai

Mai

Marina Abramovic

On the proposed Marina Abramović Institute in Hudson, NY.
Don Quijote de Manhattan

Don Quijote de Manhattan

Marina Perezagua

In this modern novel by Marina Perezagua, Don Quixote is disguised as C3P0 and Sancho Panza has chosen an Ewok suit to cross over to New York.
Marina Carr Plays 1

Marina Carr Plays 1

Marina Carr

And that bitch, I went to see her you know and the way she – Robert Iheard allabout it! The Mai And you sayyoudon't talk about me! Of course you do! You fuckin' liar, on topofeverything else! Robert (turns on Grandma Fraochlán andBeck) ...
Marina Abramović

Marina Abramović

Kristine Stiles

Since the early 1970s, Marina Abramovic (b. 1946) has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form, exploring her physical and emotional limits in some of the most iconic works in contemporary art.
Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present

Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present

Marina Abramovic

The book will also discuss a unique element of the Museums retrospective, live performance: a new work created for the occasion, and performed by the artist herself; and recreations of Abramovics works by other performers the first such to ...
Bloody Living: The Loss of Selfhood in the Plays of Marina Carr

Bloody Living: The Loss of Selfhood in the Plays of Marina Carr

Rhona Trench

This book deals with the process of negotiation with the past in the present through the plays of Marina Carr. The title frames the work, connoting the path towards destruction and the sense of lethargy acquired along the way.
Marina Carr: Plays 2: On Raftery’s Hill; Ariel; Woman and ...

Marina Carr: Plays 2: On Raftery’s Hill; Ariel; Woman and ...

Marina Carr

On Raftery's Hill 'This is a play that howls to be seen; its courage is matched only by its dramatic power.
The Cordelia Dream

The Cordelia Dream

Marina Carr

Five years later, she returns for a final and devastating encounter. Marina Carr's The Cordelia Dream premiered in December 2008 at Wilton's Music Hall, London, in a production by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Criaturas abisales

Criaturas abisales

Marina Perezagua

Vivan la historia de amor de una mujer capaz de meter a su amado en la cárcel para alejarle del mundo. Éstas son algunas de las Criaturas abisales que presenta el deslumbrante debut literario de Marina Perezagua.
Modern Irish Drama: W.B. Yeats to Marina Carr

Modern Irish Drama: W.B. Yeats to Marina Carr

Sanford Sternlicht

W.B. Yeats to Marina Carr Sanford Sternlicht. The Aran Isles Trilogy followed. The Cripple of Inishmaan (1996) concerns an orphaned and disabled teenage boy who gets a part in the making of the famous documentary Man ofAran and winds  ...
생각의 문법 : 세상을 꿰뚫는 50가지 이론 3

생각의 문법 : 세상을 꿰뚫는 50가지 이론 3

강준만

케 이웃 천 ( Kay - Yut Chen ) · 마리나 크라 코브 스키 ( Marina Krakovsky), 이영래 옮김 ,『 머니 랩 : 돈 이 벌리는 경제 실 험실 』( 타임 비즈 , 2010), 294 쪽 . 케 이웃 천 ( Kay - Yut Chen ) · 마리나 크라 코브 스키 ( Marina Krakovsky), 이영래 옮김 ...
Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown ...

Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown ...

Marina Peterson

In Sound, Space, and the City, Marina Peterson explores the processes—from urban renewal to the performance of ethnicity and the experiences of audiences—through which civic space is created at music performances in downtown Los Angeles ...
Concerning the Angels

Concerning the Angels

Rafael Alberti

This bilingual text is at once intensely imaginative and intimately realistic, a lyrical illumination of the poet's "dark night of the soul.
Artistic Theory in Italy, 1450-1600

Artistic Theory in Italy, 1450-1600

Anthony Blunt

Leonardo da Vinci - Alberti - Michelangelo - Vasari - Social position of the artist - Religious art - Minor writers of the High Renaissance - Later mannerists.
Legends of the Sibilline Mountains

Legends of the Sibilline Mountains

Giuseppe Santarelli

To describe it, not geographically but “literarily,” would require a diligent study linking together all the authors who have written about it, from Andrea Barberino to Antoine De La Sale, to Hemmerlin, to Alberti, to Ortoel, etc. Here we will describe ...

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