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Author : Willard Bohn
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621967964
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Download or read book The Avant-Garde Imperative written by Willard Bohn and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katie Hornstein
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300253206
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Myth and Menagerie written by Katie Hornstein and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative examination of encounters between humans and lions and representations of these charismatic animals in the visual culture of postrevolutionary France In artistic traditions that stretch back to antiquity, lions have been associated with strength and authority. The figure of the lion in nineteenth-century France stood at a crossroads between these historical meanings and contemporary developments that recast the animal's significance, such as the literal presence of lions in public menageries. In this highly original study, Katie Hornstein explores the relationships among animals, spectatorship, and visual production. She examines the fascinating encounters between artists, viewers, and lions that took place--in menageries and circuses, on canvases, and on the pages of books--and out of which, she argues, new perceptions of power, empire, and the natural world emerged. Myth and Menagerie considers a range of visual objects, bringing into dialogue photographs of circus animals, hunting manuals, and zoo guidebooks with sculptures, drawings, and paintings by artists such as Théodore Géricault, Eugène Delacroix, Édouard Manet, and Rosa Bonheur. Illuminating the lives of individual lions against the backdrop of societal change and colonial expansion, Hornstein constructs a fresh theoretical framework for thinking about animals as more than symbols or passive subjects and for acknowledging a history in which both humans and animals had a stake.
Author : E. C. Spary
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226768708
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Utopia's Garden written by E. C. Spary and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and scientific practitioners. Yet unlike many such institutions, the Jardin not only survived the French Revolution but by 1800 had become the world's leading public establishment of natural history: the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. E. C. Spary traces the scientific, administrative, and political strategies that enabled the foundation of the Muséum, arguing that agriculture and animal breeding rank alongside classification and collections in explaining why natural history was important for French rulers. But the Muséum's success was also a consequence of its employees' Revolutionary rhetoric: by displaying the natural order, they suggested, the institution could assist in fashioning a self-educating, self-policing Republican people. Natural history was presented as an indispensable source of national prosperity and individual virtue. Spary's fascinating account opens a new chapter in the history of France, science, and the Enlightenment.
Author : Edwidge Danticat
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101872926
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book After the Dance written by Edwidge Danticat and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In After the Dance, one of Haiti’s most renowned daughters returns to her homeland, taking readers on a stunning, exquisitely rendered journey beyond the hedonistic surface of Carnival and into its deep heart. Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun tales of people dislocating hips from gyrating with too much abandon, losing their voices from singing too loudly, going deaf from the clamor of immense speakers, and being punched, stabbed, pummeled, or fondled by other lustful revelers. Now an adult, she resolves to return and exorcise her Carnival demons. She spends the week before Carnival in the area around Jacmel, exploring the rolling hills and lush forests and meeting the people who live and die in them. During her journeys she traces the heroic and tragic history of the island, from French colonists and Haitian revolutionaries to American invaders and home-grown dictators. Danticat also introduces us to many of the performers, artists, and organizers who re-create the myths and legends that bring the Carnival festivities to life. When Carnival arrives, we watch as she goes from observer to participant and finally loses herself in the overwhelming embrace of the crowd. Part travelogue, part memoir, this is a lyrical narrative of a writer rediscovering her country along with a part of herself. It’s also a wonderful introduction to Haiti’s southern coast and to the true beauty of Carnival.
Author : Emma Planinc
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231560990
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Regenerative Politics written by Emma Planinc and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics of liberal democracy from both the left and right view rights not as protectors of freedom but as impediments to self-determination and call for radically regenerative political alternatives. Liberals respond to these challenges by reasserting that universal rights are self-evident, intentionally foreclosing the possibility of remaking the political order. Regenerative Politics makes a bold intervention into this fraught landscape, arguing that the survival of rights depends on abandoning their claims to self-evidence. Emma Planinc argues that liberal democracies must open themselves up to a regenerative politics that accepts all claims against political convention as self-determinative—including those that desire the rejection of rights or the overturning of liberal democracies themselves. Bringing together scholarship on race, democracy, liberalism, fascism, and the far right with an intellectual history of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution and a novel account of human nature, Regenerative Politics offers a new political theory for the revitalization of politics. Planinc shows that liberal democracies can arm themselves against extreme challenges by remaining perpetually open to the reconstitution of rights, restoring the capacity for human beings to determine themselves in the world.
Author : Louise E. Robbins
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801867538
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (675 download)
Download or read book Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots written by Louise E. Robbins and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Adds a new dimension to our understanding of eighteenth-century France by investigating the provenance, treatment, and fate of exotic animals living in Paris in the 1700s."" -- American Historical Review.
Author : Louise E. Robbins
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 080187677X
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Elephant Slaves & Pampered Parrots written by Louise E. Robbins and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-04-29 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively history “adds a new dimension to our understanding of 18th-century France” by exploring the Parisian fashion of importing exotic animals (American Historical Review). In 1775, a visitor to Laurent Spinacuta’s Grande Ménagerie at the annual winter fair in Paris would have seen two tigers, several kinds of monkeys, an armadillo, an ocelot, and a condor—in all, forty-two live animals. In the streets of the city, one could observe performing elephants and a fighting polar bear. Those looking for unusual pets could purchase parrots, flying squirrels, and capuchin monkeys. The royal menagerie at Versailles displayed lions, cranes, an elephant, a rhinoceros, and a zebra, which in 1760 became a major court attraction. For Enlightenment-era Parisians, exotic animals piqued scientific curiosity and conveyed social status. Their variety and accessibility were a boon for naturalists like Buffon, author of Histoire naturelle. Louis XVI use his menagerie to demonstrate his power, while critics saw his caged animals as metaphors of slavery and oppression. In her engaging account, Robbins considers nearly every aspect of France’s obsession with exotic fauna, from the animals’ transportation and care to the inner workings of the oiseleurs’ (birdsellers’) guild. Based on wide-ranging research, Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots offers a major contribution to the history of human-animal relations, eighteenth-century culture, and French colonialism.
Author : Sigmar Polke
Publisher : RMN
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sigmar Polke and the French Revolution written by Sigmar Polke and published by RMN. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwidge Danticat
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 110197253X
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book A Walk Through Carnival written by Edwidge Danticat and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vintage Shorts Travel Selection Growing up in Haiti, Edwidge Danticat kept well clear of carnival—terrified by the stories of danger and debauchery that her uncle told her. Decades later, a grown woman and accomplished author, she returns home to find out what she’s been missing. In this selection from After the Dance, Danticat fuses her present-day observations with her own childhood memories and weaves a deeply personal reflection on the home she left behind. Through conversations with other attendees and her own deft reporting, she takes readers into the very heart of the festival. A Walk Through Carnival is as much memoir as it is travelogue; and, in these pages, the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Brother, I’m Dying brings the electric spirit of carnival vividly to life. An eBook short.
Author : Stephen T. Casper
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580465951
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences written by Stephen T. Casper and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did epidemics, zoos, German exiles, methamphetamine, disgruntled technicians, modern bureaucracy, museums, and whipping cream shape the emergence of modern neuroscience?
Author : Iris Moon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 150134840X
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Time, Media, and Visuality in Post-Revolutionary France written by Iris Moon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The radical break with the past heralded by the French Revolution in 1789 has become one of the mythic narratives of our time. Yet in the drawn-out afterlife of the Revolution, and through subsequent periods of Empire, Restoration, and Republic, the question of what such a temporal transformation might involve found complex, often unresolved expression in visual and material culture. This diverse collection of essays draws attention to the eclectic objects and forms of visuality that emerged in France from the beginning of the French Revolution through to the end of the July Monarchy in 1848. It offers a new account of the story of French art's modernity by exploring the work of genre painters and miniaturists, sign-painters and animal artists, landscapists, architects, and printmakers, as they worked out what it meant to be “post-revolutionary.”
Author : Paul Gauguin
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Writings of a Savage written by Paul Gauguin and published by Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Zoologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Baratay
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861892089
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Zoo written by Eric Baratay and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild animals have fascinated human observers since time immemorial. The story of our interest in collecting, classifying and dominating Nature so that its inner workings could be understood also looms large in the history of science, and thus it is surprising that the history of menageries, zoological gardens and the zoo as we know it today has been so poorly documented. This gap is addressed by Zoo, a comprehensive history of the zoo in the Western world.
Author : John Sutherland
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 178131246X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Jumbo written by John Sutherland and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1861 in French Sudan, imported to Paris as a two year old calf, then later sold to the London Zoo at Regent's Park, Jumbo the elephant delighted countless children (including Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt) with rides and treats gently taken from outstretched hands. Each night, after the children and their families had gone home, he was mistreated in an attempt to keep him docile. By the time he reached sexual maturity, the abused and isolated animal had become dangerously unstable. He was sold to showman P.T. Barnum in 1881 (despite letters from 100,000 British schoolchildren who wrote to Queen Victoria begging her to prevent the sale) and brought to America. There, in the company of other elephants and amid greater physical freedom, Jumbo stabilized and went on to become one of the most lucrative circus acts of all time - as well as the most beloved. The world mourned when his life ended in 1885, with a storied (and most likely embellished) act of animal heroism. Jumbo reportedly rushed in front of an oncoming train in an effort to save a smaller elephant – his companion "Tom Thumb" – then perished while reaching his trunk out toward his longtime handler Matthew Scott – whose intense connection with the pachyderm spawned legends of its own. Integrating the history of elephants in captivity along with the details of Jumbo's celebrity life, dramatic death, and lasting cultural legacy, John Sutherland has written the first comprehensive "biography" of this incredible animal - one whose name has given us one of our most common and hyperbolic adjectives.
Author : Louise E. Robbins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots written by Louise E. Robbins and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 974 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
