Echo Of A Scream

WHAT IS CASSANDRA'S TEAR? This is the epic story of an artist's dreams of preserving the beauty of the human spirit and to capture love and peace forever within Cassandra's Tear. The CASSANDRA'S TEAR Trilogy spills over with imagery and metaphor to create a rare portrait of who and what we humans really are. In Book One ECHO OF A SCREAM the portrait of Cassandra sheds a tear for the victimization of women in a world of male terrorists. The words paint a rare insight into a primitive terroristic world of fantasy made reality by current events. Indians predict the end of this the fifth world because of mankind's inhumanity. The beast is loose in the East and the dream may be ending, but this can be the beginning of a golden age within Cassandra's Tear. The ARTIST EVE crosses the line between fantasy and reality in dreams of Cassandra whom none will believe. CASSANDRA must preserve the secret of the TAIOWA tribe and face the truth of a RISEN GOD as she struglles with an impossible love. Young Scientist CHRISTIAN VON KRAMER commissions the portrait to capture Cassandra's elusive personality and beauty. Dr. JONATHAN MORRO'S research reveals incredible discoveries about the mindbrain, chemical warfare and genetics. Everything erupts with the discovery that good and evil are a result of the existence of a FALLEN GOD intent on IT'S goal...to return to space! The portrait sheds Cassandra's Tear and it is an anointing of new possibilities.

Exploring three major hubs of muralist activity in California, where indigenist imagery is prevalent, Walls of Empowerment celebrates an aesthetic that seeks to firmly establish Chicana/o sociopolitical identity in U.S. territory. Providing readers with a history and genealogy of key muralists' productions, Guisela Latorre also showcases new material and original research on works and artists never before examined in print. An art form often associated with male creative endeavors, muralism in fact reflects significant contributions by Chicana artists. Encompassing these and other aspects of contemporary dialogues, including the often tense relationship between graffiti and muralism, Walls of Empowerment is a comprehensive study that, unlike many previous endeavors, does not privilege non-public Latina/o art. In addition, Latorre introduces readers to the role of new media, including performance, sculpture, and digital technology, in shaping the muralist's "canvas." Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, this timely endeavor highlights the ways in which California's Mexican American communities have used images of indigenous peoples to raise awareness of the region's original citizens. Latorre also casts murals as a radical force for decolonization and liberation, and she provides a stirring description of the decades, particularly the late 1960s through 1980s, that saw California's rise as the epicenter of mural production. Blending the perspectives of art history and sociology with firsthand accounts drawn from artists' interviews, Walls of Empowerment represents a crucial turning point in the study of these iconographic artifacts.

The authors focus on the religious and theological significance of grotesque imagery in art and literature, exploring the religious meaning of the grotesque and its importance as a subject for theological inquiry.

Best “New” African Poets 2018 Anthology follows volumes in 2017, 2016 and 2015. In this fourth volume of these continent-wide anthologies of African poetry we have work from 154 African poets from over 30 African countries and the African Diasporas. There are poems in English, French, Portuguese, Sepedi, Shona, Yoruba, and Asante Twi languages. In 2018 there was a notable increase in the number of entries with memorable novelties regarding poetic experimentation: some of the poets have daringly sliced up words playing around with the spatial and structural patterns of their texts on paper. This may be described as both textual and visual poetry. Reading the poems becomes a journey with many paths, where the reader walks according to poetic rhythms and the hesitating breaks of action verbs and enjambments.

Hearing Things is a meditation on sound’s work in literature. Drawing on critical works and the commentaries of many poets and novelists who have paid close attention to the role of the ear in writing and reading, Angela Leighton offers a reconsideration of literature itself as an exercise in hearing. An established critic and poet, Leighton explains how we listen to the printed word, while showing how writers use the expressivity of sound on the silent page. Although her focus is largely on poets—Alfred Tennyson, W. B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorie Graham, and Alice Oswald—Leighton’s scope includes novels, letters, and philosophical writings as well. Her argument is grounded in the specificity of the text under discussion, but one important message emerges from the whole: literature by its very nature commands listening, and listening is a form of understanding that has often been overlooked. Hearing Things offers a renewed call for the kind of criticism that, avoiding the programmatic or purely ideological, remains alert to the work of sound in every literary text.

Ten important works by three muralists at the forefront of Mexico's social revolution At the forefront of Mexico's social revolution in the first half of the twentieth century were three artists whose murals resonated throughout the Americas and beyond: José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. This volume looks at ten important works by these artists from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art.