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Book Pre Raphaelite Treasures at National Museums Liverpool

Download or read book Pre Raphaelite Treasures at National Museums Liverpool written by Laura MacCulloch and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated colour catalogue of the fine collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings at National Museums Liverpool, including the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt.

Book The Life of Mrs  Humphry Ward

Download or read book The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward written by Janet Penrose Trevelyan and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Living Classics

Download or read book Living Classics written by S. J. Harrison and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the extensive use of Latin and Greek literary texts in a range of recent poetry written in English. It contains both contributions from poets, who include Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley, talking about their uses of classical literature in their own work in lyric poetry and in theatre poetry, and essays from academic experts on the same topics. Living Classics asks why contemporary poets are returning to making versions of and allusions to Greek and Roman literature in their work, and interrogates the parallel interest of modern classical scholars in the contemporary reception of classical texts.

Book Pre Raphaelites

    Book Details:
  • Author : T. J. Barringer
  • Publisher : Tate Publishing(UK)
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Pre Raphaelites written by T. J. Barringer and published by Tate Publishing(UK). This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining rebellion and revivalism, scientific precision and imaginative grandeur, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood shook the mid-19th-century art world. Featuring painting, photography, sculpture and applied arts, this book examines both well-known masterpieces and lesser-known works.

Book The Use of Classical Art and Literature by Victorian Painters  1860 1912

Download or read book The Use of Classical Art and Literature by Victorian Painters 1860 1912 written by Rosemary J. Barrow and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores the reception of the classical world in painting from the mid-Victorian period to the second decade of the twentieth century and centres on an examination of oil painting exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts"--Page [vii].

Book A C  Swinburne and the Singing Word

Download or read book A C Swinburne and the Singing Word written by Yisrael Levin and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Algernon Charles Swinburne's later writings, this collection makes a case for the seriousness and significance of the writer's mature work. Among the key features of the collection is the contextualizing of Swinburne's work in new contexts such as Victorian mythography, Victorian literary criticism, continental aestheticism, positivism, and empiricism. Taken together, the essays offer scholars a richer portrait of Swinburne's importance as a poet, critic, and fiction writer.

Book Swinburne s Apollo

Download or read book Swinburne s Apollo written by Yisrael Levin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Algernon Charles Swinburne's poems on Apollo, Yisrael Levin calls for a re-examination of the poet's place in Victorian studies in light of his contributions to nineteenth-century intellectual history. Swinburne's Apollonian poetry, Levin argues, shows the poet's active participation in late-Victorian debates about the nature and function of faith in an age of changing religious attitudes. Levin traces the shifts that took place in Swinburne's conception of Apollo over a period of four decades, from Swinburne's attempt to define Apollo as an alternative to the Judeo-Christian deity to Swinburne's formation of a theological system revolving around Apollo and finally to the ways in which Swinburne's view of Apollo led to his agnostic view of spirituality. Even though Swinburne had lost his faith and rejected institutional religion by his early twenties, he retained a distinct interest in spiritual issues and paid careful attention to developments in religious thought. Levin persuasively shows that Swinburne was not simply a poet provocateur who enjoyed controversy but failed to provide valid cultural commentary, but was rather a profound thinker whose insights into nineteenth-century spirituality are expressed throughout his Apollonian poetry.

Book Hellenomania

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katherine Harloe
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-01-29
  • ISBN : 1351999141
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Hellenomania written by Katherine Harloe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hellenomania, the second volume in the MANIA series, presents a wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary exploration of the modern reception of ancient Greek material culture in cultural practices ranging from literature to architecture, stage and costume design, painting, sculpture, cinema, and the performing arts. It examines both canonical and less familiar responses to both real and imagined Greek antiquities from the seventeenth century to the present, across various national contexts. Encompassing examples from Inigo Jones to the contemporary art exhibition documenta 14, and from Thessaloniki and Delphi to Nashville, the contributions examine attempted reconstructions of an ‘authentic’ ancient Greece alongside imaginative and utopian efforts to revive the Greek spirit using modern technologies, new media, and experimental practices of the body. Also explored are the political resonances of Hellenomaniac fascinations, and tensions within them between the ideal and the real, the past, present, and future. Part I examines the sources and derivations of Hellenomania from the Baroque and pre-Romantic periods to the early twentieth century. While covering more canonical material than the following sections, it also casts spotlights on less familiar figures and sets the scene for the illustrations of successive waves of Hellenomania explored in subsequent chapters. Part II focuses on responses, uses, and appropriations of ancient Greek material culture in the built environment—mostly architecture—but also extends to painting and even gymnastics; it examines in particular how a certain idealisation of ancient Greek architecture affected its modern applications. Part III explores challenges to the idealisation of ancient Greece, through the transformative power of colour, movement, and of reliving the past in the present human body, especially female. Part IV looks at how the fascination with the material culture of ancient Greece can move beyond the obsession with Greece and Greekness.

Book Mythology and Misogyny

Download or read book Mythology and Misogyny written by Joseph A. Kestner and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 19th century British classical subject or mythological paintings have traditionally been viewed as little more than decorative canvases. In this work, the author claims these paintings are something more - an integral part of a broad-based value system that reinforced patriarchal dominance by inculcating misogynistic and gynophobic attitudes among the broad public.

Book Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions

Download or read book Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions written by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting Walter Pater’s diverse engagements with literature, the visual arts, history, and philosophy, this collection of essays explores new interdisciplinary perspectives engaging readers and scholars alike to revisit methodologies, intertextualities, metaphysical positions, and stylistic features in the works of the Victorian essayist. A revised contextual portrait of Pater in Victorian culture questions representations of the detached aesthete. Current editorial and biographical projects show Pater as fully responsive to the emergence of modern consumer culture and the changes in readership in Britain and the United States. New critical views of rarely studied texts enhance the image of Pater as a cosmopolitan aesthete dialoguing with contemporary culture. Conceptual analysis of his texts brings new light to the aesthetic paradox embodied by Pater, between artistic detachment and immersion in the Heraclitean flux of life. Finally, aestheticism is redefined as proposing new artistic and linguistic synthesis by merging art forms and embracing interart poetics.

Book The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature

Download or read book The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature written by David Hopkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present volume [3] is the first to appear of the five that will comprise The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (henceforth OHCREL). Each volume of OHCREL will have its own editor or team of editors"--Preface.

Book Murillo y su estela en Sevilla

Download or read book Murillo y su estela en Sevilla written by Fernando Quiles García and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Uno de los aspectos más necesitados de investigación y revisión es precisamente el de los discípulos de Murillo. Tanto Diego Angulo como Enrique Valdivieso han señalado en sus respectivos catálogos razonados que es precisamente en los discípulos de Murillo como Pedro Núñez de Villavicencio, Juan Simón Gutiérrez, Sebastián Gómez 'el mulato', Francisco Meneses Osorio, Esteban Márquez y en el XVIII Ruiz Soriano, Domingo Martínez hasta Juan de Espinal donde todavía perduran los ecos del murillismo. Estudiar con rigor y con un discurso nuevo, absolutamente renovador, la perduración de los modelos murillescos y el funcionamiento de la academia sevillana, es una de las asignaturas pendientes de la investigación histórico-artística. Sería una ocasión única para arrojar luz a este complicado mundo que está virtualmente inédito."--publisher's description.

Book The Colours of the Past in Victorian England

Download or read book The Colours of the Past in Victorian England written by Charlotte Ribeyrol and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As new, artificial dyes were created in the second half of the nineteenth century, a longing for faded, ancient hues emerged in artistic circles. This collection focuses on the complex reception of the colours of the past in the works of major Victorian writers and artists, exploring the multiple facets of their chromatic nostalgia.

Book Idols of Perversity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bram Dijkstra
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Idols of Perversity written by Bram Dijkstra and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book filled with the dangerous fantasies of the Beautiful People of a century ago. It contains a few scenes of exemplary virtue and many more of lurid sin.

Book A Compendium of Lacanian Terms

Download or read book A Compendium of Lacanian Terms written by Huguette Glowinski and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacques Lacan (1901-81) was one of the most original and controversial thinkers of the post-war period. His ideas had a profound effect on the intellectual movements of his time and his work is of continuing importance to a wide range of disciplines: psychoanalytic theory and practice, literary criticism, critical social theory, linguistics, cinema, art criticism and political science. Lacan's ideas can, however, be notoriously difficult: convoluted, idiosyncratic, arcane, and almost always obscure! A Compendium of Lacanian Terms provides students of Lacan with a clear and helpful exposition on some 40 key terms. Each entry outlines the conceptualization of the idea, locating it within Lacanian discourse, and the evolution of the term within the development of Lacan's ideas. A list of references is provided at the end of each entry. The editors' brief essay-like descriptions of key Lacanian terms are a superb idea, much needed in both academic and clinical arenas of psychoanalytic world. - Choice - Jan 2002

Book The Pre Raphaelite Lens

    Book Details:
  • Author : Diane Waggoner
  • Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9781848220676
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book The Pre Raphaelite Lens written by Diane Waggoner and published by Lund Humphries Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich dialogue between photography and Pre-Raphaelite art explored within this fascinating catalogue is organised around the themes of landscape, portraiture, literary and historical narratives and modern-life subjects. Fully illustrated with over 200 images, this volume combines groundbreaking scholarship with stunning imagery.

Book Frederic Leighton

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frederic Leighton Baron Leighton of Stretton
  • Publisher : Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780300079371
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Frederic Leighton written by Frederic Leighton Baron Leighton of Stretton and published by Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies. This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings reinterpreting the art of Frederic Leighton, challenging the view that limits him to the category of Victorian artist. It extends the discussion beyond Leighton's life and addresses issues such as gender and sexuality, and the artist's identity and self-positioning.