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Bøger fortalt af Thomas Belmonte

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  • The Broken Fountain

    As Ida Susser writes in reference to Belmonte's Broken Fountain, "good ethnographies have long lives." This classic of urban anthropology, one of the most acclaimed ethnographies of recent years, offers vivid, literary descriptions of Fontana del Re, an impoverished Neapolitan neighborhood. Belmonte documents the struggles of Neapolitans surrounded by crumbling buildings and economic insecurity. ... Læs mere

    280,54 kr.

  • Lydbog

    Ottoman Empire History: From Frontier Beylik to World Power and the Legacy It Left Behind

    Fortalt af Thomas Belmonte ...

    Uforkortet

    2 timer

    Dive into the epic military history and sweeping geopolitics of a warrior tribe that conquered three continents. Perfect for an educational commute, this immersive deep dive transports you from dusty frontiers to the dazzling palaces of Constantinople.Beyond brutal wars and palace intrigues, uncover the human stories of everyday citizens navigating centuries of dramatic change. This thought ... Læs mere

    80,10 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

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  • Frantumaglia

    A Writer's Journey

    Oversat af Ann Goldstein ...
    One of The Guardian's Best Books of the Year: Personal writings by the anonymous author who became a literary phenomenon with My Brilliant Friend.The writer known as Elena Ferrante has taken pains to hide her identity in the hope that readers would focus on her body of work. But in this volume, she invites us into Elena Ferrante's workshop and offers a glimpse into the drawers of her writing desk ... Læs mere

    84,61 kr.

  • Nothing If Not Critical

    Essays on Art and Artists

    af Robert Hughes ...
    From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists, good, bad, past and present.As art critic for Time magazine, internationally acclaimed for his study of modern art, The Shock of the New, he is perhaps America’s most widely read and admired ... Læs mere

    114,74 kr.

  • Essays in Aesthetics

    Oversat af Wade Baskin ...
    R enowned French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre references artists such as Tintoretto, Calder, Lapoujade, Titian, Raphael, and Michaelangelo in discussing how great art of the past relates to the challenges of his eraEssays in Aesthetics is a provocative collection that considers the nature of art and its meaning. Sartre considers the artist's "function," and the relation of art and the artist to ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018

    H**ot Cold Heavy Light collects 100 writings—some long, some short—that taken together forma group portrait of many of the world’s most significant and interesting artists. From Pablo Picasso to Cindy Sherman, Old Masters to contemporary masters, paintings to comix, and saints to charlatans, Schjeldahl ranges widely through the diverse and confusing art world, an expert guide to a dazzling scene. ... Læs mere

    112,24 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos

    af John Berger ...
    'Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens. This lens is the secret of narration, and it is ground anew in every story, ground between the temporal and the timeless ... In our brief mortal lives, we are grinders of these lenses'.When John Berger wrote this apparently unclassifiable book, it was to become a sensation, translated into nine languages and ... Læs mere

    85,55 kr.

  • Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature

    The first of its kind in English, Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature is a selection of readings from Italian fiction and non-fiction writers on the subject of the Mafia. Among the renowned writers featured are Giovanni Verga, Grazia Deledda, Anna Maria Ortese, Livia De Stefani, and Silvana La Spina, as well as famous witnesses such as Felicia Impastato, Letizia Battaglia, ... Læs mere

    256,43 kr.

  • The Rape of the Masters

    How Political Correctness Sabotages Art

    af Roger Kimball ...
    Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball reveals in this witty and provocative book, the student is less likely to learn about the aesthetics of masterworks than to be told, for instance, that Peter Paul Rubens' great painting Drunken Silenus is an allegory about anal ... Læs mere

    129,61 kr.

  • The Catholic School

    A Novel

    A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacreEdoardo Albinati's The Catholic School, the winner of Italy's most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy.Three well-off young men—former students at Rome's prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, ... Læs mere

    104,49 kr.

  • If Venice Dies

    Oversat af André Naffis-Sahely ...
    "This powerful book of cultural criticism" by the renowned art historian "shines a harsh light on" a historic city's destruction in the name of profit ( The Washington Post).What is Venice worth? To whom do its irreplaceable treasures belong? This eloquent book by art historian Salvatore Settis urgently poses these questions, igniting a new debate about urban stewardship and cultural patrimony at ... Læs mere

    84,61 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Shape of a Pocket

    af John Berger ...
    John Berger writes: 'The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order. The people coming together are the reader, me and those the essays are about - Rembrandt, Palaeolithic cave painters, a Romanian peasant, ancient Egyptians, an expert in the ... Læs mere

    128,44 kr.