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Chapters: Baruch Spinoza, Camille Pissarro, Marrano, Uriel Da Costa, Judah Leon Abravanel, Isaac Abrabanel, History of the Jews in Portugal, Golden Age of Jewish Culture in Spain, Goa Inquisition, Limpieza de Sangre, Portuguese Inquisition, Auto de Fé, António José Da Silva, List of Iberian Jews, Yahia Ben Yahi Iii, Abraham Israel Pereyra, Yahia Ben Rabbi, Yahia Ben Bakr, Ferrara Bible, Bakr Ben Yahia, Jacob Rodrigues Pereira, Jodensavanne, Sepharad, Belmonte Jews, Aloandro Ben Bekar. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 146. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Baruch or Benedict de Spinoza (Hebrew: , Portuguese: , Latin: ) (November 24, 1632 February 21, 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Jewish origin. Revealing considerable scientific aptitude, the breadth and importance of Spinoza's work was not fully realized until years after his death. Today, he is considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy, laying the groundwork for the 18th century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism. By virtue of his magnum opus, the posthumous Ethics, in which he opposed Descartes' mindbody dualism, Spinoza is considered to be one of Western philosophy's most important philosophers. Philosopher and historian Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel said of all modern philosophers, "You are either a Spinozist or not a philosopher at all." Though Spinoza was active in the Dutch Jewish community and extremely well-versed in Jewish texts, his controversial ideas eventually led community leaders to issue a cherem (Hebrew: , a kind of excommunication) against him, effectively dismissing him from Jewish society at age 23. Some historians argue that the Roman Catholic Church forced them to do so. Other historians, notably Richard Popkin, question the historical veracity of the documents cla...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3408 ... Read more

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Chapters: Clifford Harper, Camille Pissarro, Alexandru Bogdan-Piteşti, Jacques Tardi, Donald Rooum, Kendell Geers, Nina Paley, Hélio Oiticica, Winston Smith, Erminio Blotta, Gustave-Henri Jossot, František Kupka, Carlo Carrà, Jamie Reid, Fly, Timothy Laszlo Sandor, Penelope Rosemont, Enrico Baj, Anthony Earnshaw, Carlos Cortez, Miguel García Vivancos, Toma Bebić, Louis Moreau, Anthony Rayson, Ramón Acín. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 114. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alexandru Bogdan-Piteti (Romanian pronunciation: ; born Alexandru Bogdan, also known as Ion Doican or Ion Duican; June 13, 1870 1922) was a Romanian Symbolist poet, essayist, and art and literary critic, who was also known as a journalist and left-wing political agitator. A wealthy landowner, he invested his fortune in patronage and art collecting, becoming one of the main local promoters of modern art. Together with other Post-Impressionist and Symbolist cultural figures, Bogdan-Piteti established Societatea Ileana, which was one of the first Romanian associations dedicated to promoting the avant-garde and independent art. He was also noted for his friendship with the writers Joris-Karl Huysmans, Alexandru Macedonski, Tudor Arghezi and Mateiu Caragiale, as well as for sponsoring, among others, the painters tefan Luchian, Constantin Artachino and Nicolae Vermont. In addition to his literary and political activities, Alexandru Bogdan-Piteti was himself a painter and graphic artist. Much of Bogdan-Piteti's controversial political career, inaugurated by his support for anarchism, was dedicated to activism and support for revolution, while he showed an interest in the occult and maintained close contacts with Joséphin Péladanwhose 1898 visit to Bucharest he funded. He was detained by the authorities at various int...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12257864 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Nadar, Bernard Lazare, Paul Adam, Octave Mirbeau, Élisée Reclus, Errico Malatesta, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Kropotkine, Élie Reclus, Jean Ajalbert, Adolphe Léon Willette, Georges Lecomte, Pierre Bonnard, Christiaan Cornelissen, Walter Crane, Adolphe Retté, Jean Grave, Charles Desplanques, Lucien Descaves, Victor Barrucand, Fernand Pelloutier, Stuart Merrill, Charles Angrand, Henri Lebasque, Max Nettlau, Luigi Fabbri, Miguel Almereyda, Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, James Guillaume, Georges Delaw, Pierre Monatte, Amédée Dunois, Paul Delesalle, Maximilien Luce, Jules Grandjouan, Jules Montels. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Octave Mirbeau, né le 16 février 1848 à Trévières (Calvados) et mort le 16 février 1917 à Paris, est un écrivain et un journaliste français. Octave Mirbeau a connu une célébrité européenne et de grands succès populaires, tout en étant également apprécié et reconnu par les avant-gardes littéraires et artistiques, ce qui n'est pas commun. Journaliste influent et fort bien rémunéré, critique d'art défenseur des avant-gardes, pamphlétaire redouté, il a été aussi un romancier novateur, qui a contribué à l'évolution du genre romanesque, et un dramaturge, à la fois classique et moderne, qui a triomphé sur toutes les grandes scènes du monde. Mais, après sa mort, il a traversé pendant un demi-siècle une période de purgatoire : il était visiblement trop dérangeant pour l'establishment, tant sur le plan littéraire et esthétique que sur le plan politique et social. Littérairement incorrect, il était inclassable, il faisait fi des étiquettes, des théories et des écoles, et il étendait à tous les genres littéraires sa contestation radicale des institutions culturelles ; également politiquem...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Côte des Bufs at LHermitage is an oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the French Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro. It was painted in 1877, and displayed the same year at an exhibition now generally referred to as the third Impressionist exhibition. The picture is large by Pissarros measure, and he described the effort of painting it as the work of a benedictine. Pissarro was proud of the painting, and it remained in his familys possession until 1913. It presently hangs in the National Gallery, London. In 1872 Pissarro moved for the second time to the commune of Pontoise some twenty miles north-west of Paris, where he lived with his family until 1884. The rolling hills of the close-by neighbourhood of LHermitage provided the setting for a large number of Pissarros paintings during his stays at Pontoise. The Côte des Bufs (cattle ridge) is a steep hill face just north of the River Oise, and just west of the rue de LHermitagethe Departmental road passing through the neighbourhood. The name is acquired from a hillside pathway called the sente des Boves (cattle snicketBoves being a Latin word, translating into French as Bufs). From this location in particular Pissarro painted scenes on five occasions in three different decades. Paysage en long, 1879.Pissarros picture of a view up the hillside, his striking ranks of tree trunks and the lines of the buildings, as well as the atypically vertical format of this landscape painting, all create a strongly vertical dynamic. The sloping lines of the undergrowth, rooftops and hilltop contrast with the upward thrust of the work, but this contrast is toned down by the presence of the trees, which veil almost screening offthe middle-distance, causing the viewers eye to skid across t... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=24602863 ... Read more