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Author: Richard Hobbs Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9780719052873 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 234
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"Encounters with modern life: a painter's impressions of modernity - Delacroix, citizen of the 19th century, Michele Hannoosh. Second Empire impressions: curiosite, John House-- on his knees to the past? Gautier, Ingres and forms of modern art, James Kearns-- "Le peintre de la vie moderne" and "La peinture de la vie ancienne", Paul Smith. Innovating forms: matter for reflexion - 19th-century French art critics' quest for modernity in sculpture, David Scott-- visual display in the realist novel - "l'aventure du style"-- dirt and desire - troubled waters in realist practice, Alan Krell. Modernity and identity: the dancer as woman - Loie Fuller and Stephanie Mallarme, Dee Reynolds-- the "atelier" novel - painters as fiction, Joy Newton-- to move the eye - impressionism, symbolism and well-being, circa 1891, Richard Schiff." (résumééditeur)
Author: Richard Hobbs Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9780719052873 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 234
Book Description
"Encounters with modern life: a painter's impressions of modernity - Delacroix, citizen of the 19th century, Michele Hannoosh. Second Empire impressions: curiosite, John House-- on his knees to the past? Gautier, Ingres and forms of modern art, James Kearns-- "Le peintre de la vie moderne" and "La peinture de la vie ancienne", Paul Smith. Innovating forms: matter for reflexion - 19th-century French art critics' quest for modernity in sculpture, David Scott-- visual display in the realist novel - "l'aventure du style"-- dirt and desire - troubled waters in realist practice, Alan Krell. Modernity and identity: the dancer as woman - Loie Fuller and Stephanie Mallarme, Dee Reynolds-- the "atelier" novel - painters as fiction, Joy Newton-- to move the eye - impressionism, symbolism and well-being, circa 1891, Richard Schiff." (résumééditeur)
Author: David O'Brien Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271082690 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 241
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Notions of civilization and barbarism were intrinsic to Eugène Delacroix’s artistic practice: he wrote regularly about these concepts in his journal, and the tensions between the two were the subject of numerous paintings, including his most ambitious mural project, the ceiling of the Library of the Chamber of Deputies in the Palais Bourbon. Exiled in Modernity delves deeply into these themes, revealing why Delacroix’s disillusionment with modernity increasingly led him to seek spiritual release or epiphany in the sensual qualities of painting. While civilization implied a degree of control and the constraint of natural impulses for Delacroix, barbarism evoked something uncontrolled and impulsive. Seeing himself as part of a grand tradition extending back to ancient Greece, Delacroix was profoundly aware of the wealth and power that set nineteenth-century Europe apart from the rest of the world. Yet he was fascinated by civilization’s chaotic underbelly. In analyzing Delacroix’s art and prose, David O’Brien illuminates the artist’s effort to reconcile the erudite, tradition-bound aspects of painting with a desire to reach viewers in a more direct, unrestrained manner. Focusing chiefly on Delacroix’s musings about civilization in his famous journal, his major mural projects on the theme of civilization, and the place of civilization in his paintings of North Africa and of animals, O’Brien links Delacroix’s increasingly pessimistic view of modernity to his desire to use his art to provide access to a more fulfilling experience. With more than one hundred illustrations, this original, astute analysis of Delacroix and his work explains why he became an inspiration for modernist painters over the half-century following his death. Art historians and scholars of modernism especially will find great value in O’Brien’s work.
Author: Julie Townsend Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351194216 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 264
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"Whether in the pages of a trashy novel, in the glow of gaslights, in a dance hall, or on the walls of art galleries, the figure of the female dancer haunts nineteenth-century French culture. Artists and writers of all kinds took on la danseuse as an emblem of their own artistic prowess. They represented her alternately as an elusive ideal, a saucy prostitute, or a dangerous seductress. Dancers, in turn, produced their own images, novels and autobiographies, thereby contributing to an ongoing cultural debate around performance, spectatorship, desire, and art. In this interdisciplinary study of la danseuse, Julie Townsend examines the rise and fall of classical ballet, the phenomenon of the music hall, and the birth of modern dance. She highlights moments of representational crisis and emergent aesthetics in her consideration of poetry, novels, painting, early film, and women's autobiography."
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9042028963 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 319
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The apparent self-sufficiency of joie de vivre means that, despite the widespread use of the phrase since the late nineteenth century, the concept has rarely been explored critically. Joie de vivre does not readily surrender itself to examination, for it is in a sense too busy being what it is. However, as the essays in this collection reveal, joie de vivre can be as complex and variable a state as the more negative emotions or experiences that art and literature habitually evoke. This volume provides an urgently needed study of an intriguing and under-explored area of French literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the contemporary era. While the range and content of contributions embraces linguistics, literature, art, sport and politics, the starting point is, like that of the term joie de vivre itself, in French language and culture. This volume will be of special interest to researchers across the full range of French studies, from literature and language to cultural studies. It will be of direct appeal to specialist readers, university libraries, graduate and undergraduate students, and general readers with a lively interest in French literature and culture of the medieval, early modern and broad modern periods. This book’s fresh perspectives on the theme of joie de vivre and its relation to questions of privacy, contemplation, voyeurism, feasting and nationhood will also be of relevance to researchers in comparative and cognate disciplines.
Author: Diana Newall Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136493069 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 302
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Fifty Key Texts in Art History is an anthology of critical commentaries selected from the classical period to the late modern. It explores some of the central and emerging themes, issues and debates within Art History as an increasingly expansive and globalised discipline. It features an international range of contributors , including art historians, artists, curators and gallerists. Arranged chronologically, each entry includes a bibliography for further reading and a key word index for easy reference. Text selections range across issues including artistic value, cultural identity, modernism, gender, psychoanalysis, photographic theory, poststructuralism and postcolonialism. Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock Old Mistresses, Women, Art & Ideology (1981) Victor Burgin’s The End of Art Theory: Criticism and Postmodernity (1986) Homi Bhabha The Location of Culture: Hybridity, Liminal Spaces and Borders (1994) Geeta Kapur When was Modernism in Indian Art? (1995) Judith Butler's Gender Trouble (1999) Georges Didi Huberman Confronting Images. Questioning the Ends of a Certain History of Art (2004)
Author: Mary Tompkins Lewis Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520250222 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 368
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The essays in this wide-ranging text capture the theoretical range and scholarly rigor of criticism that has fundamentally transformed the study of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.
Author: Kathryn J. Brown Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN: 9781409408758 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 252
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The first monograph to examine the depiction of reading women in French art of the early Third Republic, Women Readers in French Painting 1870-1890 evaluates the pictorial significance of this imagery, its critical reception, and its impact on nineteenth-century notions of femininity and social relations. Artists discussed in the volume range from Manet, Cassatt and Degas, to less familiar figures such as Lavieille, Carrière, Toulmouche and Tissot.
Author: Kathryn Brown Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351536656 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 254
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The first monograph to examine the depiction of reading women in French art of the early Third Republic, Women Readers in French Painting 1870-1890 evaluates the pictorial significance of this imagery, its critical reception, and its impact on notions of femininity and social relations. Covering a broad range of paintings, prints, and sculptures, this book shows how the liseuse was subjected to unprecedented levels of pictorial innovation by artists with widely differing aesthetic aims and styles. Depictions of readers are interpreted as contributions to changing notions of public and private life, female agency, and women's participation in cultural and political debates beyond the domestic household. This highly original book explores images of women readers from a range of social classes in both urban and rural settings. Such images are shown to have articulated concerns about the impact of female literacy on labour environments and family life while, in many cases, challenging conventions of gendered reading. Kathryn Brown also presents an alternative way of conceiving of modernity in relation to nineteenth-century art, a methodological departure from much recent art historical literature. Artists discussed range from Manet, Cassatt and Degas, to less familiar figures such as Lavieille, Carri?, Toulmouche and Tissot.
Author: Stephen Bann Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135870616 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 241
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Stephen Bann examines the arguments for the centrality of French modernist painting. He begins by focusing particularly on the notion of the modernist break, as it has been interpreted with regard to painters like Manet and Ingres. He argues that ‘curiosity’, with its origins in the seventeenth-century world-view can be a valid concept for understanding some aspects of contemporary art that contest the modern, suggesting ways of sidetracking the modern by adopting a lengthier historical view.
Author: Juliet Bellow Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351558048 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 315
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Modernism on Stage restores Serge Diaghilev?s Ballets Russes to its central role in the Parisian art world of the 1910s and 1920s. During those years, the Ballets Russes? stage served as a dynamic forum for the interaction of artistic genres - dance, music and painting - in a mixed-media form inspired by Richard Wagner?s Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art). This interdisciplinary study combines a broad history of Diaghilev?s troupe with close readings of four ballets designed by canonical modernist artists: Pablo Picasso, Sonia Delaunay, Henri Matisse, and Giorgio de Chirico. Experimental both in concept and form, these productions redefine our understanding of the interconnected worlds of the visual and performing arts, elite culture and mass entertainment in Paris between the two world wars. This volume traces the ways in which artists working with the Ballets Russes adapted painterly styles to the temporal, three-dimensional and corporeal medium of ballet. Analyzing interactions among sets, costumes, choreography, and musical accompaniment, the book establishes what the Ballets Russes' productions looked like and how audiences reacted to them. Juliet Bellow brings dance to bear upon modernist art history as more than a source of imagery or ornament: she spotlights a complex dialogue among art forms that did not preclude but rather enhanced artists? interrogation of the limits of medium.
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