The Shock of the New
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Published: 2001
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This provocative series on modern art picks up at the threshold of the 20th century. Includes interviews with, among others, Matisse, Picasso, and Dali.
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The Shock of the New
Author: Ian Dunlop
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Each of the seven exhibitions covered had an extraordinary impact on its times and on the course of modern art.
The Shock Doctrine
Author: Naomi Klein
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2010-04-01
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 1429919485
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.
The Shock of Recognition
Author: Lewis Pyenson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-10-12
Total Pages: 666
ISBN-13: 9004325735
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The Shock of Recognition, Lewis Pyenson examines art and science together to shed new light on common motifs in Picasso’s and Einstein’s education, in European material culture, and in the intellectual life of one nation-state, Argentina.
The Shock of the Old
Author: David Edgerton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-08-29
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0199832617
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this new history, David Edgerton invites us to rethink how technology is used. For instance, horses contributed more to Nazi conquests than the V2. In influence, IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad matches Bill Gates. And corrugated iron is not dead yet.
Shock of Gray
Author: Ted Fishman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-10-02
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1416551034
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In "Shock of Gray," Ted Fishman explains the astouding economic and political changes we face as our world suddenly grows old.
The Shock of the New
Author: Chad Udell
Publisher: ASTD
Published: 2019-04-07
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781947308800
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As the pace of technological change accelerates, how do talent development professionals plan for the future? How do they recognize what is important and what is a fad? In Shock of the New: The Challenge and Promise of Emerging Learning Technologies, Chad Udell and Gary Woodill answer these questions and offer a practical framework to guide the technological decisions that can affect you and your organization.
Peggy Guggenheim
Author: Francine Prose
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015-09-29
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 0300216521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of twentieth-century America’s most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters as Jackson Pollock and Man Ray. In her time, there was no stronger advocate for the groundbreaking and the avant-garde. Her midtown gallery was the acknowledged center of the postwar New York art scene, and her museum on the Grand Canal in Venice remains one of the world’s great collections of modern art. Yet as renowned as she was for the art and artists she so tirelessly championed, Guggenheim was equally famous for her unconventional personal life, and for her ironic, playful desire to shock. Acclaimed best-selling author Francine Prose offers a singular reading of Guggenheim’s life that will enthrall enthusiasts of twentieth-century art, as well as anyone interested in American and European culture and the interrelationships between them. The lively and insightful narrative follows Guggenheim through virtually every aspect of her extraordinary life, from her unique collecting habits and paradigm-changing discoveries, to her celebrity friendships, failed marriages, and scandalous affairs, and Prose delivers a colorful portrait of a defiantly uncompromising woman who maintained a powerful upper hand in a male-dominated world. Prose also explores the ways in which Guggenheim’s image was filtered through the lens of insidious antisemitism.
A Shock
Author: Keith Ridgway
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2021-07-05
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0811230864
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ever since Keith Ridgway published his landmark cult novel Hawthorn & Child, his ardent fans have yearned for more Finally, Ridgway gives us A Shock, his thrilling and unsparing, slippery and shockingly good new novel. Formed as a rondel of interlocking stories with a clutch of more or less loosely connected repeating characters, it’s at once deracinated yet potent with place, druggy yet frighteningly shot through with reality. His people appear, disappear, and reappear. They’re on the fringes of London, clinging to sanity or solvency or a story by their fingernails, consumed by emotions and anxieties in fuzzily understood situations. A deft, high-wire act, full of imprecise yet sharp dialog as well as witchy sleights of hand reminiscent of Muriel Spark, A Shock delivers a knockout punch of an ending. Perhaps Ridgway’s most breathtaking quality is his scintillating stealthiness: you can never quite put your finger on how he casts his spell—he delivers the shock of a master jewel thief (already far-off and scot-free) stealing your watch: when at some point you look down at your wrist, all you see is that in more than one way you don’t know what time it is…
New Worlds, Ancient Texts
Author: Anthony Grafton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1995-03-15
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0674254120
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so far afield. What Anthony Grafton recounts is a war of ideas fought by mariners, scientists, publishers, and rulers over a period of 150 years. In colorful vignettes, published debates, and copious illustrations, we see these men and their contemporaries trying to make sense of their discoveries as they sometimes confirm, sometimes contest, and finally displace traditional notions of the world beyond Europe.
