Am Anfang stand ein Mord: der von Romulus an seinem Zwillingsbruder Remus. Und was dann folgte, waren Kriege und Bürgerkriege, Revolutionen, Siege, Invasionen und Zusammenbrüche. Simon Baker erzählt die gewaltsame und gewaltige Geschichte der ersten Supermacht der Welt. Dabei greift er sechs besonders wichtiger Wendepunkte heraus: von der Formierung der Republik über das Zeitalter der Caesaren bis hin zum Bürgerkrieg um die Ausbreitung des Christentums. Baker erzählt packend von den Menschen, die diese Geschichte gemacht haben, und erweckt zugleich den Sinn für die großen Grundfragen der Geschichte.
Von wissenschaftlichen Entdeckungen bis hin zu animistischen Vorstellungen, von der Furcht vor genetischen Veränderungen bis zu politischen Narrativen, vom Widerwillen zur Faszination - an Pflanzen macht sich eine unerschöpfliche Menge von Geschichten fest, in denen sich unsere intimsten Wünsche und Ängste offenbaren. Dieses Buch fragt nach den menschlichen Projektionen und Repräsentationen der Pflanzenwelt und es zeigt die Innerlichkeit, die Intelligenz und die Aus- drucksfähigkeiten von Pflanzen. Davon zeugen vor allem fotografische und filmische Bilder. Die Publikation zeichnet die visuelle Geschichte der Pflanzen nach, in der Kunst, Technologie und Wissenschaften von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis in die Gegenwart zusammenspielen. Ihre Erzähllogik entspricht dabei der eines Science-Fiction-Romans, da sie uns in einer verlässlichen, wiedererkennbaren Welt abholt, um uns dann allmählich in unsicherere Gegenden zu führen. Sie verfährt dabei nicht chronologisch, sondern orientiert sich an zwei grundlegenden Konzepten: Wissenschaft und Fiktion. Das Buch enthält Werke von über 30 Künstler·innen aus unterschied- lichen Zeiten und Orten.Die Ausstellung, kuratiert von Clothilde Morette und Victoria Aresheva, zeigt Werke u. a. von Anna Atkins, Karl Blossfeldt, Elspeth Diederix, Sam Falls, Joan Fontcuberta, Stephen Gill, Jochen Lempert, Angelica Mesiti, Agnieszka Polska, und Anais Tondeur.
The definitive monograph of the outrageous, unorthodox New York painter George Condo With his arresting, unsettling style, George Condo emerged from the dynamism of the New York art scene in the early 1980s, and he has been restlessly painting, drawing, and sculpting—bringing forms into the world in one way or another—ever since. Reliably inconsistent, Condo’s references and inspirations, in both style and content, ricochet deliriously around the canon of Western art history. Somewhere between his fake Tiepolos, reconfigured Manets, impossibly intricate paintings that seem to be abstract until you get up close, and his perpetually screaming cubist hags, Condo has invented, mastered, and expanded not just one painterly language but the whole lexicon. Working closely with the artist, writer and art historian Simon Baker has combined biographical, chronological, and thematic approaches to survey George Condo’s work and career to date. An introductory essay on Condo’s contradictory nature and a chapter exploring his early career are followed by three thematic chapters that look at the years from 1980s to the present, tracing Condo’s different systematic approaches to the language of painting, exploring his relationship to the concept of abstraction, and probing the darker side of his psychological iconography.
The work of Issei Suda (1940-2019) is distinct in contemporary avant-garde Japanese photography for its celebration of the beauty of theeveryday. His black-and-white pictures reflect on the apparent banality ofurban life, capturing "the little surprises usually ignored in our world": theshadow of a figure, the shapes of the street, the expressions on strangers' faces. Suda's practice revealed the tensions between old and new Japan,juxtaposing the ingrained visual traditions of Japanese culture with theprevailing western vocabulary of fashion, advertising, and leisure, as seenthrough his observant and tender lens.
This book is a new account of the surrealist movement in France between the two world wars. It examines the uses that surrealist artists and writers made of ideas and images associated with the French Revolution, describing a complex relationship between surrealism’s avant-garde revolt and its powerful sense of history and heritage. Focusing on both texts and images by key figures such as Louis Aragon, Georges Bataille, Jacques-André Boiffard, André Breton, Robert Desnos, Max Ernst, Max Morise, and Man Ray, this book situates surrealist material in the wider context of the literary and visual arts of the period through the theme of revolution. It raises important questions about the politics of representing French history, literary and political memorial spaces, monumental representations of the past and critical responses to them, imaginary portraiture and revolutionary spectatorship. The study shows that a full understanding of surrealism requires a detailed account of its attitude to revolution, and that understanding this surrealist concept of revolution means accounting for the complex historical imagination at its heart.
Esta é a história do maior império que até hoje o Mundo conheceu. Nela, Simon Baker conta a história da ascensão e da queda da primeira superpotência global, concentrando-se nos seis pontos de viragem fundamentais que deram forma à história de Roma. Sejam bem vindos a uma Roma que nunca antes viram: terrível e esplêndida, enérgica e sórdida. No centro desta apaixonante narrativa histórica estão as personalidades dinâmicas e complexas, mas também imperfeitas, dos mais poderosos senhores de Roma: homens como Pompeu, o Grande, Júlio César, Augusto, Nero e Constantino. Esta soberba narrativa, repleta de energia e de imaginação, é um inteligente resumo dos mais recentes estudos e trabalhos académicos e um relato maravilhosamente evocativo da Roma Antiga.
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wykłady Mikrobiologia obejmuje tematy takie jak: Świat drobnoustrojów
Systematyka Mikrobiologia Wzrost drobnoustrojów Metabolizm drobnoustrojów
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Chromalveolata, Amoebozoa Wirusy
