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Author : Paul Holberton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912168248
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (682 download)
Download or read book A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature written by Paul Holberton and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Holberton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)
Download or read book A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature written by Paul Holberton and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Holberton
Publisher : Ad Ilissvm
ISBN 13 : 9781914532092
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)
Download or read book A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature written by Paul Holberton and published by Ad Ilissvm. This book was released on 2021 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Iain Pears
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101946830
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Arcadia written by Iain Pears and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the international best seller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Arcadia is an astonishing work of imagination. In Cold War England, Professor Henry Lytten, having renounced a career in espionage, is writing a fantasy novel that dares to imagine a world less fraught than his own. He finds an unlikely confidante in Rosie, an inquisitive young neighbor who, while chasing after Lytten's cat one day, stumbles through a doorway in his cellar and into a stunning and unfamiliar bucolic landscape—remarkably like the fantasy world Lytten is writing about. There she meets a young boy named Jay who is about to embark on a journey that will change both their lives. Elsewhere, in a distopian society where progress is controlled by a corrupt ruling elite, the brilliant scientist Angela Meerson has discovered the potential of a powerful new machine. When the authorities come knocking, she will make an important decision—one that will reverberate through all these different lives and worlds.
Author : Tod Davies
Publisher : Exterminating Angel Press
ISBN 13 : 1935259180
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Lily the Silent written by Tod Davies and published by Exterminating Angel Press. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a reluctant queen, as told by her daughter Sophia the Wise.
Author : Peter J. Holliday
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190256532
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book American Arcadia written by Peter J. Holliday and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and engaging exploration of California's debt to the ancient world Discussing the influence of the classics on America is nothing new; indeed, classical antiquity could be considered second only to Christianity as a force in modeling America's national identity. What has never been explored until now is how, from the beginning, Californians in particular chose to visually and culturally craft their new world using the rhetoric of classical antiquity. Through a lively exploration of material culture, literature, and architecture, American Arcadia offers a tour through California's development as a Mediterranean haven from the late nineteenth century to the present. In its earliest days, California was touted as the last opportunity for alienated Yankees to establish the refined gentleman-farmer culture envisioned by Jefferson and build new cities free of the filth and corruption of those they left back East. Through architecture and landscape design Californians fashioned an Arcadian setting evocative of ancient Greece and Rome.Later, as Arcadia gave way to urban sprawl, entire city plans were drafted to conjure classical antiquity, self-styled villas dotted the hills, and utopian communities began to shape the state's social atmosphere. Art historian Peter J. Holliday traces the classical influence primarily through the evidence of material culture, yet the book emphasizes the stories and people, famous and forgotten, behind the works, such as Florence Yoch, the renowned landscape designer and set designer for Gone with the Wind, and "Sister Aimee" Semple McPherson, the most publicized Christian evangelist of her day, whose sermons filled the Pantheon-like Angelus Temple. Telling stories from the creation of the famed aqueducts that turned the semi-arid landscape to a cornucopia of almonds, alfalfa, and oranges to the birth of the body-sculpting movement, American Arcadia offers readers a new way of seeing our past and ourselves.
Author : Aaron Sachs
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300189052
Total Pages : 683 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Arcadian America written by Aaron Sachs and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the mid-nineteenth century. Such spaces of repose brought key elements of the countryside into rapidly expanding cities, making nature accessible to all and serving to remind visitors of the natural cycles of life. In this unique interdisciplinary blend of historical narrative, cultural criticism, and poignant memoir, Aaron Sachs argues that American cemeteries embody a forgotten landscape tradition that has much to teach us in our current moment of environmental crisis. Until the trauma of the Civil War, many Americans sought to shape society into what they thought of as an Arcadia--not an Eden where fruit simply fell off the tree, but a public garden that depended on an ethic of communal care, and whose sense of beauty and repose related directly to an acknowledgement of mortality and limitation. Sachs explores the notion of Arcadia in the works of nineteenth-century nature writers, novelists, painters, horticulturists, landscape architects, and city planners, and holds up for comparison the twenty-first century's--and his own--tendency toward denial of both death and environmental limits. His far-reaching insights suggest new possibilities for the environmental movement today and new ways of understanding American history.
Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : Orion Media
ISBN 13 : 9780753817070
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (17 download)
Download or read book In Arcadia written by Ben Okri and published by Orion Media. This book was released on 2003 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of angry and ill-assorted people accept an invitation to make a journey. Inspired by a painting and financed by a mysterious benefactor, they set off to discover the real Arcadia. Or what remains of it. Their journey begins in ignorance and chaos at Waterloo station and takes them through superstition and myth to harmony. In the Louvre, in front of Poussin's masterpiece, they begin to understand. 'In Arcadia takes that staple Shakespearean theme of appearance versus reality and uses it to explore the notion of paradise' Scotsman
Author : Allan R. Ruff
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1909686670
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Arcadian Visions written by Allan R. Ruff and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about Arcadia and the pastoral tradition; what it has meant for successive generations and their vision of the landscape, as well as the implications this has had for its design and management. Today the concept of Arcadia, and way it has shaped our landscape, is dimly perceived and little understood by landscape architects and those responsible for the management of land. This is in marked contrast to previous centuries when the vision of Arcadia and the pastoral was implanted by education among the more privileged in society. Young men spent many hours translating and learning by rote the words of Virgil and other classical authors and on the Grand Tour they would be introduced to work of painters like Poussin and Claude and their interpretations of the Ideal pastoral landscape. Today Arcadia holds as powerful an influence as at any time in the past and it is important that we plan our urban environment in ways that harmonize with the natural world. Arcadian Visions provides an alternative landscape history for all those involved with the landscape - either through its design, management, use or enjoyment. It begins by examining the origins of Arcadia and the pastoral in the classical poetry of Theocritus and Virgil, and the effects of, and on, Christianity before outlining its development in renaissance Italy and subsequently in the Netherlands, America and England. It concludes by looking at how Arcadian ecology is bringing about a reappraisal of the pastoral in the 21st century.
Author : Joseph J. Rishel
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300179804
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse written by Joseph J. Rishel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on works by Gauguin, Matisse & Cezanne, this exhibition explores the representation of Arcadia in European art from around 1900.
Author : Rachel Eisendrath
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681375435
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Gallery of Clouds written by Rachel Eisendrath and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal and critical work that celebrates the pleasure of books and reading. Largely unknown to readers today, Sir Philip Sidney’s sixteenth-century pastoral romance Arcadia was long considered one of the finest works of prose fiction in the English language. Shakespeare borrowed an episode from it for King Lear; Virginia Woolf saw it as “some luminous globe” wherein “all the seeds of English fiction lie latent.” In Gallery of Clouds, the Renaissance scholar Rachel Eisendrath has written an extraordinary homage to Arcadia in the form of a book-length essay divided into passing clouds: “The clouds in my Arcadia, the one I found and the one I made, hold light and color. They take on the forms of other things: a cat, the sea, my grandmother, the gesture of a teacher I loved, a friend, a girlfriend, a ship at sail, my mother. These clouds stay still only as long as I look at them, and then they change.” Gallery of Clouds opens in New York City with a dream, or a vision, of meeting Virginia Woolf in the afterlife. Eisendrath holds out her manuscript—an infinite moment passes—and Woolf takes it and begins to read. From here, in this act of magical reading, the book scrolls out in a series of reflective pieces linked through metaphors and ideas. Golden threadlines tie each part to the next: a rupture of time in a Pisanello painting; Montaigne’s practice of revision in his essays; a segue through Vivian Gordon Harsh, the first African American head librarian in the Chicago public library system; a brief history of prose style; a meditation on the active versus the contemplative life; the story of Sarapion, a fifth-century monk; the persistence of the pastoral; image-making and thought; reading Willa Cather to her grandmother in her Chicago apartment; the deviations of Walter Benjamin’s “scholarly romance,” The Arcades Project. Eisendrath’s wondrously woven hybrid work extols the materiality of reading, its pleasures and delights, with wild leaps and abounding grace.
Author : Ana Debenedetti
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787354601
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Botticelli Past and Present written by Ana Debenedetti and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent exhibitions dedicated to Botticelli around the world show, more than ever, the significant and continued debate about the artist. Botticelli Past and Present engages with this debate. The book comprises four thematic parts, spanning four centuries of Botticelli’s artistic fame and reception from the fifteenth century. Each part comprises a number of essays and includes a short introduction which positions them within the wider scholarly literature on Botticelli. The parts are organised chronologically beginning with discussion of the artist and his working practice in his own time, moving onto the progressive rediscovery of his work from the late eighteenth to the turn of the twentieth century, through to his enduring impact on contemporary art and design. Expertly written by researchers and eminent art historians and richly illustrated throughout, the broad range of essays in this book make a valuable contribution to Botticelli studies.
Author : Richard Shone
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500771499
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Books that Shaped Art History: From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss written by Richard Shone and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2013-04-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exemplary survey that reassesses the impact of the most important books to have shaped art history through the twentieth century Written by some of today’s leading art historians and curators, this new collection provides an invaluable road map of the field by comparing and reexamining canonical works of art history. From Émile Mâle’s magisterial study of thirteenth-century French art, first published in 1898, to Hans Belting’s provocative Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image before the Era of Art, the book provides a concise and insightful overview of the history of art, told through its most enduring literature. Each of the essays looks at the impact of a single major book of art history, mapping the intellectual development of the writer under review, setting out the premises and argument of the book, considering its position within the broader field of art history, and analyzing its significance in the context of both its initial reception and its afterlife. An introduction by John-Paul Stonard explores how art history has been forged by outstanding contributions to scholarship, and by the dialogues and ruptures between them.
Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0571169341
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Arcadia written by Tom Stoppard and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This play takes readers back and forth between the 19th and 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire, a cast of characters from each century play out their respective dramas.
Author : Delphi Classics
Publisher : Delphi Classics
ISBN 13 : 1786565080
Total Pages : 1646 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (865 download)
Download or read book The History of Art in 50 Paintings (Illustrated) written by Delphi Classics and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 1646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning eBook is a concise illustrated guide, evaluating the masterpieces that have changed the course of art as we know it. Whether an art novice or a cultivated connoisseur, this eBook offers you an intriguing overview of the world’s most famous and iconic artworks. Illustrated with over 500 full colour images, it builds upon Delphi’s groundbreaking Masters of Art Series — the world’s first digital e-Art books. Through the analysis of 50 famous and innovative paintings, the eBook charts the shifting movements and styles of Western art, from the early beginnings of the Italian Renaissance to the daring wonders of the twentieth century. (Version 1) * Includes reproductions of art’s most monumental paintings * Concise introductions to the masterpieces, giving valuable contextual information on each artist and artwork * Enlarged ‘Detail’ images, allowing you to explore the celebrated works in detail, as featured in traditional print art books * Hundreds of images in colour – highly recommended for viewing on tablets and smart phones or as a valuable reference tool on more conventional eReaders * Easily locate the paintings you wish to view with a linked contents table * Chart the history of art in chronological order Please note: due to existing copyrights, Picasso and Matisse are unable to appear in the eBook. CONTENTS: SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF JOACHIM by Giotto THE EXPULSION FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN by Masaccio THE ARNOLFINI PORTRAIT by Jan van Eyck THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST by Piero della Francesca PRIMAVERA by Sandro Botticelli THE LAST SUPPER by Leonardo da Vinci SELF PORTRAIT, 1498 by Albrecht Dürer PORTRAIT OF DOGE LEONARDO LOREDAN by Giovanni Bellini MONA LISA by Leonardo da Vinci THE LAST JUDGMENT by Michelangelo THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS by Raphael SLEEPING VENUS by Giorgione ASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN by Titian THE PEASANT WEDDING by Pieter Bruegel the Elder THE LAST SUPPER by Tintoretto CALLING OF SAINT MATTHEW by Caravaggio JUDITH SLAYING HOLOFERNES by Artemisia Gentileschi ET IN ARCADIA EGO by Nicolas Poussin THE EMBARKATION OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA by Claude Lorrain LAS MENINAS by Diego Velázquez PEACE AND WAR by Sir Peter Paul Rubens THE GIRL WITH THE PEARL EARRING by Johannes Vermeer SELF PORTRAIT WITH PALETTE AND BRUSHES by Rembrandt van Rijn THE ENTRANCE TO THE GRAND CANAL, VENICE by Canaletto THE MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT by William Hogarth THE SWING by Jean-Honoré Fragonard THE BLUE BOY by Thomas Gainsborough OATH OF THE HORATII by Jacques-Louis David THE NUDE MAJA by Francisco de Goya THE HAY WAIN by John Constable WANDERER ABOVE THE SEA OF FOG by Caspar David Friedrich LIBERTY LEADING THE PEOPLE by Eugène Delacroix THE FIGHTING TEMERAIRE by J. M. W. Turner OLYMPIA by Édouard Manet IMPRESSION, SUNRISE by Claude Monet PROSERPINE by Dante Gabriel Rossetti THE DANCING CLASS by Edgar Degas NOCTURNE IN BLACK AND GOLD: THE FALLING ROCKET by James Abbott McNeill Whistler AT THE MOULIN DE LA GALETTE by Pierre-Auguste Renoir MADAME X by John Singer Sargent STILL LIFE: VASE WITH TWELVE SUNFLOWERS by Vincent van Gogh THE SCREAM by Edvard Munch WHERE DO WE COME FROM? WHAT ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE GOING? by Paul Gauguin THE LARGE BATHERS by Paul Cézanne THE KISS by Gustav Klimt PORTRAIT OF WALLY by Egon Schiele SMALL PLEASURES by Wassily Kandinsky SEATED NUDE by Amedeo Modigliani RED BALLOON by Paul Klee TABLEAU I by Piet Mondrian Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to buy the whole Art series as a Super Set
Author : Carol Goodman
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1405517484
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Arcadia Falls written by Carol Goodman and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two hundred years, painters, poets and musicians have come to the Catskill Mountain village of Arcadia Falls to escape the pressures of modern life and pursue their artistic visions, and Arcadia College was founded with a mission to nurture young artists and writers. When Meg Rosenthal gets an offer to teach at Arcadia College, it seems a godsend - an escape from a life that's fallen apart. She hopes, too, that Arcadia Falls will be a place where she and her daughter Sally can find some peace and reconciliation. But even though Arcadia Falls proves to be even more beautiful then Meg imagined, it is hardly peaceful. Soon she begins to realize that the public story behind the school conceals deceit, betrayal, and perhaps even murder. As Meg struggles to reconcile the choices she's made in her own life, she begins to fear that by coming to Arcadia Falls she's put herself and her daughter in danger.
Author : Peter Dawkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780862930080
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Arcadia written by Peter Dawkins and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers topics including Bacon's life 1579-1585 and the hermetic art of alchemy.
