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The Mineral and the Visual
Opulent jeweled objects ranked among the most highly valued works of art in the European Middle Ages. At the same time, precious stones prompted sophisticated reflections on the power of nature and the experience of mineralized beings. Beyond a visual regime that put a premium on brilliant materiality, how can we account for the ubiquity of gems in medieval thought? In The Mineral and the Visual, art historian Brigitte Buettner examines the social roles, cultural meanings, and active agency of precious stones in secular medieval art. Exploring the layered roles played by gems in aesthetic, ideological, intellectual, and economic practices, Buettner focuses on three significant categories of ...
The Book of Marvels
This fascinating volume explores an important fifteenth-century illustrated manuscript tradition that provides a revealing glimpse of how western Europeans conceptualized the world. From the classical encyclopedias of Pliny to famous tales such as The Travels of Marco Polo, historical travel writing has had a lasting impact, despite the fact that it was based on a curious mixture of truth, legend, and outright superstition. One foundational medieval source that expands on the ancient idea of the “wonders of the world” is the fifteenth-century French Book of the Marvels of the World, an illustrated guide to the globe filled with oddities, curiosities, and wonders—tales of fantasy and re...
French XX Bibliography
This annual French XX Bibliography provides the most complete listing available of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. Unique in its scope, thoroughness, and reliability of information, it has become an essential reference source in the study of modern French literature and culture. The bibliography is divided into three major divisions: general studies, author subjects (arranged alphabetically), and cinema. Number 59 in the series contains 12,703 entries. William J. Thompson is Associate Professor of French and Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Programs in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Memphis.
Marco Polo's Le Devisement Du Monde
The first book in English to examine one of the most important and influential texts from a literary perspective.
Art et littérature
Les voyages relatés dans le présent volume sont en effet fortement associés aux dimensions visuelle et scripturale en ce qu'ils se fondent sur, engendrent ou passent par l'écriture et/ou la figuration, que ce soit simultanément ou consécutivement: le voyage vers des contrées mystérieuses et déroutantes de Marco Polo, dans l'hypermonde, une campagne militaire..., le voyage formateur..., celui entrepris pour raisons pratiques ou intellectuelles..., pour s'adonner à une nostalgie improbable ..., au rêve d' une communauté idéale..., ou pour se confronter à l'étrangeté du lieu visité. En considérant les échanges variés et serrés entre les deux modes d'expression, le rapport t...
Georges Braque
Together with Picasso and Matisse, Georges Braque is unquestionably one of the three great pillars of twentieth-century art. Here is the first full-length biography of this remarkable figure. A pioneer of modern art and founder of Cubism, Georges Braque was a creative genius and tireless innovator, constantly pushing back the boundaries of the possible. In this magisterial work, Alex Danchev taps a wide range of new sources to reveal the heart and mind of one who helped usher in the greatest revolution in the ways of seeing since the Renaissance and changed the face of modern art.
L' autre, création et médiation
Cet ouvrage rassemble les contributions au colloque international « L'Autre : création et médiation » qui a eu lieu à l'Université de Nantes du 30 novembre au 2 décembre 2006. Cette manifestation a fait la synthèse de deux années de travail scientifique sur les conflits d'interprétation dans plusieurs domaines, comme la philosophie, la littérature, le théâtre, la linguistique, les sciences de l'éducation, la politique et l'ethnologie. Les interventions s'organisent autour des questions : Qui est l'Autre ? A-t-elle ou il une existence en dehors d'une définition de son identité ? Actuellement, les discours officiels sont très largement dominés par des réflexions identitaires...
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