In the King's Wake

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226093116
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (931 download)

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Book Synopsis In the King's Wake by : Jay Caplan

Download or read book In the King's Wake written by Jay Caplan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the guillotines of the 1789 Revolution brought a grisly political end to the ancien régime, Jay Caplan argues, the culture of absolutism had already perished. In the King's Wake traces the emergence of a post-absolutist culture across a wide range of works and genres: Saint-Simon's memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency; Voltaire's first tragedy, Oedipe; Watteau's last great painting, L'Enseigne de Gersaint; the plays of Marivaux; and Casanova's History of My Life. While absolutist culture had focused on value directly represented in people (e.g., those of noble blood) and things (e.g., coins made of precious metals), post-absolutist culture instead explored the capacity of signs to stand for something real (e.g., John Law's banknotes or Marivaux's plays in which actions rather than birth signify nobility). Between the image of the Sun King and visions of the godlike Romantic self, Caplan discovers a post-absolutist France wracked by surprisingly modern conflicts over the true sources of value and legitimacy.

Antoine Watteau

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Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874139341
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (393 download)

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Book Synopsis Antoine Watteau by : Mary D. Sheriff

Download or read book Antoine Watteau written by Mary D. Sheriff and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Antoine Watteau: Perspectives on the Artist and the Culture of His Time offer a richly textured portrait of the artist's life, work, and reputation for students, specialists, and the general public. The volume brings together art historians whose research is currently defining the field of Watteau studies with scholars from history and literature who have published widely on the political and cultural trends of Watteau's era. Essays include studies of the artist's drawing practice, his relation to the emerging public sphere, and the changing fortunes of his reputation, as well as considerations of art dealing and fashion in Watteau's time. Other essays take up conversation, dance, seduction, and theatricality as essential themes of Watteau's art. This volume will be an indispensable resource for all those interested in the visual culture of Regency France.

Painting and Sculpture in France, 1700-1789

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300064940
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (649 download)

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Book Synopsis Painting and Sculpture in France, 1700-1789 by : Michael Levey

Download or read book Painting and Sculpture in France, 1700-1789 written by Michael Levey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the major painters and sculptors of the period during the last years of France's ancien regime - a period that started with Watteau and the fete galante and closed with the revolutionary history paintings of David.

Enchanted Islands

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022648324X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Book Synopsis Enchanted Islands by : Mary D. Sheriff

Download or read book Enchanted Islands written by Mary D. Sheriff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Enchanted Islands, renowned art historian Mary D. Sheriff explores the legendary, fictional, and real islands that filled the French imagination during the ancien regime as they appeared in royal ballets and festivals, epic literature, paintings, engravings, book illustrations, and other objects. Some of the islands were mythical and found in the most popular literary texts of the day—islands featured prominently, for instance, in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso,Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata, and Fénelon’s, Telemachus. Other islands—real ones, such as Tahiti and St. Domingue—the French learned about from the writings of travelers and colonists. All of them were imagined to be the home of enchantresses who used magic to conquer heroes by promising sensual and sexual pleasure. As Sheriff shows, the theme of the enchanted island was put to many uses. Kings deployed enchanted-island mythology to strengthen monarchical authority, as Louis XIV did in his famous Versailles festival Les Plaisirs de l’île enchantée. Writers such as Fénelon used it to tell morality tales that taught virtue, duty, and the need for male strength to triumph over female weakness and seduction. Yet at the same time, artists like Boucher painted enchanted islands to portray art’s purpose as the giving of pleasure. In all these ways and more, Sheriff demonstrates for the first time the centrality of enchanted islands to ancient regime culture in a book that will enchant all readers interested in the art, literature, and history of the time.

Antoine Watteau

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801415713
Total Pages : 312 pages
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Book Synopsis Antoine Watteau by : Donald Posner

Download or read book Antoine Watteau written by Donald Posner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the definitive study of the great painter Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), best known for his exquisite fetes galantes--scenes of the pastoral pleasures of elegant society. Until now, critical interpretations of this remarkable artist have been shaped by essentially Romantic views. Donald Posner provides a reassessment of the life and work of Watteau; his account is enriched with reproductions of all of Watteau's paintings and major studies.

Kenwood, Paintings in the Iveagh Bequest

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300102062
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Kenwood, Paintings in the Iveagh Bequest by : Julius Bryant

Download or read book Kenwood, Paintings in the Iveagh Bequest written by Julius Bryant and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set high on a ridge in historic parkland less than five miles from Trafalgar Square, Kenwood is London's favourite 'country house'. Remodelled by Robert Adam in the eighteenth century, in 1928 it became the home of the Iveagh Bequest, a superb collection of old master paintings that includes Rembrandt's most celebrated self-portrait, the only Vermeer in England outside the National Gallery and the Royal Collection, Gainsborough's Countess Howe, and classic works by Reynolds, Romney, Lawrence and Turner. The collection was formed between 1887 and 1891 by Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, Chairman of the world's leading brewery, who gave it to the nation with the house and estate. This book is published to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the opening of the Iveagh Bequest and is the first new catalogue of the collection to be produced in fifty years. It discusses each work, revealing the personalities behind the faces in the portraits, the social circumstances of each commission, and the way that art met the ambitions of artists, patrons, sitters and collectors. There are also two introductory essays that provide context for the house and discuss the ways in which Lord Iveagh was a pioneer collector. Beautifully produced, this catalogue of paintings is the essential book on Kenwood.

No Tomorrow

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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813918600
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (186 download)

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Book Synopsis No Tomorrow by : Catherine Cusset

Download or read book No Tomorrow written by Catherine Cusset and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this ambitious book, Cusset reframes the often misunderstood genre that celebrates what Casanova calls "the present enjoyment of the senses." She contends libertine works are not, as is commonly thought, characterized by the preaching of sexual pleasure but are instead linked by an "ethics of pleasure" that teaches readers that vanity and sensual enjoyment are part of their moral being. Developing Roland Barthes's concept of "the pleasure of the text," the author argues that the novel is a powerful vehicle for moral lessons, more so that philosophical or moral treatises, because it conveys such lessons through pleasure." (Midwest).

The Romantic Syndrome

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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789024703821
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis The Romantic Syndrome by : W.T. Jones

Download or read book The Romantic Syndrome written by W.T. Jones and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1973 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this age of specialism philosophers, like other specialists, tend to take in each other's washing. Here, perhaps imprudently, I attempt to break out of this pattern. Though I am by profes sion a philosopher, I am addressing primarily, not other philo sophers, but cultural anthropologists, sociologists, historians of ideas, and literary and art critics. Thus, while there are chapters in this book on metaphysics and political theory, I do not ask, "Is the doctrine in question true?" - which is the kind of ques tion a philosopher might be expected to raise. Instead I ask, "What can we learn from this doctrine about the personality structure of the individual who framed it and about the charac teristic drives of the society in which he lived?" My reasons for asking and for trying to answer this kind of question, instead of the usual philosophical question, are as follows: Though the material products of culture' and the overt behavior patterns of societies have long been objects of scientific study, the most characteristic products of high cultures - artistic productions like poems and paintings and' theoretical structures like metaphysical and scientific theory - have not as readily yielded to exact description and analysis. Not, of course, that there is not a very extensive discussion of these matters. But most of it is carried on in terms that are regrettably vague.

The Magazine of Art

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Magazine of Art by : Marion Harry Spielmann

Download or read book The Magazine of Art written by Marion Harry Spielmann and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Images

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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1574670689
Total Pages : 411 pages
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Book Synopsis Images by : Paul Roberts

Download or read book Images written by Paul Roberts and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris at the turn of the 20th century was obsessed with the interrelations of the arts. It was a time when artists and writers spoke of poetry as music, sounds as colors, and paintings as symphonies. The music of Claude Debussy, with its unique textures and dazzling colors, was the perfect counterpart to the bold new styles of painting in France. Paul Roberts probes the sources of Debussy's artistic inspiration, relating the "impressionist" titles to the artistic and literary ferment of the time. He also draws on his own performing experience to touch on all the principal technical problems for a performer of Debussy's piano music. His many suggestions about interpreting the music will be particularly valuable to performers as well as listeners.

Musical Digest

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Musical Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nicolas Lancret

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Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892368322
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)

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Book Synopsis Nicolas Lancret by : Mary Tavener Holmes

Download or read book Nicolas Lancret written by Mary Tavener Holmes and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a garden glade before a grand fountain, surrounded by a musical party, an elegant woman in a lustrous white gown dances as part of a foursome, raising her eyes to the viewer as if extending an invitation to the dance. This is the enticing scene in the J. Paul Getty Museum's painting "Dance before a Fountain" by Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743), an excellent example of the fete galante, a genre that was created and reached the peak of its popularity in France during the first half of the eighteenth century. This monograph seeks to familiarize American audiences with Lancret, a master of this genre, who was a revered painter in his own time, rivalling his contemporaries Antoine Watteau and Francois Boucher, and a favourite of crowned heads across Europe. Mary Tavener Holmes's engrossing text uses this painting as a springboard to reveal a remarkable amount about the painter, his mode of painting, Paris at the time this work was made, eighteenth-century dance, and the world of art patronage and collecting in France and elsewhere in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Lavishly illustrated with comparative paintings by artists such as Watteau, Boucher, Peter Paul Rubens, Jean-Francois De Troy, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, and Hubert Robert, this fascinating peek into a bygone Parisian era is a treat for the eyes and the intellect alike.

The Smile Revolution

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191024848
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Smile Revolution by : Colin Jones CBE

Download or read book The Smile Revolution written by Colin Jones CBE and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might seem, it was only in late eighteenth century France that western civilization discovered the art of the smile. In the 'Old Regime of Teeth' which prevailed in western Europe until then, smiling was quite literally frowned upon. Individuals were fatalistic about tooth loss, and their open mouths would often have been visually repulsive. Rules of conduct dating back to Antiquity disapproved of the opening of the mouth to express feelings in most social situations. Open and unrestrained smiling was associated with the impolite lower orders. In late eighteenth-century Paris, however, these age-old conventions changed, reflecting broader transformations in the way people expressed their feelings. This allowed the emergence of the modern smile par excellence: the open-mouthed smile which, while highlighting physical beauty and expressing individual identity, revealed white teeth. It was a transformation linked to changing patterns of politeness, new ideals of sensibility, shifts in styles of self-presentation - and, not least, the emergence of scientific dentistry. These changes seemed to usher in a revolution, a revolution in smiling. Yet if the French revolutionaries initially went about their business with a smile on their faces, the Reign of Terror soon wiped it off. Only in the twentieth century would the white-tooth smile re-emerge as an accepted model of self-presentation. In this entertaining, absorbing, and highly original work of cultural history, Colin Jones ranges from the history of art, literature, and culture to the history of science, medicine, and dentistry, to tell a unique and untold story about a facial expression at the heart of western civilization.

Cézanne's Early Imagery

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520065635
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book Cézanne's Early Imagery written by Mary T. Lewis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Cezanne's use of imagery in his earliest works, the years before he turned to impressionism

Musical Standard

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book Musical Standard written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Landscape between Ideology and the Aesthetic

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004269010
Total Pages : 515 pages
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Book Synopsis Landscape between Ideology and the Aesthetic by : Andrew Hemingway

Download or read book Landscape between Ideology and the Aesthetic written by Andrew Hemingway and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time of growing interest in relations between Marxism and Romanticism, Andrew Hemingway’s essays on British art and art theory reopen the question of Romantic painting’s ideological functions and, in some cases, its critical purchase. Half the volume exposes the voices of competing class interests in aesthetics and art theory in the tumultuous years of British history between the American Revolution and the 1832 Parliamentary Reform Act. Half offers new perspectives on works by some of the most important landscape painters of the time: John Constable, J.M.W. Turner, John Crome, and John Sell Cotman. Four essays are hitherto unpublished, and the remainder have been updated and in several cases substantially rewritten for this volume.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

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Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1914 pages
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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1979 with total page 1914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: