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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 ...
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 ...
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.
New Directions 19: An International Anthology of Prose and ...

New Directions 19: An International Anthology of Prose and ...

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RAFAEL ALBERTI translated by Geoffrey Connell INTRODUCTION To modern critics, the idea of explaining a poet's work in terms of his life is heresy. Hollywood and the Sunday papers may give us romantic and sensational accounts of the ...
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.
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.'
Rafael's Suitable Bride

Rafael's Suitable Bride

Cathy Williams

Billionaire Rafael Rocchi always has a woman in his bed, but never in his heart.
Captain Blood (鐵血船長):

Captain Blood (鐵血船長):

Rafael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini. CHAPTER. IX. THE. REBELS–CONVICT. There were, when the purple gloom of the tropical night descended upon the Caribbean, not more than tenmenonguardaboardthe Cinco Llagas, so confident—and with good ...
Jolly Roger: Captain Blood PLUS the Sea Hawk

Jolly Roger: Captain Blood PLUS the Sea Hawk

Rafael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini was a prolific Italian writer who wrote his novels of romance and high adventure in English. Several of these very successful novels were made into notable films.
Crabtown, USA: Essays & Observations

Crabtown, USA: Essays & Observations

Rafael Alvarez

"More than anything else this book is the story of a love affair-in this case the beloved is a city. "Rafael Alvarez has no illusions about his city, he loves Baltimore despite its flaws, the violence, corruption and the pain.
Love-At-Arms

Love-At-Arms

Rafael Sabatini

Set in early modern Italy, Love-At-Arms skillfully combines all of the elements that have won Rafael Sabatini's work a worldwide following: non-stop action, surprising plot twists, and plenty of swoon-worthy romance.
The Ring

The Ring

Bernard Smith

Original / British English One day Rafael was well; the next day he was completely mad. What happened to him? The story of Rafael and his gold ring is a strange story of murder, mystery and love. Many people know part of the story.
The Americas

The Americas

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... F. Thorning 361 Valdes, Octaviano: El padre Tembleque: rev. by Rafael Aguayo Spencer 379 Valle, Rafael Heliodoro: Iturbide: varon de Dios: rev. by Michael B. McCloskcy 518 Vann, Joseph: rev. of White shore of Olinda by Sylvia Leao 380 ...
Tejanos in Gray: Civil War Letters of Captains Joseph Rafael ...

Tejanos in Gray: Civil War Letters of Captains Joseph Rafael ...

Joseph Rafael de la Garza

7 vols. Austin, 1936. Cater, Douglas John. As It Was: Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Third Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. Introduction by T. Michael Parrish. Austin: State House, 1990. Chabot, Frederick C. With the Makers of San Antonio.
Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in ...

Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in ...

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More recently, Jason Cortes' Vivir en varon: Machismo y modernidad en La importancia de llamarse Daniel Santos de Luis Rafael Sanchez (2005) and Maja Horn's Bolero Bad Boys: Luis Rafael Sanchez's La importancia de llamarse Daniel ...
Sonajeros: Rafael Gómez Barros

Sonajeros: Rafael Gómez Barros

Rafael Gómez Barros

Exhibition "Sonajeros" (rattlers) is a series developed since 2001 by artist Gomez Barros (b.
Vacation Over: Implications for the Caribbean of Opening ...

Vacation Over: Implications for the Caribbean of Opening ...

Rafael Romeu

WP/O8/162 IEIMF Working Paper Vacation Over: Implications for the Caribbean of Opening U.S.Cuba Tourism Rafael Romeu \ ~ v s n u A r i a n A L M o u s v A n v r u nu © 2008 International Monetary Fund WP/O8/ 162 IMF Working Paper.
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 ...
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.

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