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The Reverend Howard Finster (1916-2001) was called the "backwoods William Blake" and the "Andy Warhol of the South," and he is considered the godfather of contemporary American folk and visionary art. This book is the first interpretive analysis of the intertwined artistic and religious significance of Finster's work within the context of the American "outsider art" tradition. Finster began preaching as a teenager in the South in the 1930s. But it was not until he received a revelation from God at the age of sixty that he began to make sacred art. A modern-day Noah who saw his art as a religious crusade to save the world before it was too late, Finster worked around the clock, often subsisting on a diet of peanut butter and instant coffee. He spent the last years of his life feverishly creating his environmental artwork called Paradise Garden and what would ultimately number almost fifty thousand works of "bad and nasty art." This was visionary work that obsessively combined images and text and featured apocalyptic biblical imagery, flying saucers from outer space, and popular cultural icons such as Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Henry Ford, Mona Lisa, and George Washington. In the 1980s and 90s, he developed cult celebrity status, and he appeared in the Venice Biennale and on the Tonight Show. His work graced the album covers of bands such as R.E.M. and Talking Heads. This book explores the life and religious-artistic significance of Finster and his work from the personal perspective of religion scholar Norman Girardot, friend to Finster and his family during the later years of the artist's life.  

Outsider art --- Art and religion --- Folk artists --- Artists --- Art --- Arts in the church --- Religion and art --- Religion --- Naive art --- Religious aspects --- Finster, Howard, --- Finster, William Howard, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Religion. --- alabama. --- album covers. --- american art. --- apocalypse. --- art criticism. --- art history. --- artist. --- biblical imagery. --- biography. --- cult artist. --- cultural icons. --- divine inspiration. --- elvis presley. --- environmental art. --- eschatology. --- flying saucers. --- folk art. --- george washington. --- henry ford. --- marilyn monroe. --- mona lisa. --- nature. --- nonfiction. --- outer space. --- outsider art. --- paradise garden. --- popular culture. --- religious art. --- religious symbolism. --- rem. --- revelation. --- reverend howard finster. --- sacred art. --- south. --- spirituality. --- talking heads. --- tonight show. --- visionary art.

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Here is the first survey of the surviving evidence for the growth, development, and influence of the Neoplatonist allegorical reading of the Iliad and Odyssey. Professor Lamberton argues that this tradition of reading was to create new demands on subsequent epic and thereby alter permanently the nature of European epic. The Neoplatonist reading was to be decisive in the birth of allegorical epic in late antiquity and forms the background for the next major extension of the epic tradition found in Dante.

Epic poetry, Greek --- Religion in literature --- Neoplatonism --- Allegory --- History and criticism --- Homer --- Religion --- Neoplatonism. --- Religion in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 875 HOMERUS --- -Neoplatonism --- Religion in drama --- Religion in poetry --- Greek epic poetry --- 875 HOMERUS Griekse literatuur--HOMERUS --- Griekse literatuur--HOMERUS --- -Homer --- Homeros --- Homère --- Alexandrian school --- Church history --- Hellenism --- Philosophy --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Platonists --- Theosophy --- Personification in literature --- Symbolism in literature --- Religion. --- Homerus --- Neoplatonisme --- Homère. Influence. --- Homerus. Invloed. --- Hóiméar --- Hūmīrūs --- Gomer --- Omir --- Omer --- Omero --- Ho-ma --- Homa --- Homérosz --- האמער --- הומירוס --- הומר --- הומרוס --- هومر --- هوميروس --- 荷马 --- Ὅμηρος --- Гамэр --- Hamėr --- Омир --- Homero --- 호메로스 --- Homerosŭ --- Homērs --- Homeras --- Хомер --- ホメーロス --- ホメロス --- Гомер --- Homeri --- Hema --- Pseudo-Homer --- Pseudo Omero --- Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism --- Homer - Religion --- Shakespeare, William --- Allegory. --- Epic poetry --- Ethics. --- Symbolism. --- achilles. --- allegory. --- ancient philosophy. --- bards. --- calchas. --- classicism. --- classics. --- dante. --- divine inspiration. --- divinity. --- epic poetry. --- epic tradition. --- epic. --- form. --- genre. --- gods and goddesses. --- greco roman studies. --- greek. --- hero. --- homer. --- homeric poems. --- iliad. --- invocation. --- literary criticism. --- literary theory. --- literature. --- myth. --- mythology. --- nonfiction. --- odyssey. --- oral tradition. --- platonic tradition. --- platonism. --- poetic form. --- prophecy. --- religion. --- religious experience. --- revelation. --- semiotics theory. --- supernatural. --- theoclymenus. --- tiresias. --- trojan war.

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What is algebra? For some, it is an abstract language of x's and y's. For mathematics majors and professional mathematicians, it is a world of axiomatically defined constructs like groups, rings, and fields. Taming the Unknown considers how these two seemingly different types of algebra evolved and how they relate. Victor Katz and Karen Parshall explore the history of algebra, from its roots in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, China, and India, through its development in the medieval Islamic world and medieval and early modern Europe, to its modern form in the early twentieth century.Defining algebra originally as a collection of techniques for determining unknowns, the authors trace the development of these techniques from geometric beginnings in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and classical Greece. They show how similar problems were tackled in Alexandrian Greece, in China, and in India, then look at how medieval Islamic scholars shifted to an algorithmic stage, which was further developed by medieval and early modern European mathematicians. With the introduction of a flexible and operative symbolism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, algebra entered into a dynamic period characterized by the analytic geometry that could evaluate curves represented by equations in two variables, thereby solving problems in the physics of motion. This new symbolism freed mathematicians to study equations of degrees higher than two and three, ultimately leading to the present abstract era.Taming the Unknown follows algebra's remarkable growth through different epochs around the globe.

Algebra --- History. --- Alexandria. --- Ancient China. --- Ancient Greece. --- Apollonius. --- Arabic language. --- Archimedes. --- Arithmetica universalis. --- Arithmetica. --- Athens. --- Book of Numbers and Computation. --- Brahmagupta. --- Brāhma-sphụta-siddhānta. --- Chinese intellectual culture. --- Chinese mathematicians. --- Chinese remainder problem. --- Diophantus. --- Egypt. --- Euclid. --- François Viète. --- Gerbert of Aurillac. --- Greek mathematics. --- Indian mathematicians. --- Islam. --- Islamic learning. --- Islamic mathematics. --- Islamic rule. --- Islamic world. --- Italy. --- Kerala school. --- Latin West. --- Medieval China. --- Mesopotamia. --- Pell equation. --- Pierre de Fermat. --- Renaissance algebra. --- René Descartes. --- Roman Alexandria. --- Roman conquest. --- Suan shu shu. --- Thomas Harriot. --- Western intellectual culture. --- algebra. --- algebraic equations. --- algebraic research. --- algebraic thought. --- algebraists. --- analytic geometry. --- ancient civilization. --- ancient civilizations. --- ancient mathematical records. --- axiomatization. --- classical learning. --- complex numbers. --- cubics. --- curves. --- determinants. --- determinate equations. --- divine inspiration. --- educational reforms. --- equations. --- fields. --- fifth-degree polynomials. --- foreign sciences. --- geometrical algebra. --- group theory. --- group. --- groups. --- higher-order equations. --- indeterminate equations. --- institutionalized mathematics. --- international mathematical community. --- invariants. --- linear equations. --- linear transformations. --- mathematics. --- matrices. --- modern algebra. --- n unknowns. --- new algebraic constructs. --- new algebraic systems. --- numbers. --- operative symbolism. --- papyrus scrolls. --- permutations. --- physical interpretations. --- polynomial equations. --- problem solving. --- problem-solving techniques. --- proportions. --- quartics. --- religious sciences. --- rings. --- simultaneous solutions. --- sixteenth-century Europe. --- solvable equations. --- symbolism. --- vectors. --- western Europe. --- Āryabhạta. --- Āryabhạtīya.