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Book The Aurora by William Adolphe Bouguereau

Download or read book The Aurora by William Adolphe Bouguereau written by Ted E. Bear Press and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blank journal with a work of art on the cover! Life is art, and what better way to chronicle the goings-on in your life than in our Art of Life Journal showcasing William-Adolphe Bouguereau's work of art, "The Aurora". There are 150 pages for journal entries. Each page is printed on 60# stock, and is lightly lined and embellished. The cover is printed on 10pt stock, and is laminated for increased durability.

Book Catalogue of Modern Paintings Belonging to the Estate of the Late Charles J  Osborn  the Estate of the Late Edwin Thorne  and to Edwin S  Chapin  to be Sold by Absolute Auction at Chickering Hall

Download or read book Catalogue of Modern Paintings Belonging to the Estate of the Late Charles J Osborn the Estate of the Late Edwin Thorne and to Edwin S Chapin to be Sold by Absolute Auction at Chickering Hall written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Shipwreck Sea

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffrey M. Duban
  • Publisher : CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
  • Release : 2019-01-28
  • ISBN : 1912992000
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book The Shipwreck Sea written by Jeffrey M. Duban and published by CLAIRVIEW BOOKS. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sappho, in the words of poet Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), was “simply nothing less – as she is certainly nothing more – than the greatest poet who ever was at all.” Born over 2,600 years ago on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sappho, the namesake lesbian, wrote amorously of men and women alike, exhibiting both masculine and feminine tendencies in her poetry and life. What’s left of her writing, and what we know of her, is fragmentary, and thus ever subject to speculation and study. The Shipwreck Sea highlights the love poetry of the soulful Sappho, the impassioned Ibycus, and the playful Anacreon, among other Greek lyric poets of the age (7th to 5th centuries BC), with verse translations into English by author Jeffrey Duban. The book also features selected Latin poets who wrote on erotic themes – Catullus, Lucretius, Horace, and Petronius – and poems by Charles Baudelaire, with his milestone rejoinder to lesbian love (“Lesbos”) and, in the same stanzaic meter, a turn to the consoling power of memory in love’s more frequently tormented recall (“Le Balcon”). Duban also translates selected Carmina Burana of Carl Orff, the poems frequently Anacreontic in spirit. The book’s essays include a comprehensive analysis with a new translation of Horace’s famed Odes 1.5 (“To Pyrrha”), in which the theme of (love’s) shipwreck predominates, and an opening treatise-length argument – exploring painting, sculpture, literature, and other Western art forms – on the irrelevance of gender to artistic creation. (No, Homer was not a woman, and it would make no difference if she were.) Twenty full-color artwork reproductions, masterpieces in their own right, illustrate and bring Duban’s argument to life. Finally, Duban presents a selection of his own love poems, imitations and pastiches written over a lifetime – these composed in the “classical mode”, which is the leitmotif of this volume. The Shipwreck Sea is a delightful and continually thought-provoking companion to The Lesbian Lyre, both books vividly demonstrating that classicism yet thrives in our time, despite the modernism marshaled against it.

Book Oscar Wilde s America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Warner Blanchard
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1998-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300074604
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Oscar Wilde s America written by Mary Warner Blanchard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1882 Oscar Wilde toured America as the "Apostle of Aestheticism". The nation was still shaken by the Civil War, and Wilde's message of regeneration through art and beauty seemed to open new horizons. In this first cultural history of the aesthetic movement in the U.S., Mary Blanchard provides an imaginative account of a neglected dimension of our history. 221 illustrations.

Book Atlantic Coast by Rv

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  • Author : Jan Young
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 1105111598
  • Pages : 73 pages

Download or read book Atlantic Coast by Rv written by Jan Young and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art Interchange

Download or read book The Art Interchange written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wisconsin Poets at the Elvehjem Museum of Art

Download or read book Wisconsin Poets at the Elvehjem Museum of Art written by Elvehjem Museum of Art and published by Chazen Museum of Art. This book was released on 1995 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-four poets use art in the Elvehjem galleries as their inspiration. Each artwork is shown on a page facing the poem. Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Book English Art  1860 1914

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  • Author : David Peters Corbett
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780719055201
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book English Art 1860 1914 written by David Peters Corbett and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the first studies of its kind, Orphan texts seeks to insert the orphan, and the problems its existence poses, in the larger critical areas of the family and childhood in Victorian culture. In doing so, Laura Peters considers certain canonical texts alongside lesser known works from popular culture in order to establish the context in which discourses of orphanhood operated.The study argues that the prevalence of the orphan figure can be explained by considering the family. The family and all it came to represent - legitimacy, race and national belonging - was in crisis. In order to reaffirm itself the family needed a scapegoat: it found one in the orphan figure. As one who embodied the loss of the family, the orphan figure came to represent a dangerous threat to the family; and the family reaffirmed itself through the expulsion of this threatening difference. Orphan texts will be of interest to final year undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and those interested in the areas of Victorian literature, Victorian studies, postcolonial studies, history and popular culture.

Book Gilded Mansions

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  • Author : Wayne Craven
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780393067545
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Gilded Mansions written by Wayne Craven and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gilded Age (1865-1918) saw the sudden rise of America's first High Society, including such prominent families as the Astors, Whitneys, and Vanderbilts. As an aristocracy based on fortunes recently acquired, these families endeavored to live like Europe's blue-blooded nobility, shedding Puritan restraint as they joyously flaunted their new wealth--especially where their homes were concerned. They erected French chateaus and Italian palazzos on New York's Fifth Avenue, at Newport, and elsewhere, often taking inspiration from Parisian styles of the Second Empire. They rejected more modest American styles just as they rejected middle-class society, and for interior decoration they turned to such artisans as Tiffany, Herter Brothers, and Allard's of Paris. Immensely readable and illuminated with 250 stunning color and black-and-white illustrations, this is the fascinating story of America's first millionaire society, the way they lived and partied, and the lush artistic and cultural legacy they established.

Book Angels

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  • Author : Lorenz Books
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9781859671054
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Angels written by Lorenz Books and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images and archetypes of heavenly figures are part of our religion, mythology and collective unconscious, depicted in art, prose and poetry for thousands of years. Angels brings the finest of these words and paintings together to celebrate these celestial beings, from half-seen ethereal presences and awe-inspiring avengers, to putti, chubby cherubs and mischievous Cupids plotting their pranks. It is the ideal book for those who already sense these angelic presences, and for those who wish they did. Book jacket.

Book Andrew Marvell s Liminal Lyrics

Download or read book Andrew Marvell s Liminal Lyrics written by Joan Faust and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics: The Space Between is an interdisciplinary study of the major lyric poems of seventeenth-century British metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell. The poet and his work have generally proven enigmatic to scholars because both refuse to fit into normal categories and expectations. This study invites Marvell readers to view the poet and some of his representative lyrics in the context of the anthropological concept of liminality as developed by Victor Turner and enriched by Arnold Van Gennep, Jacques Lacan, and other observers of the in-between aspects of experience. The approach differs from previous attempts to "explain" Marvell in that it allows multidisciplinary and multi-media contexts in a broad matrix of the areas of experience and representation that defy boundaries, that blur the line at which entrance becomes exit. This study acknowledges that the poems discussed, and, by implication, the entire corpus of Marvell's work and the life that produced it, derive from a refusal to draw a definite divide. In analyzing a small selection of Marvell's life and lyrics as explorations of various realms of liminality in word and image, readers can see a passageway to the poet's works that never really reaches a destination; instead, the unlimited possibilities of the journey remain. Thus, the in-between aspects of the poet and his poetry actually define his technique as well as his brilliance.

Book Cherubs

    Book Details:
  • Author : Courage Books (Firm)
  • Publisher : Seal Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780762403448
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Cherubs written by Courage Books (Firm) and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tribute to baby angels, ephemeral symbols of goodness, includes quotes from artists, writers, and other notables throughout history. Full-color paintings and illustrations. 60 illustrations.

Book The American Encyclopaedic Dictionary

Download or read book The American Encyclopaedic Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Angels

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  • Author : Smithmark Publishing
  • Publisher : Smithmark Publishers
  • Release : 1995-08
  • ISBN : 9780831738266
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Angels written by Smithmark Publishing and published by Smithmark Publishers. This book was released on 1995-08 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art Collector s Guidebook

Download or read book The Art Collector s Guidebook written by Manuel D. Duldulao and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Picture History of Painting  from Cave Painting to Modern Times

Download or read book The Picture History of Painting from Cave Painting to Modern Times written by Horst Woldemar Janson and published by New York : Washington Square Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of painting from earliest times.

Book Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences

Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences written by John Powell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-10-30 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, the process of cultural development and, in particular, the role of reading has been of growing interest, but recent research has been episodic and idiosyncratic. In this biographical dictionary, research devoted specifically to the reading habits of 19th century individuals who shaped Western culture is brought together for the first time. While giving prominent coverage to literary and political figures, the volume's 270 entries also include musicians, painters, educators, and explorers. Each entry includes brief biographical information, a concise summary of literary influences on the subject, and clear direction for further research. The book provides a practical tool for scholars wishing to trace the reading experience of important Western cultural figures. Subjects were selected from the people most responsible for the cultural development of Europe, Britain and the British Empire, and the Americas between 1800 and 1914. Although selective, the sample of 270 figures is substantial enough to suggest broad, cross-cultural habits and effects, enabling scholars to better understand the relationship between reading and culture. In an introductory essay, Powell explores the patterns and relationships that can be discerned from the entries. The first of three anticipated volumes, the book is an important step forward in researching the role of reading in cultural development.