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The Arrangement: A Novel
Ashley WarlickWriting at the top of her game, Ashley Warlick gives us a completely mesmerizing story about a woman well ahead of her time, who would go on to become the legendary food writer M. F. K. Fisher. From the Hardcover edition.
Alchemy Stones
M.E. WarlickAnd what relevance does it have today? The Alchemy Stones answers these questions and more, helping you to interpret the texts and illustrations of ancient manuscripts and demonstrating how their symbolism can reach into your life.
The Philosopher''s Stones
M. E. WarlickTwenty-eight stones inscribed with ancient alchemical symbols--representing the alchemists, their ingredients and tools, base elements, the seven planets, and the different stages of the alchemical process--are included with the 96-page ...
Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth
M. E. WarlickWITHIN the remarkable continuity of Ernst's visual motifs — birds, machines, vegetation, vertical forests, horizontal landscapes, and seascapes — the feminine image was persistently embedded. Derived from both Freudian and alchemical ...
The Good, the Bold, and the Beautiful: The Story of Susanna ...
Dan W. Clanton, Jr.First, I would like to thank Drs David Petersen, Greg Robbins, and M. E. Warlick, the members of my Dissertation Committee, whose encouragement and advice has been invaluable. Special thanks must go to my advisor, Dr Pamela Eisenbaum. Without her guidance and sense of humor, this project would have taken twice as long and only been half the fun. Henry Carrigan, Andrew Mein, and Amy Wagner at T&T Clark deserve many thanks for their help in leading me by the hand ...
Green Festival Reader: Fresh Ideas from Agents of Change
Kevin Danaher... Van de Kamp, Karri Winn, Alix Davidson, Isabel Schechter, Jenny Heins, Zakiya Harris, Emily Adler, Alesha Reardon, Amanda Dufon, Amy Garcia, Annette Kamm, Vanessa Driscoll, Cindy Warlick, Cory West, Claire Hester, Dennis Donnelly, ...
New Directions in Emblem Studies
PreviewArt, Allegory and Alchemy in Peter Greenaway ''s Prospero''s Books'' BY M. E. WARLICK UNIVERSITY OF DENVER Within his books and interviews, the British filmmaker Peter Greenaway has often declared his admiration for the history of art and his intentions to create a continuum between European visual traditions and contemporary film. His tributes to famous works of art and architecture within his films are well known.1 Often, he includes specific characters, such as Velasquez''s ...
In the Embrace of the Swan: Anglo-German Mythologies in ...
PreviewErnst thus represents femininity as passive music and simultaneously as threatening and predatory.72 As M. E. Warlick shows, Ernst''s interest in the concept of androgyny can also be traced back to his reading of a study of alchemy by the Viennese psychoanalyst Herbert Silberer.73 In Probleme der Mystik und ihrer Sym- bolik (1914)74, Silberer presents alchemy as a process of psychological selfperception and self-realization. Ostensibly, the object of the alchemical quest was the ...
Constructing African Art Histories for the Lagoons of C?d''Ivoire
Monica Blackmun VisonàA lively group of friends, all art historians once based in Colorado, encouraged me to ponder some of the issues discussed in this book; I particularly remember discussions with Charles Scillia, Erika Doss, Karen Mathews, Moyo Okedjedi, Annette Stott, M.E. Warlick, Shannon Hill, Vernon Minor, Timothy Standring and the late Jane Comstock. Pat and Chip Coronel reviewed the manuscript and made valuable recommendations, and I am grateful (as always) for their continued ...
Magical Objects: Things and Beyond
PreviewIntroduction i M. E. Warlick Magic, Alchemy and Surrealist Objects 1 Elmar Schenkel Brainspotting: Brains as Magical Objects 33 Christoph Houswitschka " You could not injure me": The Powers of Maugham''s and Moore''s Modern Magicians 45 Paul Goetsch Uncanny Collectors and Collections in Late- Victorian Fiction ..67 Oliver Lindner Far North: The North Pole as a Magical Object in late 19th Century Culture and Literature 91 Silke Strickrodt The Phonograph in the Jungle: Magic ...
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