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The Mirror
This engaging and witty cultural history traces the evolution of the mirror from antiquity to the present day, illustrating its journey from wondrous object to ordinary trinket. With its earliest invention, the mirror allowed us to gaze upon ourselves, bestowing a power both fascinating and terrifying.
Histoire du miroir
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Histoire de la solitude
Deuil, séparation, célibat... la solitude est souvent vécue comme une défaite. Elle offre pourtant un moyen d’évasion et représente une forme de contestation, de contre-modèle social. Tous, nous avons vocation à devenir des mystiques, des poètes et des aventuriers en quête d’un refuge secret où n’avoir pour loi que nous-mêmes et notre conscience. Dans cette Histoire de la solitude, Sabine Melchior-Bonnet dessine le portrait de solitaires majestueux, heureux ou malheureux. Elle montre comment la solitude, créative et insoumise, est désir de se libérer. Que devient-elle à une époque où l’humain et la machine semblent se confondre ? Où les secrets ne sont plus protégés et l’existence est standardisée ?
Intercultural Mirrors
In Intercultural Mirrors: Dynamic Reconstruction of Identity, the authors suggest that the view of us held by culturally different people provides an essential key to self-understanding and identity remodelling. The book aims at analysing intercultural experiences on a deeper level.
Mirror, Mirror
Of all human inventions, the mirror is perhaps the one most closely connected to our own consciousness. As our first technology for contemplation of the self, the mirror is arguably as important an invention as the wheel. Mirror Mirror is the fascinating story of the mirror's invention, refinement, and use in an astonishing range of human activities -- from the fantastic mirrored rooms that wealthy Romans created for their orgies to the mirror's key role in the use and understanding of light. Pendergrast spins tales of the 2,500year mystery of whether Archimedes and his "burning mirror" really set faraway Roman ships on fire; the medieval Venetian glassmakers, who perfected the technique of ...
Negotiating Conflict and Controversy in the Early Modern Book World
This volume offers fifteen chapters written by leading specialists which explore the range of ways in which the book industry negotiated conflicts and controversies in the early modern European world.
Mirror Affect
For decades, contemporary artworks with reflective properties have stimulated public forms of spectatorship. According to Cristina Albu, these artworks, which can include elements such as mirrors, live video feedback, or sensors, draw attention to affective interdependence and mechanisms of social control. In Mirror Affect, Albu provides a historical account of mirroring processes in contemporary art and offers insight into the phenomenological and sociopolitical concerns that have inspired artists to stage processes of affective, perceptual, and behavioral mirroring between art viewers. Beginning with the 1960s, Albu charts the rise of interpersonal modes of art spectatorship. She reveals c...
Les revers de l'amour. Une histoire de la rupture
Du drame de l’honneur au nouveau désordre amoureux, de l’idéal chevaleresque aux débordements libertins : comment hommes et femmes se rencontrent, s’aiment et se séparent. Autour de l’amour et de ses drames (trahison, infidélité, mort du désir) s’organisent les idéaux et les valeurs d’une société et d’une époque, notamment ceux de l’honneur et de la réputation, du bonheur, de la réalisation de soi, mais aussi le refus d’une société patriarcale, ainsi que les différentes représentations de la liberté. À travers des portraits de couples désunis célèbres ou moins connus, d’Héloïse et Abélard à Onassis et la Callas, en passant par les divorces d’Henry VIII ou celui de Lady D. et de Charles, Sabine Melchior-Bonnet propose une histoire inédite de la rupture amoureuse mêlant lois et sentiments, intime et social, valeurs et interdits.
