Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Catalogues of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings and Drawings
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
A manual of artistic anatomy
Author: Robert KnoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anatomy, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Body and the French Revolution
Author: Dorinda OutramPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000534596
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This book, first published in 1989, is an analysis of what changed in 1789 with the French Revolution and what contemporary life owes to the event. It was not simply a series of events with worldwide repercussions, but also represented the foundation of the middle-class domination of social, cultural and political space, which survives today and is the site of major crises of public culture. One such site is the body. In spite of its prominence in consumer culture as an object of adornment and beautification, the human body retains none of its historic dignity and authority. The argument of this book is that the French Revolution played a crucial part in this diminution of the body. It traces revolutionary models of behaviour around the body and public life, and explains how such myths as the division between public and private, male and female worlds, and such masculine values as ‘objectivity’ were an integral part of the new public world created by the revolutionary middle class.
The Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression as Connected with the Fine Arts
Author: Sir Charles BellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anatomy, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Annals of the Fine Arts
Author: "Drawing on Copper"
Author: Richard GoddardPublisher:
ISBN: 9789461595911
Category : Engravers
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Italian Baroque Painting
Author: Ellis Kirkham WaterhousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting, Baroque
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Introduction to Italian painting of the 17th century, including such artists as Caravaggio, the Carracci, Cortona, and Castiglione.
Education and the State
Author: E. G. WestPublisher: London : Institute of Economic Affairs
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Ezra and Dorothy Pound
Author: Ezra PoundPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
These fascinating letters capture the most traumatic experience of Ezra Pound's life, when he was incarcerated at the end of World War II and indicted for treason. Omar Pound and Robert Spoo have collected and edited the unpublished correspondence between the poet and his wife, combining itwith military and FBI documents, previously unknown photographs, and an extensive, insightful introduction, to create the definitive work on this period of Pound's life. During his incarceration in a U.S. Army detention camp outside Pisa, Pound was allowed to write only to his wife, so these letters afford a unique look at a painful yet highly productive period, when Pound wrote his acclaimed Pisan Cantos and worked on his translations of Confucius. Readerswill discover many fresh insights into the sources and contexts of the Cantos and the circumstances of their composition. Here, too, are many moving passages testifying to Pound's partnership with Dorothy and her courageous efforts to help him; her experiences no less than his come to life in thisvolume. But perhaps the most moving are the harsh conditions Pound found himself in: at one point, in the Pisan camp, he was confined for three weeks in an open air cage, until the sixty year old poet suffered a breakdown and was moved to a tent in the medical compound. The editors connect theanxious lyricism of the Pisan Cantos to these dramatic experiences, as the poet alternated "between savage indignation and suave serenity." The book also covers Pound's return to the United States and his confinement in a federal mental institution there. With more than 150 previously unpublished letters and documents, all authoritatively annotated, Ezra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity, 1945 1946, offers a rare glimpse into the life and work of one of our century's greatest literary figures.
Painting in Britain
Author: Ellis K. WaterhousePublisher:
ISBN: 9780300053197
Category : Painting, British
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The field covered by this volume includes the work and influence of foreign-born painters such as Holbein and Van Dyck as well as native masters from Gower and Hilliard to Gainsborough, Stubbs, and Sandby. We can follow step by step the development and flowering of British painting, and can compare, for example, the work of the English Sir Joshua Reynolds with the Scottish Allan Ramsay. Portrait and landscape, history piece, miniature, water colour, there is a record of them all. The text is both scholarly and eminently readable and the illustrations comprise well known examples of British painting and others seldom or never before reproduced between the covers of a book. This new edition includes an introductory essay by Michael Kitson bringing readers up-to-date with the latest approaches to the period, as well as colour plates and a revised bibliography.