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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “arielle saiber”
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  • Measured Words

    Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy

    by Arielle Saiber ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Measured Words explores the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. In this captivating and generously illustrated work, Arielle Saiber studies the relationship between number, shape, and the written word in the works of four exceptional thinkers of the time: Leon Battista Alberti, Luca Pacioli, Niccolò Tartaglia, and Giambattista ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language

    by Arielle Saiber ...
    Series series Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
    Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language brings to the fore a sixteenth-century philosopher's role in early modern Europe as a bridge between science and literature, or more specifically, between the spatial paradigm of geometry and that of language. Arielle Saiber examines how, to invite what Bruno believed to be an infinite universe-its qualities and vicissitudes-into the world of language, ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • The Age of Insight

    The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present

    by Eric Kandel ...
    A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind and brain relate to art.At the turn of the century, Vienna was the cultural capital of Europe. Artists and scientists ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Da Vinci Notebooks

    by Leonardo Da Vinci ...
    Series series Sacred World
    The Da Vinci Notebooks is a collection of writings, sketches, and notes by the famous artist and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci. The notebooks are a window into the mind of one of history's greatest thinkers and innovators. They cover a wide range of topics, including art, science, engineering, and architecture. They include drawings of flying machines, war machines, and detailed studies of the human ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dark Water

    Flood and Redemption in Florence--The City of Masterpieces

    by Robert Clark ...
    Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces, Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement.Now Robert Clark explores the Italian city’s greatest flood and its aftermath through the voices of its witnesses. Two American artists wade through the devastated beauty; a ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Dance, Desire, and Anxiety in Early Twentieth-Century French Theater

    Playing Identities

    by Charles R. Batson ...
    The 1909 arrival of Serge de Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris marked the beginning of some two decades of collaboration among littérateurs, painters, musicians, and choreographers, many not native to France. Charles Batson's original and nuanced exploration of several of these collaborations integral to the formation of modernism and avant-gardist aesthetics reinscribes performances of the ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Pudentiana Deacon

    Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Three, Volume 4

    by Frans Blom ...
    Series Book 3 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Series I
    Delicious entertainments of the soule is a translation of a collection of conferences which Francis de Sales held for the Order of the Sisters of the Visitation. This order took the form of an institute for young girls and widows who wanted to enter a convent but lacked the strength or the inclination for the physical austerities of the great orders. It was for these sisters that Francis held ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England

    by Meg Twycross, Sarah Carpenter ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    Drawing on broad research, this study explores the different social and theatrical masking activities in England during the Middle Ages and the early 16th century. The authors present a coherent explanation of the many functions of masking, emphasizing the important links among festive practice, specialized ceremonial, and drama. They elucidate the intellectual, moral and social contexts for ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi

    by Giorgio Vasari ...
    46 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 1 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: "Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shock and Awe

    American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

    by William V. Spanos ...
    Inspired by the foreign policy entanglements of recent years, William V. Spanos offers a dramatic interpretation of Twain’s classic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, providing a fresh assessment of American exceptionalism and the place of a global America in the American imaginary. Spanos insists that Twain identifies with his protagonist, particularly in his defining use of the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Fictions of Youth

    Pier Paolo Pasolini, Adolescence, Fascisms

    by Simona Bondavalli ...
    Fictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s prose, poetry, and cinema. Simona Bondavalli’s book explores the multiple ways in which youth, real and imagined, shaped Pasolini’s poetics and critical positions and shows how Pasolini’s works became the basis for representations of contemporary young ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators

    by Sneja Gunew ...
    Series series Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture
    ‘Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators’ argues the need to move beyond the monolingual paradigm within Anglophone literary studies. Using Lyotard’s concept of post as the future anterior (back to the future), this book sets up a concept of post-multiculturalism salvaging the elements within multiculturalism that have been forgotten in its contemporary denigration. Gunew attaches ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus