La vera storia di un incredibile viaggio nell'aldilà Mentre intorno a lui infuriava la Seconda Guerra mondiale, una giovane recluta di nome George Ritchie lasciava il mondo fisico, per poi farvi ritorno dopo soli pochi minuti, riuscendo a malapena a comprendere che era morto per davvero. Eppure, nel breve spazio tra morte e ritorno in vita, ha potuto sperimentare l'eternità. In questa avvincente storia vera, George Ritchie condivide alcune delle più sorprendenti e dettagliate descrizioni della vita dopo la morte. I suoi incontri con esseri non incarnate, i viaggi attraverso dimensioni del tempo e dello spazio sconosciute e la visione di altri mondi, alcuni tetri e infernali, altri splendenti della gloria celeste. Al centro di tutto, il suo incontro con il Cristo, la Luce del Mondo, che lo ha trasformato per sempre. Quella di George Ritchie è considerata una delle più sorprendenti esperienze di pre-morte mai fatte, che gli ha cambiato per sempre il corso della vita e la concezione dell'aldilà, e può fare lo stesso anche con il lettore.

UNE AVALANCHE DE CONSEQUENCES - GEORGE ELISABETH - Interforum

GLAUBE DER LUEGE - GEORGE ELISABETH - Random Germania

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An American sculptor, painter, and installation artist, Paul Thek (1933--1988) is primarily known for hyper-realistic works of human body parts executed in fleshlike beeswax and for his strongly symbolic, room-size installations constructed from transitory materials. A major figure on the 1960s New York art scene, Thek also spent time in Europe, where he paved the way for artists adopting collaborative strategies. Although he gained a large following and was featured in more than one hundred solo and group exhibitions, the anti-establishment “artist's artist” was practically forgotten at the time of his death.

Major exhibitions abroad and critical attention from younger artists have done much to revive his reputation, and Paul Thek: Diver expands on those efforts by bringing the artist's resounding influence on the art world up to date. Published to accompany Thek's first retrospective in the United States, this landmark publication includes nearly 300 chronologically arranged illustrations of sculptures, paintings, prints, and other works featured in the exhibition as well as four special “in-depth” image sections focusing on key installations, projects, and pages from the artist's journals.  An extensive selection of documentary photographs, many never before published, illuminate Thek's artistic aesthetic and production process. With a bibliography, exhibition history, and checklist of works in the exhibition, this overdue acknowledgment of Thek's brief, but broad-reaching career will be the authoritative volume on the artist for years to come.

Young people, it seems, are both everywhere and nowhere. The media are crowded with images of youth as deviant or fashionable, personifying a society's anxieties and hopes about its own transformation. However, theories of globalization, nationalism, and citizenship tend to focus on adult actors. Youthscapes sets youth at the heart of globalization by exploring the meanings young people have created for themselves through their engagements with popular cultures, national ideologies, and global markets.

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