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Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series
John Berger
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Non Fiction.......2007-09-03
Ways of Seeing is about looking at art, if you get right down to it. However, it is about looking at it from a political point of view, or a cultural point of view, or a gender point of view. He takes a few different actual art pieces and writes about each of them, taking this sort of thing into account.
Dreck.......2006-11-10
Dreck, dreck, dreck, dreck,dreck, dreck, dreck, dreck, dreck, dreck,more dreck, more dreck, more dreck, more dreck, more dreck, more dreck, more dreck, and more dreck, and more dreck, and more dreck . . . you get the idea?
Worth Contemplating.......2006-11-10
This is a hot little book well worth contemplating if you're aspiring to become a serious artist. For the student, novice artist, seasoned practioner or curious artlover, your money will be well spent to have this on your shelf.
Really a bunch of claptrap.......2006-08-17
After reading this iconic work, I felt as if I had been ripped off with only myself to blame. I should have known better. The book is SOOOOOOO 70's! I'll give it two stars simply because it's really so out-of-date it's almost campy.
Okay, early oil paintings depicted the upper classes with their "stuff" and the "stuff" of the upper classes. So? It's pretty elemental to figure out that those painters had to make a living and they painted for those who were able to pay them. Duh. Okay, women were depicted in oil paintings as possessions and, in turn, viewed themselves in the light of the value the possessor placed on them. Deep and enlightening, huh?
It gets worse. We get a healthy dose of the "capitalism is bad" philosophy and the hammering that advertising is meant to keep the masses enslaved to capitalism. Nineteen seventies style collectivism is so boring. Of course, Berger offers no alternative other than some passing reference to his vague definition of democracy.
Maybe it's just so out-dated, it's no longer relevant. Maybe it played better to the 1970's. Maybe we've heard this claptrap for so many years, it's no longer novel or meaningful. And, maybe, it's because we've matured enough to realize criticism without any offering of alternatives is simply disingenuous and superficial.
Not as out of date as some would have you believe.......2006-07-31
Several other reviewers say this book is out of date. In some ways, yes. But some of the most important points of this book still seem valid.
Specifically:
1.) Art is an artificial market whose value is talked up by art historians and gallery owners.
2.) The depiction of the female nude in art has always contained a exploitative voyeuristic overtone.
3.) The measure of man's power lies in who they can have power over.
4.) The measure of woman's power lies in who can have power over them.
It's small surprise his opinions were buried by academia and the art establishment. These were never popular opinions, but taken in the context of art history and the art market they provide a great counterpoint.
Even now, this book is a great way to demystify the art market for the art student.
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Adrian Hill's What Shall We Draw?
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What Shall We Draw?
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Sidney Sime: Master of the Mysterious
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The Power Classes VIII: Explorer
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The explorer is a gifted adventurer, dedicated to breaking into lost tombs, avoiding traps and finding fortune where others fear to tread. More than any other class, the explorer is truly self-sufficient, able to rely on her own abilities to see her through danger from any source.
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Cyberstyle is a new, indispensable reference for today's office professionals and business writers. It's specifically developed for, and targeted to, everyone who works in technologically advanced offices and who must work with keyboarding, the internet, E-mail, and E-commerce on a daily basis.Cyberstyle answers specific questions about punctuation, grammar, capitalization, number and word usage, forms of address, abbreviations, formatting and document transmission related to the preparation of all forms of business documents including letters, memos, reports, resumes, manuscripts, faxes, e-mail and more. It presents information clearly and precisely, focusing on the actual needs of business and office professionals. Completely up-to-date, there are specific chapters on E-mail, the Internet, computers, and on-line reference and research sites.To make accessing Cyberstyle's information simple and fast, readers will find Solution Finers, a two-color format, example headings, and a glossary. Cyberstyle is, without doubt, the one office reference every worker needs close at hand, everyday.
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Covering the key achievements of the Muslim intellectual and cultural tradition in history, mysticism, philosophy, and poetry, this unique collection shows the positive role played by Sufi thinkers between 700 and 1300.
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The works and ideas of classical antiquity had an enormous influence on Islam, not only in its philosophy, science and medicine but also in its religious disciplines.
The Classical Heritage in Islam presents a collection of texts which reveal the extent and character of Muslim acquaintance with Hellenistic civilization and demonstrate the ways that Greek heritage influenced later Muslim thought.
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Abu Ya'qub Al-Sijistani: Intellectual Missionary (Ismaili Heritage)
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Paul E. Walker looks at this important missionary of the tenth century from a fresh perspective. Though long neglected by historians of Islamic philosophy, al-Sijistani's recently recovered writings establish him both as a philosopher and as an exponent of the intellectual understanding of Islam. The old problem of the meaning of science and religion and their interaction as reflected in the thought of an Ismaili author from the early Islamic period is now interpreted within the framework that brings together ideas and obscure doctrines surviving only piecemeal from medieval Arabic books and treatises. This book provides a coherent overview of al-Sijistani's contributions as a thinker.
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Excellent.......2007-01-15
Excellent book. Gives a good overview Sijistani's neo-platonic contstruct and his rational approach to solving the paradox of tawhid.
Al Sijistani, Neoplatonism and Ismaili doctrine.......2001-09-13
Al Sijistani was a leading visionary during the Ismaili Fatimid period. This period was marked by a strong scientific spirit, a rational approach to the universe and a markedly humanistic view of mankind's key place in it. Al Sijistani was among the group of thinkers who coopted both rationalism and the philosophical sciences and answered that religious revelation reflected not merely a separate realm, but the whole of knowledge. Hence reason or the intellect was accepted as a valid source of Islamic understanding. Al Sijistani in fact argues that intellect can never be overconsumed, but thrives on being spent. Learning in a variety of ways improves the soul, giving it strength by adding to its share of intellect.
In reviewing this book,clearly the most interesting aspect of al Sijistani's thought is his combination of Neoplatonic ideas and Ismaili doctrine. This book is in contrast with others on the Ismaili movement that tend to focus on the mystical (batin) aspects of the faith. I have read this book several times and really enjoyed reading it because of its rational approach to the Ismaili faith. I was quite surprised by the sound,readily defensible, theoretical foundation that he was able to build for central and critical issues of Ismaili doctrine.
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Poetry and Mysticism in Islam: The Heritage of Rumi (Levi Della Vida Symposia)
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Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi was one of the greatest poets and mystics of the Islamic world. He was born in Balkh (Korasan) in 1207 AD and died in Konya (Turkey) in 1273 AD. This book is an examination of his spiritual and literary heritage. As Annemarie Schimmel, the recipient of the Eleventh Giorgio Della Vida Award in Islamic Studies, has written, no other mystic and poet from the Islamic world is as well known in the West as Rumi, and she, more than any Western scholar, is his most celebrated and eloquent interpreter. The scholars whom Professor Schimmel has invited to share in her tribute have all added new dimensions to an understanding of Rumi and to his impact on the Islamic world.
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Massive Stars in Starbursts (Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium Series)
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This book reviews the importance of massive stars in several areas of astrophysics. New models, along with high quality observations, have improved our understanding of the formation, structure, atmosphere, and evolution of these massive objects. The book examines the interplay between the astrophysics of massive stars and their location in extragalactic starburst regions.
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