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Book Synopsis European Fans in the 17th and 18th Centuries by : Miriam Volmert
Download or read book European Fans in the 17th and 18th Centuries written by Miriam Volmert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 17th and 18th century Europe, folding fans were important, socially-coded fashion accessories. In the course of the 18th century, painted and printed fan leaves displayed an increasing variety of visual motifs and artistic subject matter, while many of them also addressed contemporary political and social topics. This book studies the visual and material diversity of fans from an interdisciplinary perspective. The individual essays analyze fans in the context of the fine and applied arts, discussing the role of fans in cultures of communication and examining them as souvenir objects and vehicles for political and social messages.
Book Synopsis The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century by : Ronit Milano
Download or read book The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century written by Ronit Milano and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century, Ronit Milano probes the rich and complex aesthetic and intellectual charge of a remarkably concise art form, and explores its role as a powerful agent of epistemological change during one of the most seismic moments in French history. The pre-Revolutionary portrait bust was inextricably tied to the formation of modern selfhood and to the construction of individual identity during the Enlightenment, while positioning both sitters and viewers as part of a collective of individuals who together formed French society. In analyzing the contribution of the portrait bust to the construction of interiority and the formulation of new gender roles and political ideals, this book touches upon a set of concerns that constitute the very core of our modernity.
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of a General Collection of Books by : Thomas Egerton (Bookseller)
Download or read book A Catalogue of a General Collection of Books written by Thomas Egerton (Bookseller) and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Biography Past and Present by : Joseph Haydn
Download or read book A Dictionary of Biography Past and Present written by Joseph Haydn and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Paradoxes of Posterity by : Benjamin Hoffmann
Download or read book The Paradoxes of Posterity written by Benjamin Hoffmann and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impetus for literary creation has often been explained as an attempt to transcend the mortality of the human condition through a work addressed to future generations. Failing to obtain literal immortality, or to turn their hope toward the spiritual immortality promised by religious systems, literary creators seek a symbolic form of perpetuity granted to the intellectual side of their person in the memory of those not yet born while they write. In this book, Benjamin Hoffmann illuminates the paradoxes inherent in the search for symbolic immortality, arguing that the time has come to find a new answer to a perennial question: Why do people write? Exploring the fields of digital humanities and book history, Hoffmann describes posterity as a network of interconnected memories that constantly evolves by reserving a variable and continuously renegotiated place for works and authors of the past. In other words, the perpetual safeguarding of texts is delegated to a collectivity that is nonexistent at the moment when a writer addresses it, one whose nature is characterized by impermanence and instability. Focusing on key works by Denis Diderot, Étienne-Maurice Falconet, Giacomo Casanova, François-René de Chateaubriand, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Hoffmann considers the authors’ representations of posterity, the representation of authors by posterity, and how to register and preserve works in the network of memories. In doing so, Hoffmann reveals the three great paradoxes in the quest for symbolic immortality: the paradoxes of belief, of identity, and of mediation. Theoretically sophisticated and convincingly argued, this book contends that there is only one truly serious literary problem: the transmission of texts to posterity. It will appeal to specialists in literature, in particular eighteenth-century French literature, as well as scholars and students of philosophy and book history.
Book Synopsis Biographie Universelle, Ancienne Et Moderne by :
Download or read book Biographie Universelle, Ancienne Et Moderne written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of Several Libraries and Parcels of Books by :
Download or read book A Catalogue of Several Libraries and Parcels of Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1780 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reading Drama in Eighteenth-Century France by : Thomas Wynn
Download or read book Reading Drama in Eighteenth-Century France written by Thomas Wynn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Wynn explores how plays were read in eighteenth-century France and, relatedly, the mode of closet drama: plays that were never performed within the playhouse. Drawing on queer theory, Wynn argues that eighteenth-century closet reading fostered disruptive pleasures that imparted another side to the period's 'théâtromanie'.
Book Synopsis Noble conceptions of politics in eighteenth-century Sweden (ca 1740–1790) by : Charlotta Wolff
Download or read book Noble conceptions of politics in eighteenth-century Sweden (ca 1740–1790) written by Charlotta Wolff and published by Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noble conceptions of politics in eighteenth-century Sweden (ca 1740–1790) is a study of how the Swedish nobility articulated its political ideals, self-images and loyalties during the Age of Liberty and under the rule of Gustav III. This book takes a close look at the aristocracy’s understanding of a free constitution and at the nobility’s complex relationship with the monarchy. Central themes are the old notion of mixed government, classical republican conceptions of liberty and patriotism, as well as noble thoughts on the rights and duties of the citizen, including the right to rebellion against an unrighteous ruler. The study is a conceptual analysis of public and private political statements made by members of the nobility, such as Diet speeches and personal correspondence. The book contributes to the large body of research on estate-based identities and the transformation of political language in the second half of the eighteenth century by connecting Swedish political ideals and concepts to their European context.
Book Synopsis Sedaine, Greuze and the Boundaries of Genre by : Mark Ledbury
Download or read book Sedaine, Greuze and the Boundaries of Genre written by Mark Ledbury and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reinterprets the work of the dramatist Michel-Jean Sedaine and the artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, in the context of their innovative engagement with discourses of genre in eighteenth-century France, and in the light of new archival evidence. It reveals the complexity and audacity of both men's work, and restablishes the less well-known as a figure of major importance.
Book Synopsis De Broglie's Armada by : Sudipta Das
Download or read book De Broglie's Armada written by Sudipta Das and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study represents the first published translation and analysis of an intriguing scheme of invasion of the British Isles that formed the foundation of all later invasion plans drawn up in the ivory towers of French diplomacy. References to invasion plans—made by Spain in the Spanish Armada (1585-98), or by the French Directory (1795-99) against Ireland and England in the later 1790s, or those of Napoleon Bonaparte (1799-1815), or 'Operation Sea Lion,' the German plan of invasion during the Nazi era—have been based on published information of earlier plans, at the heart of which was De Broglie's grand project.
Author :Music History and Literature San Francisco Conservatory of Music John Spitzer Chair Publisher :Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 13 :9780199719914 Total Pages :670 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (199 download)
Book Synopsis The Birth of the Orchestra : History of an Institution, 1650-1815 by : Music History and Literature San Francisco Conservatory of Music John Spitzer Chair
Download or read book The Birth of the Orchestra : History of an Institution, 1650-1815 written by Music History and Literature San Francisco Conservatory of Music John Spitzer Chair and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-08-05 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the orchestra, from 16th-century string bands to the "classical" orchestra of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Spitzer and Zaslaw document orchestral organization, instrumentation, social roles, repertories, and performance practices in Europe and the American colonies, concluding around 1800 with the widespread awareness of the orchestra as a central institution in European life.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Taylor Institution, Oxford by : Taylor Institution. Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Taylor Institution, Oxford written by Taylor Institution. Library and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of French Censors, 1742-1789: A-B by : William Hanley
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of French Censors, 1742-1789: A-B written by William Hanley and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Biblioteca Cooperiana by : Charles Purton Cooper
Download or read book Biblioteca Cooperiana written by Charles Purton Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue by : London sir John Soane's mus, libr
Download or read book Catalogue written by London sir John Soane's mus, libr and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture by : Christian Michel
Download or read book The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture written by Christian Michel and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (French Academy of Painting and Sculpture)—perhaps the single most influential art institution in history—governed the arts in France for more than 150 years, from its founding in 1648 until its abolition in 1793. Christian Michel's sweeping study presents an authoritative, in-depth analysis of the Académie’s history and legacy. The Académie Royale assembled nearly all of the important French artists working at the time, maintained a virtual monopoly on teaching and exhibitions, enjoyed a priority in obtaining royal commissions, and deeply influenced the artistic landscape in France. Yet the institution remains little understood today: all commentary on it, during its existence and since its abolition, is based on prejudices, both favorable and critical, that have shaped the way the institution has been appraised. This book takes a different approach. Rather than judging the Académie Royale, Michel unravels existing critical discourse to consider the nuances and complexities of the academy’s history, reexamining its goals, the shifting power dynamics both within the institution and in the larger political landscape, and its relationship with other French academies and guilds.
