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Book Essays on Opera  1750 1800

Download or read book Essays on Opera 1750 1800 written by JohnA. Rice and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of opera in the second half of the eighteenth century has flourished during the last several decades, and our knowledge of the operas written during that period and of their aesthetic, social, and political context has vastly increased. This volume explores opera and operatic life of the years 1750-1800 through a selection of articles intended to represent the last few decades of scholarship in all its excitement and variety.

Book Feminism and Art in Postwar Italy

Download or read book Feminism and Art in Postwar Italy written by Francesco Ventrella and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned art critic of the 1960s, Carla Lonzi abandoned the art world in 1970 to found Rivolta Femminile, a pioneering feminist collective in Italy. Rather than separating the art world luminary from the activist, however, this book looks at the two together. It demonstrates that even as Lonzi refused art, she articulated how feminist spaces and communities drew strength from creativity. The eleven essays in this book document the artistic and feminist circles of postwar Italy, a time characterised both by radical protest and avant-garde aesthetics, using primary and archival sources never before translated into English. They map Lonzi's deep connections to the influential Italian Arte Povera movement, and explore her complicated relationship with female artists of the time, such as Carla Accardi and Suzanne Santoro. Carla Lonzi's written work and activism represents a crucial, but previously overlooked, feminist intervention in traditional art history from beyond the Anglo-American canon. This book is a timely and urgent addition to our understanding of radical politics, separatist feminism and art criticism in the postwar period.

Book Shifting Interfaces

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hava Aldouby
  • Publisher : Leuven University Press
  • Release : 2020-05-13
  • ISBN : 946270225X
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book Shifting Interfaces written by Hava Aldouby and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early 21st century media arts are addressing the anxieties of an age shadowed by ubiquitous surveillance, big-data profiling, and globalised translocations of people. Altogether, they tap the overwhelming changes in our lived experience of self, body, and intersubjective relations. Shifting Interfaces addresses current exciting exchanges between art, science, and emerging technologies, highlighting a range of concerns that currently prevail in the field of media arts. This book provides an up-to-date perspective on the field, with a considerable representation of art-based research gaining salience in media art studies. The collection attends to art projects interrogating the destabilisation of identity and the breaching of individual privacy, the rekindled interest in phenomenology and in the neurocognitive workings of empathy, and the routes of interconnectivity beyond the human in the age of the Internet of Things. Offering a diversity of perspectives, ranging from purely theoretical to art-based research, and from aesthetics to social and cultural critique, this volume will be of great value for readers interested in contemporary art, art-science-technology interfaces, visual culture, and cultural studies.

Book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112087575566

Download or read book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112087575566 written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Roadscapes  a Sociopoetics of the Road

Download or read book Roadscapes a Sociopoetics of the Road written by Catherine Morgan-Proux and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we imagine the road? If the road inspires freewheeling adventure in the spirit of Jack Kerouac, it can also be a site of our vulnerabilities. This collection highlights the work of artists, writers, and filmmakers from the Anglophone world who have drawn upon the road as a cultural landscape. The road reveals our sense of curiosity, our anxieties, our sorrows, and our disquiet with modern technology or the power dynamics of class and gender. This volume, with a foreword by Jeremy Bassetti, host of the award-winning podcast “Travel Writing World,” brings together international researchers and writers, including two original poems by the French-New Zealander poet, Lynette Thorstensen. This book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in 20th and 21st century art and culture, particularly road narratives.

Book The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart s Vienna

Download or read book The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart s Vienna written by Dorothea Link and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorothea Link examines singers’ voices and casting practices in late eighteenth-century Italian opera as exemplified in Vienna’s court opera from 1783 to 1791. The investigation into the singers’ voices proceeds on two levels: understanding the performers in terms of the vocal-dramatic categories employed in opera at the time; and creating vocal profiles for the principal singers from the music composed expressly for them. In addition, Link contextualizes the singers within the company in order to expose the court opera's casting practices. Authoritative and insightful, The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart's Vienna offers a singular look at a musical milieu and a key to addressing the performance-practice problem of how to cast the Mozart roles today.

Book Opera and Sovereignty

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  • Author : Martha Feldman
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2010-10-05
  • ISBN : 0226044548
  • Pages : 574 pages

Download or read book Opera and Sovereignty written by Martha Feldman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century’s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria must be understood in light of the period’s social and political upheavals. Taking an anthropological approach to European music that’s as bold as it is unusual, Martha Feldman traces Italian opera’s shift from a mythical assertion of sovereignty, with its festive forms and rituals, to a dramatic vehicle that increasingly questioned absolute ideals. She situates these transformations against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Italian culture to show how opera seria both reflected and affected the struggles of rulers to maintain sovereignty in the face of a growing public sphere. In so doing, Feldman explains why the form had such great international success and how audience experiences of the period differed from ours today. Ambitiously interdisciplinary, Opera and Sovereignty will appeal not only to scholars of music and anthropology, but also to those interested in theater, dance, and the history of the Enlightenment.

Book Anna Bolena  by F  Romani      as represented at the Royal Italian Opera  Covent Garden  The libretto edited and translated by Manfredo Maggioni

Download or read book Anna Bolena by F Romani as represented at the Royal Italian Opera Covent Garden The libretto edited and translated by Manfredo Maggioni written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tigress in the Snow

Download or read book The Tigress in the Snow written by Laura Benedetti and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tigress in the Snow explores how literature reacted to, influenced, and shaped the evolving notion of motherhood in twentieth-century Italy. From the late-nineteenth century rhetorical celebration of the mother as Madonna, to the Fascist regime's demographic campaign and feminist revisions of the maternal role, Laura Benedetti shows how the mother's social status was a site of constant negotiation in Italy during the last century and how this negotiation came to be represented in literature. To illustrate her theme, she stresses both similarities and differences among four generations of women writers, as well as their complex interaction with their male counterparts, and their reactions to changes in Italian society. The Tigress in the Snow highlights literature's role in the formation of cultural discourses right up to the dawn of the twenty-first century. An intriguing look at the changing nature of motherhood in a country that has always valued the maternal institution, this volume goes further to show how literature investigates, shapes, and envisions social models for the present and future.

Book Abstraction Matters

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  • Author : Cristina Baldacci
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2018-11-20
  • ISBN : 1527521974
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book Abstraction Matters written by Cristina Baldacci and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the archaic funerary and sacred stones to the most recent three-dimensional objects, sculpture has been determined by a dualistic tension between the urge for imitation of natural forms (mimesis) and the desire to freely shape autonomous configurations (abstraction). Within such a complex history, the second half of the 20th century has been a particularly intense period. Besides their abstract works, many sculptors developed an extraordinarily rich theoretical discourse. This collection of essays presents some of the most eminent protagonists of this crucial historical moment by focusing on the artists’ “own words”. In their analysis, the contributors have followed three key-notions – “Sensation”, “Idea”, and “Language” – that fruitfully collect different artists under a common conceptual arch and show the aesthetic relevance of abstraction in sculpture. This book addresses high-level undergraduate and graduate students, as well as the scholarly community in the fields of aesthetics and art criticism, art history and art theory, visual, cultural and media studies.

Book Burri

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cesare Brandi
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Burri written by Cesare Brandi and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book I  M  G      Opera nunc primum collecta  et ineditis ejusdem opusculis aucta     auctoris vita  dissertatione  variisque monumentis illustrata  by Petrus and Hieronymus Ballerinius    Appendix     h  c continet  P  F  Zini Boni pastoris exemplum  ac specimen singulare ex I  M  G      expressum  atque propositum  A  Castiglionei orationem funebrem Italicam de ipsius Giberti laudibus  A  Fumani alteram Latinam funebrem laudationem  etc

Download or read book I M G Opera nunc primum collecta et ineditis ejusdem opusculis aucta auctoris vita dissertatione variisque monumentis illustrata by Petrus and Hieronymus Ballerinius Appendix h c continet P F Zini Boni pastoris exemplum ac specimen singulare ex I M G expressum atque propositum A Castiglionei orationem funebrem Italicam de ipsius Giberti laudibus A Fumani alteram Latinam funebrem laudationem etc written by Giovanni Matteo GIBERTI (Bishop of Verona.) and published by . This book was released on 1733 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Entrare Nell opera

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  • Author : Nike Bätzner
  • Publisher : Walther Konig Verlag
  • Release : 2020-04-14
  • ISBN : 9783960986768
  • Pages : 540 pages

Download or read book Entrare Nell opera written by Nike Bätzner and published by Walther Konig Verlag. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is impossible to imagine Arte Povera without Azioni Povere.0From 1959 to 1979, the work of the artists associated with this movement was largely defined by actions. This richly illustrated publication examines Azioni Povere and its characteristics.0For the first time it provides annotated catalogues raisonnés of the diverse actions. Furthermore, comprehensive photographic documentary material illustrates the virulence and vibrancy of this period in Italy.0A picture essay serves as the prelude, followed by introductory essays and texts on the respective characteristics of the artistic praxis.0Discussions with contemporary witnesses and entries on important keywords, incidents and places, such as Aktionsraum 1 in Munich, the Piper Pluriclub in Turin and Galerie L?Attico in Rome, complement the wide-ranging material, which was sourced from the archives of the artists, from artist estates, photographers, gallerists and collectors.00Exhibition: Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein (07.06. - 01.09.2019) / MAMC+ Musée d?art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Étienne, France (30.11.2019 - 03.05.2020).

Book National Traditions in Nineteenth Century Opera  Volume I

Download or read book National Traditions in Nineteenth Century Opera Volume I written by Steven Huebner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers opera in Italy, France, England and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914). The book is divided into four sections that are thematically, rather than geographically, conceived: Places-essays centering on contexts for operatic culture; Genres and Styles-studies dealing with the question of how operas in this period were put together; Critical Studies of individual works, exemplifying particular critical trends; and Performance.

Book Italian Quarterly

Download or read book Italian Quarterly written by Carlo Luigi Golino and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Opera Observed

Download or read book Opera Observed written by William Holmes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William C. Holmes provides a rare look behind the scenes into the world of early eighteenth-century Italian opera. Based on a rich store of newly recovered documents, mainly the personal papers of Luca Casimiro degli Albizzi, this social history illuminates the complexities of staging opera in the 1720s and '30s: the role of the impresario in planning an operatic season, financial and artistic difficulties, the importance of patronage, the power of individual singers and composers, considerations of set design, and the practice of altering librettos. A member of an illustrious Florentine family, Albizzi (1664-1745) served as one of the principal impresarios of the Pergola, Florence's earliest and greatest opera theater. He also carried on an active correspondence with impresarios in other cities, freely giving his advice on various economic and artistic concerns. Holmes uses the Albizzi family archives—the most abundant and varied material yet available about an eighteenth-century impresario and his theater—to deepen our knowledge of an extraordinary but little understood period in Italian opera. This book will appeal to anyone curious about operatic history.