Idiosyncratic

Karl-Heinz Ahlheim | LibraryThing auf Deutsch

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<span id="tr809820063" class="trans">Karl-Heinz Ahlheim, Autor von (Duden) Schülerduden, Die Physik, bei LibraryThing</span>

Sentimental Moods: The Photographs of Ted Williams | Departures

https://www.departures.com/art-culture/ted-williams-photographs-of-jazz-legends

Shortly before Christmas 2014, while curating an exhibition of classic photography in Los Angeles, I received an e-mail out of the blue, tipping me off to the contents of a storage facility in West Hollywood. Inside, I was told, was a trove of 100,000…

Mapping the Godzone: A Primer on New Zealand Literature and Culture - William John Schafer - Google Books

http://books.google.de/books?id=ocmfzq5v8zUC&pg=PA108&dq=%22Tempsky,+Gustav%22&lr=&cd=27#v=onepage&q=%22Tempsky,%20Gustav%22&f=f

William Schafer read, and dreamed, about New Zealand before his first visit in 1995. Mapping the Godzone grew out of that visit and his attempts, as an American, to focus his impressions of New Zealand's literary culture and relate its mental and moral…

Rembrandt's Bankruptcy: The Artist, His Patrons, and the Art Market in ... - Paul Crenshaw, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn - Google Books

https://books.google.de/books?hl=de&id=vat8JSgqjVUC&dq=Nicolaes+Eliaszoon+Pickenoy+breestraat&q=Nicolaes+Eliaszoon+Pickenoy+bree

This study, first published in 2006, examines the causes, circumstances, and effects of the 1656 bankruptcy of Rembrandt van Rijn. Following a highly successful early career, Rembrandt's idiosyncratic art and lifestyle came to dominate his reputation. His…

Minoan Realities: Approaches to Images, Architecture, and Society in the ... - Diamantis Panagiotopoulos - Google Books

https://books.google.de/books?id=UNc_bM6pT3EC&pg=PA171&lpg=PA171&dq=Schematic+Klimataria-Manares&source=bl&ots=96pbJKKe33&sig=tX

What is the social role of images and architecture in a pre-modern society? How were they used to create adequate environments for specific profane and ritual activities? In which ways did they interact with each other? These and other crucial issues on…

Tracks Across Continents, Paths Through History: The Economic Dynamics of ... - Douglas J. Puffert - Google Books

https://books.google.de/books?id=FzAqtQ2mPJQC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=%22Compromise+gauge%22&source=bl&ots=5nJjvq6Yml&sig=dv6Of8Qr

A standard track gauge—the distance between the two rails—enables connecting railway lines to exchange traffic. But despite the benefits of standardization, early North American railways used six different gauges extensively, and even today breaks of gauge…

Music - Europeana Collections

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Explore recordings, sheet music, instruments and music-related collections from European audio-visual archives, libraries and museums.

Migration - Europeana Collections

https://www.europeana.eu/portal/de/collections/migration

This collection brings together digitised material on the theme of migration to, from and within Europe, sourced from cultural heritage institutions and members of the public. The collection has grown in size and scope throughout 2018 as new content is…

Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881 - Joseph Frank - Google Books

https://books.google.de/books?id=mQqonU-pweEC

This fifth and final volume of Joseph Frank's justly celebrated literary and cultural biography of Dostoevsky renders with a rare intelligence and grace the last decade of the writer's life, the years in which he wrote A Raw Youth, Diary of a Writer, and…

Call Me Kuchu - Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall at LA Film Festival 2012 - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDsxVCK3qF0

Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall sit with Ondi Timoner and Vladimir Radovanov to give a unique behind the scenes look to their latest proj...