The Pleasure in Drawing (Nancy Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

The Pleasure in Drawing (Nancy Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

Originally written for an exhibition Jean-Luc Nancy curated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon in 2007, this book addresses the medium of drawing in light of the question of form--of form in its formation, as a formative force, as a birth to form. In this sense, drawing opens less toward its

On Touchinga Jean-Luc Nancy (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

This book, written out of Derrida's long-standing friendship with Jean-Luc Nancy, examines the central place accorded to the sense of touch in the Western philosophical

Sexistence (Nancy Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

Sex, more than just a part of our experience, troubles our conceptions of existence. Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, ancient and modern, philosophical and literary, Jean-Luc Nancy explores and upholds the form-giving thrust of the drive. Nancy reminds us that we are more comfortable with

Portrait (Nancy Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

Portraits, this book suggests, unlock the paradoxes of subjectivity. Nancy shows how the portrait, far from conveying a sitter's self-sameness, is suspended between proximity and distance, likeness and strangeness, representation and presentation, the faithful and the forceful. A portrait can

Being Singular Plural (Nancy Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, rethinks community and the very idea of the social. Nancy's fundamental argument is that being is always 'being with,' that 'I' is not prior to 'we,' that existence is essentially

Privy Portrait (Benoziglio Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

The narrator in Jean-Luc Benoziglio's Privy Portrait has fallen on hard times. His wife and young daughter have abandoned him, he has no work or prospects, he's blind in one eye, and he must move into a horribly tiny apartment with his only possession: a twenty-five-volume encyclopedia. His

Corpus (Nancy Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

How have we thought 'the body'? How can we think it anew? The body of mortal creatures, the body politic, the body of letters and of laws, the 'mystical body of Christ'-all these (and others) are incorporated in the word Corpus, the title and topic of Jean-Luc Nancy's

Space, Politics and Aesthetics (Dike Mustafa)(Paperback)

Focusing on the works of Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Ranci�re, Space, Politics and Aesthetics reveals the aesthetic premises that underlie their political thinking, and demonstrates how their conceptualisations of politics depend on the construction and apprehension of worlds

God, Justice, Love, Beauty: Four Little Dialogues (Nancy Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

The four talks collected here transcribe lectures delivered to an audience of children between the ages of ten and fourteen, under the auspices of the 'little dialogues' series at the Montreuil's center for the dramatic arts. Modeled on Walter Benjamin's 'Aufkl rung f r Kinder' radio talks, this

Raw Drawing: Spontaneous and Carefree Drawing (Bonaccorsi Alessandro)(Paperback)

Set aside the rules and rediscover the simple pleasures of drawing with this guide to creating spontaneous and carefree art. Raw Drawing is not an art class, with rules and regulations that beginners must follow to succeed. Instead, it's a unique, practical, and nonjudgmental resource that frees

The Reader on the 6.27 (Didierlaurent Jean-Paul)(Paperback)

Working at a book pulping factory in a job he hates, Guylain Vignolles has but one pleasure in life. Sitting on the 6.27 train each day, Guylain recites aloud from pages he has saved from the jaws of his monstrous pulping machine. It's this release of words into the world that starts our hero on a

9 Heads - A Guide to Drawing Fashion by Nancy Riegelman (Riegelman Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

Jean-Luc Bertini: Amricaines Solitudes (Bertini Jean-Luc)(Pevná vazba)

A photographic study of the varied character of solitude in AmericaOver the course of a decade, French photographer Jean-Luc Bertini traveled the length and breadth of the United States, creating portraits of the unique circumstance of isolation fostered by the country's geographic circumstances

Potent Pleasures (James Eloisa)(Paperback / softback)

The first book in the Pleasures

The Pony Express (Leturgie Jean)(Paperback)

Luke gets to help set-up the legendary Pony Express! In 1860, getting from Missouri to California on the West Coast took a long, long time - not to mention a certain degree of courage. Annoyed at the delay in communication, the federal government offers a grant to whoever can solve the problem and

Inoperative Community, 76 (Nancy Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

This work examines community as an idea that has dominated modern thought and traces its relation to concepts of experience, discourse and the

The Six Lamps: Secret Dzogchen Instructions of the Bn Tradition (Achard Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

Esteemed Tibetologist Jean-Luc Achard contextualizes and provides a clear translation of highly secret precepts on Dzogchen practice unlike anything published. The Instructions on the Six Lamps is a profound and important work from the B n Dzogchen tradition and is one of the root texts of the

Small Pleasures - Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 (Chambers Clare)(Paperback / softback)

1957, the suburbs of South East London. Jean Swinney is a journalist on a local paper, trapped in a life of duty and disappointment from which there is no likelihood of escape.When a young woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth, it is

In the Self's Place: The Approach of Saint Augustine (Marion Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

In the Self's Place is a phenomenological reading of Augustine that engages with modern and postmodern analyses of Augustinian

God Without Being: Hors-Texte, Second Edition (Marion Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

Jean-Luc Marion is one of the world's foremost philosophers of religion as well as one of the leading Catholic thinkers of modern times. In God Without Being, Marion challenges a fundamental premise of traditional philosophy, theology, and metaphysics: that God, before all else, must be. Taking a

Drawing Animals (Swinburne Lucy)(Paperback)

A new, updated guide to drawing a wide variety of wild and domestic animals by master artist Lucy Swinburne. Brand-new, updated edition of the bestselling book by popular artist, Lucy Swinburne. Whether you want to capture a beloved pet cat or a magnificent wolf on paper, this book provides a

The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard (Goodman David a.)(Paperback)

THE PERFECT IN-UNIVERSE BOOK FOR STAR TREK FANS, DETAILING THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF THE ORIGINAL CAPTAIN JEAN LUC PICARD! THE FOLLOW-UP FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY TO TITAN'S BESTSELLING AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JAMES T. KIRK! The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard tells the story of one of the most celebrated

Enchanting Pleasures (James Eloisa)(Paperback / softback)

The third book in the Pleasures Trilogy - a sumptuous tale of passion and misadventure in Regency

Pleasure (D'Annunzio Gabriele)(Paperback)

Putting the sex back in Pleasure, here is the first new English translation since the Victorian era of the great Italian masterpiece of sensuality and seduction Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Andrea Sperelli lives his life as a work of art, seeking beauty and flouting the rules of morality and