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What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in nineteenth-century Paris? And why did breaking with convention arouse such ambivalent responses in middle-class readers, writers, and spectators? From high society to Bohemia and the demi-monde to the madhouse, the scandal of nonconformism provoked anxiety, disgust, and often secret yearning. In a culture preoccupied by the need for order yet simultaneously drawn to the values of freedom and innovation, eccentricity continually tested the boundaries of bourgeois identity, ultimately becoming inseparable from it. This interdisciplinary study charts shifting French perceptions of the anomalous and bizarre from the 1830s to the fin de siècle, focusing on three key issues. First, during the July Monarchy eccentricity was linked to fashion, dandyism, and commodity culture; to many Parisians it epitomized the dangerous seductions of modernity and the growing prestige of the courtesan. Second, in the aftermath of the 1848 Revolution eccentricity was associated with the Bohemian artists and performers who inhabited 'the unknown Paris', a zone of social exclusion which middle-class spectators found both fascinating and repugnant. Finally, the popularization of medical theories of national decline in the latter part of the century led to decreasing tolerance for individual difference, and eccentricity was interpreted as a symptom of hidden insanity and deformity. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including etiquette manuals, fashion magazines, newspapers, novels, and psychiatric treatises, the study highlights the central role of gender in shaping perceptions of eccentricity. It provides new readings of works by major French writers and illuminates both well-known and neglected figures of Parisian modernity, from the courtesan and Bohemian to the female dandy and circus freak.
An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel. Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the earth’s rebirth. In between we are swept off to a most curious old-age home run by a self-improvement cult and drawn several centuries back in time with a cross-dressing Abbess who is on a quest to restore the Holy Grail to its rightful owner, the Goddess Venus. Guiding us is one of the most unexpected heroines in twentieth-century literature, a nonagenarian vegetarian named Marian Leatherby, who, as Olga Tokarczuk writes in her afterword, is “hard of hearing” but “full of life.”
I encountered countless accomplished yet eccentric people, and decided to write this book because I am passionate about the value of eccentric people and after discovering a paucity of books on this fascinating and timely subject. THE VALUE OF BEING ECCENTRIC is an intriguing quasi-oxymoron. I use 12 historical figures including eccentrics like Lord Byron, Benjamin Franklin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein and John Lennon, to name but a few of the eccentric people examined to prove via the facts of their lives that each one possessed the 7 essential attributes of eccentricity. The eccentricities of the people examined are compelling at any level. This book is timely because although historical figures are utilized, many Americans credibly argue, for example, that the current Republican president, Donald Trump, falls within the parameters of an eccentric person. Because eccentricity is often disparaged or equated as synonymous with insanity, the author believes the contributions to the world made by these 12 people from diverse fields and the historical proof of their eccentricity provides a fascinating take on a subject very rarely examined. He takes value in recognizing these eccentrics and understanding their positive contributions to the world.
The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the nineteenth century understood their world. This monograph is the first scholarly history of eccentricity. Carroll explores how discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly organized social and economic order. She focuses on the self-taught natural philosopher William Martin, the fossilist Thomas Hawkins and the taxidermist Charles Waterton.
In Data Sketches, Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu document the deeply creative process behind 24 unique data visualization projects, and they combine this with powerful technical insights which reveal the mindset behind coding creatively. Exploring 12 different themes – from the Olympics to Presidents & Royals and from Movies to Myths & Legends – each pair of visualizations explores different technologies and forms, blurring the boundary between visualization as an exploratory tool and an artform in its own right. This beautiful book provides an intimate, behind-the-scenes account of all 24 projects and shares the authors’ personal notes and drafts every step of the way. The book features: Detailed information on data gathering, sketching, and coding data visualizations for the web, with screenshots of works-in-progress and reproductions from the authors’ notebooks Never-before-published technical write-ups, with beginner-friendly explanations of core data visualization concepts Practical lessons based on the data and design challenges overcome during each project Full-color pages, showcasing all 24 final data visualizations This book is perfect for anyone interested or working in data visualization and information design, and especially those who want to take their work to the next level and are inspired by unique and compelling data-driven storytelling.
The eccentricity of the loads applied to a specially calibrated compressive strut simulating a brick bearing wall was experimentally determined for a variety of bearing materials and conditions of contact. In one series of tests, an I-beam was bedded in high strength gypsum plaster, bonded and unbonded. For the unbonded plaster bed the eccentricity ratio increased with the applied load to a maximum value of about 0.42, while for the bonded plaster bearing this ratio decreased to an average value of about 0.24 at the maximum load. In the second series of tests the eccentricity was observed for an I-beam supported on neoprene rubber pads, capped and uncapped, of different thicknesses, and of different bearing length. In general the eccentricity ratio increased slightly with the applied load. Lack of intimate contact between the I-beam and the rubber pad 1/8 in. thick resulted in an eccentricity ratio of about 0.40, or nearly the same as for unbonded plaster bearing. Intimacy of contact produced by plaster capping resulted in a marked reduction in the eccentricity ratio to about 0.29; the confinement of the bearing length of the rubber pad to one-half of that used in previous tests and placing it at the extreme end of the beam, further reduced the eccentricity ratio to about 0.18, and to 0.13 for a rubber pad 0.25 in. thick. (Author).
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