A Data Driven Analysis Of Cemeteries And Social Reform In Paris 1804 1924

Author : Kaylee P. Alexander
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000930993

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A Data-Driven Analysis of Cemeteries and Social Reform in Paris, 1804–1924 by Kaylee P. Alexander Pdf

This book takes a novel, data-driven approach to the cemeteries of Paris, analyzing a largely text-based body of archival material as proxy evidence for visual material that has been lost due to systematic, and legally sanctioned, acts of erasure. This study represents the first full-length study of vernacular monuments in France and the entrepreneurs who made them. It also provides methodical considerations, at the intersection of the computational and digital humanities for managing survival biases in extant historical evidence, that are applicable beyond the thematic focus of this book. Since extant examples of these more inconspicuous monuments are rare, this project employs both distant and close viewing—analyzing commercial almanacs, work logs, and burial records in aggregates alongside detailed case studies—to compensate for gaps in the material record. The book will be of interest to scholars working in visual culture, popular culture, digital humanities, and French history.

Author : Víctor Mínguez,Inmaculada Rodríguez-Moya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781003806776

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The Visual Legacy of Alexander the Great from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolution by Víctor Mínguez,Inmaculada Rodríguez-Moya Pdf

This is an analysis of the diverse facets of Alexander the Great’s image from the Renaissance era through the Baroque into the nineteenth century. Perceived as the first sovereign ruler of the world, for centuries Alexander became an exemplar for the most ambitious kings and emperors. This cultural phenomenon flourished above all in the Renaissance while extending into the nineteenth century. Early modern monarchs’ identification with Alexander associated them with ideas of kingly wisdom. Yet this admiration waned on occasions. Napoleon was Alexander of Macedonia’s most ardent critic. During the nineteenth century, the Macedonian hero was viewed as an individual who won control of the Achaemenid empire, but also underwent a progressive moral decline that converted him into a tyrant. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history and iconography.

Author : Stijn Bussels,Bram Van Oostveldt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781003803492

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The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic by Stijn Bussels,Bram Van Oostveldt Pdf

Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as “being of an orderly and diligent position” and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important role in seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture. By looking at different visualizations of exceptional heights, divine presence, political grandeur, extreme violence, and extraordinary artifacts, the authors demonstrate how viewers were confronted with the sublime, which evoked in them a combination of contrasting feelings of awe and fear, attraction and repulsion. In studying seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture through the lens of notions of the sublime, we can move beyond the traditional and still widespread views on Dutch art as the ultimate representation of everyday life and the expression of a prosperous society in terms of calmness, neatness, and order. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, architectural history, and cultural history.

Author : Rory O'Dea
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000969368

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Robert Smithson, Land Art, and Speculative Realities by Rory O'Dea Pdf

This book explores the ways Robert Smithson’s art revealed and defamiliarized the constructs of rational reality in order to allow radically speculative alternatives to emerge. In this way, his art is conceived as a true fiction that eradicates a false reality. By tracing the web of correspondences between Smithson and science fictional, speculative and mystical modes of thought, Rory O’Dea explores the aesthetic encounters engendered by his art as a means to warp the contours of reality and loosen the boundaries of being human. Given the current and impending catastrophes of the Anthropocene, which represents the ever-expanding planetary shadow cast by humanism, the possibility of being other-than-human posited by Smithson’s art is a matter of urgent concern. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, American studies and environmental humanities.

Author : Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000953046

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Art and Monist Philosophy in Nineteenth Century France From Auteuil to Giverny by Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer Pdf

This is a study of the relation between the fine arts and philosophy in France, from the aftermath of the 1789 revolution to the end of the nineteenth century, when a philosophy of being called “Monism” emerged and became increasingly popular among intellectuals, artists and scientists. Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer traces the evolution and impact of this monist thought and its various permutations as a transformative force on certain aspects of French art and culture – from Romanticism to Impressionism – and as a theoretical backdrop that paved the way to as yet unexplored aspects of a modernist aesthetic. Chapters concentrate on three major artists, Théodore Géricault (1791–1824), Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) and Claude Monet (1840–1926), and their particular approach to and interpretation of this unitarian concept. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, philosophy and cultural history.

Author : Nadja Rottner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000998894

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Claes Oldenburg's Theater of Vision by Nadja Rottner Pdf

In four chronologically organized chapters, this study traces the conceptual dependence and deep connectivity among Claes Oldenburg’s poetry, sculpture, films, and performance art between 1956 and 1965. This research-intensive book argues that Oldenburg’s art relies on machine vision and other metaphors to visualize the structure and image content of human thought as an artistic problem. Anchored in new oral history interviews and extensive archival material, it brings together understudied visual and concrete poetry, experimental films, fifteen group performances (commonly referred to as happenings), and a close analysis of his well-known installations of The Street (1960) and The Store (1961–62), effectively setting in place a reexamination of Oldenburg’s pop art from the street, store, home, and cinema years. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, film studies, performance studies, literature, intermedia studies, and media theory.

Author : Lian Duan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000919424

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Art History, Narratology, and Twentieth-Century Chinese Art by Lian Duan Pdf

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratological perspective. Theoretically and methodologically oriented, this is a self-reflective meta-art history studying the art historical narratives while narrating the story of modern and contemporary Chinese art. Thus, this book explores the three layers of narrative within the narratological framework: the first-hand fabula, the secondary narration, and the tertiary narrativization. With this tertiary narrativization, the reader-author presents three types of narrative: the grand narrative of the central thesis of this book, the middle-range narrative of the chapter theses, and case analyses supporting these theses. The focus of this tertiary narrativization is the interaction between Western influence on Chinese art and the Chinese response to this influence. The central thesis is that this interaction conditioned and shaped the development of Chinese art at every historical turning point in the twentieth century. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, critical theory, Chinese studies, and cultural studies.

Author : Diana Seave Greenwald
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691214948

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Painting by Numbers by Diana Seave Greenwald Pdf

A pathbreaking history of art that uses digital research and economic tools to reveal enduring inequities in the formation of the art historical canon Painting by Numbers presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and social scientific methods to chart, for the first time, the sheer scale of nineteenth-century artistic production. With new quantitative evidence for more than five hundred thousand works of art, Diana Seave Greenwald provides fresh insights into the nineteenth century, and the extent to which art historians have focused on a limited—and potentially biased—sample of artwork from that time. She addresses long-standing questions about the effects of industrialization, gender, and empire on the art world, and she models more expansive approaches for studying art history in the age of the digital humanities. Examining art in France, the United States, and the United Kingdom, Greenwald features datasets created from indices and exhibition catalogs that—to date—have been used primarily as finding aids. From this body of information, she reveals the importance of access to the countryside for painters showing images of nature at the Paris Salon, the ways in which time-consuming domestic responsibilities pushed women artists in the United States to work in lower-prestige genres, and how images of empire were largely absent from the walls of London’s Royal Academy at the height of British imperial power. Ultimately, Greenwald considers how many works may have been excluded from art historical inquiry and shows how data can help reintegrate them into the history of art, even after such pieces have disappeared or faded into obscurity. Upending traditional perspectives on the art historical canon, Painting by Numbers offers an innovative look at the nineteenth-century art world and its legacy.

Author : Elections Canada
Publisher : Chief Electoral Officer of Canada
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000061501614

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A History of the Vote in Canada by Elections Canada Pdf

Cet ouvrage couvre la période qui va de 1758 à nos jours.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231002779

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Legacies of slavery by UNESCO Pdf

Author : Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520323001

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Paris as Revolution by Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson Pdf

In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution offered a virtuoso metaphor by which the city could be known and a vital principle through which it could be portrayed. In this engaging book, Priscilla Ferguson locates the originality and modernity of nineteenth-century French literature in the intersection of the city with revolution. A cultural geography, Paris as Revolution "reads" the nineteenth-century city not in literary works alone but across a broad spectrum of urban icons and narratives. Ferguson moves easily between literary and cultural history and between semiotic and sociological analysis to underscore the movement and change that fueled the powerful narratives defining the century, the city, and their literature. In her understanding and reconstruction of the guidebooks of Mercier, Hugo, Vallès, and others, alongside the novels of Flaubert, Hugo, Vallès, and Zola, Ferguson reveals that these works are themselves revolutionary performances, ones that challenged the modernizing city even as they transcribed its emergence. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Author : Charles G. Häberl,James F. McGrath
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110487862

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The Mandaean Book of John by Charles G. Häberl,James F. McGrath Pdf

Given the degree of popular fascination with Gnostic religions, it is surprising how few pay attention to the one such religion that has survived from antiquity until the present day: Mandaism. Mandaeans, who esteem John the Baptist as the most famous adherent to their religion, have in our time found themselves driven from their historic homelands by war and oppression. Today, they are a community in crisis, but they provide us with unparalleled access to a library of ancient Gnostic scriptures, as part of the living tradition that has sustained them across the centuries. Gnostic texts such as these have caught popular interest in recent times, as traditional assumptions about the original forms and cultural contexts of related religious traditions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, have been called into question. However, we can learn only so much from texts in isolation from their own contexts. Mandaean literature uniquely allows us not only to increase our knowledge about Gnosticism, and by extension all these other religions, but also to observe the relationship between Gnostic texts, rituals, beliefs, and living practices, both historically and in the present day.

Author : P. M. Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317863182

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The French Revolution 1787-1804 by P. M. Jones Pdf

The French Revolution can be seen as an enormous explosion of civic energy with huge ramifications for the rest of the world. In this balanced and accessible account, P.M Jones: Considers the build-up of pressure between 1787 and 1789 as the power of the ancien régime began to crumbleAnalyses the dramatic events that began with the taking of the Bastille in 1789 and led to the establishment of a radical new orderExamines the demise of the Republic in 1804 and assesses the wider significance of the revolutionary decade At the core of the Revolution lay the realisation among ordinary men and wom.

Author : M. Nilsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230615779

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Railways and the Western European Capitals by M. Nilsen Pdf

This book looks at the effect of railways on London, Paris, Brussels, and Berlin, focusing on each city as a case study for one aspect of implantation.

Author : Gord Olsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Crown lands
ISBN : 1100175636

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Surveys, Parcels and Tenure on Canada Lands by Gord Olsson Pdf