The Hammock: A Novel Based on the True Story of French Painter James Tissot
Title | The Hammock: A Novel Based on the True Story of French Painter James Tissot PDF eBook |
Author | Lucy Paquette |
Publisher | |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2020-10-03 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780578735221 |
THE HAMMOCK: A novel based on the true story of French painter James Tissot portrays ten remarkable years in the life of James Tissot (1836-1902), who rebuilt - and then lost - his reputation in London. THE HAMMOCK is a psychological portrait, exploring the forces that unwound the career of this complex man. Based on contemporary sources, the novel brings Tissot's world alive in a story of war, art, Society glamour, love, scandal, and tragedy.
Toilers of the Sea
Title | Toilers of the Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Hugo |
Publisher | Boston : Estes and Lauriat |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 1866 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Maroon Cosmopolitics
Title | Maroon Cosmopolitics PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Studies in Global Slavery |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2021-03-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9789004447202 |
Maroon Cosmopolitics: Personhood, Creativity and Incorporation offers diverse perspectives on the presence of the Guianese Maroon at the twentieth-first century, and on the contemporary lives of the descendants of those who fled from slavery in the Americas.
Impressionism, Fashion & Modernity
Title | Impressionism, Fashion & Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Art, French |
ISBN |
"This volume is the first to explore fashion as a critical aspect of modernity, one that paralleled and many times converged with the development of Impressionism, starting in the 1860s and continuing through the next two decades, when fashion attracted the foremost writers and artists of the day. Although fashionable subjects have been depicted throughout history, for many artists and writers, including Charles Baudelaire, Stéphanie, Mallarmé, Êmile Zola, Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, fashion became integral to the search for new literary and visual expression."--Book jacket.
The Philosophy of Mystery
Title | The Philosophy of Mystery PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Cooper Dendy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 1841 |
Genre | Apparitions |
ISBN |
Hand-book of the Law of Torts
Title | Hand-book of the Law of Torts PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin Ames Jaggard |
Publisher | |
Pages | 700 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | Torts |
ISBN |
Exhaustion
Title | Exhaustion PDF eBook |
Author | Anna K. Schaffner |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2016-06-21 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0231538855 |
Today our fatigue feels chronic; our anxieties, amplified. Proliferating technologies command our attention. Many people complain of burnout, and economic instability and the threat of ecological catastrophe fill us with dread. We look to the past, imagining life to have once been simpler and slower, but extreme mental and physical stress is not a modern syndrome. Beginning in classical antiquity, this book demonstrates how exhaustion has always been with us and helps us evaluate more critically the narratives we tell ourselves about the phenomenon. Medical, cultural, literary, and biographical sources have cast exhaustion as a biochemical imbalance, a somatic ailment, a viral disease, and a spiritual failing. It has been linked to loss, the alignment of the planets, a perverse desire for death, and social and economic disruption. Pathologized, demonized, sexualized, and even weaponized, exhaustion unites the mind with the body and society in such a way that we attach larger questions of agency, willpower, and well-being to its symptoms. Mapping these political, ideological, and creative currents across centuries of human development, Exhaustion finds in our struggle to overcome weariness a more significant effort to master ourselves.