U.S. Industrial Building and European Modern Architecture.
One of the strengths of the book is Banham’s ability to connect the use of concrete to the unique environmental, cultural, and technological factors that shaped America during the mid-20th century. He demonstrates how concrete was not only a practical building material, but also a symbol of modernity and progress, and a reflection of aspirations for the future.
The Last of the Nuba is a book of photographs by Leni Riefenstahl published in 1973. It depicts the life and culture of the Nuba people, an ethnic group living in Sudan. The book was an international bestseller and was praised for its artistic quality, but also criticized for its primitivist and exoticizing portrayal of the Nuba.
Francois Boucher (1703-1770) was a prominent French painter and decorative artist who worked during the Rococo period, known for his playful and sensuous depictions of courtly life, mythological scenes, and pastoral idylls. Boucher was particularly well-known for his...
In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object,...
In the last part of our tale, we find Guy Fawkes, the brave Yorkshire man and experienced miner and sapper soldier, being questioned by the King, having been interrupted in his work of blowing up Parliament. The others are rushing north to the Midlands and preparing...
At the Spring Dawn Angelina Weld Grimké I watched the dawn come,    Watched the spring dawn come.And the red sun shouldered his way up    Through the grey, through the blue,Through the lilac mists.The quiet of it! The goodness of it!    And one bird awoke, sang,...
Elephants and birds of beauty and a gold fish. Gold fish or a superstition. They always bring bad luck. He had them and …read more
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not?...
They would always hold service two or three times a day, using these texts and what they remembered of the sermon connected with them. Read More
Seagoon:
You skindrell of scoundrels, that’s matricide!
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