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The recurrent actuality of the baroque is a book about visual artthe text follows a comparative method of study based upon recent research in the fields of art theory and aestheticsoxfam books & music islington there has been an increasing interest over the past 40 years in providing new interpretations of the baroque and the fruit of this interest has been the revelation of intersecting baroque aesthetics in the art and culture of our timethe problems of passage between visual forms and composition of the images are analysed in terms of simulation, rationality, space, the wildness of artistic intentionality and the folding of matter and meaningapart from the hypotheses of walter benjamin and the epistemology of michel foucault, the book introduces and expands the most important theories about the actual baroque as they have been devised and developed by mario perniola, christine buci-glucksmann and gilles deleuzeif the text is discreetly haunted by leibniz, ancient rome and the poetry of baudelaire, its direction of thinking is totally devoted to the understanding of visual art from bernini and velázquez to louise bourgeois, mona hatoum and orlanspecial attention is paid to visual artists in denmark dealing with "baroque universals" from the s up to the present day see oxfam website for delivery information read moreit deals with the broken continuity in time from the historical baroque to the contemporary one
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The authors consider a range of analytical issues including lexical polysemy, semantic change, the relationship between lexical and grammatical semantics, and the concepts of semantic molecules and templatesthey focus on complex and culturally important words in a range of languages that includes english, russian, polish, french, warlpiri and malaythe book opens with a review of the neglected status of lexical semantics in linguisticssome are basic like men, women, and children or abstract nouns like trauma and violence; others describe qualities such as hot, hard, and rough, emotions like happiness and sadness, or feelings like paintheir fascinating book is for everyone interested in the relations between meaning, culture, ideas, and wordssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop preston in a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning, cliff goddard and anna wierzbicka examine key expressions from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and socialthis fascinating book is for everyone interested in the relations between meaning, culture, ideas, and wordsthey ground their discussions in real examples from different cultures and draw on work ranging from leibniz, locke, and bentham, to popular works such as autobiographies and memoirs, and the dalai lama on happiness
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