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Insane for the Light
A Spirituality for Our Wisdom Years
Inbunden, 2025
407 kr
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A spiritual journey through life’s final years and its “mellowing of souls”—the long-awaited conclusion of Father Rolheiser’s trilogy of modern spiritual classics, following The Holy Longing and Sacred Fire “Ronald Rolheiser is one of the great Christian spiritual writers of our time, as well as …
Angels and Saints
A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God's Holy Ones
Av Scott Hahn
Inbunden, 2014
330 kr
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Angels and saints. Catholics tend to think of them as different from the rest of us. They’re cast in plaster or simpering on a holy card, performing miracles with superhero strength, or playing a harp in highest heaven. Yet they are very near to us in every way. In this lively book, Scott Hahn …
Religion and the Rise of Western Culture: The Classic Study of Medieval Civilization
Häftad, 1991
267 kr
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Confession of Saint Patrick
The Classic Text in New Translation
Av John Skinner
Häftad, 1998
107 kr
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The autobiography of one of the most popular saints in history, now available in a new translation. Beyond being recognized as the patron saint of Ireland (perhaps for having chased some nonexistent snakes off the Emerald Isle), little else is popularly known about Saint Patrick. And yet, Patrick …
Wrestling with God
Finding Hope and Meaning in Our Daily Struggles to Be Human
Häftad, 2019
236 kr
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The bestselling author of The Holy Longing provides an inspiring message of hope and perseverance for all of us struggling with our faith in tumultuous times The last few decades have rapidly birthed a modern world that would have been unrecognizable fifty years ago. As long-held beliefs on love, …
He Leadeth Me
An Extraordinary Testament of Faith
Av Walter J. Ciszek S.J., Daniel L. Flaherty S.J.
Häftad, 2014
255 kr
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply personal true story of one man’s spiritual odyssey and the unflagging faith which enabled him to survive the ordeal that wrenched his body and spirit to near collapse Captured by a Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a “Vatican spy,” Jesuit Father …
Fourth Cup
Unveiling the Mystery of the Last Supper and the Cross
Av Scott Hahn
Inbunden, 2018
303 kr
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From the bestselling author of The Lamb's Supper comes an illuminating work on the Catholic Eucharist and its link to the Jewish Passover meal. “Read this book. And don’t just read it. Pray about it. Reflect on it. And share it with others.”—Brant Pitre, author of The Case for Jesus In this …
New Thoughtfulness in Contemporary China – Critical Voices in Art and Aesthetics
Av Jörg Huber, Zhao Chuan m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
457 kr
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Globalization euphoria and enthusiasm for the West are on the decline in contemporary China. Critical voices make themselves heard in artistic and cultural circles, turning towards their personal everyday lives to take stock. Their questions revolve around concrete experiences in the radical …
Art and Sustainability
Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity
Av Sacha Kagan
Häftad, 2011
917 kr
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What is the cultural dimension of sustainability? This book offers a thought-provoking answer, with a theoretical synthesis on »cultures of sustainability«. Describing how modernity degenerated into a culture of unsustainability, to which the arts are contributing, Sacha Kagan engages us in a …
Contesting Visibility
Photographic Practices on the East African Coast
Häftad, 2013
434 kr
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Since the introduction of photography by commercial studio photographers and the colonial state in Kenya, this global medium has been intensely debated and contested among Muslims on the cosmopolitan East African coast. This book does not only explore the making, circulation, and consumption of …
Image Politics of Climate Change
Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations
Av Birgit Schneider, Thomas Nocke
Häftad, 2014
608 kr
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Scientific research on climate change has given rise to a variety of images picturing climate change. These range from colorful expert graphics, model visualizations, photographs of extreme weather events like floods, droughts or melting ice, symbols like polar bears, to animated and interactive …
At Face Value and Beyond
Photographic Constructions of Reality
Häftad, 2016
471 kr
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How to account for the peculiar attraction of certain photos? How to deal with the specific use of images in particular contexts? Monika Schwärzler presents a variety of photographic case studies exploring visual phenomena from the point of view of media analysis as well as from sociological, …
Global Photographies
Memory - History - Archives
Av Sissy Helff, Stefanie Michels
Häftad, 2018
385 kr
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How is photography connected to global practices? This is a first edited collection to trace the relationship between history, photography and memory in a global perspective on three interrelated levels: firstly, in the artistic and cultural production of pictures, secondly, in the decoding of …
Roman Charity
Queer Lactations in Early Modern Visual Culture
Häftad, 2016
771 kr
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»Roman Charity« investigates the iconography of the breastfeeding daughter from the perspective of queer sexuality and erotic maternity. The volume explores the popularity of a topic that appealed to early modern observers for its eroticizing shock value, its ironic take on the concept of Catholic …
Situating Global Art
Topologies - Temporalities - Trajectories
Av Sarah Dornhof, Birgit Hopfener m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
621 kr
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In recent years, the term global art has become a catchphrase in contemporary art discourses. Going beyond additive notions of canon expansion, this volume encourages a differentiated inquiry into the complex aesthetic, cultural, historical, political, epistemological and socio-economic …
Aesthetic Practices and Spatial Configurations
Historical and Transregional Perspectives
Av Hannah Baader, Martina Becker m. fl.
Häftad, 2027
523 kr
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Aesthetic practices shape and are shaped by spatial formations. The essays of this volume survey configurations of spaces as macro, micro and meso, and study from a transregional perspective the ways they are created, described, negotiated and appropriated across cultures. The interdisciplinary …
Courting Dissolution
Adumbration, Alterity, and the Dislocation of Sacrifice from Space to Image
Av Michael Lent
Inbunden, 2016
1458 kr
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Michael Lent asks what role art has in colonisation and subsequent dissolution. He proposes a practice informed by the fatal strategies and 'raw' phenomenology of Jean Baudrillard as a challenge to a system of disappearance. Focusing on the otherness of space to prevent its ultimate dissolution, …
Fragments, Futures, Absence and the Past
A New Approach to Photography
Häftad, 2016
382 kr
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According to Walter Benjamin, the past that is not recognized by the present threatens to disappear irretrievably. As a consequence, photographs cannot save the moment from oblivion by pure depiction alone, but only by keeping the depicted moment actual at every present moment.Instead of counting …
Empty Action – Labour and Free Time in the Art of Collective Actions
Häftad, 2021
435 kr
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Collective Actions is one of the most significant artistic practices to emerge from Moscow Conceptualism. The group's enigmatic idea of 'Empty action' is the focal point for Marina Gerber's exploration of this practice in relation to labour in the late Soviet Union. Based on interviews with members …
Pictorial Appearing – Image Theory After Representation
Häftad, 2021
393 kr
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The proliferation of digital technology has changed our visual perception and the way we interpret terms such as 'representation', 'immersion', and 'virtuality'.Kresimir Purgar examines some of the topics fundamental to an understanding of the contemporary culture of images. The principal thesis of …
Topographies of ′Borderland Schengen′ – Documental Images of Undocumented Migration in European Borderlands
Av Jan Kühnemund, Jan Kühnemund
Häftad, 2021
621 kr
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Analysing recent documentary films dealing with undocumented migration at the Schengen Area's fringes and against the backdrop of what has been termed the `European refugee crisis', Jan Kühnemund investigates the interface between migration discourses and image discourses. As an analytical …
Artistic Transfer – Efficiency Through Unruly Thinking
Häftad, 2021
921 kr
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Non-conformist, non-linear, unruly thought and action have always led to great works of art, pathbreaking inventions and forward-looking perspectives. But how can this precious good find its way into our everyday working life to help us deal with social, ecological and economic challenges? The …
Border Wall Aesthetics – Artworks in Border Spaces
Inbunden, 2021
1221 kr
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30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we live in a time of globalization and free trade. Nevertheless, 70 new border walls have been built in this period – put together, they would cover the total circumference of the Earth. While governments offer manifold justifications for building these …
Portraits of Automated Facial Recognition – On Machinic Ways of Seeing the Face
Häftad, 2021
386 kr
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Automated facial recognition algorithms are increasingly intervening in society. This book offers a unique analysis of these algorithms from a critical visual culture studies perspective. The first part of this study examines the example of an early facial recognition algorithm called »eigenface« …
Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Pho – Contemporary Criticism, Curation, and Practice
Av Darcy White, Chris Goldie m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
617 kr
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Northern landscapes are both real places and representations, imagined spaces – notions which are bound to collide in landscape photography. In this book, photographers, academics, curators, and archivists from Germany, Finland, Scandinavia, the US, and the UK address urgent questions about …
Presence, Process, and the Pictorial Real – Perspectives on Painting
Av Damrau, Tillmann, Damrau Tillmann m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
621 kr
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Painting, according to recent findings, dates back more than seventy thousand years, and, across the millenia, it proved to be an extremely robust and versatile medium of human self-reflection. Today, painting is a medium almost exclusively confined to the artistic production of pictures. It has …
Let Them Haunt Us – How Contemporary Aesthetics Challenge Trauma as the Unrepresentable
Häftad, 2021
714 kr
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Let Them Haunt Us analyzes contemporary aesthetics engaged in trauma and critically challenges its canonical status as »unrepresentable«. Focusing on case studies in the aesthetic practices of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Omer Fast, Forensic Architecture, and Paul McCarthy this book …
