Author: Raymond NacentaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1526
Book Description
School of Paris
Author: Raymond NacentaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1526
Book Description
Spectacular Politics
Author: Matthew TruesdellPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019510689X
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Elected President of the Second Republic in 1848, the year of the inception of universal male suffrage, this nephew of Napoleon I overthrew that Republic in 1851 to establish himself as Emperor Napoleon III, a title he kept for almost twenty years.
Colouring Textiles
Author: Agusti Nieto-GalanPublisher:
ISBN: 9789401710824
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Extremities
Author: Darcy Grimaldo GrigsbyPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300088878
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
In the decades following the French Revolution, four artists - Girodet, Gros, Gericault, and Delacroix - painted works in their Parisian studios that vividly expressed violent events in faraway, colonial lands. This book examines six of these paintings and argues that their disturbing, erotic depictions of slavery, revolt, plague, decapitation, cannibalism, massacre, and abduction chart the history of France's empire and colonial politics. Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby shows that these paintings about occurrences in the West Indies, Syria, Egypt, Senegal, and Ottoman Empire Greece are preoccupied not with mastery and control but with loss, degradation, and failure, and she explains how such representations of crises in the colonies were able to answer the artists' longings as well as the needs of the government and the opposition parties at home. Empire made painters devoted to the representation of liberty and the new French nation confront liberty's antithesis: slavery. It also forced them to contend with cultural and racial difference. Young male artists responded, says Grigsby, by translating distant crises into images of challenges to the self, making history painting the site where geographic extremities and bodily extremities articulated one another.
The Seduction of the Mediterranean
Author: Robert AldrichPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134871392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Through an explanation of forty figures in European culture, ^The Seduction of the Mediterranean argues that the Mediterranean, classical and contemporary, was the central theme in homoerotic writing and art from the 1750s to the 1950s. Episodes of exile, murder, drug-taking, wild homosexual orgies and court cases are woven into an original study of a significant theme in European culture. The myth of a homoerotic Mediterranean made a major contribution to general attitudes towards Antiquity, the Renaissance and modern Italy and Greece.
France and the South Pacific since 1940
Author: Robert AldrichPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824815585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
For some, Tahiti, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna are idyllic tropical islands with a French flavour, while for others they represent continuing French colonialism, thwarted independence movements and nuclear-testing. This book looks at the realities of the French territories in Oceania, and the former Franco-British condominium of the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), as well as changing French policy in the region. This study is based on published sources as well as archival material and interviews, and is a sequel to the highly praised The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842-1940.
Gericault
Author: LORENZ E. A. EITNERThe Cambridge Companion to Delacroix
Author: Beth S. WrightPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521658898
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix serves as an introduction to one of the most important and most complex artists of the nineteenth century. Providing an overview of his life and career, this volume offers essays by leading authorities on the artist's pictorial practice, the stylistic range over classicism and Romanticism, his writings, both private diary notations and published articles, and his impact on modern aesthetics, among other topics. Designed to serve as an essential resource for students of French nineteenth-century art history, cultural history, and literature, The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix also provides a chronology of the artist's life, set into its political and cultural contexts, as well as a list of suggested further reading in the topic areas.
David Adjaye's GEO-graphics
Author: David AdjayePublisher: Silvana Editoriale
ISBN: 9788836616589
Category : Art
Languages : it
Pages : 0
Book Description
Confronting contemporary African art's awkward coexistence with earlier African art as "ethnographic artifact," Geo-Graphics celebrates the flourishing of African art on the international circuit, while simultaneously asserting its ancestry and critiquing the valorization of heritage. David Adjaye's photographs of African capitals and an examination of contemporary African art centers further contextualize the continent's recent cultural transformations.
Viewing Europe from the Outside
Author: Syrine Chafic HoutPublisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Viewing Europe from the Outside reexamines the narrative portrayal of cultural encounters between East and West in English and French Orientalist discourse. It focuses, in particular, on the eighteenth-century satirical travel account and the nineteenth-century literary travelogue. Through a close reading of five texts, it defines the monological, dialogical, and parodic uses of the Other as three forms of encounters that both provide structure for and participate in a self-reflective culture critique.