Author: Janet AldisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
Book Description
Madame Geoffrin, Her Salon and Her Times, 1750-1777
Author: Janet AldisThe Cambridge Illustrated History of France
Author: Colin JonesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521669924
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Combining superb illustration with authoritative text, this is a major political and social history of France from earliest times to the eve of the new millennium. Colin Jones offers not only an expert's account of political, social and cultural developments, but also a fresh and full interpretation of French history. The Cambridge Illustrated History of France places an innovatory emphasis on the importance of issues of regionalism, class, gender and race in the French heritage. Ranging across social, political, geographical and cultural lines - from prehistoric menhirs to the Pompidou Centre, from Louis XIV's Versailles to twentieth-century high-rises, from Marie Antoinette to Marie Claire - the author provides a host of lively and penetrating new insights into the shaping of the modern nation.
The World of the Salons
Author: Antoine LiltiPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199772347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
The World of the Salons is a revisionist study of the French salon of the eighteenth century, arguing that it was a place governed by social hierarchy, not equality, connected to the world of the Court, and not the fount of the Enlightenment as has traditionally been believed.
THE LADY'S COMPANION AND MONTHLY MAGAZINE
Author: The Nation
Author: The International Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science
Author: The Ladies' Companion
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women's periodicals, English
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science
Author: A Critical Bibliography of French Literature V4 18th C
Author: Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Culture
Author: Martin PuchnerPublisher: Bonnier Books UK
ISBN: 1804182524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing. It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti's lost city and the Islamic Golden Age to twentieth century Nigerian theatre and Modernist poetry, Martin Puchner explores how contact between different peoples has driven artistic innovation in every era - whilst cultural policing and purism have more often undermined the very societies they tried to protect. Travelling through Classical Greece, Ashoka's India, Tang dynasty China, and many other epochs, this triumphal new history reveals the crossing points which have not only inspired the humanities, but which have made us human.