Author: L. R. ¬de VericourPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Historical Analysis of Christian Civilisation
Author: Raymond de VericourHistorical Analysis of Christian Civilisation
Author: L. R. ¬de Vericour"Visions of the Industrial Age, 1830?914 "
Author: Amy Woodson-BoultonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351537571
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Providing a comprehensive interdisciplinary assessment, and with a particular focus on expressions of tension and anxiety about modernity, this collection examines visual culture in nineteenth-century Europe as it attempted to redefine itself in the face of social change and new technologies. Contributing scholars from the fields of history, art, literature and the history of science investigate the role of visual representation and the dominance of the image by looking at changing ideas expressed in representations of science, technology, politics, and culture in advertising, art, periodicals, and novels. They investigate how, during the period, new emphasis was placed on the visual with emerging forms of mass communication?photography, lithography, newspapers, advertising, and cinema?while older forms as varied as poetry, the novel, painting, interior decoration, and architecture became transformed. The volume includes investigations into new innovations and scientific development such as the steam engine, transportation and engineering, the microscope, "spirit photography," and the orrery, as well as how this new technology is reproduced in illustrated periodicals. The essays also look at more traditional forms of creative expression to show that the same concerns and anxieties about science, technology and the changing perceptions of the natural world can be seen in the art of Armand Guillaumin, Auguste Rodin, Gustave Caillebotte, and Camille Pissarro, in colonial nineteenth-century novels, in design manuals, in museums, and in the decorations of domestic interior spaces. Visions of the Industrial Age, 1830-1914 offers a thorough exploration of both the nature of modernity, and the nature of the visual.
Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain
Author: Martin DauntonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197263266
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This collection of essays explores the questions of what counted as knowledge in Victorian Britain, who defined knowledge and the knowledgeable, by what means and by what criteria. During the Victorian period, the structure of knowledge took on a new and recognizably modern form, and the disciplines we now take for granted took shape. The ways in which knowledge was tested also took on a new form, with the rise of written examinations. New institutions of knowledge were created: museums were important at the start of the period, universities had become prominent by the end. Victorians needed to make sense of the sheer scale of new information, to popularize it, and at the same time to exclude ignorance and error - a role carried out by encyclopaedias and popular publications. By studying the Victorian organization of knowledge in its institutional, social, and intellectual settings, these essays contribute to our wider consideration of the complex and much debated concept of knowledge.
Catalogue of the Library of Princeton Theological Seminary
Author: The Publishers' Circular
Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Catalogue of Books in the Library of Queen's College, Belfast
Author: Queen's University of Belfast. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : College catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Catalogues of Items for Auction by Messrs. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, 1840-1870
Author: Visions of the Industrial Age, 1830-1914
Author: Minsoo KangPublisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Diverse and wide-ranging, the essays collected here examine nineteenth-century visual culture as European culture redefined itself, embracing political and social change yet expressing tensions and anxieties about modernity. Scholars of history, art, the history of science and literature combine forces to investigate the role of visual representation by looking at changing ideas expressed in representations of science, technology, politics, and culture in advertising, art, periodicals, and novels.