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Originally published: New York: Harper & Row, c1988.
A powerful, brave, bold collection of poetry that will stay with the reader long after it's put aside.
Provides keys to the understanding of Moroccan architecture and geometical arabesques.
Pictoral history of Colonial Algeria featuring never before seen albumen photographs of several Algerian cities, Constantine, Oran, Algiers, Kabilya, Blida, and Timgaad Alge
Two copies of two poems, (in both English and French texts) "If I could," and "My heart is a museum," accompany pages of old photos, poscards, and illustrations from newspapers. This book was made "as a gift for Algerian people and all proceeds will be used towards the preservation of Algerian history through artifact collection," many of which the author donated to various Algerian museums.--P. [4] of cover.
Nikolai Gogol’s novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol’s peculiar genius comes through most powerfully in his short stories. By turns—or at once—funny, terrifying, and profound, the tales collected in The Nose and Other Stories are among the greatest achievements of world literature. These stories showcase Gogol’s vivid, haunting imagination: an encounter with evil in a darkened church, a downtrodden clerk who dreams only of a new overcoat, a nose that falls off a face and reappears around town on its own, outranking its former owner. Written between 1831 and 1...
Ken Jacobson shows that the history of Orientalist photography begins weeks after the invention of photography itself. Jacobson is not an academic, but has conducted a great deal of scholarly research on the often obscure careers of photographers and the intertwined histories of the Levantine studios. He demonstrates that many of the past criticisms of Orientalist photography are based on ignorance either of chronology or technology.
Is business, for music, a regrettable necessity or a spur to creativity? In the 11 essays in this text the authors wrestle with this question from the perspective of their chosen area of research.
The Arabesque from Kant to Comics tracks the life and afterlife of the arabesque in its surprising transformation from an iconoclastic literary theory of early German Romanticism to aesthetic experimentation in both avant-garde art and popular culture. Its explosive growth in popularity was followed by an inevitable taming as arabesques became staples in book illustration, poetry publications, and even the decoration of printed scores. The subversive potential of the arabesque was preserved in one of its most surprising offspring, the comic strip: born at the moment when the cholera pandemic first swept through Europe, the comic translated the arabesque’s rank growth into unnerving lawless...