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Book Seen from Behind

Download or read book Seen from Behind written by Patricia Lee Rubin and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original book examines the range of meaning that has been attached to the male backside in Renaissance art and culture, the transformation of the base connotation of the image to high art, and the question of homoerotic impulses or implications of admiring male figures from behind.

Book The Victorian Nude

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alison Smith
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780719044038
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book The Victorian Nude written by Alison Smith and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smith reveals how images of the nude were used at all levels of Victorian culture, from prestigious high-art paintings through to photographs and popular entertainments; and discusses the many views as to whether these were legitimate forms of representation or, in fact, pornography and an incitement to unregulated sexual activity.

Book Life of William Etty  R  A

Download or read book Life of William Etty R A written by Alexander Gilchrist and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820 1860

Download or read book Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820 1860 written by Ronald Parkinson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From luminaries such as J.M.W.Turner to the all but forgotten George Travers - and through the hierarchy of genres from high art to animals, fruit, flowers, sea and landscapes - the 500 pictures covered in this catalogue form about half of the V&A's collection of British oil paintings.

Book William Etty

Download or read book William Etty written by Leonard Robinson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The historical and cultural backdrop for Etty's life and works is studied throughout the book. Chapters detail his studies in Italy and France, his career as a painter, his work with the York School of Design in the final decade of his life, his place in the fine arts market and his emulators are described"--Provided by publisher.

Book Exposed

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Upstone
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780823016334
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Exposed written by Robert Upstone and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This illustrated publication surveys the full range of Victorian representations of female and male figures. While concentrating on painting, sculpture and drawing, it also explores the depiction of the body in other media, including photography, popular illustration and film, exposing issues of morality, sexuality and desire that remain relevant today."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Laurence Stephen Lowry  1887 1976

Download or read book Laurence Stephen Lowry 1887 1976 written by Laurence Stephen Lowry and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Artist s Model from Etty to Spencer

Download or read book The Artist s Model from Etty to Spencer written by Martin Postle and published by Merrell. This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany an exhibition held at York City Art Gallery, York, 29 May - 11 July 1999, Kenwood, London, 23 July - 26 September 1999, Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, 16 October - 12 December 1999.

Book Eroticism and Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alyce Mahon
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780192807335
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Eroticism and Art written by Alyce Mahon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art? Erotica? Or Pornography? Discussions of what actually constitutes erotic art are incredibly complex and usually highly controversial. The naked body in art has been with us since the earliest examples of Greek art and sculpture. The creation and display of such works of art has always inflamed opinion and today, even withour supposed relaxation of the codes of behaviour surrounding nudity, such images are considered provocative, dangerous, and are often unwelcome in the public sphere.Now - focusing on the last 150 years of western art, these debates are finally explored in an imaginative and engaging way using the latest research and analysis into this and related subject areas - by a woman.

Book The Naked Muse

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kelley Swain
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-05-26
  • ISBN : 9781908853677
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book The Naked Muse written by Kelley Swain and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout her twenties, Kelley Swain worked as an artists' model. 'The Naked Muse' is her elegant, fascinating memoir of this time, meditating on art, travel, and how we accept, inhabit, and understand our own bodies. She describes her first experience disrobing for a class, modelling for international artists over six years, an intensive month being painted in Bruges, and posing as saints for a Sicilian chapel frieze. Swain reveals how it really feels physically, intellectually, and emotionally - in the moment when "it's my matter that matters, not ... what I consider to be 'me'." Both a flirtation with submissiveness and a wielding of power, Swain examines the model's role in art's alchemy, and tells the forgotten stories of women whose faces still bewitch us from gallery walls.

Book The Natural System of Colours  etc

Download or read book The Natural System of Colours etc written by Moses Harris and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Emmeline

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Rossner
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-07-08
  • ISBN : 1476774846
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Emmeline written by Judith Rossner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar—a haunting tale of forbidden love set against the backdrop of the American industrial revolution. This is the story of Emmeline Mosher, who, before her fourteenth birthday, was sent from her home on a farm in Maine to support her family by working in a cotton mill in Massachusetts. So begins the sixth novel by the author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar. But nothing Judith Rossner has written can prepare the reader for this haunting love story of a young girl thrust into one of America’s early industrial towns, then drawn into a love affair for which she is far from ready. In Emmeline, Rossner brings us the intensity, grasp of character, and storytelling ability that have distinguished her novels of modern women.

Book Ask a Manager

Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Book The Listener

Download or read book The Listener written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Poetical Works of Robert Browning

Download or read book The Poetical Works of Robert Browning written by Stefan Hawlin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 15 in The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Browning presents poetry Browning wrote in his seventies, his last two volumes: Parleyings (1887) and Asolando (1889). The former is the poet's last sustained meditation on life and on his times, a nine-section credo covering religion, history, poetry, politics, art, and music. Asolando is a coda to his whole oeuvre, a mixture of short love lyrics, historical monologues and anecdotes, light verse, and poems which are quite sui generis, all grouped around the theme of 'fancies and fact'. Both volumes are presented here with previously unknown sources, a wealth of new contextual material, and many textual nuances clarified, giving a fresh view of the last phase of Browning's career. What emerges is a poet more seriously Christian, Protestant, and Liberal than previously supposed, more interested in Britain's destiny and Empire, more enmeshed in the local battles of the 1880s?and a writer of considerable range and wit.

Book This Long Pursuit

Download or read book This Long Pursuit written by Richard Holmes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of The Age of Wonder and Falling Upwards, here is a luminous meditation on the art of biography that fuses the author’s own experiences with a history of the genre and explores the fascinating and surprising relationship between fact and fiction. In a book that ranges widely over art, science, and poetry, Richard Holmes confesses to a lifetime’s obsession with his Romantic subjects. It has become for him a pursuit, or pilgrimage of the heart, that has taken him across three centuries, through much of Europe, and into the lively company of many earlier biographers. Central to this quest is a powerful and tender evocation of the lives of women both scientific and literary, some well-known and some almost lost to history: Margaret Cavendish, Mary Somerville, Germaine de Staël, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the Dutch intellectual Zélide. Holmes also investigates the myths that have overshadowed the lives of some favorite Romantic figures: the love-stunned John Keats, the waterlogged Percy Bysshe Shelley, the chocolate-box painter Thomas Lawrence, the opium-soaked genius Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the mad visionary bard William Blake. The diversity of Holmes’s material is a testimony to his empathy, erudition, and inquiring spirit—and, sometimes, to his mischievous streak. The Long Pursuit gives us a unique insider’s account of a biographer at work: traveling, teaching, researching, fantasizing, forgetting, and even ballooning. From this great chronicler of the Romantics now comes a chronicle of himself and his intellectual passions; it contains his most personal and most seductive writing.

Book A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings  Water colour Drawings  Drawings  and Prints  in the Collection of the Late Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro  Esq   of Novar

Download or read book A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings Water colour Drawings Drawings and Prints in the Collection of the Late Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro Esq of Novar written by Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: