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О моих снах

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Внтри рассказы

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Рассказы

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In seinen 17 Malerbriefen geht Wilhelm Ostwald in leicht verständlicher Weise auf die Physikalischen (Optik) und Chemischen (Pigmente, Bindemittel) Seiten der malerischen Techniken ein. Er bespricht das Pastell, Aquarell, Guasch, Fresco, Tempera und die Ölmalerei; erklärt die Wirkung von Lichtbrechung und Reflektion einzelner Farben im Zusammenspiel mit den unterschiedlichen Bindemitteln und den verschiedenen Malgründen. Nebenbei gibt er auch noch einige Rezepte zur einfachen Herstellen eigener Farben preis. Abschließend wird noch die Physiologische Seite der Malerischen Techniken angesprochen, indem auf die Darstellung subjektiver Erscheinungen (Blendwirkungen, Nachbilder) eingegangen wird. (Wassermann)...

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This 1922 book by poet and sometime cultural critic Vachel Lindsay might have been the first to treat the then-new medium of moving pictures as an art form, one that was potentially as rich, complex, mysterious as far older ones, and whose physical and aesthetic properties were only starting to be understood. The highlight of the book might be “The Motion Picture of Fairy Splendor,” which examines the relationship between film storytelling, magic, myths, legends and bedtime stories. It’s discombobulating, in a good way, to read Lindsay’s attempts to grapple with what, precisely, cinema is. Being supposedly sophisticated 21st century people, we all feel as though we know what cinema is, and don’t need to have the basics explained to us, but this is really just vanity and ignorance talking. Bottom line: You haven’t really, seriously thought about movies — what they are, and what they can and cannot do, and become — until you’ve read this book. (Salon.com)...

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A one chapter novel. The events progress through 45 minutes only. Yet, it covers 30 years of the life of the female protagonist. There are 3 characters: a husband, a wife and her lover. All are going from the Lebanese town Bhemdoon towards Slayma (another Lebanese town), which they never reach. The time pressurizes each of them in different ways. But the three ways lead them all to a dramatic end of the conflict, which has been going on inside the speedy car, which in turn represents a new destructive element in the human’s life....

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Completely engrossed in the joy of driving a new car. He remembered when he grabbed her hand and took her to the window, and said: This car is for you. She couldn't hide her excitement. Yet, she always complains that the relationship turned into a living hell! Suddenly, feelings of sadness and frustration broke into his heart. After all that happiness and love she used to express, and he felt it in her eyes and in the details of her body! No doubt, there is an affair behind this change, although she denies it .. but who might be behind her madness?!...

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Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc (* 8. Februar 1880 in München; † 4. März 1916 bei Verdun, Frankreich) war ein deutscher Maler und neben Wassily Kandinsky Mitbegründer der Redaktionsgemeinschaft „Der Blaue Reiter“. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Maler des Expressionismus in Deutschland. Im März 1912 veröffentlichte Franz Marc im PAN (2. Jahrgang, No. 16) ein Artikel über die Neue Malerei , die als Kunstform des seelischen Ausdrucks dem Impressionismus (Darstellung der äußeren Erscheinung der Dinge) diametral gegenüberstand. Max Beckmann (* 12. Februar 1884 in Leipzig; † 27. Dezember 1950 in New York) kritisierte in einer Erwiderung im PAN die Ausführungen von Franz Marc scharf, rückte die Werke von Gaugin, Matisse oder Picasso in die Nähe des Kunstgewerbes und verglich diese mit Tapetenmustern und Plakaten. Auch warf er Gaugin vor, sich ohne Rücksicht auf religiöse und ethnologische Ursprünge des Formenrepertoires der Naturvölker zu bedienen. Im PAN (2. Jahrgang, No. 18) ergänzte daraufhin Franz Marc seinen ersten Ausführungen mit dem Artikel Die konstruktiven Ideen der neuen Malerei und in der darauf folgenden Ausgabe des PAN (2. Jah...

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The Two Paths is a collection of five lectures delivered in 1858 and 1859 by John Ruskin on art and architecture. This is how the author himself presents the book: The following addresses, though spoken at different times, are intentionally connected in subject; their aim being to set one or two main principles of art in simple light before the general student, and to indicate their practical bearing on modern design. The law which it has been my effort chiefly to illustrate is the dependence of all noble design, in any kind, on the sculpture or painting of Organic Form. The most famous of these, the fifth lecture, is commonly known simply as The Work of Iron (Summary by Leni)...

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Art

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Collection of work by the author

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Book of poetry

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ТАЛАНТЪТ Само него, таланта, получиха в дар - и как мощно го пожелаваха, и как вярно му се отдаваха, как на отшелници заради него ставаха и след най-страшен разгул, как го хранеха и как го пояха - с кръв и с късове плът, голяма плата за него плащаха, главите си на тепсия поднасяха, но него никога не изпуснаха, нито заровиха, защото – Божието -Богу. Дарът е за даряване....

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СЪДЪРЖАНИЕ ТАЛАНТЪТ 4 МИСИЯТА НА СВЕТИТЕ БРАТЯ 4 СВЕТИ КЛИМЕНТ 4 АЗБУЧНАТА МОЛИТВА 5 ЕПИСКОП УЛФИЛА 6 РЕЙМСКОТО ЕВАНГЕЛИЕ 7 ОТЕЦ ПАИСИЙ 7 ПЕТЪР ПАРЧЕВИЧ 8 АБАГАР 8 В ГЛАСА МУ - ГЛАСОВЕТЕ ВИ ЧУВАМЕ /НА БОРИС ХРИСТОВ/ 8 НА ЗАХАРИ ЗОГРАФСТВАТА 9 ЗАВЕРАТА ДАНОВ/НА ХРИСТО Г. ДАНОВ/ 11 ЗЪБЕРИТЕ, КУЛИТЕ НА ГОРАТА /НА СТОЮ ШИШКОВ/ 11 ПАСТИРЪТ /НА ГЕОРГИ ДАНЧОВ/ 12 ДУМИ ДО КУРШУМИТЕ /НА ЯВОРОВ/ 12 ХВЪРЧАЩИТЕ ЛИСТЧЕТА /НА ДИМЧО ДЕБЕЛЯНОВ/ 13 НА СПАСИТЕЛИТЕ НА БЪЛГАРСКИТЕ ЕВРЕИ 14 ПОСЛЕДНАТА ЛЮБОВ /НА МАРА БЕЛЧЕВА/ 14 ТЪМИТЕ /НА ПЕТКО СТАЙНОВ/ 15 ИЗДАТЕЛСТВОТО /НА СОФИЯ ЮРУКОВА/ 16 СЪЗИДАНИЯ, ИЗГНАНИЯ /НА КОНСТАНТИН ВЕЛИЧКОВ/ 17 КОКИЧЕТАТА НА ДЪЖДА /НА АТАНАС ДАЛЧЕВ/ 17 МАЙСТОРЛЪКА /НА ВЛАДИМИР ДИМИТРОВ – МАЙСТОРА/ 18 МУЗАТА НА ХРИСТО СТАНЧЕВ 20 СВИРАЧЪТ НА ЗМЕЙОВИТЕ СВАТБИ /НА ИВАН МИЛЕВ/ 21 ОКОТО /НА ГЕО МИЛЕВ/ 21 ЩЪРКЪТ ЩУР /НА КОНСТАНТИН ЩЪРКЕЛОВ/ 22 ГЕОРГИ УРУМОВ – КАЛИАКРАТА 23 РЪКАТА /НА ЗЛАТЮ БОЯДЖИЕВ/ 24 ЦАРСКИТЕ ПРЕСТОЛИ /НА ЦАНКО ЛАВРЕНОВ/ 25 СКИТАЛЧЕСТВАТА НА СИРАКА /СИРАК СКИТНИК/ 26 ЛЪКЪТ НА ЦИГУЛКАТА /НА СТОЙКА МИЛАНОВА/ 26 ВИА МАРГУТА /НА АСЕН И ИЛИЯ ПЕЙКОВИ/ 27 НА СТЕФАН И СИМЕОН ГРУЕВИ 28 ...

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This play, predicted, over 30 years ago, what has exactly happened in Iraq in the past decade. Most of the Lebanese publishers rejected publishing this play. In 1975, Alkhalil Press published it and sold more than 2000 copies in the first year. The play then staged in Beirut and Aleppo .. (and probably other countries.. as it’s hard to keep track of these things in the Arab world). The play retrieves an image of the false past, with all its bogus ideas and the present that hasn’t learnt any valuable thing from that illusion which has caused the destruction. ...

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The play was written in an intensive language that has further enriched the beautifully flowing dialogue between the characters. The protagonist is the witty magician, who challenges the Emperor in his weird and sudden decision to establish justice in his country, only because he is bored of being oppressor for so long....

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Escrito a quatro mãos (duas pessoas), em tempo real, à distância, não determinada. Com participações ocasionais de outras pessoas, não identificadas, assim como de automatismos informáticos. Todos os nomes, lugares e indicações de contacto, foram alterados, substituindo os reais....

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ROM: a tua vida é o que tu fizeres dela ROM: e podes fazer sexo, ou amor visitante_2: claro que sim ROM: qual preferes

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amor, antes, primeira, vista, livro, romance, romance real, ebook

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Vom Gyps und vom Stucco ist eine Anleitung zur Herstellung von Gypsfiguren, nebst benötigter Formen, sowie zur Imitation des Marmors mittels Gyps, nebst leicht begreiflich dargestellter Anweisung zur Verfertigung verschiedenfarbiger Gründe. Vom Gyps und vom Stucco ist der erste Teil des Buches Die Verfertigung der Gypsfiguren und des Gypmarmors, für Maurer und Tüncher sowie die Darstellung der Kupferfiguren durch Galvanoplastik erscheinen 1848 in Weimar im Verlag B. Fried. Voigt. Die zugehörigen Abbildungen (Figuren) befinden sich auf dem CD-Cover (im Format für eine transparente DVD-Hülle). (Zusammenfassung von Carl Schmied und Wassermann)...

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Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, is a collection of Walter Pater's previously-published essays on literature. The collection was well received by public and critic since its first edition, in 1889. The volume includes an appraisal of the poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, first printed in 1883, a few months after Rossetti's death; an essay on Thomas Browne, whose Baroque style Pater admired; and a discussion of Measure for Measure, one of Pater's most often reprinted pieces. The second edition, published in 1890, had a few modifications, and is the basis for all other editions of the book. (Summary by Leni)...

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Biographies of Raphael Santi, Murillo, Peter Paul Rubens, and Albrecht Durer. This is a wonderful tool for art study as there are references for further study, as well as ideas for language arts to incorporate into the study. Summary by Laura Caldwell...

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It was known to me his setting up in 1980’s of a new literary and artistic avant-garde movement that he called “paradoxism”, because I received some books and papers dealing with it in order to review them for the German journal “Zentralblatt fár Mathematik”. It was an inspired connection he made between literature/arts and science, philosophy....

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Paradoxism is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive used of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations....

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A long story written in the form of a scenario. It was set in the last period of Turkish Empire. The period in which appointing a state governor (Pasha) can easily come about by paying small amount of money to the Emperor’s men in Istanbul, without taking into consideration the characteristics and personality of the person who would they send to become ‘Pasha’ of Baghdad. The story contains harsh scenes about the life of Baghdad’s inhabitants, and heavily relies on the true history of the city of Baghdad, including its famous places and characters. The events move dramatically throughout the story with loads of scenes of violence and chaos that reflect the people's psyches, traditions and their sorrows and hopes. ...

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Ali and Zahra are sitting next to each other. Zahra: Would it be war? Ali : I do not know, my father says when the Sultan sent his army to Baghdad it must be war, inside or outside the city . Zahra : ( jokingly ) and what about you, are you going to join? Ali : ( proudly , but sarcastically ) I'll be an officer in the cavalry battalion , with the gun "pistol" of three inches. I will occupy this neighborhood in the first day.. and every evening I would hold all guards.., from midnight till morning. (They laugh) Zahra: See, the light of dawn began to appear there over the orchards. Ali: It is scary. Zahra: Why do you see it scary ? Ali: With the full dawn, the war may start. (Pause..) ..Zahra, I thought yesterday to speak with my mother ... Zahra: About what? Ali : So she can talk to my father about our marriage . ...

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The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853. Intending to prove how the architecture in Venice exemplified the principles he discussed in his earlier work, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, Ruskin examined the city in detail, describing for example over eighty churches. He discusses architecture of Venice's Byzantine, Gothic and Renaissance periods, and provides a general history of the city as well. The book aroused considerable interest in Victorian Britain and beyond. The chapter The Nature of Gothic (from volume 2) was admired by William Morris, who published it separately in an edition which is in itself an example of Gothic revival. It inspired Marcel Proust; the narrator of the Recherche visits Venice with his mother in a state of enthusiasm for Ruskin. The Stones of Venice is considered one of the most influential books of the 19th century. (Summary adapted from the Wikipedia by Leni)...

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The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, are about to rediscover Mayan civilization. Their guide, slashing through the rampant growth with his machete, leads them to a stone column, fourteen feet high, sculptured on the front with a portrait of a man, “solemn, stern and well fitted to excite terror,” covered on the sides with hieroglyphics, and with workmanship “equal to the finest monuments of the Egyptians.” Stephens records their discoveries and also his travels in Central America, while Catherwood directs his immense artistic talent to illustrating views of Mayan architecture. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatán was a best seller in its day and has been called an “Indiana Jones” saga by modern reviewers. (Summary by Sue Anderson)...

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Adventure, Art, History, Travel

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Explanations of Western European trends in men and women's fashion from prehistoric times to the Victorian Era. (Summary by Libby Gohn)

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This is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving. Irving lived at the Alhambra Palace while writing some of the material for his book. In 1828, Washington Irving traveled from Madrid, where he had been staying, to Granada, Spain. At first sight, he described it as a most picturesque and beautiful city, situated in one of the loveliest landscapes that I have ever seen. He immediately asked the then-governor of the historic Alhambra Palace as well as the archbishop of Granada for access to the palace, which was granted because of Irving's celebrity status. Aided by a 35-year old guide named Mateo Ximenes, Irving was inspired by his experience to write Tales of the Alhambra. Throughout his trip, he filled his notebooks and journals with descriptions and observations though he did not believe his writing would ever do it justice. He wrote, How unworthy is my scribbling of the place. A commemorative plaque in Spanish at the Alhambra reads, Washington Irving wrote his Tales of Alhambra in these rooms in 1829. The book was instrumental in reintroducing the Alhambra to Western audiences. (Summary by Wikipedi...

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Max Liebermann gehört zu den bedeutendsten Vertretern des deutschen Impressionismus und war Kopf der Berliner Secession. 1903 erfolgte eine erste Veröffentlichung als Professor der Akademie der Künste unter dem Titel Die Phantasie in der Malerei . Hierin lehnte er Gebilde, die nicht auf die Anschauung eines Wirklichen zurückgingen, kategorisch ab. Bei der Malerei sei das Sujet im Grunde gleichgültig, es komme auf „die den malerischen Mitteln am meisten adäquate Auffassung der Natur“ an. Damit lehnte er die junge Bewegung der abstrakten Kunst, insbesondere den Expressionismus, entschieden ab. Liebermanns Essay war keine Kampfschrift, es war sein persönliches Plädoyer für den Naturalismus und den Impressionismus. Im April 1916 erschien Liebermanns Essay Die Phantasie in der Malerei erstmals in Buchform. In der hinzugefügten Einleitung schrieb er: „Und waren je die ästhetischen Ansichten verwirrter als heut? Wo ein jüngerer Kunstrichter aus den Schützengräben Flanderns heraus schreibt, daß der Krieg nicht nur für die Existenz Deutschlands, sondern über den Sieg des Expressionismus entscheidet.“ (Zusammenfassung aus Wikipedia)...

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Wilhelm von Bode (* 10. Dezember 1845 in Calvörde; † 1. März 1929 in Berlin), gebürtig Arnold Wilhelm Bode, geadelt 1914, war ein bedeutender deutscher Kunsthistoriker und Museumsfachmann und gilt als der Mitbegründer des modernen Museumswesens. Bode war eine der zentralen Persönlichkeiten in der deutschen Kultur des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. 1904 gründete er das Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum (heute Bode-Museum) auf der Museumsinsel in Berlin, war dort Generaldirektor der staatlichen Kunstsammlungen und schuf grundlegende Arbeiten zur Geschichte der deutschen, niederländischen und italienischen Malerei und Plastik. Aufgrund seines entscheidenden Einflusses auf die Entwicklung der Berliner Kunstsammlungen wurde er auch „Museums-Condottiere“ und „Bismarck der Berliner Museen“ genannt. 1889 bis 1914 leitete er ebenfalls die Neugründung der im deutsch-französischen Krieg vernichteten städtischen Kunstsammlungen der Stadt Straßburg. In seinem Buch Fünfzig Jahre Museumsarbeit gibt Wilhelm von Bode einen Überblick von der Entwicklung der Sammlungen in Zeit 1872 - 1922, soweit er sie erweitert oder selbst ins Leben gerufen hat. Pers...

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Memoirs, Art