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Bauhaus Futures
Essays, photo-essays, interviews, manifestos, diagrams, and a play explore the varied legacies, influences, and futures of the Bauhaus. What would keep the Bauhaus up at night if it were practicing today? A century after its founding by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, as an “experimental laboratory of the future,” who are the pioneering experimentalists who reinscribe or resist Bauhaus traditions? This book explores the varied legacies, influences, and futures of the Bauhaus. Many of the animating issues of the Bauhaus—its integration of research, teaching, and practice; its experimentation with materials; its democratization of design; its open-minded, heterogeneous approach to ide...
Children of Zion
Award-winning writer Henryk Grynberg takes an extraordinary collection of interviews with young Polish war orphans conducted in Palestine in 1943 about their experiences and gives their stories "one voice". The cumulative effect of so many different voices discussing similar horrors is shocking and makes this book unlike any other work on the Holocaust.
The Jews of Bialystok During World War II and the Holocaust
Jewish society as an active protagonist in the story of the Holocaust
"The Stories Our Parents Found Too Painful to Tell"
This book is a retreived version of the first Holocaust memoir published in Australia, in 1948. Is is also one of the earliest memoirs ever written. The orignial book was written in Yiddish. It has now been adapted into English, with the voluntary assistance of 25 righteous tranlaters, worldwide, a separate story in itself, which is also covered in the book. -- Publisher details.
The Betweenness of Place
This Important Book Offers An Original Interpretation Of Place, Taking The Question Of Perspective As Its Starting Point. It Argues For A Balanced View Which Comprehends Both Location And A Sense Of Being `In Place`. Contents Cover: Introduction The Betweenness Of Place - Place, Region And Modernity - The Empirical-Theoreticalsignificance Of Place And Region - Normative Significance - Epistemological Significance - Casual Understanding, Narrative And Geographic Synthesis - Conclusion. Condition Good.
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"I recommend this book to you with an earnestness that I have seldom felt for any collection of historic texts," writes William Gibson in his foreword.
Monet, Gauguin, Van Gogh...
Japanese art is of fundamental importance for the development of modern art in Europe. Nearly all of the great nineteenth-century masters--from Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh to Pierre Bonnard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Édouard Vuillard--embraced the charm of Japanese pictorial motifs and stylistic devices, developing them in their own work. Even Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso expressed enduring interest in Japan well into the twentieth century. Monet, Gauguin, Van Gogh ... Japanese Inspirations explores the most fascinating chapters of French art in the second half of the nineteenth century, in the phenomenon known as Japonisme. The catalo...
The Zionist Ideology
He then describes the various streams of Zionist thought and how they were transmogrified by events and individuals, and concludes by examining both Zionism's connection with a secular Jewish identity and the nature of the Jewish claim to Eretz Israel.
