Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction
Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction
... is revealed to be a bearded man. Man Ray had also made a five-minute Dada film in Paris the previous year. His Return to Reason was more formally restrained than Clair and Picabia’s Entr’acte, but ... Breton’s famous anagram. 20. René Magritte, Le Viol (The Rape), oil on canvas, 1934 82 Dada and Surrealism 21. Salvador Dalí, ‘Paranoiac Face’, page layout from Le Surréalisme au Servi...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 16:46
American Political Parties and Elections: A Very Short Introduction potx
... change followed the development of political parties as campaign organizations (see chapter 2). As a result, the earliest candidates ran as tickets with the understanding that one candidate was ... gender gap as less than half of the Republicans are female. Catholics make up about a quarter of the Democratic coalition and about the same percentage of the GOP coalition. By contrast black...
Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 06:21
Economics: A Very Short Introduction
... due care has been taken by insurees against bad outcomes (protection against moral hazard). By being able to take advantage of the Law of Large Numbers, markets and the government, taken together, are ... equal. There is evidence that this is so, both in the Indian sub-continent and in sub-Saharan Africa. The ratio of females to males in sub-Saharan Africa is 102 to 100, which means the f...
Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2014, 18:21
Game theory: A very short introduction
... Von Neumann’s toy model abstracts all such complications away. Alice and Bob are each dealt a number between 0 and 1. Both aim to maximize their average dollar earnings on the assumption that 90 Information all ... which each player chooses slow and speed half the time. So Pandora’s intervention increases the probability of an accident to 1/4 and reduces Alice’s and Bob’s average...
Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2014, 18:23
Global catastrophes: A very short introduction
... the planet, sending up a gigantic plume of gas and debris and blasting outwards a rapidly expanding shock wave. As fragment after fragment hammered into the planet, spectacular images were gathered ... waves, earthquakes, tsunamis, and wildfires. Many urban centres in Europe, Africa, and Asia appear to have collapsed almost simultaneously around 2350 bc, and records abound of floo...
Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2014, 18:43
Photography: a very short introduction
... is an index of a speaker; writing of a hand employing a pen or moving over a keyboard; traffic signs of both a fabricator and an act of planning. What is particular, and peculiar, about photographs is ... reverie. Advertising and pornography clearly play off this odd condition somewhere 101 The apparatus and its image between waking reality and dream or fantasy. Photographs...
Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2014, 18:44