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Julia Margaret Cameron
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 580

Julia Margaret Cameron

According to one of Julia Margaret Cameron’s great-nieces, “we never knew what Aunt Julia was going to do next, nor did anyone else.” This is an accurate summation of the life of the British photographer (1815–1879), who took up the camera at age forty-eight and made more than twelve hundred images during a fourteen-year career. Living at the height of the Victorian era, Cameron was anything but conventional, experimenting with the relatively new medium of photography, promoting her own art though exhibition and sale, and pursuing the eminent personalities of her age—Alfred Tennyson, Charles Darwin, Thomas Carlyle, and others—as subjects for her lens. For the first time, all know...

Ethnography At The Edge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

Ethnography At The Edge

  • Categories: Law

The candid, first-person accounts of their experiences, especially in illegal, immoral, and dangerous situations, reveal the horrors, perils, and joys of ethnographic research. The methodological, theoretical, and political implications of field work are also thoroughly discussed. Describing their deep involvement with such diverse groups as skinheads, phone sex workers, drug dealers, graffiti artists, and the homeless, many of the authors confess to their own episodes of illegal drug use, drunk driving, weapons violations, assault at gunpoint, obstruction of justice, and arrest while engaged in ethnographic studies. Although field research is seldom safe, convenient, or above professional criticism, this volume demonstrates that it is vital for providing a fuller understanding of deviant and criminal populations.

A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana (1500-2000)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 806

A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana (1500-2000)

Annotated bibliography of the Arthurian legend in modern English-language fiction, not only in literary texts, but in television, music, and art. The legend of Arthur has been a source of fascination for writers and artists in English since the fifteenth century, when Thomas Malory drew together for the first time in English a variety of Arthurian stories from a number of sources to form the Morte Darthur. It increased in popularity during the Victorian era, when after Tennyson's treatment of the legend, not only authors and dramatists, but painters, musicians, and film-makers found a sourceof inspiration in the Arthurian material. This interdisciplinary, annotated bibliography lists the Art...

Creative Enterprise
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 389

Creative Enterprise

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-04-12
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

Intertwines a dual emphasis on evolving institutional priorities and major shifts in artistic production.

Julia Margaret Cameron
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

Julia Margaret Cameron

  • Categories: Art

This volume, another in the In Focus series on photographers well represented in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, features the work of the British artist Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79). Approximately fifty plates by this pioneer of the medium are reproduced, along with commentary by Julian Cox, Assistant Curator in the Museum's Department of Photographers.

Seizing the Light
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 609

Seizing the Light

The definitive history of photography book, Seizing the Light: A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography delivers the fascinating story of how photography as an art form came into being, and its continued development, maturity, and transformation. Covering the major events, practitioners, works, and social effects of photographic practice, Robert Hirsch provides a concise and discerning chronological account of Western photography. This fundamental starting place shows the diversity of makers, inventors, issues, and applications, exploring the artistic, critical, and social aspects of the creative process. The third edition includes up-to-date information about contemporary photographers l...

Originality and Tradition in the Middle Dutch Roman Van Walewein
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 230

Originality and Tradition in the Middle Dutch Roman Van Walewein

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: DS Brewer

New editor, new directions: the series broadens its scope to encompass European literatures other than French and English; still, however, "an indispensable component of any historical or Arthurian library". NOTES AND QUERIES This new volume of Arthurian Literature, the first under its new editor Keith Busby, is devoted to the Roman van Walewein(The Romance of Walewein [Gawain]) by Penninc and Pieter Vostaert, an undisputed gem of Middle Dutch literature which has recently become accessible to an English-speaking audience through translation. Essentially a fairy-tale written into Arthurian romance, it presents a Gawain quite different to the man found in the English Sir Gawain and the Green ...

Photography and the Art of Chance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 409

Photography and the Art of Chance

  • Categories: Art

As anyone who has wielded a camera knows, photography has a unique relationship to chance. It also represents a struggle to reconcile aesthetic aspiration with a mechanical process. Robin Kelsey reveals how daring innovators expanded the aesthetic limits of photography in order to create art for a modern world.

Illustrating Camelot
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

Illustrating Camelot

  • Categories: Art

An account in words and pictures of how the world of Camelot and King Arthur's knights was reflected in, and shaped by, book illustration.

Arthurian Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

Arthurian Women

Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.