Visions of Paradise
Author: Marina Schinz
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 1985-09-15
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780941434669
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Marina Schinz
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 1985-09-15
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780941434669
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Geographic Society (U. S.)
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781426203381
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard Heinberg
Publisher: Quest Books
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780835607162
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the universal myth of Paradise across cultures, uncovering its personal message and social consequences. Companion video.
Author: Gabrielle Van Zuylen
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780500300558
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The garden is an expression of our ability to make nature into art. This pocket-sized book of the New Horizons series examines the evolution of the garden over more than 2000 years, exploring some of the most beautiful gardens in the world, from antiquity, medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, classical France, 18th-century England and the modern day.
Author: Jack Lane
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015-10-17
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1561647748
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From early Spanish myths and Seminole and African-American folktales to the latest descriptions of modern Miami, this anthology includes writings by such authors as Ralph Waldo Emerson, John James Audubon, Zora Neale Hurston, Zane Grey, Wallace Stevens, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Jose Yglesias, and Harry Crews.
Author: Rebecca Parker Brienen
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9053569472
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Visions of Savage Paradise is the first major book-length study of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Albert Eckhout to be published in nearly seventy years. Eckhout, who was court painter to the colonial governor of Dutch Brazil, created life-size paintings of Amerindians, Africans, and Brazilians of mixed race in support of the governor’s project to document the people and natural history of the colony. In this study, Rebecca Parker Brienen provides a detailed analysis of Eckhout’s works, framing them with discussions of both their colonial context and contemporary artistic practices in the Dutch republic.
Author: Robert Stephen Haskett
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780806135861
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cuernavaca, often called the “Mexican Paradise” or “Land of Eternal Spring,” has a deep, rich history. Few visitors to this modern resort city near Mexico City would guess from its Spanish architecture and landmarks that it was governed by its Tlalhuican residents until the early nineteenth century. Formerly called Cuauhnahuac, the city was renamed by the Spanish in the sixteenth century when Hernando Cortés built his stone palacio on its main square and thrust Cuernavaca into the colonial age. In Visions of Paradise, Robert Haskett presents a history of Cuernavaca, basing his account on an important body of late-seventeenth-century historical records known as primordial titles, written by still unknown members of the Native population. Until comparatively recently, these indigenous-language documents have been dismissed as “false” or “forged” land records. Haskett, however, uses these Nahuatl texts to present a colorful portrait of how the Tlalhuicas of Cuernavaca and its environs made intellectual sense of their place in the colonial scheme, conceived of their relationship to the sacred worlds of both their native religion and Christianity, and defined their own history. Surveying the local history of Cuernavaca from precontact observations by the Aztecs through postclassic times to the present, with a concentration on early colonial times, Haskett finds that the Native authors of the primordial titles crafted a celebratory history proclaiming themselves to be an enduringly autonomous, essentially unconquered people who triumphed over the rigors of the Spanish colonial system.
Author: J. Verheul
Publisher: Virago Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book explores the fundamental and multifaceted dialectic between utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares within American culture. The utopian mindset in constructing and imagining different futures for society is reflected in a wide range of differential cultural texts and narratives such as novels, short stories, political discourses and treatises, journalism and scholarly and intellectual debates. Often these combine social criticism and satire, political rhetoric, religious belief systems, and biblical metaphors. Approaching the topic from various angles and throughout different historical periods, the essays in this volume collectively show how fascinating and rewarding the exploration of this utopian discourse of for an understanding of American culture.
Author: Alessandro Scafi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014-02-15
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 022610608X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Where is paradise? It always seems to be elsewhere, inaccessible, outside of time. Either it existed yesterday or it will return tomorrow; it may be just around the corner, on a remote island, beyond the sea. Across a wide range of cultures, paradise is located in the distant past, in a longed-for future, in remote places or within each of us. In particular, people everywhere in the world share some kind of nostalgia for an innocence experienced at the beginning of history. For two millennia, learned Christians have wondered where on earth the primal paradise could have been located. Where was the idyllic Garden of Eden that is described in the Bible? In the Far East? In equatorial Africa? In Mesopotamia? Under the sea? Where were Adam and Eve created in their unspoiled perfection? Maps of Paradise charts the diverse ways in which scholars and mapmakers from the eighth to the twenty-first century rose to the challenge of identifying the location of paradise on a map, despite the certain knowledge that it was beyond human reach. Over one hundred illustrations celebrate this history of a paradox: the mapping of the unmappable. It is also a mirror to the universal dream of perfection and happiness, and the yearning to discover heaven on earth.
Author: Howard Finster
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A backwoods Baptist preacher inspired by the Gospel, visitations from the dead, and visions of extraterrestrial life, the Reverend Howard Finster is an unlikely candidate for art celebrity. But in this collection of 150 of the artist's paintings, fans can make the pilgrimage to Finster's Paradise Garden in Pennville, Georgia. “120 illustrations in full color.