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Author : François Nomé
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Franc̦ois de Nomé written by François Nomé and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bainard Cowan
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807121818
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Poetics of the Americas written by Bainard Cowan and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1997-08-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emanating from a colloquium held at Louisiana State University entitled “Intertextuality and Civilization in the Americas,” this volume features some of the best minds now writing in comparative and interdisciplinary fields. Through lively discussions of topics ranging from Sigmund Freud to Zora Neale Hurston, from Christopher Columbus to the Holocaust, and including latter-day cultural icons such as Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the contributors create a stimulating dialogue on the crucial role of the poetic imagination in shaping the identity of civilizations. Addressing themes such as the Moses story in modern literature, the relation between power and cultural encounter, the first African-American novel, and the foundations of Latin American literature and the New World baroque, the contributors link multiculturalism with intertextuality, crossing disciplinary, national, linguistic, and hemispheric boundaries. The volume closes with Jefferson Humphries’ deft translation of a poem by Edouard Glissant, a featured speaker at the conference whose writings bear a special relation to the subject of intertextuality. Together, the essays offer a full consideration of cultural identity and bring to the fore the difficult question of the larger responsibilities that identity entails. As Bainard Cowan illustrates in his perceptive introduction, in both the past and the future of the Americas, in moments of foundation as well as of conflict and dispersal, there has been or will be present the recurrent need for mythic and poetic understanding. An unusually timely work, Poetics of the Americas skillfully addresses the crises that the world faces in the confrontations of cultures, traditions, and peoples.
Author : Annette Condello
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317044762
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Architecture of Luxury written by Annette Condello and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past century, luxury has been increasingly celebrated in the sense that it is no longer a privilege (or attitude) of the European elite or America’s leisure class. It has become more ubiquitous and now, practically everyone can experience luxury, even luxury in architecture. Focusing on various contexts within Western Europe, Latin America and the United States, this book traces the myths and application of luxury within architecture, interiors and designed landscapes. Spanning from antiquity to the modern era, it sets out six historical categories of luxury - Sybaritic, Lucullan, architectural excess, rustic, neoEuropean and modern - and relates these to the built and unbuilt environment, taking different cultural contexts and historical periods into consideration. It studies some of the ethical questions raised by the nature of luxury in architecture and discusses whether architectural luxury is an unqualified benefit or something which should only be present within strict limits. The author argues how the ideas of permissible and impermissible luxury have informed architecture and how these notions of ethical approval have changed from one context to another. Providing voluptuous settings for the nobles and the leisure class, luxury took the form of not only grand palaces, but also follies, country and suburban houses, private or public entertainment venues and ornate skyscrapers with fast lifts. The Architecture of Luxury proposes that in Western societies the growth of the leisure classes and their desire for various settings for pleasure resulted in a constantly increasing level of ’luxury’ sought within everyday architecture.
Author : Steve Wakefield
Publisher : Tamesis Books
ISBN 13 : 9781855661073
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Carpentier's Baroque Fiction written by Steve Wakefield and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carpentier was one of the first novelists to introduce a version of magical realism and the neo-baroque into Latin American fiction. This study focuses on one of the first novelists to introduce a version of magical realism and the neo-baroque into Latin American fiction. Original research colours eyewitness accounts of Alejo Carpentier's travels through Spainbefore and during the Spanish Civil War and the inspiration that he drew from the Baroque architecture he encountered there. The origins of Carpentier's uniquely 'baroque' style are found in his endeavour to create a period ambience in his historical fictions through descriptions of visual arts and architectural settings, and parodies of the literary style of Spanish Golden Age writers. 'Medusa's gaze' is used as a metaphor for the petrifying power of theBaroque as a weapon of European dominance. By wielding the same weapon in an act of postcolonial defiance, Carpentier enabled a reassertion of Latin American culture, and laid the foundations for the 1960s 'Boom' in the Latin American novel. STEVE WAKEFIELD is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia
Author : John Ochoa
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813946093
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Fellow Travelers written by John Ochoa and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Road trips loom large in the American imagination, and stories from the road have been central to crafting national identities across North and South America. Tales of traversing this vast geography, with its singular landscape, have helped foster a sense of American exceptionalism. Examining three turning points that shaped exceptionalism in both Americas—the late colonial and early Republican period, expansion into the frontier, and the Cold War—John Ochoa pursues literary travelers across landscapes and centuries. At each historical crossroads, the nations of North and South invented or reinvented themselves in the shadow of empire. Travel accounts from these periods offered master narratives that shaped the notion of America’s postimperial future. Fellow Travelers recounts the complex, on-the-road relationships between travelers such as Lewis and Clark, Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland, Huckleberry Finn and Jim, Kerouac’s Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, and the Che Guevara and Alberto Granado of The Motorcycle Diaries. Such journeys reflect concerns far larger than their characters: tensions between the voices of the rugged individual and the democratic many, between the metropolis and the backcountry, and between the intimate and the vast. Working across national literatures, Fellow Travelers offers insight into a shared process of national reinvention and the construction of modern national imaginaries. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the Pennsylvania State University.
Author : Avery Library
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Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University written by Avery Library and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761475590
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (755 download)
Download or read book Gods, goddesses, and mythology written by and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains alphabetized entries on deities, concepts, practices, places, and objects related to the mythologies of cultures throughout history, and features color photos and sidebars. This volume covers Ach-Ara.
Author : Witt Library of the Courtauld Institute
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134264062
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Checklist of Painters from 1200-1994 written by Witt Library of the Courtauld Institute and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Witt Library of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, is one of the world's greatest art history libraries. It contains some 1.7 million illustrations of the work of painters, draughtsmen, and engravers of the Western tradition, all of whom have been indexed by name, dates, and nationality. This new second edition of the Checklist of Painters is a transcription of the Witt index as it currently exists. The names of 66,000 artists, their dates, and their nationality (or school) are reproduced in alphabetical order. The Checklist of Painters is probably the most exhaustive work of its kind in existence; it now lists all painters (known by art historians) to have lived and worked from the year 1200 to 1994. It will be an important reference text in the art history collection of any public, academic, or professional library.
Author : Ralph E. Giesey
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600029872
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (298 download)
Download or read book The Royal Funeral Ceremony in Renaissance France written by Ralph E. Giesey and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1960 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book International Art Market written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Gardner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674050800
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Giotto and His Publics written by Julian Gardner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political strife and religious faction lacerated fourteenth-century Italy. Giotto's commissions are best understood against the background of this social turmoil. They reflected the demands of his patrons, the requirements of the Franciscan Order, and the restlessly inventive genius of the painter. Julian Gardner examines this important period of Giotto's path-breaking career through works originally created for Franciscan churches: Stigmatization of Saint Francis from San Francesco at Pisa, now in the Louvre, the Bardi Chapel cycle of the Life of St. Francis in Santa Croce at Florence, and the frescoes of the crossing vault above the tomb of Saint Francis in the Lower Church of San Francesco at Assisi.
Author : Gregory Hanlon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198738242
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Italy 1636 written by Gregory Hanlon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy 1636 uses the French and Savoyard invasion of Spanish Lombardy in 1636 to explore the operation of early modern armies through a neo-Darwinian lens, uncovering the universal features of human behaviour and psychology as they relate to violence and war.
Author : Brian Kinsey
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0761499806
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Gods and Goddesses of Greece and Rome written by Brian Kinsey and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Represents a wide range of deities in the Greek and Roman pantheons, from Zeus and Jupiter to Eos and Quirinus. Includes discussions of the significance of the given deities, the mythology surrounding them, and the forms of worship associated with them.
Author : Elizabeth Horodowich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1942130848
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Amerasia written by Elizabeth Horodowich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A connected world as imagined by early modern European artists, mapmakers, and writers, where Asia and the Americas were on a continuum America and Asia mingled in the geographical and cultural imagination of Europe for well over a century after 1492. Through an array of texts, maps, objects, and images produced between 1492 and 1700, this compelling and revelatory study immerses the reader in a vision of a world where Mexico really was India, North America was an extension of China, and South America was marked by a variety of biblical and Asian sites. It asks, further: What does it mean that the Amerasian worldview predominated at a time when Europe itself was coming into cultural self-definition? Each of the chapters focuses on a particular artifact, map, image, or book that illuminates aspects of Amerasia from specific European cultural milieus. Amerasia shows how it was possible to inhabit a world where America and Asia were connected either imaginatively when viewed from afar, or in reality when traveling through the newly encountered lands. Readers will learn why early modern maps regularly label Mexico as India, why the “Amazonas” region was named after a race of Asian female warriors, and why artifacts and manuscripts that we now identify as Indian and Chinese are entangled in European collections with what we now label Americana. Elizabeth Horodowich and Alexander Nagel pose a dynamic model of the world and of Europe’s place in it that was eclipsed by the rise of Eurocentric colonialist narratives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. To rediscover this history is an essential part of coming to terms with the emergent polyfocal global reality of our own time.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book International Art Market and Art & Auctions written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, Fourth Earl of Ashburnam, and Other Sources written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
