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Book Van Gogh

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven W. Naifeh
  • Publisher : Random House Incorporated
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0375507485
  • Pages : 1010 pages

Download or read book Van Gogh written by Steven W. Naifeh and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2011 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on newly available primary sources to present an in-depth, accessible profile that offers revisionist assessments of the influential artist's turbulent life and genius works.

Book The Experimental Novel  and Other Essays

Download or read book The Experimental Novel and Other Essays written by Émile Zola and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Textual Intersections

Download or read book Textual Intersections written by Rachael Langford and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the multifaceted ways in which textual material in nineteenth-century European cultures intersected with non-literary cultural artefacts and concepts. The essays consider the presence of such diverse phenomena as the dandy, nationhood, diasporic identity, operatic and dramatic personae and effects, trapeze artists, paintings, and the grotesque and fantastic in the work of a variety of writers from France, Germany, Spain, Britain, Russia, Greece and Italy. The volume argues for a view of the long nineteenth century as a century of lively cultural dialogue and exchange between national and sub-national cultures, between 'high' and popular art forms, and between different genres and different media, and it will be of interest to general readers and scholars alike.

Book Edmond de Goncourt and the Novel

Download or read book Edmond de Goncourt and the Novel written by Katherine Ashley and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmond de Goncourt’s four solo novels are not simply extensions of the Goncourt brothers’ joint project, but attempts to deviate from the Naturalism with which their name had come to be associated. By analysing paratexts, the relationship between documentation and fiction, as well as plot devices and themes, this study links the evolution of Goncourt’s fiction to wider literary debates surrounding Naturalism, Decadence and the renewal of the novel in fin de siècle France. In bringing Goncourt’s writings to an English-speaking public, it will be of interest to students and scholars of the literary history of late-nineteenth-century France.

Book The Goncourt Brothers

Download or read book The Goncourt Brothers written by University of New Mexico and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Language Series

Download or read book Language Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Makers of Nineteenth Century Culture

Download or read book Makers of Nineteenth Century Culture written by Justin Wintle Esq and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a critical examination of the lives and works of the leading novelists, poets, dramatists, artists, philosophers, social thinkers, mathematicians and scientists of the period. The subjects are assessed in the light of their cultural importance, and each entry is deliberately interpretative, making this work both an essential reference tool and an engaging collection of essays. Figures covered include: Marx, Wagner,Darwin, Malthus, Balzac, Jane Austen, Nietzsche, Babbage, Edgar Allan Poe, Ruskin, Schleiermacher, Herbert Spencer, Harriet Martineau and Oscar Wilde.

Book New Makers of Modern Culture

Download or read book New Makers of Modern Culture written by Justin Wintle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 2569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Makers of Modern Culture is the successor to the classic reference works Makers of Modern Culture and Makers of Nineteenth-Century Culture, published by Routledge in the early 1980s. The set was extremely successful and continues to be used to this day, due to the high quality of the writing, the distinguished contributors, and the cultural sensitivity shown in the selection of those individuals included. New Makers of Modern Culture takes into full account the rise and fall of reputation and influence over the last twenty-five years and the epochal changes that have occurred: the demise of Marxism and the collapse of the Soviet Union; the rise and fall of postmodernism; the eruption of Islamic fundamentalism; the triumph of the Internet. Containing over eight hundred essay-style entries, and covering the period from 1850 to the present, New Makers of Modern Culture includes artists, writers, dramatists, architects, philosophers, anthropologists, scientists, sociologists, major political figures, composers, film-makers and many other culturally significant individuals and is thoroughly international in its purview. Next to Karl Marx is Bob Marley, next to John Ruskin is Salman Rushdie, alongside Darwin is Luigi Dallapiccola, Deng Xiaoping runs shoulders with Jacques Derrida as do Julia Kristeva and Kropotkin. Once again, Wintle has enlisted the services of many distinguished writers and leading academics, such as Sam Beer, Bernard Crick, Edward Seidensticker and Paul Preston. In a few cases, for example Michael Holroyd and Philip Larkin, contributors are themselves the subject of entries. With its global reach, New Makers of Modern Culture provides a multi-voiced witness of the contemporary thinking world. The entries carry short bibliographies and there is thorough cross-referencing. There is an index of names and key terms.

Book Epic Performances from the Middle Ages Into the Twenty first Century

Download or read book Epic Performances from the Middle Ages Into the Twenty first Century written by Fiona Macintosh and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists with a rich storehouse of themes: this volume is the first systematic attempt to chart its afterlife across a range of diverse performance traditions, with analysis ranging widely across time, place, genre, and academic and creative disciplines.

Book Degas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Theodore Reff
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN : 0870991469
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Degas written by Theodore Reff and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1976 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than any other artist in the Impressionist group, Degas was fascinated by ideas and consciously based his work on them. "What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters," he once confessed, "of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament I know nothing." Yet his work has been understood very inadequately from that point of view. Publications on him, once dominated by memoirs inspired by his remarkable personality, are now concerned with cataloguing and studying limited aspects of his complex art. Its intellectual power and originality, which were evident to contemporary writers like Duranty and Valery, have not been studied sufficiently by more recent critics. It is this side of Degas's art--as seen in his ingenious pictorial strategies and technical innovations, his use of motifs like the window, the mirror, and the picture within the picture, his invention of striking, psychologically compelling compositions, and his creation of a sculptural idiom at once formal and vernacular--that is the subject of these essays. Inevitably, given the range of his intellectual interests, the essays are also concerned with his contacts with leading novelists and poets of his time and his efforts to illustrate or draw inspiration from their works. Throughout, the author makes use of an important, largely unpublished source, the material in Degas's notebooks, on which he has recently published a complete catalogue"--Publisher's description.

Book Galle

    Book Details:
  • Author : Émile Gallé
  • Publisher : Parkstone International
  • Release : 2023-12-28
  • ISBN : 1783102934
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Galle written by Émile Gallé and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An icon in the Art Nouveau movement, Émile Gallé (1846-1904) sought to portray the beauty and simplicity of nature in his glass art. His designs, referred to as “poetry in glass”, range from fine pottery to jewellery to furniture. Everything Gallé produced contains traces of his masterful technique which reflects his innovativeness as an artist and his skill as a designer. In this rich text, Gallé unravels the beauty and ingenuity found within his own work.

Book Cincinnati Public Library

Download or read book Cincinnati Public Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Finding List of Books in the Public Library of Cincinnati

Download or read book Finding List of Books in the Public Library of Cincinnati written by Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The International Quarterly

Download or read book The International Quarterly written by Frederick Albert Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel written by Peter Bondanella and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including the theory of the novel in Italy, the historical novel, realism, modernism, postmodernism, neorealism, and film and the novel. The contributors are distinguished scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, and Australia. Novelists examined include some of the most influential and important of the twentieth century inside and outside Italy: Luigi Pirandello, Primo Levi, Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino. This is a unique examination of the Italian Novel, and will prove invaluable to students and specialists alike. Readers will gain a keen sense of the vitality of the Italian novel throughout its history and a clear picture of the debates and criticism that have surrounded its development.

Book The International Quarterly

Download or read book The International Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Twelve Views of Manet s Bar

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bradford Collins
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2021-01-12
  • ISBN : 0691223963
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book Twelve Views of Manet s Bar written by Bradford Collins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bradford Collins has assembled here a collection of twelve essays that demonstrates, through the interpretation of a single work of art, the abundance and complexity of methodological approaches now available to art historians. Focusing on Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, each contributor applies to it a different methodology, ranging from the more traditional to the newer, including feminism, Marxism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and semiotics. By demonstrating the ways that individual practitioners actually apply the various methodological insights that inform their research, Twelve Views of Manet's "Bar" serves as an excellent introduction to critical methodology as well as a provocative overview for those already familiar with the current discourse of art history. In the process of gaining new insight into Manet's work, and into the discourse of methodology, one discovers that it is not only the individual painting but art history itself that is under investigation. An introduction by Richard Shiff sets the background with a brief history of Manet scholarship and suggestions as to why today's accounts have taken certain distinct directions. The contributors, selected to provide a broad and balanced range of methodological approaches, include: Carol Armstrong, Albert Boime, David Carrier, Kermit Champa, Bradford R. Collins, Michael Paul Driskel, Jack Flam, Tag Gronberg, James D. Herbert, John House, Steven Z. Levine, and Griselda Pollock.