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A Private Passion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 561

A Private Passion

  • Categories: Art

"For the Winthrop collection's international debut exhibition, curators at the Fogg Art Museum of the Harvard University Art Museums, headed by Stephan Wolohojian, organized the selection and invited more than sixty specialists to write on artworks in their particular area of expertise. Works include such highlights in their creator's oeuvre as Jacques-Louis David's sketchbooks for The Coronation of Napoleon and the Crowning of Josephine, Theodore Gericault's Mutiny on the Raft of the Medusa, Vincent van Gogh's The Blue Cart, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's Odalisque with the Slave, William Blake's illustrations for the Divine Comedy, Dante Gabriel Rosetti's Blessed Damozel, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Nocturne in Blue and Silver. In addition, an essay by Wolohojian provides a fascinating and informative description of Winthrop and the growth of his collection."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Museums and Biographies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 351

Museums and Biographies

  • Categories: Art

Exploring the relationship between museums and biographies, this collection of essays examines examples from the early 19th century to the present day.

Orientalist Aesthetics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 459

Orientalist Aesthetics

Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism. Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade of research in untapped archives, introduces many unfamiliar paintings, posters, miniatures, and panoramas and discovers an art movement closely bound to French colonial expansion. Orientalist Aesthetics approaches the visual culture of exoticism by ranging across the decorative arts, colonial museums, traveling scholarships, and art criticism in the Salons of Paris and Algiers. Benjamin's rediscovery of the important Society of ...

Exceptional Spaces
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 412

Exceptional Spaces

Taking interdisciplinary and diverse approaches, these thirteen essays explore the multifaceted relationship between performance and history. By considering performance as both a useful frame for understanding historical practices and a mode of historical production itself--performance in history and performance as history--the contributors chart new directions in such fields as cultural studies, contemporary historiography, museum studies, and life narrative research. Geographically and chronologically, the collection's sweep is broad--ranging from the nineteenth century to the present, from Victorian theater to commissions of inquiry in Kenya, from dissent in post-Soviet Lithuania to plant...

Consentement et contrainte dans les soins en psychiatrie
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 324

Consentement et contrainte dans les soins en psychiatrie

Le soin psychiatrique est le seul (ou presque) pour lequel une procédure d’intervention sans le consentement est prévue. En effet, la nature même de certains troubles psychiques peut altérer la capacité à consentir, et dans ce cas, le cadre légal de la contrainte permet d’assurer des soins « sans consentement ». Un débat complexe abordé à travers 3 axes complémentaires : - Le cheminement historique, le cadre juridique, de la loi de 1838, à celle de 1990 jusqu’à la réforme de 2011-2013 pour comprendre la mise en place, l’évolution et les différentes options des soins sans consentement. - Les exemples d’application de la loi dans certains cas particuliers : soins en milieu carcéral, prise en charge de personnes démentes, auteurs d’agressions sexuelles… - Le panorama des soins sous contraintes pratiqués dans d’autres pays européens.

Art Books
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 572

Art Books

  • Categories: Art

Expanded to twice as many entries as the 1985 edition, and updated with new publications, new editions of previous entries, titles missed the first time around, more of the artists' own writings, and monographs that deal with significant aspects or portions of an artist's work though not all of it. The listing is alphabetical by artist, and the index by author. The works cited include analytical and critical, biographical, and enumerative; their formats range from books and catalogues raisonnes to exhibition and auction sale catalogues. A selection of biographical dictionaries containing information on artists is arranged by country. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Göttergleich – Gottverlassen
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 321

Göttergleich – Gottverlassen

  • Categories: Art

Prometheus ist eine der widersprüchlichsten Figuren der griechischen Mythologie und wie kaum eine andere in unserem kulturellen Gedächtnis verankert. Mal als Frevler geschmäht, mal als Retter gefeiert, blieb der feuerbringende Halbgott durch die Zeiten lebendig und steht bis heute für Wissen und Innovation. In den Künsten hat die Sage von Prometheus mit ihren drei Hauptmotiven Menschenbildung, Feuerraub und Marter im Lauf der Jahrhunderte die verschiedensten, ja konträren Deutungen evoziert. Mit der Aufklärung zum Mythos des modernen Menschen geworden, konnte Prometheus das 19. Jahrhundert in all seinen Widersprüchen bildhaft werden lassen – sei es als Motor der Technisierung und I...

Text and Image in Modern European Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Text and Image in Modern European Culture

  • Categories: Art

Text and Image in Modern European Culture is a collection of essays that are transnational and interdisciplinary in scope. Employing a range of innovative comparative approaches to reassess and undermine traditional boundaries between art forms and national cultures, the contributors shed new light on the relations between literature and the visual arts in Europe after 1850. Following tenets of comparative cultural studies, work presented in this volume explores international creative dialogues between writers and visual artists, ekphrasis in literature, literature and design (fashion, architecture), hybrid texts (visual poetry, surrealist pocket museums, poetic photo-texts), and text and im...

European Symbolism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

European Symbolism

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

This first comparative study of the Symbolist use of myth in France, Germany, and Russia closely examines a selected range of poetic and pictorial works created between c. 1860 and 1910. The focus of the discussion is on a constellation of five artists, linked by a complex network of influences: Gustave Moreau, José-Maria de Heredia, and Jean Moréas (France); Stefan George (Germany); and Valerii Bryusov (Russia). By analysing myth in painting and poetry, the book gives a new insight into the significance of heroic and aesthetic ideals in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European culture. International and interdisciplinary in its comparative approach, the study reassesses the d...

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century European Drawings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 482