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Gardens of awakening : a guide to the aesthetics, history, and spirituality of Ky¿‍to's Zen landscapes / by Tanahashi, Kazuaki,1933-author.(CARDINAL)520044; Nagase, Mitsue,photographer.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Imagine yourself in Kyoto, Japan, gazing at a garden of emptiness. How would you understand what you are seeing? What is the history of this contemplative art form, which has flourished for centuries in Kyoto, the famed center of Zen arts? What aesthetic principles inform it? Through photographs and commentary, Gardens of Awakening guides you through a series of Zen gardens created from the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries. Some are teeming with plants and flowing water, while others have only rocks and sand. All are associated with particular temples and share a certain Zen aesthetic related to the cultivation of awakening. Zen practice and culture have had a powerful influence on various Japanese art forms, including Noh theater, tea ceremony, architecture, ceramic art, painting, calligraphy, and poetry. In this book we discuss gardens in terms of seven qualities that arise from Zen practice: direct, ordinary, vigorous, gleaning, pivotal, nondual, and inexhaustible. Photographer Mitsue Nagase's outstanding color photographs highlight these qualities and, narrated by beloved Zen calligrapher and translator Kaz Tanahashi, help readers to go deep into the heart of Zen and Zen art" - Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Zen Buddhism; Gardening; Aesthetics;
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Resplendent synagogue : architecture and worship in an eighteenth-century Polish community / by Hubka, Thomas C.,1946-author.(CARDINAL)835796;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-219) and index.Synagogue and community -- Conceptions and misconceptions -- Architecture -- Wall-paintings -- Historical context -- Design of the synagogue -- The meaning of the remodeled cupola."Graced with nearly 200 historical photographs, architectural drawings, maps, diagrams, and color illustrations, Resplendent Synagogue vividly recreates the spiritual heart of a once vibrant Jewish community. Hubka 'reads' the synagogue both as a historical document and as a cultural artifact. His interpretation of its art and architecture - and its liturgy - enables him to recreate a pre-modern Jewish community seen in relation to both its internal traditions of worship and its external relations with Gentile neighbors. Hubka demonstrates that while the architectural exterior of the synagogue was largely the product of non-Jewish, regional influences, the interior design and elaborate wall-paintings signified a distinctly Jewish art form. The collaboration of Jewish and Gentile builders, craftsmen, and artists in the creation of this magnificent wooden structure attests to an eighteenth-century period of relative prosperity and community well-being for the Jews of Gwozdziec. Hubka's unique exploration of a lost religious and cultural artifact breathes new life into a forgotten but fascinating aspect of eighteenth-century Polish Jewry and is certain to inspire discussion and debate among modern readers." -- Book jacket.
Subjects: Synagogue architecture; Building, Wooden; Jewish art and symbolism; Lost architecture; Jews;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Outdoor art : extraordinary sculpture parks and art in nature / by Langen, Silvia,author.(CARDINAL)337945; Elliott, Fiona,1951-translator.(CARDINAL)214595;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-203).Introduction : Art in nature -- A reflection of a new world: Centro de Arte Contemporánea Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil -- Architecture and art in a provençal vineyard: Château la Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France -- Symbols or remembrance in the desert: art meets eternal human myths: Architectural sculptures on the Plaine de Marha, Morocco -- New Zealand in art and fauna: Connelis Bay, Waiheke Island, New Zealand -- Fanciful enigmas in the Swiss mountains: Fundaziun Not Vital, Sent, Switzerland -- A surreal garden of Eden: Las Pozas, Xilitla, Mexico -- Reviving traditions: Fattoria di Celle, Santomato de Pistoia, Italy -- Exploring the origins of existence: The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, Dumfries, UK -- The place that became a sculpture: Judd Foundation and Chinati Foundation, Marfa, USA -- Women in art: Ekebergparken, Oslo, Norway -- A vision of a better life : Benesse Art Site Naoshima on Naoshima, Teshima and Inujima, Japan -- From art island to cultural realm: Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Neuss, Germany -- Fundraising with an art farm: Oliver Ranch, Geyserville, USA -- Rescuing the sea with underwater art: Museo Subacuático de Arte, Cancún, Mexico -- To enter a memory bank: La Ribaute, Barjac, France -- Monumental nature and art: Gibbs Farm, Makarau, New Zealand -- On the trail of humanity: Time and Space, Cappadocia, Turkey -- War in Arcadia: Little Sparta, Dunsyre, UK -- A visionary counterworld of found materials: The Rock Garden, Chandigarh, India -- Slowing down with art in nature: Schoenthal Monastery, Langenbruck, Switzerland -- Botany and art against drugs: Jardín Botánico Culiacán, Mexico -- A volcano as light art: Roden Crater, Flagstaff, USA -- Art meadows with minimal art: Art Park, Verzegnis, Italy -- Humour against nature's primal forces: Art by the Sea, Zealand, Denmark -- Artistic dialogue at a crossroads of history: At. Margarethen Sculpture Park, St. Margarethen, Austria."From Edward James's surreal sculpture garden Las Pozas in Mexico to Anselm Kiefer's sprawling studio complex in the French countryside, artists and art collectors are creating outdoor spaces in order to display sculpture and art that is both transformative and powerful. This book is filled with breathtaking photographs of 25 of these spaces from throughout the world--many of which are not open to the public. Captured in brilliant colour, these spaces are populated by works that both enhance and are enhanced by the landscape: rolling hills, mountain lakes, shaded canyons and empty deserts. Readers will discover Anish Kapoor's startling red steel tube draped across the rolling hills of New Zealand and an enormous pumpkin created by Yayoi Kusama, which sits on a pier overlooking Japan's Seto Inland Sea. Each park's concept is based on a unique theme or idea and some of these spaces invite contemplation both spiritual and scientific, while others blend horticultural elements with manmade objects. As large-scale works grow in popularity, these collections--built and designed by entrepreneurs, landscape architects, environmentalists, artists and garden experts--demonstrate the endless possibilities of displaying art in nature's realm."--Publisher's website.
Subjects: Outdoor sculpture.; Sculpture parks.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Roman pilgrimage : the station churches / by Weigel, George,1951-(CARDINAL)727337;
The station churches of Rome -- Lent: an itinerary of conversion -- The first days of Lent -- The first week of Lent -- The second week of Lent -- The third week of Lent -- The fourth week of Lent -- The fifth week of Lent -- Holy week -- Easter week.Theologian and papal biographer George Weigel, art historian Elizabeth Lev, and photographer Stephen Weigel explore the annual Lenten pilgrimage to dozens of Rome's most striking churches, which for many faithful is a sacred tradition dating back almost two millennia, to the earliest days of Christianity. Along this historic spiritual pathway, today's pilgrims confront the mysteries of the Christian faith through a program of biblical and early Christian readings amplified by some of the greatest art and architecture of Western civilization.
Subjects: Devotional literature.; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages; Lent; Easter;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Rudolf Steiner's laying of the foundation stone on September 20, 1913: in the presence of the stars by Baravalle, Erika von,editor;
The significance of the laying of the foundation stone in 1913: essays by Erika von Baravalle -- Eyewitness reports -- Various aspects of the laying of the foundation stone -- Rudolf Steiner's buildings for the mysteries: essays by Erika von Baravalle -- Rudolf Steiner's addresses regarding the laying of the foundation stoneFor many years, Erika von Baravalle worked on the documents about the building history of the first and second Goetheanum and opened up the artistic legacy of Albert von Baravalle, who worked closely with Rudolf Steiner as an architect. Additionally, she also carried out a large number of her own studies that had to do with the spiritual and artistic motifs of both buildings (and their precursors). To mark the centenary of the laying of the foundation stone of the Johannesbau, as the Goetheanum was initially called, she presented various of her essays in an anthology, rich with visual material -- as well as eyewitness reports of the first laying of the foundation stone: studies by Fritz Gotte, Elisabeth Vreede, Walter Buhler, and Ernst Bindel, as well as Rudolf Steiner's speeches leading up to and from the event of September 20, 1913, accounts which have never appeared or been available in such a compilation before. 
Subjects: Architecture, German;
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American Methodism : a compact history / by Richey, Russell E.(CARDINAL)185579; Rowe, Kenneth E.(CARDINAL)510110; Schmidt, Jean Miller.(CARDINAL)365011;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: United Methodist Church (U.S.); Methodist Church;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Outpost : a journey to the wild ends of the earth / by Richards, Dan(Artist),author.(CARDINAL)806580;
Hotel California, Ny-Ålesund -- Sæluhús, Iceland -- Simon Starling -- ShedBoatShed -- Desolation Peak, WA, USA -- Mars, Utah -- Bothies, Scotland -- Phare de Cordouan, France -- Foundation Jan Michalski Pour L'Écriture et la Littérature, Switzerland -- November/December 2017 -- Nageire-Dō, Sanbutsu-ji, Mount Mitoku, Japan -- Svalbard, Norway.There are still wild places out there on our crowded planet. Through a series of personal journeys, Dan Richards explores the appeal of far-flung outposts in mountains, tundra, forests, oceans and deserts. These are landscapes that speak of deep time, whose scale can knock us down to size. Their untamed nature is part of their beauty and such places have long drawn the adventurous, the spiritual and the artistic. For those who go in search of the silence, isolation and adventure of wilderness it is perhaps ironically to man-made shelters that they often need to head; to bothies, bivouacs, camps and sheds. Part of the allure of such refuges is their simplicity: enough architecture to keep the weather at bay but not so much as to distract from the natural world. Following a route from the Cairngorms of Scotland to the fire-watch lookouts of Washington State, from Iceland's 'Houses of Joy' to the Utah desert; frozen ghost towns in Svalbard to shrines in Japan; Roald Dahl's Metro-land writing hut to a lighthouse in the North Atlantic, Richards explores landscapes which have inspired writers, artists and musicians, and asks: why are we drawn to wilderness? What can we do to protect them? And what does the future hold for outposts on the edge?
Subjects: Richards, Dan (Artist); Wilderness areas.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Wild power : discover the magic of your menstrual cycle and awaken the feminine path to power / by Pope, Alexandra,1953-author.(CARDINAL)878944; Wurlitzer, Sjanie Hugo,author.(CARDINAL)878569;
Includes bibliographical references."The menstrual cycle is a vital and vitalizing system in the female body and yet our understanding of and respect for this process is both limited and distorted. Few women really know about the physiology of their cycle. They are encouraged to ignore it and cope with menstruation as best they can without missing a beat, rather than seeing the cycle as an integral part of their health and wellbeing and, even more excitingly, as a potential guide to emotional and spiritual literacy. Wild Power is a book about feminine power the power of the menstrual cycle. An embodied consciousness that opens a woman to a unique force that can heal, restore love, guide her home to herself, and support the manifestation of her dreams, ambitions, and life calling. This book reveals the inner architecture of a woman and the path to power that is encoded in her body, which takes her on an initiatory journey from menarche to menopause. This unique force tutorsus in the sacred tasks of each phase of this journey, the perils and the pitfalls, as we grow into our authority and eldership as creators and leaders in the world. In this book, the authors explore the three maps of the menstrual cycle that guide women through their inner landscape to meet themselves, get to know their own nature and develop the psychological muscle to channel the creative and spiritual forces within them. Written in an engaging style, with humor, tenderness, and practicality, and packed with women s stories and quotes throughout, Wild Power is an invitation to a new consciousness born out of an awareness of and fidelity to the menstrual cycle, restoring women to wholeness and reinstating the full majesty and grace of the Feminine."--Publisher's description.The wild power revolution -- Discovering your wild power -- The two vias -- The inner seasons -- The five chambers of menstruation -- The sacred role of your inner critic -- The holy grail -- Menstrual Cycle Awareness (MCA) -- How the f*ck do we live our cycle in a non-cyclical world?
Subjects: Menstrual cycle; Menstrual cycle;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Chasing Chopin : a musical journey across three centuries, four countries, and a half-dozen revolutions : [sound recording] / by LaFarge, Annik,author.(CARDINAL)837373;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Author's note: Dancing about architecture -- Introduction: Bull's-eye -- In a word, Poland -- Pianopolis -- Teach with love -- Interlude with a vampire -- Toujours travailler Bach -- Pulling out the pickaxe -- Death comes to the funeral march."The Frédéric Chopin Annik LaFarge presents here is not the melancholy, sickly, romantic figure so often portrayed. The artist she discovered is, instead, a purely independent spirit: an innovator who created a new musical language, an autodidact who became a spiritually generous, trailblazing teacher, a stalwart patriot during a time of revolution and exile. In Chasing Chopin she follows in his footsteps during the three years, 1837-1840, when he composed his iconic "Funeral March"-dum dum da dum-using its composition story to illuminate the key themes of his life: a deep attachment to his Polish homeland; his complex relationship with writer George Sand; their harrowing but consequential sojourn on Majorca; the rapidly developing technology of the piano, which enabled his unique tone and voice; social and political revolution in 1830s Paris; friendship with other artists, from the famous Eugène Delacroix to the lesser known, yet notorious in his time, Marquis de Custine. Each of these threads-musical, political, social, personal-is woven through the "Funeral March" in Chopin's Opus 35 sonata, a melody so famous it's known around the world even to people who know nothing about classical music. But it is not, as LaFarge discovered, the piece of music we think we know. As part of her research into Chopin's world, then and now, LaFarge visited piano makers, monuments, churches, and archives; she talked to scholars, jazz musicians, video game makers, software developers, music teachers, theater directors, and of course dozens of pianists. The result is extraordinary: an engrossing, page-turning work of musical discovery and an artful portrayal of a man whose work and life continue to inspire artists and cultural innovators in astonishing ways"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849.; Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849.; Audiobooks, unabridged--DCPL.; Composers; Composers; Piano music;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The golden house : a novel / by Rushdie, Salman,author.(CARDINAL)156461;
On the day of Barack Obama's inauguration, an enigmatic billionaire from foreign shores takes up residence in the architectural jewel of the Gardens, a cloistered community in New York's Greenwich Village. The neighborhood is a bubble within a bubble, and the residents are immediately intrigued by the eccentric newcomer and his family. Along with his improbable name, untraceable accent, and unmistakable whiff of danger, Nero Golden has brought along his three adult sons: agoraphobic, alcoholic Petya, a brilliant recluse with a tortured mind; Apu, the flamboyant artist, sexually and spiritually omnivorous, famous on twenty blocks; and D, at twenty-two the baby of the family, harboring an explosive secret even from himself. There is no mother, no wife; at least not until Vasilisa, a sleek Russian expat, snags the septuagenarian Nero, becoming the queen to his king-- a queen in want of an heir. Our guide to the Goldens' world is their neighbor Ren, an ambitious young filmmaker. Researching a movie about the Goldens, he ingratiates himself into their household. Seduced by their mystique, he is inevitably implicated in their quarrels, their infidelities, and, indeed, their crimes. Meanwhile, like a bad joke, a certain comic-book villain embarks upon a crass presidential run that turns New York upside-down.
Subjects: Political fiction.; Rich people; Visitors, Foreign; Families; Family secrets; Motion picture producers and directors;
Available copies: 55 / Total copies: 55
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