Download or read book 1668 written by Peter Sahlins and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When animals and their symbolic representations—in the Royal Menagerie, in art, in medicine, in philosophy—helped transform the French state and culture. Peter Sahlins's brilliant new book reveals the remarkable and understudied “animal moment” in and around 1668 in which authors (including La Fontaine, whose Fables appeared in that year), anatomists, painters, sculptors, and especially the young Louis XIV turned their attention to nonhuman beings. At the center of the Year of the Animal was the Royal Menagerie in the gardens of Versailles, dominated by exotic and graceful birds. In the unfolding of his original and sophisticated argument, Sahlins shows how the animal bodies of the menagerie and others were critical to a dramatic rethinking of governance, nature, and the human. The animals of 1668 helped to shift an entire worldview in France—what Sahlins calls Renaissance humanimalism toward more modern expressions of classical naturalism and mechanism. In the wake of 1668 came the debasement of animals and the strengthening of human animality, including in Descartes's animal-machine, highly contested during the Year of the Animal. At the same time, Louis XIV and his intellectual servants used the animals of Versailles to develop and then to transform the symbolic language of French absolutism. Louis XIV came to adopt a model of sovereignty after 1668 in which his absolute authority is represented in manifold ways with the bodies of animals and justified by the bestial nature of his human subjects. 1668 explores and reproduces the king's animal collections—in printed text, weaving, poetry, and engraving, all seen from a unique interdisciplinary perspective. Sahlins brings the animals of 1668 together and to life as he observes them critically in their native habitats—within the animal palace itself by Louis Le Vau, the paintings and tapestries of Charles Le Brun, the garden installations of André Le Nôtre, the literary work of Charles Perrault and the natural history of his brother Claude, the poetry of Madeleine de Scudéry, the philosophy of René Descartes, the engravings of Sébastien Leclerc, the transfusion experiments of Jean Denis, and others. The author joins the nonhuman and human agents of 1668—panthers and painters, swans and scientists, weasels and weavers—in a learned and sophisticated treatment that will engage scholars and students of early modern France and Europe and readers broadly interested in the subject of animals in human history.

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Zoological Society of London written by Zoological Society of London. Library and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Medical Society of London Additions to the Library during the years 1856 57 1859 60 By B R W written by Benjamin Robert WHEATLEY and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Kingdom of Images written by Peter Fuhring and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once considered the golden age of French printmaking, Louis XIV’s reign saw Paris become a powerhouse of print production. During this time, the king aimed to make fine and decorative arts into signs of French taste and skill and, by extension, into markers of his imperialist glory. Prints were ideal for achieving these goals; reproducible and transportable, they fueled the sophisticated propaganda machine circulating images of Louis as both a man of war and a man of culture. This richly illustrated catalogue features more than one hundred prints from the Getty Research Institute and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, whose print collection Louis XIV established in 1667. An esteemed international group of contributors investigates the ways that cultural policies affected printmaking; explains what constitutes a print; describes how one became a printmaker; studies how prints were collected; and considers their reception in the ensuing centuries. A Kingdom of Images is published to coincide with an exhibition on view at the Getty Research Institute from June 18 through September 6, 2015, and at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris from November 2, 2015, through January 31, 2016.

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Download or read book Catalogue of the library of E W Harcourt at Nuneham Park Oxfordshire written by Edward William Harcourt and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London written by Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. Library and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A General Catalogue of All Books Tracts and Memoirs on Zoology and Geology written by Louis Agassiz and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The animal kingdom Transl With Plates written by Georges Léopold C.F.D. baron de Cuvier and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Narrating Architecture written by James Madge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology brings together the best and most interesting papers from the first ten years of The Journal of Architecture, published together for the first time in a single volume. Covering a wide range of topics of central importance to architecture today, the papers also address the related topics to which architecture and architectural studies are inextricably linked. The invited authors draw on sociology, philosophy, cultural studies and the sciences to round out the collection and highlight the breadth and vitality of modern architectural studies, offering perspectives from different disciplines as well as different corners of the globe.

Download or read book Le R gne Animal Distribu D apr s Son Organisation written by Georges Cuvier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1817, this influential four-volume work was the first to integrate geology, palaeontology, zoology and comparative anatomy.

Download or read book A Classified Index and Synopsis of the Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by the Baron Cuvier written by Edward Griffith and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tabular view of the classification of animals adopted by the Baron Cuvier; with specific examples.