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December 9, 2024

Images of Power and the Power of Images Control, Ownership, and Public Space

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Free Download Judith Kapferer, "Images of Power and the Power of Images: Control, Ownership, and Public Space "
English | ISBN: 0857455141 | 2012 | 164 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Real places and events are constructed and used to symbolize abstract formulations of power and authority in politics, corporate practice, the arts, religion, and community. By analyzing the aesthetics of public space in contexts both mundane and remarkable, the contributors examine the social relationship between public and private activities that impart meaning to groups of people beyond their individual or local circumstances. From a range of perspectives―anthropological, sociological, and socio-cultural―the contributors discuss road-making in Peru, mass housing in Britain, an unsettling traveling exhibition, and an art fair in London; we explore the meaning of walls in Jerusalem, a Zen garden in Japan, and religious themes in Europe and India. Literally and figuratively, these situations influence the ways in which ordinary people interpret their everyday worlds. By deconstructing the taken for- granted definitions of social value (democracy, equality, individualism, fortune), the authors reveal the ideological role of imagery and imagination in a globalized political context.

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December 9, 2024

Generating Creative Images With DALL-E 3 Create accurate images with effective prompting for real-world applications [Repost]

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Free Download Generating Creative Images With DALL-E 3: Create accurate images with effective prompting for real-world applications by Holly Picano
English | March 29, 2024 | ISBN: 183508771X | True EPUB/PDF | 230 pages | 40.7/84.2 MB
Learn to craft fine art prints, NFTs, and captivating covers for books and magazines with Dall-E 3 and ChatGPT

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December 8, 2024

The Mage’s Images Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory, Volume 1 Prologue Bio-Bibliography & Introduction

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Free Download Peter J Forshaw, "The Mage’s Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory, Volume 1: Prologue: Bio-Bibliography & Introduction "
English | ISBN: 900468168X | 2024 | 496 pages | PDF | 114 MB
This is the 1st volume in a 4-volume work entitled The Mage’s Images. The work provides the first in-depth examination of the life and works of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605), ‘one of the great Hermetic philosophers’, whose Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1595/1609) has been described as ‘one of the most important books in the whole literature of theosophical alchemy and the occult sciences’. Khunrath is best known for his novel combination of ‘scripture and picture’ in the complex engravings in his Amphitheatre. In this richly illustrated monograph, Forshaw analyses occult symbolism, with previously unpublished material, offering insight into Khunrath’s insistence on the necessary combination of alchemy, magic, and cabala in ‘Oratory and Laboratory’.

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December 8, 2024

Images of Occupation in Dutch Film Memory, Myth, and the Cultural Legacy of War

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Free Download Wendy Burke, "Images of Occupation in Dutch Film: Memory, Myth, and the Cultural Legacy of War "
English | ISBN: 9089648542 | 2017 | 262 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II left a lasting mark on Dutch memory and culture. This book is the first to explore depictions of that period in films made a generation later, between 1962 and 1986. As Dutch public opinion towards the war altered over the postwar decades, the historical trajectory of Dutch recovery and reconstruction-political, economic, and, most complicated of all, psychological-came to be revealed, often unconsciously, in the films of the period.

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November 30, 2024

Images of Dutchness Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliché, 1800-1914

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Free Download Sarah Dellmann, "Images of Dutchness: Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliché, 1800-1914 "
English | ISBN: 9462983003 | 2018 | 424 pages | PDF | 22 MB
Why do early films present the Netherlands as a country full of canals and windmills, where people wear traditional costumes and wooden shoes, while industries and modern urban life are all but absent? Images of Dutchness investigates the roots of this visual repertoire from diverse sources, ranging from magazines to tourist brochures, from anthropological treatises to advertising trade cards, stereoscopic photographs, picture postcards, magic lantern slide sets and films of early cinema. This richly illustrated book provides an in-depth study of the fascinating corpus of popular visual media and their written comments that are studied for the first time. Through the combined analysis of words and images, the author identifies not only what has been considered Ÿtypically DutchŒ in the long nineteenth century, but also provides new insights into the logic and emergence of national clichés in the Western world.

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