Author: Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule
Publisher: Cambridge, Harvard U.P
ISBN:
Category : Art, European History
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Author: Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Author: Cornelius Vermeule
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674436756
Category : Art, European
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Author: Mary B. Comstock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art museum curators
Languages : en
Pages : 61

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Author: Joseph Alsop
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691252254
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 750

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A cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art market In The Rare Art Traditions, Joseph Alsop offers a wide-ranging cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art market. He argues that art collecting is the basic element in a remarkably complex and historically rare behavioral system, which includes the historical study of art, the market for buying and selling art, museums, forgery, and the astonishing prices commanded by some works of art. The Rare Art Traditions tells the story of three important traditions of art collecting: the classical tradition that began in Greece, the Chinese tradition, and the Western tradition. The result is a major original contribution to art history.

Author: Lenia Kouneni
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443867748
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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Recent years have seen an increase of interest in classicism and the reception and survival of antiquity. Classical Reception Studies is a rapidly developing field of research and teaching, and a growing number of new scholars are investigating issues of reception of classical texts, ideas, performance, and material culture across different cultural contexts and in different media. This volume adds new perspectives in this growing field of scholarship. This collection of essays explores the uses of the past from a wide range of perspectives. The papers are drawn from a spectrum of cultures and chronological periods; from medieval to modern times, from Italian to Byzantine, from French to British. The characters involved in each case study accessed the past through different means, employing varying combinations of texts, oral traditions, iconographic representations, and visible remains of the landscape. It is a snapshot of a field in movement, illustrative of current directions and hopeful of producing new ones. The legacy of antiquity is omnipresent, and is as multifaceted as suggested by the wide range of the papers. This volume presents new perspectives, dealing with ever-elusive enigmas and opening the way for future research and investigation to all those who seek to explore the constant fascination with the antique.

Author: Griselda Pollock
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134768494
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Great collection from for top feminist art historians and thinkers Includes Griselda Pollock and Mieke Bal International perspective focusing on gender and race

Author: Charles Dill
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351555723
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 617

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Opera in the first half of the eighteenth century saw the rise of the memorable composer and the memorable work. Recent research on this period has been especially fruitful, showing renewed interest in how opera operated within its local cultures, what audience members felt was at stake in opera performances, who the people-composers and performers-were who made opera possible. The essays for this volume capture the principal themes of current research: the "idea" of opera, opera criticism, the people of opera, and the emerging technologies of opera.

Author: Theodore Vrettos
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1611453151
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 373

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Thisstory of the Elgin marbles re-creates in fulldetail the greatest art theft in...

Author: Harry C. Rutledge
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820332666
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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In The Guernica Bull, Harry C. Rutledge examines the use of classical motifs in twentieth-century literature, art, and drama. From the echoes of Plato's dialogues at the heart of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice to the retelling of the story of Harmodius and Aristogiton--a story with grim parallels to Nazi Germany--in Marguerite Yourcenar's Léna, these modern works are a testament to both the creativity of modern artists and the versatility and timelessness of classical themes. Rutledge finds the ideal meshing of classical images and modern sensibility in Pablo Picasso's Guernica. The most startling classical image in the painting is the bull, a Cubist face staring out from the canvas at the viewer, unmoved by the scene of death and destruction around him. A symbol of the intense violence and disorder which has characterized this century, Picasso's Minoan bull is, at the same time, a symbol of creative potency and artistic achievement. The classical tradition in our era is, Rutledge suggests, multi-faceted, much like the Cubist paintings which view human beings as if through a prism, in all their infinite variety and beauty. The legacy of the Greeks and Romans is both stimulus and resource for modern artists, as evidenced by the meticulous historical reconstruction in Yourcenar's Mémoires d'Hadrien, the recreation of an ancient setting in modern terms in Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine and T. S. Eliot's The Family Reunion, and the influence of classical monuments and landscapes in the poetry of Frederick Nicklaus, James Dickey, and Richard Wilbur. Modern artists have often found an affinity between themselves and the ancients. In the Greek and Roman works that, through their clarity and brevity, have transcended time and place, contemporary writers and painters perceive the essence of the infinite, which is the challenge in any artistic endeavor. Showing how some modernists have met this challenge, The Guernica Bull explores the ancient antecedents of several of the most distinctive twentieth-century masterpieces.