Journal of Design History

A new issue of Journal of Design History 
has been made available:
 
June 2009; Vol. 22, No. 2

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New Book

Black Light: Myth and Meaning in Modern Painting

Painters have always drawn on the classics to find myths and symbols which will answer to contemporary problems. In Black Light, Francis Gooding examines four modern paintings in the light of ancient themes, and illuminates the permanence and power of the mythic imagination.

• Opening a new dialogue between modern and ancient, Black Light explores living myth in modern paintings
• Examines four paintings from the Modern tradition in the light of episodes from antique mythology
• As the myths illuminate the paintings, and paintings throw light on the myths, Gooding shows that themes from ancient sources can be seen to resonate in modern representations
• Traces unexpected thematic correspondences across two millennia of literature and art, and finds that wherever meaning is sought through interpretation, myth becomes an indispensable tool of analysis
• In the work of classical authors such as Sophocles and Ovid, Gooding finds mythic elements which are also present in paintings by Manet, Matisse, Richards and Warhol

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New York International Independent Film & Video Festival

The New York International Independent Film & Video Festival: Call For Entries
 
The New York International Independent Film & Video Festival is currently accepting entries (feature, shorts, documentaries, music videos, etc.)  for LA, July 2009 and NYC, Fall 2009.

 

**All NYIIFVF films are screened in REAL movie theatres in NYC and LA!

Several NYIIFVF award-winning feature and short films will be showcased and represented at the 2009 Cannes Film Market/Marche du Film.**
 
If you want to submit a film, please visit:
www.nyfilmvideo.com

 

 

 

 

The New York International Art Festival: Call For Entries

 
The New York International Art Festival is accepting entries for LA, July 2009 and NYC, Fall 2009.

If you want to exhibit, please visit:
www.nyartfestival.com

 

ITN Distribution 
 

ITN Distribution has an office at RIVIERA Stand C11 at the Cannes Film Market/Marche du Film.
 
ITN Distribution is looking for new films (feature length and shorts) to represent at upcoming film & TV markets. If you are seeking distribution and want your film to be considered, please mail a DVD copy of your film for review to:

ITN Distribution
Atten: Acquisitions
505 E. Windmill Lane Suite 1B-102
Las Vegas, Nevada 89123

www.itndistribution.com

 
Independent Film Quarterly (IFQ) magazine: Official magazine of Cannes

 

IFQ Magazine is one of the official magazines of the Cannes Film Festival & Cannes Film Market/Marche du Film. IFQ will be available at Cannes' press point locations: Riviera, Palais, hotels along the Croisette, etc.

 

 
IFQ's 2009 Cannes Edition features an exclusive cover interview with Gedeon Burkhard (Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: Cannes Premiere) and interviews with Rutger Hauer, Leelee Sobieski, Adrien Brody, Rosemary Edelman (Frankie D: Cannes Market Debut), Stewart Peterson (How the Game is Played: Lessons Learned in the Game of Life: Cannes Market Debut), Filmmakers Gianmarco Galassi & Francesco Paladino and Artists Kiro Urdin and Fang Lee Ling.

 

 

www.ifqmagazine.com

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Mind

A new issue of Mind 
has been made available:
 
April 2009; Vol. 118, No. 470

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Good News

As our friends may know, Esmail's blog has opened (read unfiltered!) again.

Congratulations!

Image by lsala66 via Flickr

My Friend's Blog

Here is the newest post by my dear friend about his blog:
"Yes my blog is extensively filtered by the majority of ISPs in Iran.

The screen says to send an email to filter@dci.ir if there are any objections.

The answer to email is generated by a robot in "pinglish" (Persian language with English letters) together with an English translation:

Ba salam, nameie shoma dariaft gardid va dar asrae vaght be an residegi
khahad shod. (in matn be sourate automatic ersal gardideh ast.)

Your email has been received and will be revised soon. (This is an
autoresponder message)

These are significant signs revealing much about the mentalities behind."

Related articles by Zemanta

• Iran confirms arrest of Canadian blogger (network.nationalpost.com)
• Iran detains Iranian-Canadian blogger (canada.com)

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The New York International Independent Film & Video Festival: Call For Entries

The New York International Independent Film & Video Festival is currently accepting entries (feature, shorts, documentaries, music videos, etc.)  for LA, July 2009 and NYC, Fall 2009.

 

**All NYIIFVF films are screened in REAL movie theatres in NYC and LA!

Several NYIIFVF award-winning feature and short films will be showcased and represented at the upcoming Cannes Film Market/Marche du Film.**
 
If you want to submit a film, please visit:
www.nyfilmvideo.com

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Brit J Aesthetics

A new issue of The British Journal of Aesthetics
has been made available:

April 2009; Vol. 49, No. 2

Some New Books

A Companion to Metaphysics, 2nd Edition

Jaegwon Kim (Editor), Ernest Sosa (Editor), Gary S. Rosenkrantz (Editor)

Fully extended and revised, A Companion to Metaphysics 2nd Edition includes a section of detailed review essays from renowned metaphysicians, and the addition of more than 30 new encyclopedic entries, taking the number of entries to over 300.

• Includes revisions to existing encyclopedic entries
• Features more than 30 all-new "A to Z" entries
• Offers a section of in-depth, essays from renowned metaphysicians
• Provides the most complete and up-to-date reference guide for students and professionals alike

Worlds of Truth: A Philosophy of Knowledge

Israel Scheffler

Worlds of Truth: A Philosophy of Knowledge explicates and builds upon a half century of philosophical work by the noted philosopher Israel Scheffler.

• Propounds a new doctrine of plurealism which maintains the existence of multiple real worlds
• Offers a defense of absolute truth, which denies certainty and eschews absolutism, and defends systematic relativity, objectivity, and fallibilism
• Emphasizes a wide range of pragmatic interests: epistemology and scientific development, cognition and emotion, science and ethics, ritual and culture, and art and science

Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization

Barry B. Powell

Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization traces the origins of writing tied to speech from ancient Sumer through the Greek alphabet and beyond.

• Examines the earliest evidence for writing in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC, the origins of purely phonographic systems, and the mystery of alphabetic writing
  
• Includes discussions of Ancient Egyptian,Chinese, and Mayan writing
  
• Shows how the structures of writing served and do serve social needs and in turn create patterns of social behavior
  
• Clarifies the argument with many illustrations

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Cultural Trends

Cultural Trends, the journal that champions the need for better evidence-based analyses of the cultural sector, is delighted to announce the theme for its second one-day international conference.

 ‘Centre/Periphery: Devolution/Federalism’ New Trends in Cultural Policy

The tension between the power and resources at the centre and the interests and ambitions of the periphery is a long-standing issue in cultural policy. This tension has strongly been in play during the years of the Labour government. The United Kingdom has witnessed simultaneously the decline of regionalism and the rise of devolved governments that are using experiments in cultural policy as their first exercises in independence from London. Other countries in Europe and the wider world, however, have longer experience of cultural devolution, regionalism and federalism. This conference interrogates these concepts in the context of the UK cultural sector, and asks what lessons overseas models may have for us.

We wish to invite abstracts on these issues, particularly from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and consider models from elsewhere - France, Germany, Spain and Canada in particular.

The deadline for submission is Thursday 9^th April 2009. To submit your abstract please send an email headed ‘Cultural Trends Conference’ to the journal editor, Sara Selwood: S.Selwood@city.ac.uk" target="_blank"> S.Selwood@city.ac.uk. All presentations during the conference will be published in a special issue of Cultural Trends.

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Cultural Trends is based on the proposition that cultural policy should be informed by evidence–based analyses. It aims to: 

• stimulate analysis and understanding of the arts and wider cultural sector based on relevant and reliable evidence;
• identify clear trends in cultural provision, funding;
• consider participation, including the differences between different social groups and the  impact of culture on individuals and society, as well as how such assessments are made and used;
• provide a critique of those data upon which arts and wider cultural policy may be based, implemented, evaluated and developed and encourage improvements in the coverage, timeliness and accessibility of statistical  information on the arts and wider cultural sector; and
• examine the soundness of measures of the performance of government and public sector bodies in the arts and wider cultural sector.

More details about Cultural Trends can be found on the website www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ccut   

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Welcome Back

Spring!

New York International Independent Film & Video Festival

More information: www.nyfilmvideo.com

oxford art journal

Oxford Art J -- Table of Contents

A new issue of Oxford Art Journal
has been made available:

October 2008; Vol. 31, No. 3


Articles:
Laura Weigert
Chambres d'amour: Tapestries of Love and the Texturing of Space
Michael Cole
Giambologna and the Sculpture with No Name
Angela Vanhaelen
Recomposing the Body Politic in Seventeenth-century Delft
Alina Orlov
First There Was the Word: Early Russian Texts on Modern Jewish Art
Joan Kee
Points, Lines, Encounters: The World According to Lee Ufan

Reviews:
Andreas J. M. Kropp
Roman Art and Laughing Viewers
Stacy Boldrick
Out of Place
Kate Retford
The Politics of Posterity
Patricia Smyth
Calculated Uncertainty: Georgian Theatre and the Construction of Feminine 
 Identities
Frederique Desbuissons
In Media Res
Natasha Eaton
Flexible Design? Art in a Binocular Empire
Kay Dian Kriz
Slavery Represented or Slavery Illustrated?
Sam Smiles
What Lies Beneath
Jody Patterson
What's So Amazing about the 'Amazing Continuity'?
Anna Lovatt
Border Crossings
John Roberts
Photography and its Truth-Event

به کتابهایتان بیفزایید

امکانی دیگر و البته رایگان برای افزایش و تجهیز کتابخانۀ شخصی مان با بیش از 20هزار کتاب و مجله. جالب است.

ماها کتاب زیاد می خوانیم. همین طور مجله و روزنامه. شاید بیشتر در ارتباط با کارها و تخصص و علائقمان.

احتمالا یافتن و قطعا خرید تمامی این کتابها و مجلات بویژه در اوضاع و احوال بین المللی و بومی فعلی، می تواند کاری بسیار وقت گیر و هزینه بر باشد. نتیجه هم آنکه چه بسیار مجله و کتاب که خریدشان پیش کش، به دید هم نمی آیند.

نکته همین است که بتوان راهی یافت که از طریق آن دسترسی رایگان به شمار زیادی از مجلات (شماره های فعلی و گذشته) و کتابها میسر شود.

در اینجا البته صحبت از کتابخانه های محلی و مجلس و ملی و ... نیست (که حال و روزشان معلوم است).

درعوض، صحبت از سرویس وب رایگانی است که مجلات و کتابها (غیر فارسی، شاید بعدا فارسی هم) را به گونه ای همانند نسخه های چاپی در اختیار مراجعان قرار می دهد.

اگر برایتان جالب است به این نشانی مراجعه کنید: www.issuu.com

ایران، اکنون همیشه

"... قلم کندشده من آخرین سطور کتاب مرا در بیان چگونگی تاخت و تاز مغولان بر جلگه های شکوفان زادگاه ما بپایان رسانید... مؤلف این کتاب قصد داشت باز هم مطالب بسیاری در احوال آن خوارزمیان بزدلی که همت نداشتند دل از جان برگیرند و به پیکار با جبار قهار... برخیزند، برشته تحریر درآورد...

... اگر تمام خوارزمیان عزم جزم میکردند و یکدل و جان تیغ خشم از نیام برمی کشیدند و بیدریغ از جان بر دشمنان وطن می تاختند، مغولان پرکبریا و فرمانروای ریش قرمز آنان شش ماه هم در خوارزم تاب نمیآوردند و برای ابد به صحراهای دوردست خویش میگریختند...

... مغولان بیش از آنکه به نیروی شمشیر خویش غالب آیند، بسبب نفاق، تسلیم پذیری و رعب دشمنان خویش، به پیروزی میرسیدند... جلال الدین دلیر نشان داد که چگونه میتوان با گروه کوچکی از سواران دست از جان شسته، اردوی مغولان را درهم شکست...

... ولی قلم از دست سرد و بیجان من میافتد... نیروی درویش سرگردان و آواره زوال می پذیرد، زمان میگذرد و روز مکافات میرسد...

... بر سبیل وداع با خواننده ناآشنای خویش میگویم " امامان متفرعن و عالم نمایان زهدفروش که باد کبر در غبغب میاندازند، بمن نسبت کفر میدهند! این کوردلی از کین توزی و بلاهت است!

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ایمان به پیروزی اندیشه ور در زنجیر بر دژخیم کوردل، ایمان به پیروزی رنجبر ستمکش بر ستمگر قهار، ایمان به پیروزی دانش بر جهل و دروغ!... من ایمان دارم که دوران بهتری فرا خواهد رسید و آنگاه حقیقت، آزادی و پرستاری از انسان وطن ما را بسر منزل نور و نیکبختی همگان میرساند!.. آنروز خواهد رسید و این آرمان تحقق خواهد پذیرفت!"

(واپسین صفحات چنگیزخان اثر واسیلی یان به ترجمه م. پورهرمزان)