Blake Lavater And Physiognomy

Author : Sibylle Erle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351193696

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Blake, Lavater, and Physiognomy by Sibylle Erle Pdf

"William Blake never travelled to the continent, yet his creation myth is far more European than has ever been acknowledged. The painter Henry Fuseli introduced Blake to traditional European thinking, and Blake responded to late 18th century body-theory in his Urizen books (1794-95), which emerged from his professional work as a copy-engraver on Henry Hunter's translation of Johann Caspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy (1789-98). Lavater's work contains hundreds of portraits and their physiognomical readings. Blake, Fuseli, Joshua Reynolds and their contemporaries took a keen interest in the ideas behind physiognomy in their search for the right balance between good likeness and type in portraits. Blake, Lavater, and Physiognomy demonstrates how the problems occurring during the production of the Hunter translation resonate in Blake's treatment of the Genesis story. Blake takes us back to the creation of the human body, and interrogates the idea that 'God created man after his own likeness.' He introduces the 'Net of Religion', a device which presses the human form into material shape, giving it personality and identity. As Erle shows, Blake's startlingly original take on the creation myth is informed by Lavater's pursuit of physiognomy: the search for divine likeness, traced in the faces of their contemporary men."

Author : Johann Caspar Lavater,Henry Hunter
Publisher : Hansebooks
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337853560

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Essays on Physiognomy by Johann Caspar Lavater,Henry Hunter Pdf

Essays on Physiognomy - Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind. Vol. 2, Part 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1792. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Author : John Graham
Publisher : Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038889130

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Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy by John Graham Pdf

"Lavater's Physiognomy: an international checklist of publications": p. 85-101.

Author : Hazard Adams
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786455478

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Blake's Margins by Hazard Adams Pdf

Known for his prophetic and imaginative works of poetry, painting, and printmaking, William Blake was also a prolific reader and annotator of other writers' works. This is the first work of criticism to consider Blake's annotations in their entirety, and it covers such topics as art, poetry, theology, madness and philosophy, as well as the authors Lavater, Swedenborg, Bacon, Spurzheim, Berkeley, and Wordsworth, among others.

Author : Joseph Monteyne
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781487527747

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Media Critique in the Age of Gillray by Joseph Monteyne Pdf

Dark Media and the Materiality of Nothing -- Haunted Media -- Good Copies, Bad Copies -- Social Detritus, Paper Detritus.

Author : Steve Clark,Masashi Suzuki
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441143433

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The Reception of Blake in the Orient by Steve Clark,Masashi Suzuki Pdf

This volume brings together research from international scholars focusing attention on the longevity and complexity of Blake`s reception in Japan and elsewhere in the East. It is designed as not only a celebration of his art and poetry in new and unexpected contexts but also to contest the intensely nationalistic and parochial Englishness of his work, and in broader terms, the inevitable passivity with which Romanticism (and other Western intellectual movements) have been received in the Orient.

Author : Helen P. Bruder,Tristanne Connolly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319897882

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Beastly Blake by Helen P. Bruder,Tristanne Connolly Pdf

Blake’s ‘Human Form Divine’ has long commanded the spotlight. Beastly Blake shifts focus to the non-human creatures who populate Blake’s poetry and designs. The author of ‘The Tyger’ and ‘The Lamb’ was equally struck by the ‘beastliness’ and the beauty of the animal kingdom, the utter otherness of animal subjectivity and the meaningful relationships between humans and other creatures. ‘Conversing with the Animal forms of wisdom night & day’, Blake fathomed how much they have to teach us about creation and eternity. This collection ranges from real animals in Blake’s surroundings, to symbolic creatures in his mythology, to animal presences in his illustrations of Virgil, Dante, Hayley, and Stedman. It makes a third to follow Queer Blake and Sexy Blake in irreverently illuminating blind spots in Blake criticism. Beastly Blake will reward lovers of Blake’s writing and visual art, as well as those interested in Romanticism and animal studies.

Author : Johann Caspar Lavater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1804
Category : Facial expression
ISBN : OXFORD:600045861

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Essays on Physiognomy by Johann Caspar Lavater Pdf

Author : Rüdiger Görner,Angus Nicholls
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110215915

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In the Embrace of the Swan by Rüdiger Görner,Angus Nicholls Pdf

Myths determine the way cultures understand themselves. The papers in this volume examine culturally specific myths in Britain and the German-speaking world, and compare approaches to the theory of myth, together with the ways in which mythological formations operate in literature, aesthetics and politics ‐ with a focus on the period around 1800. They enquire into the consequences of myth-oriented discourses for the way in which these two cultures understand each other, and in this way make a significant contribution to a more profound approach to intercultural research.

Author : Ian W. Archer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107038967

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 22 by Ian W. Archer Pdf

A collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians.

Author : Diana Dethloff,Caroline Elam,Tessa Murdoch,Kim Sloan
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781910634189

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Burning Bright by Diana Dethloff,Caroline Elam,Tessa Murdoch,Kim Sloan Pdf

This book celebrates the work and career of the internationally renowned art historian, David Bindman, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, and is above all a tribute to him from his former students and colleagues.

Author : Sarah Haggarty,Jon A Mee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137382450

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William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience by Sarah Haggarty,Jon A Mee Pdf

Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) is William Blake's best-known work, containing such familiar poems as 'London', 'Sick Rose' and 'The Tyger'. Evolving over the author's lifetime, the collection was printed by Blake himself on his own press. This Reader's Guide: - Explains the unique development of Songs as an illuminated book - Considers the earliest reactions to the text during Blake's lifetime, and his gathering posthumous reputation in the nineteenth century - Explores modern critical approaches and recent debates - Discusses key topics that have been of abiding interest to critics, including the relationship between text and image in Blake's 'composite art' Insightful and stimulating, this introductory guide is an invaluable resource for anyone who is seeking to navigate their way through the mass of criticism surrounding Blake's most widely-studied work.

Author : Diane Piccitto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137378019

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Blake's Drama by Diane Piccitto Pdf

Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance. Viewed in its dramatic contexts, this art form is shown to provoke an active spectatorship and to depict identity as paradoxically essential and constructed, revealing Blake's investments in drama, action, and the body.

Author : David Fallon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137390356

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Blake, Myth, and Enlightenment by David Fallon Pdf

This book provides compelling new readings of William Blake’s poetry and art, including the first sustained account of his visionary paintings of Pitt and Nelson. It focuses on the recurrent motif of apotheosis, both as a figure of political authority to be demystified but also as an image of utopian possibility. It reevaluates Blake’s relationship to Enlightenment thought, myth, religion, and politics, from The French Revolution to Jerusalem and The Laocoön. The book combines careful attention to cultural and historical contexts with close readings of the texts and designs, providing an innovative account of Blake’s creative transformations of Enlightenment, classical, and Christian thought.

Author : Colin Jones CBE
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191024849

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The Smile Revolution by Colin Jones CBE Pdf

You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might seem, it was only in late eighteenth century France that western civilization discovered the art of the smile. In the 'Old Regime of Teeth' which prevailed in western Europe until then, smiling was quite literally frowned upon. Individuals were fatalistic about tooth loss, and their open mouths would often have been visually repulsive. Rules of conduct dating back to Antiquity disapproved of the opening of the mouth to express feelings in most social situations. Open and unrestrained smiling was associated with the impolite lower orders. In late eighteenth-century Paris, however, these age-old conventions changed, reflecting broader transformations in the way people expressed their feelings. This allowed the emergence of the modern smile par excellence: the open-mouthed smile which, while highlighting physical beauty and expressing individual identity, revealed white teeth. It was a transformation linked to changing patterns of politeness, new ideals of sensibility, shifts in styles of self-presentation - and, not least, the emergence of scientific dentistry. These changes seemed to usher in a revolution, a revolution in smiling. Yet if the French revolutionaries initially went about their business with a smile on their faces, the Reign of Terror soon wiped it off. Only in the twentieth century would the white-tooth smile re-emerge as an accepted model of self-presentation. In this entertaining, absorbing, and highly original work of cultural history, Colin Jones ranges from the history of art, literature, and culture to the history of science, medicine, and dentistry, to tell a unique and untold story about a facial expression at the heart of western civilization.