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UNINA9910452025203321 |
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Autore |
Swensen Cole <1955-> |
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Titolo |
The book of a hundred hands [[electronic resource] ] : poems / / by Cole Swensen |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (143 p.) |
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Collana |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; One: The History of the Hand; The History of the Hand; The Prehistory of the Hand; The Hand Thinks; The Hand Defined: 1; The Hand Defined: 2; The Hand Defined: 3; Chirologia, or the Natural Language of the Hand; Of an Alphabet of Steppes; By the Eighteenth Century; A History of the Hand; The Hand as Historical; A History of the Hand; Two: Positions of the Hand; Grasp; Fan; Grip; Hold; Sigh; Juggle; Traveling; Glove; The Mechanics of the Hand; Three: Professions of the Hand; Case Histories: Physical Aphasia; The Hand as Lamp; The Hand as Anchor |
The Hand that CaressesThe Hand as Origami; The Hand as 19th-Century Harbor; The Theater of the Hand; The Hand as Ideogram; The Hand as Window; The Hand as Mansion; The Hand as Sun God; The Hand Polishes; Expression; The Hand as Staircase; The Hand as Nest; The Hand as Mango; Four: Representations of the Hand; The Hands' Testament; The Hands Testify; The Hand Painted In; The Hand Sculpted; The Hand Etched in Glass; The Hand Sketched; The Hand Photographed; The Hand in Fresco; Five: The Anatomy of the Hand; Intro to the Palmar View; The Palmar View; The Palmar View, Continued; Palmar 3 |
Fingers 1Fingers 2; Fingers: Alignment; Alignment, Continued; Fingertips; The Hand: Lower View: Oblique; The Bevel Itself; Knuckles; The Thumb: Based On; The Intern's Problem; The Thumb, In Sum; The Hand: Branching Out; The Hand: Back View, Fingers Arches; The Hand: |
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Other Arches; The Fist; The Anatomy of Trees; The Mechanics of the Hand; Six: American Sign Language; Signs; The Manual Alphabet; Understanding the Past, Present, and Future; Pronouns; Thinking and Feeling; Flood; Garden; Rain; Ghost (Holy); Deer; Evening; To Form the Simple Past; The Present Perfect: To Have; Sun; Animal |
Seven: Shadow PuppetsThe First Movies; Birds; Birds; Birds; Advances in the Form; Eight: A Manual of Gesture: Public Speaking for the Gentleman (1879); Right Hand Descending Oblique Prone; Right Hand Horizontal Front Prone; Right Hand Ascending Lateral Supine; Right Hand Ascending Oblique Vertical; Both Hands Descending Lateral Prone; Nine: Paintings of Possible Hands; Wilton Diptych, 1395; Fra Angelico, Cell 7, San Marco, 1438-43; Dominique Ingres, Venus at Paphos, 1852-53; Auguste Rodin, Cathedral, 1908; Marc Chagall, Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers, 1912 |
Marcel Duchamp, Portrait of Doctor Raymond Dumouchel, 1910Rembrandt van Rijn, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholaes Tulp, detail, 1632; Norman Bluhm and Frank O'Hara, Hand, 1960; Sean Scully, Landline Sand, 1999 |
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The hand is second only to language in defining the human being, and its constant presence makes it a ready reminder of our humanity, with all its privileges and obligations. In this dazzling collection, Cole Swensen explores the hand from any angle approachable by language and art. Her hope: to exhaust the hand as subject matter; her joy: the fact that she couldn't.These short poems reveal the hand from a hundred different perspectives. Incorporating sign language, drawing manuals, paintings from the 14th to the 20th century, shadow puppets, imagined histories, positions (the "ha |
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UNIORUON00502308 |
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Autore |
BASSANI, Maddalena |
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Sacraria : ambienti e piccoli edifici per il culto domestico in area vesuviana / Maddalena Bassani |
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x, 269 p., : ill. ; 30 cm |
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[Roma : Quasar] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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In testa al front.: Università degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Archeologia |
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Abitazioni - Napoli <territorio> - Antichità |
LUOGHI DI CULTO - Area vesuviana - Antichità - Fonti archeologiche |
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