Resultaten voor 'alex danchev'
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Magritte
Een levenRijkgeïllustreerde biografie van de grootse Belgische kunstschilder René Magritte 'Een verrassend beeld van het leven van schilder René Magritte.' •••• NRC 'Danchev schetst een prachtig beeld van Magritte als scholier, dienstplichtige en student.' Het Parool De kledingkeuze van de surrealistische kunstenaar René Magritte (1898-1967) was even elegant als zijn schilderstijl: hij schilderde steevast in pak, inclusief das en bolhoed. In zijn werken, waaronder het iconische La trahison des images (‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe’) en Golconde, creëerde hij een droomwereld vol mysterie, erotiek en humor. En net als zijn werk bleef de persoon Magritte mysterieus. In deze biografie volgt auteur Alex Danchev het veelbewogen leven van de Belgische kunstenaar; van de traumatische zelfmoord van zijn moeder tot de verkoop van vervalste kunstwerken tijdens de Duitse bezetting en van zijn turbulente relatie met de Franse surrealisten tot zijn internationale doorbraak in de kunstwereld. Magritte: Een leven is een fascinerend portret van een wereldwijd geliefd kunstenaar wiens invloed nog altijd groot is. De pers over Danchevs eerdere biografie Cézanne:'Danchevs Cézanne is sympathiek, onafhankelijk van geest en beschikt over veel kennis. Hij schrijft alsof het leven en karakter van Cézanne net zo toegankelijk voor hem zijn als zijn kunst.' Julian Barnes, auteur van o.a. Alsof het voorbij is 'Een magistrale biografie.' The Wall Street Journal
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International Perspectives on the Falklands Conflict
This is a collection of important new work on the Falklands Conflict by the leading authorities in the field, British and Argentine. The themes of the volume are defence and diplomacy, and the problematic relationship between them. The authors investigate aspects of the conflict from the relevance of Falklands/Malvinas past, through the diplomatic and military crisis of 1982, to shifts in public opinion in both countries. Contributors include Peter Beck, Peter Calvert, Lawrence Freedman, Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse, Guillermo Makin and Paul Rogers.
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International Perspectives on the Yugoslav Conflict
International Perspectives on the Yugoslav Conflict is a collection of important new work by the leading authorities in the field. Unusually, this is an international investigation of an international conflict. The result is both profound and provocative - the most stimulating and the most far-reaching exploration of the subject yet to appear.
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On Good and Evil and the Grey Zone
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On Art and War and Terror
On Art and War and Terror Alex Danchev 'The imaginative transformation of human life is the means by which we can most truly grasp and comprehend it.' That is the credo and manifesto of this book. The words are Seamus Heaney's. 'Whatever is given', he writes in his own idiom, 'can always be reimagined, however four-square/Plank-thick, hull-stupid and out of its time/It happens to be.' The essays collected here seek to investigate these claims. They put the imagination to work, in the service of historical, political and ethical inquiry. Employing its second sight, they piggy-back on its moral benefits. The nobility of poetry, says Wallace Stevens, is a violence from within that protects us from a violence without. This is a book about violence of both kinds. It traffics in war poetry, war photography, war films, war stories, war diaries and the like, but also in war itself: in blood - blood like a carwash, as Christopher Logue's Homer has it - and therefore in political legitimacy, moral authority, civility, depravity, terror, torture, honour and conscience; not to speak of strange things like active passivity and senseless kindness. The violence within is illuminating. The violence without is unrelenting. We need all the protection we can get. Alex Danchev is Professor of International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of a number of widely acclaimed biographies, of Field Marshal Sir John Dill, Oliver Franks, Basil Liddell Hart and Georges Braque, and co-editor of the bestselling War Diaries of Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke.
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International Perspectives on the Gulf Conflict 1990-91
International Perspectives on the Gulf Conflict is a collection of important new work on the conflict by the leading authorities in the field. Unusually, this is an international investigation of an international conflict. The result is stimulating, capacious, original, and authoritative - the most complete and up-to-date guide to the subject yet to appear.
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International Perspectives on the Falklands Conflict
This is a collection of important new work on the Falklands Conflict by the leading authorities in the field, British and Argentine. The themes of the volume are defence and diplomacy, and the problematic relationship between them. The authors investigate aspects of the conflict from the relevance of Falklands/Malvinas past, through the diplomatic and military crisis of 1982, to shifts in public opinion in both countries. Contributors include Peter Beck, Peter Calvert, Lawrence Freedman, Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse, Guillermo Makin and Paul Rogers.
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The Iraq War and Democratic Politics
This book examines the meaning of the 2003 Iraq war for democratic politics. It shuns simplistic analysis and provides a nuanced and critical overview of this key moment in global politics.
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The Iraq War and Democratic Politics
This book examines the meaning of the 2003 Iraq war for democratic politics. It shuns simplistic analysis and provides a nuanced and critical overview of this key moment in global politics.
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