Author: Svetlana Boym File Type: pdf The word freedom is so overly usedand frequently abusedthat it is always in danger of becoming nothing but a cliche. In Another Freedom, Svetlana Boym offers us a refreshing new portrait of the age-old concept. Exploring the rich cross-cultural history of the idea of freedom, from its origins in ancient Greece to the present day, she argues that our attempts to imagine freedom should occupy the space of not only what is but also what if. Beginning with notions of sacrifice and the emergence of a public sphere for politics and art, Boym expands her account to include the relationships between freedom and liberation, modernity and terror, and political dissent and creative estrangement. While depicting a world of differences, she affirms lasting solidarities based on the commitment to the passionate thinking that reflections on freedom require. To do so, Boym assembles a remarkable cast of characters Aeschylus and Euripides, Kafka and Mandelstam, Arendt and Heidegger, and a virtual encounter between Dostoevsky and Marx on the streets of Paris. By offering a fresh look at the strange history of this idea, Another Freedom delivers a nuanced portrait of freedom, one whose repercussions will be felt well into the future. **

Author: Eugene Ostashevsky File Type: epub Whimsical and revolutionary poems and art by some of Russias foremost avant-garde writers and illustrators A boy wants a toy horse big enough to ride,but where can his father find it? Not inthe stores, which means its got to be builtfrom scratch. How? With the help of expertworkers, from the carpenter to the painter,working together as one. And now the bold boyis ready to ride off in defense of the future! Two trams, Click and Zam, are cousins. Clickgoes out for a day on the tracks and beforelong hes so tired he doesnt know where heis or how to get back. All he knows is hes gotto find Zam. Click is looking for Zam and Zamis looking for Click, and though for a while itseems like nobody knows where to find Click,good and faithful Zam is not to be deterred. Peters a car, Vascos a steamboat, andMikeys a plane. Theyre all running like madand going great guns until, whoops, theres abig old cow, just a plain old cow, standing inthe road. What then?The early years of the Soviet Union were agolden age for childrens literature. The FireHorse brings together three classics from theera in which some of Russias most celebratedpoets, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Osip Mandelstam,and Daniil Kharms, teamed up with some of itsfinest artists, Lidia Popova, Boris Ender, andVladimir Konashevich. Brilliantly translated bythe poet Eugene Ostashevsky, this is poetrythat is as whimsical and wonderful as it isrevolutionary. **

Author: Michael Kelly File Type: pdf For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art. Collectively, these complaints have generated an anti-aesthetic stance prevalent in the contemporary art world. Yet if we examine the motivations for these critiques, Michael Kelly argues, we find theorists and artists hungering for a new kind of aesthetics, one better calibrated to contemporary art and its moral and political demands.Following an analysis of the work of Stanley Cavell, Arthur Danto, Umberto Eco, Susan Sontag, and other philosophers of the 1960s who made aesthetics more responsive to contemporary art, Kelly considers Sontags aesthetics in greater detail. In On Photography (1977), she argues that a photograph of a person who is suffering only aestheticizes the suffering for the viewers pleasure, yet she insists in Regarding the Pain of Others (2003) that such a photograph can have a sustainable moral-political effect precisely because of its aesthetics. Kelly considers this dramatic change to be symptomatic of a cultural shift in our understanding of aesthetics, ethics, and politics. He discusses these issues in connection with Gerhard Richters and Doris Salcedos art, chosen because it is often identified with the anti-aesthetic, even though it is clearly aesthetic. Focusing first on Richters Baader-Meinhof series, Kelly concludes with Salcedos enactments of suffering caused by social injustice. Throughout A Hunger for Aesthetics, he reveals the place of critique in contemporary art, which, if we understand aesthetics as critique, confirms that it is integral to art. Meeting the demand for aesthetics voiced by many who participate in art, Kelly advocates for a critical aesthetics that confirms the limitless power of art.** For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art. Collectively, these complaints have generated an anti-aesthetic stance now prevalent in the contemporary art world. Yet if we examine the motivations for these critiques, Michael Kelly argues, we find theorists and artists hungering for a new kind of aesthetics, one better calibrated to contemporary art and its moral and political demands.Following an analysis of the work of Stanley Cavell, Arthur Danto, Umberto Eco, Susan Sontag, and other philosophers of the 1960s who made aesthetics more responsive to contemporary art, Kelly considers Sontags aesthetics in greater detail. In On Photography (1977), she argues that a photograph of a person suffering only aestheticizes the suffering for the viewers pleasure, yet she insists in Regarding the Pain of Others (2003) that such a photograph can have a sustainable moral-political effect precisely because of its aesthetics. Kelly considers this dramatic change to be symptomatic of a cultural shift in our understanding of aesthetics, ethics, and politics. He discusses these issues in connection with Gerhard Richters and Doris Salcedos art, chosen because theyre often identified with the anti-aesthetic though their work is clearly aesthetic. Focusing first on Richters Baader-Meinhof series, Kelly concludes with Salcedos enactments of suffering caused by social injustice. Throughout, he reveals the place of critique in contemporary art, which, if we understand aesthetics as critique, confirms that it is integral to art. Meeting the demand for aesthetics voiced by many who participate in art, Kelly advocates for a critical aesthetics that confirms the power of art.

Author: Leon Golub File Type: epub How did the Sun evolve, and what will it become? What is the origin of its light and heat? How does solar activity affect the atmospheric conditions that make life on Earth possible? These are the questions at the heart of solar physics, and at the core of this book. The Sun is the only star near enough to study in sufficient detail to provide rigorous tests of our theories and to help us understand the more distant and exotic objects throughout the cosmos. Having observed the Sun using both ground-based and spaceborne instruments, the authors bring their extensive personal experience to this story revealing what we have discovered about phenomena from eclipses to neutrinos, space weather, and global warming. This Second Edition is updated throughout, and features results from the current spacecraft that are aloft, especially NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory, for which one of the authors designed some the telescopes. **