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Book Jacques Louis David

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  • Author : Jacques Louis David
  • Publisher : University of Delaware Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780874139303
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book Jacques Louis David written by Jacques Louis David and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Well-known specialists in art history, gender studies, French literature, and aesthetics address a wide range of issues and problems pertaining to the intersection of art and culture that have profound implications for artistic and historical developments in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century France and Europe. The essays present new historical, archival, and interpretative material from diverse methodological vantage points in clear and lucid prose that makes the volume particularly accessible to a broader public interested in learning more about the artist and his time. The text is complemented by seventeen black-and-white plates and fifty-five figures."--Jacket.

Book Horace

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  • Author : Pierre Corneille
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 118 pages

Download or read book Horace written by Pierre Corneille and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New English translation of a key work of French classical tragedy brings this masterpiece alive to a modern audience. The introduction and other background material by David Clarke, a leading British Corneille expert, make this an up-to-date and appe

Book Corneille s Horace  Or the Horatii  Literally

Download or read book Corneille s Horace Or the Horatii Literally written by Pierre Corneille and published by . This book was released on 18?? with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Corneille s Horace

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  • Author : Pierre Corneille
  • Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
  • Release : 2018-11-08
  • ISBN : 9780344905490
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Corneille s Horace written by Pierre Corneille and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book David to Delacroix

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  • Author : Walter F. Friedlaender
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1952
  • ISBN : 9780674194014
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book David to Delacroix written by Walter F. Friedlaender and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1952 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This renowned study follows the evolution of French painting from the Revolution through the Napoleonic era. Beginning with David's revolutionary classicism, Friedlaender scrutinizes the work of early-nineteenth-century artists against the background of their times. He reveals the baroque tendencies diffused into the art of Prudhon and the same predisposition, mixed with a strong realism, in the work of Géricault. Two distinct trends appear, deriving from Pussin and Rubens. The author follows the styles as they mature, and represents their consumation in two great masters—the refined and abstract classicism of Ingres and the baroque of Delacroix with its flamboyant colorism and exotic subjects.

Book Hume and the Heroic Portrait

Download or read book Hume and the Heroic Portrait written by Edgar Wind and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of Edgar Wind's selected papers, a companion to The Elegance of Symbols. Of all the scholars associated with the early development of the Warbur Institute Edgar Wind was the first to apply different theoretical principles to the study of English Art, above all in his early study of English portraiture, now a classic art history text. As the seminal essay, it gives title to the present volume, and is here translated into English for the first time. In this essay, which marked a change of direction in Wind's own development, he argues that two opposing styles of portraiture, exemplified in the art of Gainsborough and Reynolds, can be related to the different notions of humanity subscribed to by the philosophers David Hume and James Beattie. Other important studies, also reprinted here, make this volume an excellent resource to Wind's tremendous contributions to art history.

Book Desire and Excess

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  • Author : Jonah Siegel
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2021-05-11
  • ISBN : 1400849829
  • Pages : 381 pages

Download or read book Desire and Excess written by Jonah Siegel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating look at the creative power of institutions, Jonah Siegel explores the rise of the modern idea of the artist in the nineteenth century, a period that also witnessed the emergence of the museum and the professional critic. Treating these developments as interrelated, he analyzes both visual material and literary texts to portray a culture in which art came to be thought of in powerful new ways. Ultimately, Siegel shows that artistic controversies commonly associated with the self-consciously radical movements of modernism and postmodernism have their roots in a dynamic era unfairly characterized as staid, self-satisfied, and stable. The nineteenth century has been called the Age of the Museum, and yet critics, art theorists, and poets during this period grappled with the question of whether the proliferation of museums might lead to the death of Art itself. Did the assembly and display of works of art help the viewer to understand them or did it numb the senses? How was the contemporary artist to respond to the vast storehouses of art from disparate nations and periods that came to proliferate in this era? Siegel presents a lively discussion of the shock experienced by neoclassical artists troubled by remains of antiquity that were trivial or even obscene, as well as the anxious aesthetic reveries of nineteenth-century art lovers overwhelmed by the quantity of objects quickly crowding museums and exhibition halls. In so doing, he illuminates the fruitful crises provoked when the longing for admired art is suddenly satisfied. Drawing upon neoclassical art and theory, biographies of early nineteenth-century writers including Keats and Scott, and the writings of art critics such as Hazlitt, Ruskin, and Wilde, this book reproduces a cultural matrix that brings to life the artistic passions and anxieties of an entire era.

Book Corneille s Horace  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Corneille s Horace Classic Reprint written by John E. Matzke and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Corneille's Horace Horace was the second of the great plays of Corneille, following the Cid after an interval of some three years. The first representation occurred early in the year 1640, presumably at the Hotel de Bourgogne. This date is established through a letter of Chapelain, the author of the Academy's Sentiments stir le Cid to Balzac, written on the ninth of March of that year, in which he says: Pour le combat des Horaces, ce ne sera pas sitot que vous le verrez, pour ce qu'il n'a encore ete represente qu'une fois devant son Eminence, et que, devant que d'etre publie, il faut qu'il serve six mois de gagne-pain aux comediens. The causes for this long silence were varied. Foremost among them was without doubt the discouragement consequent upon the Quarrel of the Cid. In the beginning Corneille's pride was wounded, and he threatened that he would give cause for further discussion in the near future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book CORNEILLE S HORACE

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  • Author : PIERRE. CORNEILLE
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9781033897034
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book CORNEILLE S HORACE written by PIERRE. CORNEILLE and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes

Download or read book Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes written by Warburg Institute and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes

Download or read book Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imagery and Ideology

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  • Author : William J. Berg
  • Publisher : Associated University Presse
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780874139952
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Imagery and Ideology written by William J. Berg and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature is ostensibly a sequential and thus temporal medium, and painting a static and spatial one; yet writers like George Sand and Emile Zola have attempted repeatedly to represent visual and spatial phenomena in literary texts, just as painters like Eugene Delacroix and Claude Monet have sought consistently to capture effects of time and movement on canvas. The incorporation of elements from one artistic medium into another creates a dynamic interplay of image and ideology, both between art forms and within individual texts and paintings, which constitutes the crux of this book. Each chapter involves the detailed analysis of a text and a painting, related through topic, theme, and technique. By juxtaposing the works of ten major writers and ten painters of comparable stature, the book explores the various modalities and layers of meaning in nineteenth-century French art, both verbal and visual, and proposes ways of reading the ambivalent artifacts of "modernity." Illustrated.

Book A New History of Western Art

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  • Author : Koenraad Jonckheere
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2022-10-15
  • ISBN : 0300267525
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book A New History of Western Art written by Koenraad Jonckheere and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical re-examination of 2,500 years of European art, deconstructing and demystifying its long history from ancient to present How has art evolved from the pursuit of the 'ideal' human form to a black square on a white canvas? Why is a banana duct-taped to a wall worth more on the art market than a beautiful seventeenth-century landscape? By taking art for what it actually is -- a piece of stone or wood, a sheet of paper with some lines drawn on it, a painted canvas -- this lively and accessible account shows how seemingly meaningless objects can be transformed into celebrated works of art. Breaking with conventional notions of artistic genius, Koenraad Jonckheere explores how stories and emotions give meaning to objects, and why changing historical circumstances result in such shifting opinions over time. Tracing its story from ancient times to present, A New History of Western Art reframes the evolution of European art and radically reshapes our understanding of art history. Published in association with Hannibal Books

Book Jacques Louis David  Radical Draftsman

Download or read book Jacques Louis David Radical Draftsman written by Perrin Stein and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major exhibition catalogue to focus on Jacques Louis David's drawings and their pivotal role in the creation of his iconic history paintings The paintings of Jacques Louis David (1748–1825) are among the most iconic in the history of Western art, but comparatively little is known about his nearly two thousand drawings that formed the basis of beloved masterpieces such as The Oath of the Horatii and The Death of Socrates. Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman accompanies the first major exhibition to focus on the artist's often yearslong process of trial and experimentation, from initial idea to finished canvas. Including several recently discovered drawings published here for the first time, this volume provides a new perspective on the celebrated master. Essays by international experts explore what David's preparatory works on paper reveal about his creative process and how they bear witness to the tumultuous years before, during, and after the French Revolution. As both a participant and an observer, David helped establish the new French society while documenting the drama, violence, and triumphs of modern history in the making.

Book Painting the Cannon s Roar

Download or read book Painting the Cannon s Roar written by Thomas Tolley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From c.1750 to c.1810 the paths of music history and the history of painting converged with lasting consequences. The publication of Newton's Opticks at the start of the eighteenth century gave a 'scientific' basis to the analogy between sight and sound, allowing music and the visual arts to be defined more closely in relation to one another. This was also a period which witnessed the emergence of a larger and increasingly receptive audience for both music and the visual arts - an audience which potentially included all social strata. The development of this growing public and the commercial potential that it signified meant that for the first time it became possible for a contemporary artist to enjoy an international reputation. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the career of Joseph Haydn. Although this phenomenon defies conventional modes of study, the book shows how musical pictorialism became a major creative force in popular culture. Haydn, the most popular living cultural personality of the period, proved to be the key figure in advancing the new relationship. The connections between the composer and his audiences and leading contemporary artists (including Tiepolo, Mengs, Kauffman, Goya, David, Messerschmidt, Loutherbourg, Canova, Copley, Fuseli, Reynolds, Gillray and West) are examined here for the first time. By the early nineteenth century, populism was beginning to be regarded with scepticism and disdain. Mozart was the modern Raphael, Beethoven the modern Michelangelo. Haydn, however, had no clear parallel in the accepted canon of Renaissance art. Yet his recognition that ordinary people had a desire to experience simultaneous aural and visual stimulation was not altogether lost, finding future exponents in Wagner and later still in the cinematic arts.

Book Corneille s Horace  Ed  with Introduction and Notes  by John E  Matzke

Download or read book Corneille s Horace Ed with Introduction and Notes by John E Matzke written by Pierre Corneille and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thinking About Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Penny Huntsman
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2015-09-28
  • ISBN : 1118904974
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Thinking About Art written by Penny Huntsman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking about Art explores some of the greatest works of art and architecture in the world through the prism of themes, instead of chronology, to offer intriguing juxtapositions of art and history. The book ranges across time and topics, from the Parthenon to the present day and from patronage to ethnicity, to reveal art history in new and varied lights. With over 200 colour illustrations and a wealth of formal and contextual analysis, Thinking about Art is a companion guide for art lovers, students and the general reader, and is also the first A-level Art History textbook, written by a skilled and experienced teacher of art history, Penny Huntsman. The book is accompanied by a companion website at www.wiley.com/go/thinkingaboutart.