Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder
Title Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder PDF eBook
Author Lawrence Weschler
Publisher Vintage
Pages 193
Release 2013-03-20
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0307833984

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Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the first museums and compels readers to examine the imaginative origins of both art and science.

A Miracle, a Universe

A Miracle, a Universe
Title A Miracle, a Universe PDF eBook
Author Lawrence Weschler
Publisher Pantheon
Pages 384
Release 2013-01-02
Genre History
ISBN 0307819035

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In recent years as countries around the globe have begun to move from dictatorial to more democratic systems of governance, no more traumatic (or dramatic) ethical problem has arisen than what to do with the previous regime’s torturers. In most cases, the security and military apparatuses, responsible for the overwhelming majority of human-rights abuses, still retain tremendous power—and will not abide any settling of accounts. Now, New Yorker staff reporter Lawrence Weschler tells the extraordinary story of how, against tremendous odds, torture victims and human-rights activists in two Latin American countries—Brazil and Uruguay—tried to bring their torturers to justice and to rehabilitate their whole societies from harrowing periods of silence and repression. In this first of his two accounts, he tells how a tiny group of torture victims, clerics, and human-rights activists in Brazil launched an extremely risky, nonviolent plot to get even with the former torturers by publishing an indisputable account of their savage system of repression—indisputable because it is drawn from the regime’s own files. In the second, set in Uruguay, he tells how a more broadly-based movement attempted to bring to light the dark history of a military regime engaged in more political incarceration per capita than any other on earth at that time. In this illuminating and beautifully written book (portions of which appeared in five issues of The New Yorker), Weschler examines what a small number of individuals can do to retrieve history and truth from the hands of torturers.

Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
Title Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees PDF eBook
Author Lawrence Weschler
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 330
Release 2008
Genre Art
ISBN 0520256093

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"Robert Irwin, perhaps the most influential of the California artists, moved from his beginnings in abstract expressionism through successive shifts in style and sensibility, into a new aesthetic territory altogether, one where philosophical concepts of perception and the world interact. Weschler has charted the journey with exceptional clarity and cogency. He has also, in the process, provided what seems to me the best running history of postwar West Coast art that I have yet seen."—Calvin Tomkins

Everything that Rises

Everything that Rises
Title Everything that Rises PDF eBook
Author Lawrence Weschler
Publisher McSweeney's
Pages 256
Release 2006
Genre Art
ISBN

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From a cuneiform tablet to a Chicago prison, from the depths of the cosmos to the text on our T-shirts, Lawrence Weschler finds strange connections wherever he looks. The farther one travels (through geography, through art, through science, through time), the more everything seems to converge -- at least, it does if you're looking through Weschler's giddy, brilliant eyes. Weschler combines his keen insights into art, his years of experience as a chronicler of the fall of Communism, and his triumphs and failures as the father of a teenage girl into a series of essays sure to illuminate, educate, and astound.

Vermeer in Bosnia

Vermeer in Bosnia
Title Vermeer in Bosnia PDF eBook
Author Lawrence Weschler
Publisher Vintage
Pages 430
Release 2005-07-12
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0679777407

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There are writers who specialize in the strange and others whose genius is to find the strangeness in the familiar, the unexpected meanings in stories we thought we knew. Of that second category, Lawrence Weschler is the master. Witness the pieces in this splendidly disorienting collection, spanning twenty years of his career and the full range of his concerns–which is to say, practically everything. Only Lawrence Weschler could reveal the connections between the twentieth century’s Yugoslav wars and the equally violent Holland in which Vermeer created his luminously serene paintings. In his profile of Roman Polanski, Weschler traces the filmmaker’s symbolic negotiations with his nightmarish childhood during the Holocaust. Here, too, are meditations on artists Ed Kienholz and David Hockney, on the author’s grandfather and daughter, and on the light and earthquakes of his native Los Angeles. Haunting, elegant, and intoxicating, Vermeer in Bosnia awakens awe and wonder at the world around us.

Calamities of Exile

Calamities of Exile
Title Calamities of Exile PDF eBook
Author Lawrence Weschler
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 220
Release 1999-04
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9780226893921

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"These three essays, these novellas--call them what you will--are extraordinary tales about excruciating modern themes: individual responsibility, national identity, and courage. In each case, the reader has to ask himself: What would I have done? 3 halftones. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
Title Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder PDF eBook
Author Lawrence Weschler
Publisher Pantheon
Pages 163
Release 1995
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780679439981

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The author takes readers on a tour of his personal museum of natural oddities and optical illusions as he explores the imaginative origins of art and science