Heavenly Bodies

Author : Paul Koudounaris
Publisher : Thames and Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500251959
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavenly Bodies written by Paul Koudounaris and published by Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing visual history of the veneration in European churches and monasteries of bejeweled and decorated skeletons Death has never looked so beautiful. The fully articulated skeleton of a female saint, dressed in an intricate costume of silk brocade and gold lace, withered fingers glittering with colorful rubies, emeralds, and pearls—this is only one of the specially photographed relics featured in Heavenly Bodies. In 1578 news came of the discovery in Rome of a labyrinth of underground tombs, which were thought to hold the remains of thousands of early Christian martyrs. Skeletons of these supposed saints were subsequently sent to Catholic churches and religious houses in German-speaking Europe to replace holy relics that had been destroyed in the wake of the Protestant Reformation. The skeletons, known as “the catacomb saints,” were carefully reassembled, richly dressed in fantastic costumes, wigs, crowns, jewels, and armor, and posed in elaborate displays inside churches and shrines as reminders to the faithful of the heavenly treasures that awaited them after death. Paul Koudounaris gained unprecedented access to religious institutions to reveal these fascinating historical artifacts. Hidden for over a century as Western attitudes toward both the worship of holy relics and death itself changed, some of these ornamented skeletons appear in publication here for the first time.

Author : Regina Gurung
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1645465861
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavenly Bodies & Human Things written by Regina Gurung and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heavenly Bodies and Human Things is a collection of poems that delve into living on the dark side. Unapologetically exploring the calm and chaos of the night, echoing the traumas of sexual assault, unrequited love, hope for an ex-lover, and a quest for home in a foreign land, the poems echo the intricacies of human emotions with brutal honesty.

Author : Sigurdson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802871666
Total Pages : 683 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavenly Bodies written by Sigurdson and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does Christianity scorn our bodies? Friedrich Nietzsche thought so - and many others since him have thought the same. But, says Ola Sigurdson, Christianity understood properly in fact affirms human embodiment.Presenting his constructive contributions to theology in relation to both historical and contemporary conceptions of the body, Sigurdson

Author : Walter Hohmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Attainability of Heavenly Bodies written by Walter Hohmann and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work (originally published in 1925) contributes to recognition of the feasibility of space travel. Treated are problems associated with leaving the earth, return to earth, free-space flight, circumnavigation of celestial objects, and landing on other celestial objects.

Author : David Vance
Publisher : Bruno Gmuender GMBH
ISBN 13 : 9783867870191
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavenly Bodies written by David Vance and published by Bruno Gmuender GMBH. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Vance seeks to make his models appear like Greek statuesand succeeds with brilliance. Every picture is a piece of timeless art that you want to blow up and hang on your wall. More of the incredibly successful Timeless (2006) with one essential difference: Heavenly Bodies is shot in full color!

Author : Andrew Bolton
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396452
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavenly Bodies written by Andrew Bolton and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since antiquity, religious beliefs and practices have inspired many of the world’s greatest works of art. These masterworks have, in turn, fueled the imaginations of fashion designers in the 20th and 21st centuries, yielding some of the most innovative creations in the history of fashion. Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination explores fashion’s complex and often controversial relationship with Catholicism by examining the role of spirituality and religion in contemporary culture. This two-volume publication connects significant religious art and artifacts to their sartorial expressions. One volume features images of rarely seen objects from the Vatican —ecclesiastical garments and accessories—while the other focuses on fashions by designers such as Cristobal Balenciaga, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Madame Grès, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, Jeanne Lanvin, Claire McCardell, Thierry Mugler, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Gianni Versace. Essays by art historians and leading religious authorities provide perspective on how dress manifests—or subverts—Catholic values and ideology.

Author : Cynthia Huntington
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809330644
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavenly Bodies written by Cynthia Huntington and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist 2012 In this blistering collection of lyric poems, Cynthia Huntington gives an intimate view of the sexual revolution and rebellion in a time before the rise of feminism. Heavenly Bodies is a testament to the duality of sex, the twin seductiveness and horror of drug addiction, and the social, political, and personal dramas of America in the 1960s. From the sweetness of purloined blackberries to the bitter taste of pills, the ginger perfume of the Hawaiian Islands to the scream of the winter wind, Huntington’s fearless and candid poems offer a feast for the senses that is at once mystical and earthy, cynical and surreal. Echoing throughout are some of the most famous—and infamous—voices of the times: Joan Baez and Charles Manson, Frank Zappa and Betty Friedan. Jinns and aliens beckon while cities burn and revolutionaries thunder for change. At the center is the semiautobiographical Suzy Creamcheese, sensual and rebellious, both almighty and powerless in her sexuality. Achingly tender yet brutally honest, Heavenly Bodies is an unflinching reflection on the most personal of physical and emotional journeys. Univeristy Press Books for Public and Secondary Schools 2013 edition Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry, 2012

Author : Paul Koudounaris
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500251789
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Empire of Death written by Paul Koudounaris and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bone fetishism in the ancient world to painted skulls in Austria and Bavaria: an unusual and compelling work of cultural history. It is sometimes said that death is the last taboo, but it was not always so. For centuries, religious establishments constructed decorated ossuaries and charnel houses that stand as masterpieces of art created from human bone. These unique structures have been pushed into the footnotes of history; they were part of a dialogue with death that is now silent. The sites in this specially photographed and brilliantly original study range from the Monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Palermo, where the living would visit mummified or skeletal remains and lovingly dress them; to the Paris catacombs; to fantastic bone-encrusted creations in Austria, Cambodia, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Italy, Peru, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, and elsewhere. Paul Koudounaris photographed more than seventy sites for this book. He analyzes the role of these remarkable memorials within the cultures that created them, as well as the mythology and folklore that developed around them, and skillfully traces a remarkable human endeavor.

Author : Cherie Soria
Publisher : Book Publishing Company (TN)
ISBN 13 : 9781570671562
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Angel Foods written by Cherie Soria and published by Book Publishing Company (TN). This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This heavenly book is a cornucopia of exciting and adventuresome foos. It includes a wide variety of cooked and uncooked low-fat recipes with an international flavor, tempting bits of food for thought, and even a how-to section on kitchen gardening. Filled with illustrations of angels.

Author : Jokha Alharthi
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1948226944
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celestial Bodies written by Jokha Alharthi and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize and national bestseller is “an innovative reimagining of the family saga . . . Celestial Bodies is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets" (The New York Times Book Review). In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated to Canada. These three women and their families, their losses and loves, unspool beautifully against a backdrop of a rapidly changing Oman, a country evolving from a traditional, slave-owning society into its complex present. Through the sisters, we glimpse a society in all its degrees, from the very poorest of the local slave families to those making money through the advent of new wealth. The first novel originally written in Arabic to ever win the Man Booker International Prize, and the first book by a female Omani author to be translated into English, Celestial Bodies marks the arrival in the United States of a major international writer.