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Pygmalion’s Power

Author : Thomas E. A. Dale
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271085185
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Pygmalion’s Power written by Thomas E. A. Dale and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pushed to the height of its illusionistic powers during the first centuries of the Roman Empire, sculpture was largely abandoned with the ascendancy of Christianity, as the apparent animation of the material image and practices associated with sculpture were considered both superstitious and idolatrous. In Pygmalion’s Power, Thomas E. A. Dale argues that the reintroduction of architectural sculpture after a hiatus of some seven hundred years arose with the particular goal of engaging the senses in a Christian religious experience. Since the term “Romanesque” was coined in the nineteenth century, the reintroduction of stone sculpture around the mid-eleventh century has been explained as a revivalist phenomenon, one predicated on the desire to claim the authority of ancient Rome. In this study, Dale proposes an alternative theory. Covering a broad range of sculpture types—including autonomous cult statuary in wood and metal, funerary sculpture, architectural sculpture, and portraiture—Dale shows how the revitalized art form was part of a broader shift in emphasis toward spiritual embodiment and affective piety during the late eleventh and twelfth centuries. Adding fresh insight to scholarship on the Romanesque, Pygmalion’s Power borrows from trends in cultural anthropology to demonstrate the power and potential of these sculptures to produce emotional effects that made them an important sensory part of the religious culture of the era.

The Power of Pygmalion

Author : Liana Giannakopoulou
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039107520
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Pygmalion written by Liana Giannakopoulou and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between ancient Greek sculpture and modern Greek poetry between 1860 and 1960. It examines in some detail poems by Vasileiadis, Rangavis, Palamas, Cavafy, Sikelianos and Seferis, and shows how these poets appropriate the art of sculpture and in what ways this contributes to our understanding of each poet's poetics. Ancient Greek sculpture and sculptural imagery related to it are inevitably associated with the Classical heritage and bring the issue of ancient tradition and its relation to the modern artist into a prominent position. What is more, sculpture is particularly important for the erotic dimension through which the poets perceive their relation with art, and each poet systematically uses the image of the sculptor to define his perception of the artist. In both cases the myth of Pygmalion may be seen as successfully embodying each poet's relation with art and tradition.

Pygmalion's Power

Author : Thomas E. A. Dale
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271083452
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Pygmalion's Power written by Thomas E. A. Dale and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how the distinctive formal and material qualities of a range of Romanesque sculpture types stimulated multisensory religious experiences. Emphasizes the power of these sculptures to "come alive" in ritual and produce emotional responses for Christians of the time.

Pygmalion’s Power

Author : Thomas E. A. Dale
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271085207
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Pygmalion’s Power written by Thomas E. A. Dale and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pushed to the height of its illusionistic powers during the first centuries of the Roman Empire, sculpture was largely abandoned with the ascendancy of Christianity, as the apparent animation of the material image and practices associated with sculpture were considered both superstitious and idolatrous. In Pygmalion’s Power, Thomas E. A. Dale argues that the reintroduction of architectural sculpture after a hiatus of some seven hundred years arose with the particular goal of engaging the senses in a Christian religious experience. Since the term “Romanesque” was coined in the nineteenth century, the reintroduction of stone sculpture around the mid-eleventh century has been explained as a revivalist phenomenon, one predicated on the desire to claim the authority of ancient Rome. In this study, Dale proposes an alternative theory. Covering a broad range of sculpture types—including autonomous cult statuary in wood and metal, funerary sculpture, architectural sculpture, and portraiture—Dale shows how the revitalized art form was part of a broader shift in emphasis toward spiritual embodiment and affective piety during the late eleventh and twelfth centuries. Adding fresh insight to scholarship on the Romanesque, Pygmalion’s Power borrows from trends in cultural anthropology to demonstrate the power and potential of these sculptures to produce emotional effects that made them an important sensory part of the religious culture of the era.

Pygmalion’s Chisel

Author : Tracy M. Hallstead
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443848840
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Pygmalion’s Chisel written by Tracy M. Hallstead and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pygmalion’s Chisel: For Women Who Are “Never Good Enough,” by Tracy M. Hallstead, examines the enduring critical presence in contemporary Western culture that scrutinizes, critiques, and sizes women down in their daily lives, despite rights gained through the centuries. Pygmalion was the ancient mythical sculptor who believed that all women were essentially flawed. He therefore endeavored to chisel to perfection a statue of a woman he called “Galatea.” Like the perpetually carved and perfected Galatea, women labor under Western culture’s a priori assumption that they are flawed, yet they are often unable to account for the self-criticism and self-doubt that result from this premise. As Hallstead analyzes the culture’s requirements for the perfect woman, she traces how cultural forces permeate women’s personal lives. In calling for solutions, she resurfaces the thinking of historical women who responded, rather than reacted, to the patriarchal culture that devalued them. In engaging these women of the past, whose struggles were eerily similar to our own, Hallstead encourages a responsive feminism that becomes the clear path leading outside Pygmalion’s chamber door.

Versions of Pygmalion

Author : Joseph Hillis Miller
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674934856
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Versions of Pygmalion written by Joseph Hillis Miller and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary school called deconstruction has long been dogged by the charge that it is unprincipled, its doors closed to the larger world of moral and social concern. J. Hillis Miller, one of America s leading teacher-critics, sets the record straight by looking into a series of fictions that allow him to show that ethics has always been at the heart of deconstructive literary criticism. Miller proves his point not by assertion but by doing deconstruction is here in the hands of a master teacher. Miller s controlling image is Ovid s Pygmalion, who made a statue that came alive and whose descendants (the incestuous Myrrha, the bloodied Adonis) then had to bear the effects of what he did. All storytellers can be seen as Pygmalions, creating characters (personification) who must then act, choose, and evaluate (what Miller calls the ethics of narration ). If storytellers must be held accountable for what they create, then so must critics or teachers who have their own stories to tell when they write or discuss stories. If the choices are heavy, they are also, Miller wryly points out, happily unpredictable. The teacher s first ethical act is the choice of what to teach, and Miller chooses his texts boldly. As an active reader, the kind demanded by deconstruction, Miller refashions each story, another ethical act, an intervention that may have social, political, and historical consequences. He then looks beyond text and critical theory to ask whether writing literature, reading it, teaching it, or writing about it makes anything happen in the real world of material history."

Pygmalion and Galatea

Author : Essaka Joshua
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135174884X
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Pygmalion and Galatea written by Essaka Joshua and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was published in 2001. Pygmalion and Galatea presents an account of the development of the Pygmalion story from its origins in early Greek myth until the twentieth century. It focuses on the use of the story in nineteenth-century British literature, exploring gender issues, the nature of artistic creativity and the morality of Greek art.

Greek Sculpture

Author : Nigel Spivey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107067049
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Greek Sculpture written by Nigel Spivey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Greek sculpture seems to have a timeless quality – provoking reactions that may range from awe to alienation. Yet it was a particular product of its age: and to know how and why it was once created is to embark upon an understanding of its 'Classic' status. In this richly illustrated and carefully written survey, encompassing works from c.700 BC to the end of antiquity, Nigel Spivey expounds not only the social function of Greek sculpture but also its aesthetic and technical achievement. Fresh approaches are reconciled with traditional modes of study as the connoisseurship of this art is sympathetically unravelled, while source material and historical narratives are woven into detailed explanations, putting the art into its proper context. Greek Sculpture is the ideal textbook for students of classics, classical civilisation, art history and archaeology – and an accessible account for all interested readers.

Winning in the Workplace

Author : Onajite Akemu
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666795046
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Winning in the Workplace written by Onajite Akemu and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If any phrase best describes this book, it is this: all you need to know about career success in one place! Career success is more than just a key to financial freedom and the good life. it is the key to a meaningful life. This book takes the mystery out of careers by first showing you the two broad types of careers, before unearthing the four mission-critical "relationships" responsible for workplace success. Finally, it shows you how proper management of those mission-critical relationships can help you taste the grapes of career success.

Pygmalion in Management

Author : J. Sterling Livingston
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 : 163369156X
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Pygmalion in Management written by J. Sterling Livingston and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous studies show that people will rise, or fall, to the level where their superiors believe them capable. As a manager, it is up to you to have high expectations for your employees, and to communicate those expectations to them. In Pygmalion in Management, J. Sterling Livingston urges you to understand the power you have over your subordinates' success, and use it to benefit everyone involved. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.

Art and Illusion

Author : E. H. Gombrich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691252742
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Art and Illusion written by E. H. Gombrich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking account of perception and art, from one of the twentieth century’s most important art historians E. H. Gombrich is widely considered to be one of the most influential art historians of the twentieth century, and Art and Illusion is generally agreed to be his most important book. Bridging science and the humanities, this classic work examines the history and psychology of pictorial representation in light of modern theories of information and learning in visual perception. Searching for a rational explanation of the changing styles of art, Gombrich reexamines ideas about the imitation of nature and the function of tradition. In testing his arguments, he ranges over the history of art, from the ancient Greeks, Leonardo, and Rembrandt to the impressionists and the cubists. But the triumphant originality of Art and Illusion is that Gombrich is less concerned with the artists than with the psychological experience of the viewers of their work. Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.

Contemporary Art and Classical Myth

Author : Jennie Hirsh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351571036
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Art and Classical Myth written by Jennie Hirsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary art is deeply engaged with the subject of classical myth. Yet within the literature on contemporary art, little has been said about this provocative relationship. Composed of fourteen original essays, Contemporary Art and Classical Myth addresses this scholarly gap, exploring, and in large part establishing, the multifaceted intersection of contemporary art and classical myth. Moving beyond the notion of art as illustration, the essays assembled here adopt a range of methodological frameworks, from iconography to deconstruction, and do so across an impressive range of artists and objects: Francis Al?s, Ghada Amer, Wim Delvoye, Luciano Fabro, Joanna Frueh, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Duane Hanson, Yayoi Kusama, Roy Lichtenstein, Kara Walker, and an iconic photograph by Richard Drew subsequently entitled The Falling Man.? Arranged so as to highlight both thematic and structural affinities, these essays manifest various aspects of the link between contemporary art and classical myth, while offering novel insights into the artists and myths under consideration. Some essays concentrate on single works as they relate to specific myths, while others take a broader approach, calling on myth as a means of grappling with dominant trends in contemporary art.

Pygmalion and Galatea

Author : William Schwenck Gilbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Pygmalion and Galatea written by William Schwenck Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pygmalion and Galatea, etc

Author : William Schwenck Gilbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Pygmalion and Galatea, etc written by William Schwenck Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pygmalion's Wordplay

Author : Jean Reynolds
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781982055981
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Pygmalion's Wordplay written by Jean Reynolds and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-12-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's good news for everyone who loves Bernard Shaw: because his works are going out of copyright, we can expect to see many more productions of his wonderful plays - and to be surprised again by his insight, humor, and relevance. Pygmalion (more familiar in its musical form - My Fair Lady) is probably his most popular play - and his most surprising one. In Pygmalion's Wordplay, I argue that long before the postmodernists came along, Shaw intuited their ideas about language and explored them in Pygmalion. This is a book for anyone who loves Shaw and is curious about postmodern ideas about language. In Shaw's hands, Eliza Doolittle's story becomes an enduring work of literature - and the ideas of Derrida, Saussure, and other postmodernists become provocative and accessible.

Female Pygmalion Figures in French Literature

Author : Vicki Lee DeVries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Female Pygmalion Figures in French Literature written by Vicki Lee DeVries and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spirits Unseen

Author : Christine Göttler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004163964
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Spirits Unseen written by Christine Göttler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the meanings and uses of "spiritus" in a variety of early modern disciplines and fields - natural philosophy, theology, music, literature and the visual arts - this book revisits the ambivalent history of a central ancient concept in a period of crisis and change.