Author: University of Texas. Humanities Research CenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin
Author: University of Texas. Humanities Research CenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Hours 5, Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin
Author: Douglas Earl HaynesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books of hours
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Pedagogies of Woundedness
Author: James Kyung-Jin LeePublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439921865
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
What happens when illness betrays Asian American fantasies of indefinite progress
The First Hundred Publications of the Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin
Author: Edwin T. BowdenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780879590130
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
The First Hundred Publications of the Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin
Author: Edwin Turner BowdenUgliness
Author: Gretchen E. HendersonPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780235240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
"'Ugly as sin', 'ugly duckling', 'rear its ugly head'. The word 'ugly' is used freely, yet it is a loaded term: from the simply plain and unsightly to the repulsive and even offensive, definitions slide all over the place. Hovering around 'feared and dreaded', ugliness both repels and fascinates. But the concept of ugliness has a lineage that has long haunted our cultural imagination. Gretchen E. Henderson explores perceptions of ugliness through history, from ancient Roman feasts to medieval grotesque gargoyles, from Mary Shelley's monster cobbled from corpses to the Nazi Exhibition of Degenerate Art. Covering literature, art, music and even Ugly dolls, Henderson reveals how ugliness has long posed a challenge to aesthetics and taste. Henderson digs into the muck of ugliness, moving beyond the traditional philosophic argument or mere opposition to beauty, and emerges with more than a selection of fascinating tidbits. Following ugly bodies and dismantling ugly senses across periods and continents, [this book] draws on a wealth of fields to cross cultures and times, delineating the changing map of ugliness as it charges the public imagination. Illustrated with a range of artefacts, this book offers a refreshing perspective that moves beyond the surface to ask what 'ugly' truly is, even as its meaning continues to shift"--
Bibliographical Monograph Series
Author: Humanities Research Center (Austin, Tex.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The First Hundred Publications of the Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin
Author: The Gernsheim Collection
Author: Roy FlukingerPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292723368
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Winner, Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award, College Art Association, 2012 The Gernsheim Collection is one of the most important collections of photography in the world. Amassed by the renowned husband-and-wife team of Helmut and Alison Gernsheim between 1945 and 1963, it contains an unparalleled range of images, beginning with the world's earliest-known photograph from nature, made by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826. The Gernsheim Collection includes some 35,000 major and representative photographs from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; a research library of some 3,600 books, journals, and published articles; about 250 autographed letters and manuscripts; and more than 200 pieces of early photographic equipment. Its encyclopedic scope—as well as the expertise and taste with which the Gernsheims built the collection—makes the Gernsheim Collection one of the world's premier resources for the study and appreciation of the development of photography. Published to coincide with a landmark exhibition staged by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, which owns the collection, this volume presents masterpieces of the Gernsheim Collection, along with lesser-known images of great historical significance. Arranged in chronological order, this selection effectively constitutes a visual history of photography from its beginnings to the mid-twentieth century. Each full-page image is accompanied by an extensive annotation in which Roy Flukinger describes the photograph's place in the evolution of photography and also within the Gernsheim Collection. Flukinger also provides an enlightening introduction in which he traces the Gernsheims' passionate careers as collectors and pioneering historians of photography, showing how their untiring efforts significantly contributed to the acceptance of photography as a fine art and as a field worthy of intellectual inquiry. Appreciations of the Gernsheim Collection by Alison Nordström and Mark Haworth-Booth confirm its singular importance as a collection of outstanding breadth and depth in the history of photography.
Aldine Press Books at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Author: Harry Ransom Humanities Research CenterPublisher: Harry Ransom Humanities
ISBN: 9780292743342
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description