Author: Thomas JefferysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern, Particularly Old English Dresses
Author: Thomas JefferysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern, Particularly Old English Dresses [Engelsch-Fransch
Author: “A” Collection Of The Dresses Of Different Nations, Ancient and Modern. Particulary Old English Dresses After The Designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and Others
Author: Thomas JefferysA Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations
Author: A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern
Author: Thomas JefferysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A collection of the dresses of different nations, ancient and modern particularly old english dresses...
Author: A Collection of Dresses of Different Nations Antient and Modern
Author: Treasuring the Gaze
Author: Hanneke GrootenboerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226309711
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The end of the eighteenth century saw the start of a new craze in Europe: tiny portraits of single eyes that were exchanged by lovers or family members. Worn as brooches or pendants, these minuscule eyes served the same emotional need as more conventional mementoes, such as lockets containing a coil of a loved one’s hair. The fashion lasted only a few decades, and by the early 1800s eye miniatures had faded into oblivion. Unearthing these portraits in Treasuring the Gaze, Hanneke Grootenboer proposes that the rage for eye miniatures—and their abrupt disappearance—reveals a knot in the unfolding of the history of vision. Drawing on Alois Riegl, Jean-Luc Nancy, Marcia Pointon, Melanie Klein, and others, Grootenboer unravels this knot, discovering previously unseen patterns of looking and strategies for showing. She shows that eye miniatures portray the subject’s gaze rather than his or her eye, making the recipient of the keepsake an exclusive beholder who is perpetually watched. These treasured portraits always return the looks they receive and, as such, they create a reciprocal mode of viewing that Grootenboer calls intimate vision. Recounting stories about eye miniatures—including the role one played in the scandalous affair of Mrs. Fitzherbert and the Prince of Wales, a portrait of the mesmerizing eye of Lord Byron, and the loss and longing incorporated in crying eye miniatures—Grootenboer shows that intimate vision brings the gaze of another deep into the heart of private experience. With a host of fascinating imagery from this eccentric and mostly forgotten yet deeply private keepsake, Treasuring the Gaze provides new insights into the art of miniature painting and the genre of portraiture.
A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment
Author: Mechele LeonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350135445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, 'the general effect of the theatre is to strengthen the national character to augment the national inclinations, and to give a new energy to all the passions'. During the Enlightenment, the advancement of radical ideas along with the emergence of the bourgeois class contributed to a renewed interest in theatre's efficacy, informed by philosophy yet on behalf of politics. While the 18th century saw a growing desire to define the unique and specific features of a nation's drama, and audiences demanded more realistic portrayals of humanity, theatre is also implicated in this age of revolutions. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment examines these intersections, informed by the writings of key 18th-century philosophers. Richly illustrated with 45 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.
Historical Style
Author: Timothy CampbellPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812248325
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
In Historical Style, Timothy Campbell argues that the eighteenth-century fashion press shaped British perception of time and history by producing new curiosity about the very recent past and a new self-consciousness about the means by which the past could be understood.