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The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, ...

Giorgio Riello

This collection of essays examines the history of cotton textiles at a global level over the period 1200-1850.

Giorgio Morandi

Giorgio Morandi

This book presents an invaluable survey of Giorgio Morandi's drawings, watercolors, and etchings, selected mainly from British and American collections. Morandi was a reserved artist who rarely left his studio in Bologna.

Giorgio Agamben: Sovereignty and Life

Matthew Calarco

This volume provides the first in-depth collection of essays aimed at critically examining the work of political philosopher Giorgio Agamben.

Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence

Janet Abramowicz

A fascinating study of the revered twentieth-century Italian artist Giorgio Morandi, written by his friend and former studio assistant

Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

Giorgio Agamben

The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and ...

Walker's Directory of Northern California Directors and ...

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Directors — Joseph Di Giorgio, Rosario Di Giorgio. E. S. Dulin, Roland D. Fontana, F. W. Heggblade, V. V. Kerns. S. A. Lines. EAST ASIATIC CO., INC., 433 California St., S. F. Officers — Christian Jensen, Pres. & Treas.; Knud Munck- Larsen.

The Open: Man and Animal

Giorgio Agamben

In 'The Open', contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben considers the ways in which the 'human' has been thought of as either a distinct and superior type of animal, or a kind of being that is essentially different from animal ...

Giorgio Vasari's Teachers: Sacred & Profane Art

Liana Cheney

This book examines the artistic, cultural, and historical influence of Giorgio Vasari’s teachers, mentors, and patrons on his sacred and profane paintings.

Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction

Leland de la Durantaye

A critical introduction to the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.

The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi

Suzanne Boorsch

Suzanne Boorsch, Giorgio Ghisi, Michal Lewis, R. E. Lewis. The accuracy of the anatomy of the skeletons in this print suggests that Bertani had seen Andreas Vesalius's De Humani Corporis Fabrica, published at Basel in I543— although none ...

Le monstre et sa lignée: Filiations et générations ...

Jean-Pierre De Giorgio

Avant-propos J ean-Pierre DE GIORGIO Véronique LÉONARD-ROQUES Comment peut-on être le fils d'un monstre ? Ou, pire, lui donner naissance ? À Rome, dans une société où la transmission était au centre des équilibres sociaux , ...

Communist Study: Education for the Commons

Derek R. Ford

Catherine Mills, The philosophy of Agamben (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008), 2. 2. Leland de la Durantaye, Giorgio Agamben: A critical introduction (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009), 19. 3. Giorgio Agamben, Means ...

Giorgio Vasari's Prefaces: Art & Theory

Liana Cheney

By virtue of this text, Vasari was knows as the "first art historian" since Pliny the Elder. This volume provides an opportunity to study and understand the art, theory, and visual culture of Giorgio Vasari and sixteenth century Italy.

Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life: Law, ...

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Barbara Formis has a PhD in Philosophy and is a member of the Centre of Philosophy of Art (CPA) at the Sorbonne University (Paris I, ... of legal critique. Jessica Whyte is a doctoral candidate in the Centre for viii The Work of Giorgio Agamben.

Building Transatlantic Italy: Architectural Dialogues with ...

Paolo Scrivano

141 “I obtained from Bompiani a photo of Mumford's volume:” letter from Mario Labe, to Giorgio Soavi, ASO, 22.623, December 23 (1948); see also letter from Mario Labe, to Giorgio Soavi, ibid., October 29 (1949). 142 Letter from (Piero Parri) ...

Vent'anni di domande: "Panorama", 1962-1982 : trentadue ...

Claudio Sabelli Fioretti

Giorgio Abraham intervistato da Romano Cantore Una delle relazioni attese con maggior interesse al primo Congresso mondiale di sessuologia di Parigi, nel luglio 1 975, fu quella dell'italiano Giorgio Abraham, laureato in medicina e filosofia ...

Protecting Human Security in a Post 9/11 World: Critical and ...

Giorgio Shani

List of Figure and Table Foreword by A.G. McGrew Acknowledgements x Notes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction: Protecting Human Security in a Post 9/11 World 1 Giorgio Shani Part I Critical Insights 2 'Democratic ...

Models, Algorithms, Logics and Tools: Essays Dedicated to ...

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Essays Dedicated to Kim Guldstrand Larsen on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday Luca Aceto, Giorgio Bacci, Giovanni Bacci, Anna Ingólfsdóttir, Axel Legay, Radu Mardare. Giorgio Luca Aceto • Bacci Giovanni Bacci• Anna Ingólfsdóttir Axel ...