The Land of the Hunger Artists
The Land of the Hunger Artists

Author: Agustí Nieto-Galan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-11-23

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1009379593

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From the 1880s to the 1920s, hunger artists - professional fasters - lived on the fringes of public spectacle and academic experiment. Agustí Nieto-Galan presents the history of this phenomenon as popular urban spectacle and subject of scientific study, showing how hunger artists acted as mediators between the human and the social body. Doctors, journalists, impresarios , artists, and others used them to reinforce their different philosophical views, scientific schools, political ideologies, cultural values, and professional interests. The hunger artists generated heated debates on objectivity and medical pluralism, and fierce struggles over authority, recognition, and prestige. Set on the fringes of the freak show culture of the nineteenth century and the scientific study of physiology laboratories, Nieto-Galan explores the story of the public exhibition of hunger, emaciated bodies, and their enormous impact on the public sphere of their time.

Holy Men and Hunger Artists
Holy Men and Hunger Artists

Author: Eliezer Diamond

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0195137507

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The existence of ascetic elements within rabbinic Judaism has generally been either overlooked or actually denied. Diamond shows that rabbinic asceticism does indeed exist. This asceticism is mainly secondary, rather than primary, in that the rabbis place no value on self-denial in and of itself.

A Hunger Artist
A Hunger Artist

Author: Franz Kafka

Publisher: Sheba Blake Publishing Corp.

Published: 2022-09-23

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 1222378256

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In the days when hunger could be cultivated and practiced as an art form, the individuals who practiced it were often put on show for all to see. One man who was so devout in his pursuit of hunger pushed against the boundaries set by the circus that housed him and strived to go longer than forty days without food. As interest in his art began to fade, he pushed the boundaries even further. In this short story about one man's plight to prove his worth, Franz Kafka illustrates the themes of self-hatred, dedication, and spiritual yearning. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to the forefront the amazing works of long dead and truly talented authors.

The Hunger Artists
The Hunger Artists

Author: Maud Ellmann

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13:

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How has the act of eating become a metaphor for compliance, starvation the language of protest? How does the rejection of food become the rejection of intolerable social constraints? The author unravels the answers to these questions and more as she brilliantly explores the relationship between bodily hunger and verbal expression.

A Hunger for Aesthetics
A Hunger for Aesthetics

Author: Michael Kelly

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0231152922

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This title examines the motivations for the critiques that have been applied to the idea of aesthetics and argues that theorists and artists now hunger for a new kind of aesthetics, one better calibrated to contemporary art and its moral and political demands. The book shows how, for decades, aesthetic critiques have often concerned art's treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art. Collectively, these critiques have generated an anti-aesthetic stance that is now prevalent in the contemporary art world.

Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories
Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories

Author: Franz Kafka

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2018-09-18

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0393635635

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Winner of the 2018 Silver Reuben Award for Graphic Novels A Boston Globe and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year In Kafkaesque, Peter Kuper combines stunning artistic technique with shrewd political and social commentary for a mesmerizing interpretation of fourteen iconic Franz Kafka short stories.

Sea and land
Sea and land

Author: J.W. Buel

Publisher: Рипол Классик

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 807

ISBN-13: 5882290163

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An illustrated history of the wonderful and curious things of nature existing before and since the deluge being a natural history of the sea illustrated by stirring adventures with whales also a natural history of land-creatures.

Hungry
Hungry

Author: H. A. Swain

Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1250061849

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For fans of The Giver, a futuristic thriller with a diverse cast. In Thalia's world, there is no more food and no need for food, as everyone takes medication to ward off hunger. Her parents both work for the company that developed the drugs society consumes to quell any food cravings, and they live a life of privilege as a result. When Thalia meets a boy who is part of an underground movement to bring food back, she realizes that there is an entire world outside her own. She also starts to feel hunger, and so does the boy. Are the meds no longer working? Together, they set out to find the only thing that will quell their hunger: real food. It's a journey that will change everything Thalia thought she knew. But can a "privy" like her ever truly be part of a revolution?