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Год издания 2002

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In this album Ilya Kabakov takes up the position of a fictitious artist who has become conscious of the shortcomings of people–s everyday ability to see and recognize normalcy. Artists, especially those of the Russian avant-garde, have always, by means of art, attempted to appropriate divine (in)sight, that is, a simultaneous perception of all moments in time. The artist of this album has made divine insight, or the fourth dimension, his own. He thus sees the same things we do but, contrary to others, in the right perspective. Nonetheless this perception cannot be successfully transmitted or shown. Though, by means of intuition, the inexpressible could be made visible or the unutterable in art made to resound, this would only be an attempt to translate the unknown into familiar forms or images, i.e., something the viewer is used to. Meanwhile the inexpressible is not felt and, in the end, the familiar goes unrecognized. The artist of this album, on the other hand, has just such a feeling for the unknown, the non-portrayable and the inexpressible. Multilingual edition: German, English and Russian.

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Expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's "Self-Portrait as Soldier" (1915) is one of the best-known self-portraits of the modern classical period. With its sharp foreground focus on the uniformed artist's bloody amputated hand, the painting has long been interpreted as a vehement protest against war, specifically World War I and Kirchner's participation in it. Peter Springer's innovative study presents a convincing alternative reading of Kirchner's epochal work. Springer sees in it, not a harsh condemnation of militarism, but a marked ambivalence in the artist's attitude toward war. This new reading of the painting grows out of Springer's assessment of its imagery in relation to patronage, gender relations, and national identity - and particularly to propaganda and satire. Using Kirchner's letters and other documentation, much of it only recently available, Springer reconstructs the years of Kirchner's military service. He juxtaposes a range of visual contexts that include traditions of self-portraiture, depictions of prosthetic devices, and propaganda accounts of German soldiers hacking off the hands of Belgian and French children. He then considers Kirchner in relation to Albrecht Durer and to theoretical arguments on the relative dominance of hand and mind in the pictorial arts that invoke the image of "Raphael without hands." Nearly 100 illustrations superbly complement the text.

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Questo testo precipita il lettore nelle atmosfere futuribili e stranianti della Neu-Berlin del 1969, metropoli interamente ricoperta da un Grande Vetro che la isola dal resto del mondo, ancora pulsante degli incubi tecnologici e sociali nati dagli orrori dell'ultima guerra: la Grande Guerra. Ma il lettore, chiamato a immergersi in questo mondo alternativo (dove i piani temporali s'incrociano e si risolvono come nella migliore fantascienza americana), farà presto a rintracciare in questo "futuro di un passato che non è stato" le schegge taglienti del nostro mondo e del nostro oggi, e a ritrovare fra gli oggetti d'arte divenuti indizi una straordinaria costruzione narrativa.

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Проверочные тесты к учебнику Lifelines Elementary, совместное издание издательств РЕЛОД и Oxford University Press.

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For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers; Introduction by John Updike; illustrations.

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One of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned eighteen months in an Arctic labor camp, expulsion from his native country, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Such were one man's wages. Here, collected for the first time, are all the poems he published in English, from his earliest collaborations with Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur, Howard Moss, and Anthony Hecht to the moving farewell poems he wrote near the end of his life. With nearly two hundred poems, several of them never before published in book form, this will be the essential volume of Brodsky's work.

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The Grammar Time Teacher's Book includes: - An introduction to the characters, sections and activity types in the Student's Book; - Useful tips, suggestions and further teaching ideas; - The key to the exercises in the Student's Book; - 22 oral activities, one for each unit in the Student's Book; - Photocopiable quizzes with key.

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Join this classic teddy bear for a Halloween celebration. There are so many exciting things to do on Halloween-wearing a costume, having a party, and going trick-or-treating. Kids love all the festivity of Halloween, and this pumpkin-shaped board book is just right as they anticipate the holiday. Join Corduroy and his friends as they play pin-the-tail-on-the-black-cat, and decorate pumpkins. Maybe best of all are the delicious, creepy cupcakes. Happy Halloween, Corduroy! 2018 is Corduroy's 50th anniversary, making this the perfect time for a Corduroy adventure!

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There's a house inside my Mummy Where my little brother grows, or maybe it's my little sister No-one really knows. A gentle and tender story of a little boy waiting for his little brother or sister to arrive. Told with humour and a simple rhyming text, this is the perfect picture book for all expectant brothers and sisters!

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Horrid Henry encounters the babysitter from hell, traumatizes his parents on a car journey, goes trick or treating at Hallowe'en, and invades Moody Margaret's Secret Club. Four stories, as brilliant and inventive as ever, to add to 'the funniest series ever written about sibling rivalry and what it's like to be a young child' (Independent on Sunday).

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A stinkbomb becomes a deadly weapon in Horrid Henry's long-running war with Moody Margaret; he uses all his guile to win the school reading competition, only to find the longed-for prize is not what he expected; he goes for a sleepover and retreats in horror when he finds that other people's houses aren't always as nice as his own; and he has the joy of seeing Miss Battle-Axe ticked off by the Head when he knows it was all his fault. In short, another vintage HORRID HENRY title!