Art

Monet


by Matthias Arnold

Claude Monet spent most of his life painting his own spontaneous impressions of nature and the world that was closest to him. His works provoked the description 'Impressionist', the name given to the style of art that he created together with Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley.

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Palestinian Costume


by Shelagh Weir

THE TRADITIONAL COSTUMES OF THE Palestinian villagers and Bedouin are of exceptional beauty and diversity, especially the festive costumes of the women with their lavish silk embroidery and patchwork and their dramatic headdresses encrusted with coins. This book surveys male and female fashions from the early nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, and describes the main regional styles of costume, their materials and ornamentation, against the background of Palestinian life and culture. The emphasis throughout the book is on the social and symbolic significance of costume, and the final chapters analyze in detail the language of costume in the context of the wedding. The book is based on extensive field research the author has conducted at intervals since 1967 among Palestinians in Israel, the Occupied Territories, and Jordan. The illustrations include studio photographs of magnificent garments in the British Museum and other collections, archive photographs from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and recent photographs of costumes still made and worn.

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Dali


by Linde Salber

Salvador Dali is the central figure in surrealism and one of the most eccentric artists of the modern age. A brilliant painter and draughtsman, Dali described his style as 'paranoid-critical'. Sexual and religious content is mixed with highly subjective and personal sensations. Death, decay and destruction are repeated themes.

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Caravaggio


by Patrick Hunt

Caravaggio (1571-1610) was the most revolutionary artist of the Italian Baroque. Consistently emphasising the humanity of his religious subjects, he established a new canon.

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Guantánamo

What the World Should Know
by Michael Ratner and Ellen Ray

Guantánamo: What the World Should Know teams human rights lawyer Michael Ratner with political journalist Ellen Ray to reveal the truth about the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station prison camp and the creation of a new network of U.S. detention centres around the world. The U.S. administration insists that the prisoners within Guantánamo have no rights and can be interogated for as long, and as intensively, as their captors wish.At the end of June 2004 the US Supreme Court ruled against Bush Administration claims that the American military could hold enemy combatants indefinitely, without charge, and without access to legal representation. Guantánamo: What the World Should Know is the most authoritative account to date on President Bush's moves toward a network of detention centres, a system without accountability, which flouts both U.S. and international law. Author Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, was at the centre of this storm as co-counsel on Rasul v. Bush, the historic case of Guantánamo detainees just decided upon by the U.S. Supreme Court.Gathered together for the first time, this book includes the governmental memoranda that created the framework in which the inhuman conditions at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib could be condoned. It also includes a letter from two recently released British Guantanamo detainees, Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal outlining the unchecked brutal treatment and torture which are systemic and widespread in the camp. 'The chasm between constitutional ideal and actual policy that Guantánamo opens up is one more illustration of the capacity for absolute power to corrupt absolutely. Ratner and Ray at least give us the facts we need to solidify our own stand against the Bush administration's neo-medievalism. Feel outraged, then get active.' Anita Roddick, activist, and founder of The Body Shop

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