MetaMaus
MetaMaus

Author: Art Spiegelman

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 2011-10-04

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 037542394X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER • Visually and emotionally rich, MetaMaus is as groundbreaking as the masterpiece whose creation it reveals. In the pages of MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer prize–winning Maus, the modern classic that has altered how we see literature, comics, and the Holocaust ever since it was first published twenty-five years ago. He probes the questions that Maus most often evokes—Why the Holocaust? Why mice? Why comics?—and gives us a new and essential work about the creative process. Compelling and intimate, MetaMaus is poised to become a classic in its own right.

Critics, Compilers, and Commentators
Critics, Compilers, and Commentators

Author: James E. G. Zetzel

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0195380517

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"To teach correct Latin and to explain the poets" were the two standard duties of Roman teachers. Not only was a command of literary Latin a prerequisite for political and social advancement, but a sense of Latin's history and importance contributed to the Romans' understanding of their own cultural identity. Put plainly, philology-the study of language and texts-was important at Rome. Critics, Compilers, and Commentators is the first comprehensive introduction to the history, forms, and texts of Roman philology. James Zetzel traces the changing role and status of Latin as revealed in the ways it was explained and taught by the Romans themselves. In addition, he provides a descriptive bibliography of hundreds of scholarly texts from antiquity, listing editions, translations, and secondary literature. Recovering a neglected but crucial area of Roman intellectual life, this book will be an essential resource for students of Roman literature and intellectual history, medievalists, and historians of education and language science.

Michelangelo’s Secret Anatomy Book
Michelangelo’s Secret Anatomy Book

Author: Sue Tatem

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-07-18

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 1483663256

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Michelangelo used images of human anatomy throughout his work. Nearly the entire body is there, albeit in pieces. Michelangelo began his career with extensive dissections of human corpses and ended his career talking about illustrating an anatomy book. He was hinting, as the anatomy was already there in his art. Perhaps at the time he made the art, he worried that it was too dangerous for his own person to reveal the secular anatomy theme. At the time, Renaissance scholars were studying human anatomy and trying to work out how the organs functioned. Many of them, like Leonardo da Vinci and Vesalius, self-published using their art. Herein are some of Michelangelo’s “self-published” contributions, human anatomy in his art and self-portraits, in the Sistine Chapel, paintings, and sculpture.

Treatise on Wisdom - 10
Treatise on Wisdom - 10

Author: Tomás Morales y Durán

Publisher: Libros de Verdad

Published: 2020-11-04

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 1076041493

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book addresses the fundamental question that humans have been concerned with throughout history: what are we and where do we come from and, more importantly, where are we going ... all these questions have to do with what is " reality". Tomás Morales, in this book, has discussed these basic questions from the perspective of what is real and what is made up in our own minds, which brings us to the last question: why are we here or what is the ultimate goal? in human life? Tomás Morales has approached this issue of what reality is from many aspects, including the spiritual and scientific basis used by others to explain human behavior. All these discussions make us wonder again who we are and where we are going ... this becomes a fundamental question in astronomy, now that we know, that the earth is just a kind of dust in the cosmos! Thomas has discussed this fundamental topic from his own life experiences and his deep understanding of the scientific and theological bases of human behavior, and I find this book to be a very deep look at human behavior!