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Author : Walter Pater,Jennifer S. Uglow
Publisher : J M Dent & Sons Limited
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 0460870092
Author : Alexandra Kingston-Reese
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781609388119
Art Essays is a passionate collection of the best essays on the visual arts written by contemporary novelists. With an introduction by literary critic and editor Alexandra Kingston-Reese, Art Essays is an enthralling vision of a new wave of literary essays shaping contemporary culture.
Author : Walter Pater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015008364906
Author : Charles Harrison
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0262582414
Critical and theoretical essays by a long-time participant in the Art & Language movement. These essays by art historian and critic Charles Harrison are based on the premise that making art and talking about art are related enterprises. They are written from the point of view of Art & Language, the artistic movement based in England—and briefly in the United States—with which Harrison has been associated for thirty years. Harrison uses the work of Art & Language as a central case study to discuss developments in art from the 1950s through the 1980s. According to Harrison, the strongest motivation for writing about art is that it brings us closer to that which is other than ourselves. In seeing how a work is done, we learn about its achieved identity: we see, for example, that a drip on a Pollock is integral to its technical character, whereas a drip on a Mondrian would not be. Throughout the book, Harrison uses specific examples to address a range of questions about the history, theory, and making of modern art—questions about the conditions of its making and the nature of its public, about the problems and priorities of criticism, and about the relations between interpretation and judgment.
Author : Johanna Skibsrud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 1771665297
"Written over a period of more than a decade, The Nothing That Is is a collection about the very concept of "nothing," approached from a variety of angles and in a variety of ways. Addressing a broad range of topics and works by contemporary writers and artists, these essays seek to decentre our relationship to both the "givenness" of history and to a predictive or probable model of the future. They do so by drawing attention to the ways that poetic language activates the multiple, and as yet undesignated, possibilities replete within our every moment, and within every encounter between a speaking "I" and what exceeds subjectivity--a listening "Other," be it community or the objective world."--
Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429967471
One of Latin America's most garlanded novelists—and the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature—Mario Vargas Llosa is also an acute and wide-ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones collects Vargas Llosa's brilliant readings of seminal twentieth-century novels, from Heart of Darkness to The Tin Drum; incisive essays on political and social thinkers; and contemporary pieces on 9/11 and the immediate aftermath of the war in Iraq. Fantastically intelligent, inspired, and surprising, Touchstones is a landmark collection of essays from one of the world's leading writers and intellectuals.
Author : Jeanette Winterson
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780307363633
In ten interlocking essays, the acclaimed author of Written on the Body and Art & Lies reveals art as an active force in the world--neither elitist nor remote, available to those who want it and affecting those who don't. Original, personal, and provocative, these essays are not so much a point of view as they are a way of life, revealing "a brilliant and deeply feeling artist at work" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Author : Sydney Anglo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136732065
This book approaches witchcraft and demonology through literary records. The works discussed deal with the contemporary theories propounded by those who sought either to justify, or to refute persecution. Eight contributors of differing interests,a nd with different approaches to their subject, examine a selection of important, representative witchcraft texts – published in England, France, Germany, Italy and America – setting them within their intellectual context and analysing both their style and argument.
Author : Hiram Miner Stanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Literature
ISBN : WISC:89099799140
Author : César Graña
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1412823269
Graa's work critically examines the continual rebirth of cultural romances on the part of literary intellectuals. His disdain for contrived rejections of modernity and for grand destructive gestures is combined with his intense appreciation of the romantic sensibility. Fact and Symbol embodies Graa's views of the enterprise of cultural sociology in which both words are given equal play.
Author : Charles Rosen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780674069893
Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is negotiation always required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations of music and literature, exists in a delicate balance with fidelity to the identity of the original work. Rosen cautions us to avoid doctrinaire extremes when approaching art of the past. To understand Shakespeare only as an Elizabethan or Jacobean theatergoer would understand him, or to modernize his plays with no sense of what they bring from his age, deforms the work, making it less ambiguous and inherently less interesting. For a work to remain alive, it must change character over time while preserving a valid witness to its earliest state. When twentieth-century scholars transformed Mozart's bland, idealized nineteenth-century image into that of a modern revolutionary expressionist, they paradoxically restored the reputation he had among his eighteenth-century contemporaries. Mozart became once again a complex innovator, challenging to perform and to understand. Drawing on a variety of critical methods, Rosen maintains that listening or reading with intensity-for pleasure-is the one activity indispensable for full appreciation. It allows us to experience multiple possibilities in literature and music, and to avoid recognizing only the revolutionary elements of artistic production. By reviving the sense that works of art have intrinsic merits that bring pleasure, we justify their continuing existence.
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691187174
Translated by Ellen von Nardroff and Ernest H. von Nardroff The reflections on art and literature that Goethe produced throughout his life are the premise and corollary of his work as poet, novelist, and man of science. This volume contains such important essays as "On Gothic Architecture," "On the Laocoon Group," and "Shakespeare: A Tribute." Several works in this collection appear for the first time unabridged and in fresh translations.
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913724269
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015032422795
Never less than profound, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka's fierce and provocative contribution to the debate on multiculturalism brings together 19 iconoclastic essays on African, European, and American literature, culture, and politics. "Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer".--New York Times
Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547023531
The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism is a set of essays by the philosopher Schopenhauer. They depict a type of pessimism that springs from elevating will above reason, as the driving force of human thought and conduct.