Théorie

L'età di Thomas Paine. Dal senso comune alle libertà civili americane

br. Paine parlò e scrisse nella sua epoca come un rivoluzionario planetario. Egli affermò l'aspirazione a una società più eguale per tutti, visse per il calore delle azioni umane e si mobilitò in prima persona contro le fredde gerarchie del potere degli Stati. Fu uno scienziato delle idee impegnato a determinare il significato del senso comune e definire i principi alla base dei diritti dell'uomo, ma anche un migrante sempre alla ricerca di un paese che gli garantisse il rispetto dell'uguaglianza e della libertà. Un gruppo di autori americani ed europei si interroga da un lato sul percorso intellettuale di Thomas Paine nella sua epoca, dall'altro si confronta con l'attualità del suo pensiero politico. Dai saggi emerge una vita complessa e avventurosa che terminò in povertà nella città di New Rochelle, a nord di New York, in una piccola casa dove rimase solo e abbandonato. Egli morì dunque dimenticato nella nuova nazione. Tuttavia, i suoi scritti continuarono a parlare alla gente comune così come alle leadership americane. Le sue parole sono state riprese da intellettuali e artisti, da un presidente repubblicano come Ronald Reagan e da uno democratico come Barack Obama. Ma Paine non è stato soltanto un patriota americano, bensì un cittadino del mondo: un sostenitore dei principi democratici, critico delle differenze di potere e denaro, un difensore delle libertà civili.

Dell'architettura civile di Baldassarre Orsini. Vol. 1

ill., ril.

La forma musicale. Ad uso dei conservatori degli istituti e licei musicali, dei corsi universitari ad indirizzo musicale. Con CD-ROM

br. Scopo di questo lavoro è la messa a punto di un testo volto ad approfondire, nell'ambito di un percorso espositivo trattato in chiave squisitamente storica, l'idea di forma musicale e i molteplici aspetti che la determinano, dai profili testurali emergenti (omofonia e polifonia) ai parametri linguistici di riferimento (melos, ritmo, sistemi sonori), dai principi costruttivi stanti alla base di una struttura sonora ai moduli architettonici che tendono a definirla, dai generi vocali, strumentali o vocal-strumentali che secolo dopo secolo si sono succeduti agli stili che li hanno attraversati. Al volume è allegato un CD-rom contenente numerosi esempi musicali (disponibili anche per il download) che hanno il compito di integrare quelli, già di per sé piuttosto nutriti, che compaiono nel testo scritto.

LENGUA Y LITERATURA II. GENEROS LITERARIOS Y NO LITERARIOS.

Lehrbuch des einfachen, doppelten, drei- und vierfachen Contrapunkts

122 S. 8°. OLn (Goldprägung: Leipzig : Kistner). Ecken verschoschen und leicht bestossen. Stellenweise Bleistift-Eintragungen. Mitgebunden: Erläuternde Anmerkungen und Hunweise für die Bearbeitung der Aufgaben im Lehrbuche des Contrapunkts.. Ibid., 1887. 10 S. + Sachregister. Erstausgabe.

Précis des règles du contrepoint avec des exemples (séries complètes) à 2, 3 et 4 parties

137 S. Gr. 8°. OBrosch. Rücken unten schadhaft.

New Acquisitions: Old Master Drawings

Includes black and white plates. 14x19.5 cm. 16+16 pages. Paperback. Cover slightly stained. Else in good condition.

Screem : Turn-of-the-Century Expressionist Images in Pen and Brush.

270x210 mm. 158 pages. Softcover. Cover corners and edges slightly worn. Spine edges slightly worn. Else in good condition.

Klimschs Jahrbuch. Band 27. Technische Abhandlungen und Berichte über die Neuerungen auf dem Gesamtarbeit der Graphischen Künste

Includes numerous color plates. 190X275 mm. 303 pages. Hardcover slightly bumped. Spine faded. Spine hinge cracked. Spine edges bumped. Binding visible on title page. Few pen markings on contents page. Single plate loose. Few plates slightly loose. Else in good condition.

THREE ARCHAIC POETS Archilochus, Alcaeus, Sappho

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Small sticker stain to front board. Sticker damage to front pastedown. Corners a bit rounded. Lettering to spine a bit rubbed. ; 328 pages; Toward the beginning of the seventh century B. C. There was a flowering of "personal" poetry marked by a passion and a candor that are in striking contrast to the epic tradition. Burnett presents a convincing new interpretation of the three most important poets of the period.

AUTHORITY FIGURES Metaphors of Mastery from the Iliad to the Apocalypse

Reveals how certain strategic metaphors embedded in the early Western literary canon have promoted--and continue to promote--systems of inequality and social control. Collins examines texts ranging from the Homeric epics and the Platonic dialogues to Virgil's "Aeneid" and the "Book of Revelation". Drawing on the linguistic and documentary evidence of usages in early societies, chiefly Greek and Hebrew, Collins has produced a penetrating examination of social and personal structures in those worlds. ; 9.5 x 0.75 x 6.5 Inches; 196 pages

[THE COLOR OF HARMONY SYSTEMS] Renklerin armoni sistemleri.

Fine Turkish Paperback. Folio. (31 x 23 cm). In Turkish. 61, [1] p., xv numerous color plates. Renklerin armoni sistemleri. Kalmik was an artist and art historian, known for his work in studying the lyrical-abstract Turkish painters. In 1928, Academy of Fine Arts in the Department of Painting by entering the first Nazmi Ziya's, then Ibrahim Calli 's was a student. In 1937, after graduation time in various newspapers and magazines and worked. In 1939 Paris 'e went and André Lhote 's studied painting at the workshop. Sorbonne University 's also took courses in art history. After returning to Turkey in 1940 in Ankara and Istanbul, was an art teacher at various high schools (1942-47). In 1947 Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture 'in the colors and shapes began to teach composition. In 1967-68 Berlin Technical University's department of architecture as a guest lecturer in the basic design taught. Previously, impressionistic understanding Kalmik employees, located in Europe at the time of cubism was interested. Braque 'la Picasso 's, then Fernand Léger and Henri Matisse's figures were impacted by understanding. After returning to Turkey maintained a distinct outer line of figurative abstraction and had a strong sense of pattern. In the 1960s, fishermen, boats and sailboats in front of an abstract landscape imagery began funding. With solid color stain, which highlights the contours of a lyrical expression in the works of this period are seen. As well as the etching Kalmik also makes the picture in the 1960s in the figurative sense of the prints that are dominant. As well as objects and natural appearance of the figure given the place and occupancy of the space in this building has been used in a balanced manner. Domestically and abroad, participated in many group exhibitions, solo exhibitions opened. Picture, as well as many of the Republican era artists such as Turkish official's theoretical and philosophical concepts of articles on who wrote, conferences and radio talk conducts the Kalmik, "The Color of Harmony Systems" and "Nature and Art Texture entitled" two books in the 1950s, Istanbul Technical was published by the University. First Edition.

Rembrandt

31.5x24cm. 437 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Pen inscription on title-page - NO damage to text. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.

Le Langage de l'Image au Moyen Age: Signification et Symbolique

Includes black and white plates. 21x29.5 cm. 263 pages + unnumbered plates. Paperback. Cover edges slightly yellowing. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.

THE IDEA OF EPIC

Faint foxing to textblock else book is fine. DJ spine sunned and discolored. Dustjacket is protected in plastick sleeve. ; Eidos; 0.75 x 8.75 x 6 Inches; 200 pages; The idea of epic is elusive. The classical tradition of epic poetry emerged from the heroic poetry of one tribe of one people, the Ionian Greeks. The fame of the Iliad and Odyssey inspired emulators and created a genre which remained in high favor throughout the classical epoch and was revived in the Renaissance. Modern literature, however, has neglected it and the word "epic" no longer connotes a literary form. J. B. Hainsworth explores the development of the epic genre, the causes of its success in classical literature, and the reasons for the failure of the genre after its triumphs in the Renaissance. The idea of epic, Hainsworth argues, is composite. As the offspring of a tradition of heroic poetry, it is a narrative of historical or fictional events. However, the Homeric epics try to make sense of events by relating them to some theme, for example heroism, and explaining them in terms of a metaphysical idea such as destiny or the will of God. In the literary epic of the classical period the narrative element divided into historical and mythological forms; authors exploited national, political, and romantic themes. Hainsworth examines the way in which these ideas intersect in classical criticism and in Hellenistic and Roman epic. Hainsworth demonstrates that after its first flowering the epic became an artificial literary form justified by the authority of the Homeric poems. When the poetic form was abandoned the idea of epic dissolved, leaving as its ghost the expression in other forms of the metaphysical ideas of the Greek and Roman epics.

Klimschs Jahrbuch des graphischen Gewerbes: 28. Band Technische Abhandlungen und Berichte über die Neuerungen auf dem Gesamtgebiet des graphischen Gewerbes.

Contains color and b&w plates. 27.5x20cm. 304 pages. Hardcover. Cover edges and corners slightly worn. Pages 305-308 slightly torn. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.

THE ART OF RHETORIC IN THE ROMAN WORLD 300 B. C. - A. D. 300

Minor rubbing and shelfwear to wraps. DJ has edgewear with light chipping and a couple of small tears. ; Traces the development of Greek and Latin oratory and rhetorical theory from 300 BC to AD 300. During that period, he shows, the art of persuasion the Romans inherited from the greeks gradually became an art more concerned with the secondary characteristics of rhetoric: style and artistic effort. ; 0.76 x 9.2 x 6.1 Inches; 658 pages

THE ART OF RHETORIC IN THE ROMAN WORLD 300 B. C. - A. D. 300

Minor rubbing and shelfwear to wraps. Faint soiling to textblock. DJ has edgewear with chipping and tears in places. Some loss to top of spine (crudely repaired with clear tape). ; Traces the development of Greek and Latin oratory and rhetorical theory from 300 BC to AD 300. During that period, he shows, the art of persuasion the Romans inherited from the greeks gradually became an art more concerned with the secondary characteristics of rhetoric: style and artistic effort. ; 0.76 x 9.2 x 6.1 Inches; 658 pages

THE ART OF RHETORIC IN THE ROMAN WORLD 300 B. C. - A. D. 300

Minor rubbing and shelfwear to wraps. 1 corner has minor chipping. DJ has edgewear with chipping and small tears in places. Old Price-sticker on DJ. ; Traces the development of Greek and Latin oratory and rhetorical theory from 300 BC to AD 300. During that period, he shows, the art of persuasion the Romans inherited from the greeks gradually became an art more concerned with the secondary characteristics of rhetoric: style and artistic effort. ; 0.76 x 9.2 x 6.1 Inches; 658 pages

ACHILLES Paradigms of the War Hero from Homer to the Middle Ages

Book and Dustjacket have minor shelfwear. 1 corner lightly bumped. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; 1 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 355 pages; The powerful portrait of the glorious Greek warrier Achilles presented in Homer's Iliad around 700 BC imbued a particular soldier with transcendent value, linking "soldier" with "hero" in Western European culture. Tracing Achilles' appearances through periods of Greek, Roman, and Christian imperialism in the works of poets, generals, philosophers, priests, and patriots, Katherine Callen King establishes the moral or political significance attached to the hero as a response to shifting mores and contemporary issues.

THE ODYSSEY Structure, Narration, and Meaning

Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 0.98 x 9.37 x 6.31 Inches; 208 pages; Bruce Louden's bold re-reading of the Odyssey -- the first attempt in years to map in detail the poem's overall structure -- offers new insights into the artistry of Odysseus' mythic voyage and enriches our understanding of Homer's masterful craftsmanship. Louden's groundbreaking work uncovers an extended narrative pattern, repeated in full three times, which reveals the poem's underlying skeletal structure. This organizational analysis helps to explain the existence of several characters or episodes sometimes dismissed as extraneous, as late additions, or even as corruptions to Homer's original intent. In addition, Louden's discovery strengthens the suggestion that the Odyssey was the product of oral tradition. By repeating this sequence of successive motifs, a single, improvising bard could explore a variety of complex ideas within a poem as long as the Odyssey. Though centrally concerned with the form of Homer's rich and complex plot, Louden's study is not exclusively, or even primarily, formalistic. His investigation involves the study of characters' names, challenges faced by Odysseus, the structure of the poem, and roles assigned to the poem's female characters. Louden's comprehensive achievement gives the reader a fresh perspective on the role of divine hostility and the artistry of an epic survivor on his timeless journey home.

Marcel Janco

Contains plates in color and black and white. 29x23 cm. 135 pages. Hardcover in dust jacket. Cover slightly chafed. Binding slightly exposed on title page. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.

IMPROVISATION, TYPOLOGY, CULTURE AND "THE NEW ORTHODOXY" How "Oral" is Homer?

Foxing/spotting to boards (colour loss). Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Endpapers excised. ; 118 pages

SPONTANEITY AND TRADITION A Study in the Oral Art of Homer

Light foxing to top of textblock. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping and small tears. ; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 236 pages