Author: Cave BeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The universal character, by which all the nations in the world may understand one anothers conceptions
Author: Cave BeckUniversal Character by Which All Nations in the World May Understand One Another's Conceptions
Author: Cave BeckPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781497896048
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1657 Edition.
The Universal Character
Author: Cave BeckThe Printed Image in Early Modern London
Author: Joseph MonteynePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351541277
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Presenting an inventive body of research that explores the connections between urban movements, space, and visual representation, this study offers the first sustained analysis of the vital interrelationship between printed images and urban life in early modern London. The study differs from all other books on early modern British print culture in that it seeks out printed forms that were active in shaping and negotiating the urban milieu-prints that troubled categories of high and low culture, images that emerged when the political became infused with the creative, as well as prints that bear traces of the roles they performed and the ways they were used in the city. It is distinguished by its close and sustained readings of individual prints, from the likes of such artists as Wenceslaus Hollar, Francis Barlow, and William Faithorne; and this visual analysis is complemented with a thorough examination of the dynamics of print production as a commercial exchange that takes place within a wider set of exchanges (of goods, people, ideas and money) across the city and the nation. This study challenges scholars to re-imagine the function of popular prints as a highly responsive form of cultural production, capable not only of 'recording' events, spaces and social actions, but profoundly shaping the way these entities are conceived in the moment and also recast within cultural memory. It offers historians of print culture and British art a sophisticated and innovative model of how to mobilize rigorous archival research in the service of a thoroughly historicized and theorized analysis of visual representation and its relationship to space and social identity.
The Works of George Dalgarno of Aberdeen
Author: George DalgarnoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consonants
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
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Author: John Herbert SlaterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Cabinets for the Curious
Author: Ken ArnoldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351953591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The last few years has, within museums, witnessed nothing short of a revolution. Worried that the very institution was itself in danger of becoming a dusty, forgotten, culturally irrelevant exhibit, vigorous efforts have been made to reshape the museum mission. Fearing that history was coming to be ignored by modern society, many institutions have instead marketed a de-intellectualised heritage, overly relying on computer technology to captivate a contemporary audience. The theme of this work is that we can do much to reassess the rationale that inspires contemporary collections through a study of seventeenth century museums. England's first museums were quite literally wonderful; founded that is on the disciplined application of the faculty of wonder. The type of wonder employed was not that post-Romantic idea of disbelief, but rather an active form of curiosity developed during the Renaissance, particularly by the individuals who set about gathering objects and founding museums to further their enquiries. The argument put forward in this book is that this museological practice of using objects actually to create, as well as disseminate knowledge makes just as much sense today as it did in the seventeenth century and, further, that the best way of reinvigorating contemporary museums, is to return to that form of wonder. By taking such a comparative approach, this book works both as a scholarly historical text, and as an historically informed analysis of the key issues facing today's museums. As such, it will prove essential reading both for historians of collecting and museums, and for anyone interested in the philosophies of modern museum management.
Catalogue
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
English Literature & Printing from the 15th to the 18th Century
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description