Imitation Artist

Author : Sunny Stalter-Pace
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810141933

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Imitation Artist by Sunny Stalter-Pace Pdf

Gertrude Hoffmann made her name in the early twentieth century as an imitator, copying highbrow performances staged in Europe and popularizing them for a broader American audience. Born in San Francisco, Hoffmann started working as a ballet girl in pantomime spectacles during the Gay Nineties. She performed through the heyday of vaudeville and later taught dancers and choreographed nightclub revues. After her career ended, she reflected on how vaudeville’s history was represented in film and television. Drawn from extensive archival research, Imitation Artist shows how Hoffmann’s life intersected with those of central gures in twentieth-century popular culture and dance, including Florenz Ziegfeld, George M. Cohan, Isadora Duncan, and Ruth St. Denis. Sunny Stalter-Pace discusses the ways in which Hoffmann navigated the complexities of performing gender, race, and national identity at the dawn of contemporary celebrity culture. This book is essential reading for those interested in the history of theater and dance, modernism, women’s history, and copyright.

Author : Sunny Stalter-Pace
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810141922

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Imitation Artist by Sunny Stalter-Pace Pdf

Gertrude Hoffmann made her name in the early twentieth century as an imitator, copying highbrow performances staged in Europe and popularizing them for a broader American audience. Born in San Francisco, Hoffmann started working as a ballet girl in pantomime spectacles during the Gay Nineties. She performed through the heyday of vaudeville and later taught dancers and choreographed nightclub revues. After her career ended, she reflected on how vaudeville’s history was represented in film and television. Drawn from extensive archival research, Imitation Artist shows how Hoffmann’s life intersected with those of central gures in twentieth-century popular culture and dance, including Florenz Ziegfeld, George M. Cohan, Isadora Duncan, and Ruth St. Denis. Sunny Stalter-Pace discusses the ways in which Hoffmann navigated the complexities of performing gender, race, and national identity at the dawn of contemporary celebrity culture. This book is essential reading for those interested in the history of theater and dance, modernism, women’s history, and copyright.

Author : Niklas Luhmann
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804739072

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Art as a Social System by Niklas Luhmann Pdf

This is the definitive analysis of art as a social and perceptual system by Germany's leading social theorist of the late 20th century. It combines three decades of research in the social sciences, phenomenology, evolutionary biology, cybernetics, and information theory with an intimate knowledge of art history, literature, aesthetics, and contemporary literary theory.

Author : Paul Duro
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781119004035

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Theorizing Imitation in the Visual Arts by Paul Duro Pdf

The theory and practice of imitation has long been central to the construction of art and yet imitation is still frequently confused with copying. Theorizing Imitation in the Visual Arts challenges this prejudice by revealing the ubiquity of the practice across cultures and geographical borders. This fascinating collection of original essays has been compiled by a group of leading scholars Challenges the prejudice of imitation in art by bringing to bear a perspective that reveals the ubiquity of the practice of imitation across cultural and geographical borders Brings light to a broad range of areas, some of which have been little researched in the past

Author : Ingrid Geelen,Delphine Steyaert
Publisher : Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Color decoration and ornament
ISBN : 2930054115

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Imitation and Illusion by Ingrid Geelen,Delphine Steyaert Pdf

In the late Middle Ages luxurious textiles were among the most highly prized indicators of status and wealth and an essential requirement of prestigious secular and ecclesiastical life. The depiction of these sumptuous silks and gold brocades was a crucial element in the visual arts, and their realistic and recognizable representation was a challenge to every artist. Painters and polychromers strove to imitate the fashionable fabrics by using applied brocade, a highly sophisticated form of relief decoration that adhered to panel paintings, murals and sculpture and through the play of light and shadow evoked the dazzling illusion of gold-brocaded cloths. Imitation and Illusion is the result of a detailed study of applied brocade in the art of the Low Countries. Eleven fascinating and innovative chapters offer an in-depth examination of the historical, geographical, morphological and technical aspects of this cast tin relief technique. New light is also shed on artistic collaboration and workshop practice in the fifteenth and early sixteenth century. The catalogue includes 86 well known and lesser known panel and wall paintings, sculptures, altarpieces, and architectural elements produced between 1420 and 1540, decorated with applied brocade and providing stunning testimony to the visual variety and material magnificence of late-medieval art. Abundantly illustrated, Imitation and Illusion investigates the artistic production of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Low Countries from an intriguing and original perspective. It represents a significant contribution to our understanding of medieval polychromy and will appeal to everyone whose curiosity is aroused by the illusionistic ingenuity of the medieval artist.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Art
ISBN : UIUC:30112004525850

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The Art Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Moshe Barasch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135199791

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Theories of Art by Moshe Barasch Pdf

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Bryan R. Warnick
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791478486

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Imitation and Education by Bryan R. Warnick Pdf

Imitation and Education provides an in-depth reassessment of learning by example that places imitation in a larger social context. It is the first book to bring together ancient educational thought and startling breakthroughs in the fields of cognitive science, psychology, and philosophy to reconsider how we learn from the lives of others. Bryan R. Warnick addresses how we become exemplars, analyzes how exemplars inspire imitation, and assesses the meaning and value of imitation in education and society, including how teachers can better use examples and what should be done about problems such as the imitation of media violence. Warnick constructs a provocative, cautionary, yet hopeful account of learning by example that acknowledges the power of social contexts in shaping human lives.

Author : Eliot Deutsch
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438401010

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Essays on the Nature of Art by Eliot Deutsch Pdf

In this newest book, the author presents a theory of art which is at once universal in its general conception and historically-grounded in its attention to aesthetic practices in diverse cultures. The author argues that especially today art not only enjoys a special kind of autonomy but also has important social and political responsibilities. Deutsch posits that an art work has as its intentionality the striving to be aesthetically forceful, meaningful, and beautiful, with each of these dimensions culturally situated. Working from traditional imitation and expression theories, he argues that the manner of an artwork's coming into being and one's experience of it constitutes an integral whole. Selected aspects of painting, poetry, dance, architecture, films, and music are offered to deepen an understanding of the concepts presented. Also included are several inter-connected themes focusing on the difficult and controversial issues of interpreting art, truth in art, and the relations between art and morality, and art and religion.

Author : James S. Ackerman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262551519

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Origins, Imitation, Conventions by James S. Ackerman Pdf

Twelve studies by eminent art historian James S. Ackerman. This collection contains studies written by art historian James Ackerman over the past decade. Whereas Ackerman's earlier work assumed a development of the arts as they responded to social, economic, political, and cultural change, his recent work reflects the poststructural critique of the presumption of progress that characterized Renaissance and modernist history and criticism. In this book he explores the tension between the authority of the past—which may act not only as a restraint but as a challenge and stimulus—and the potentially liberating gift of invention. He examines the ways in which artists and writers on art have related to ancestors and to established modes of representation, as well as to contemporary experiences. The "origins" studied here include the earliest art history and criticism; the beginnings of architectural drawing in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; Leonardo Da Vinci's sketches for churches, the first in the Renaissance to propose supporting domes on sculpted walls and piers; and the first architectural photographs. "Imitation" refers to artistic achievements that in part depended on the imitation of forms established in practices outside the fine arts, such as ancient Roman rhetoric and print media. "Conventions," like language, facilitate communication between the artist and viewer, but are both more universal (understood across cultures) and more fixed (resisting variation that might diminish their clarity). The three categories are closely linked throughout the book, as most acts of representation partake to some degree of all three.

Author : Elaine K. Gazda
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472111892

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The Ancient Art of Emulation by Elaine K. Gazda Pdf

Are copies of Greek and Roman masterpieces as important as the originals they imitate?

Author : Izora Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136683343

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Controversies Over the Imitation of Cicero in the Renaissance by Izora Scott Pdf

Though the term Ciceronianism could be applied to Cicero's influence and teaching in the field of politics, philosophy, or rhetoric, it is limited in the present study to the technical department of rhetoric. In addition, it represents the trend of literary opinion in regard to accepting Cicero as a model for imitation in composition. The history of Ciceronianism, thus interpreted, has been written with more or less emphasis upon the controversial aspect of the subject in various languages. This work is particularly valuable because the author presents not only her clear analysis of the issues involved, but also translations of key texts by major Renaissance humanists who were involved in the controversy. These include a set of letters between the Italians Pietro Bembo and Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola and, more importantly, "The Ciceronian" of the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus. The issues were complex. At one end of the spectrum were the "ultra Ciceronians," mainly Italian, who believed that no Latin word or syntactical structure should be used that was not in Cicero's works. At the other end of the spectrum were those who felt that a number of authors -- Cicero included -- were worthy of emulation. It was not however a mere quibbling about literary style, since the debate came to involve charges of paganism versus Christianity, and challenged the basic concept of humanism developed first in Italy and then in France during the 15th and 16th centuries. The work falls into three divisions: * an introductory chapter on the influence of Cicero from his own time to that of Poggio and Valla when men of letters began a series of controversial writings on the merits of Cicero as a model of style, * a series of chapters treating of these controversies, and * a study of the connection between the entire movement and the history of education.

Author : James S. Hans
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0915027224

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Imitation and the Image of Man by James S. Hans Pdf

In the "Imitation and the Image of Man" James S. Hans presents his conception of the mimetic. His primary goal to this study is to broaden several kinds of discourse: first, to redfine our conception of the literary; second, to expand our ideas of the kinds of things that can be treated together; third, to enrich our understanding of the possibilities of the form of the essay; and fourth, to articulate the need for these changes in terms of a non-linear theory of imitation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCAL:C2644906

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Architect by Anonim Pdf

Author : Deane E. D. Downey,Stanley E. Porter
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498275248

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Christian Worldview and the Academic Disciplines by Deane E. D. Downey,Stanley E. Porter Pdf

This book--an edited compilation of twenty-nine essays--focuses on the difference(s) that a Christian worldview makes for the disciplines or subject areas normally taught in liberal arts colleges and universities. Three initial chapters of introductory material are followed by twenty-six essays, each dealing with the essential elements or issues in the academic discipline involved. These individual essays on each discipline are a unique element of this book. These essays also treat some of the specific differences in perspective or procedure that a biblically informed, Christian perspective brings to each discipline. Christian Worldview and the Academic Disciplines is intended principally as an introductory textbook in Christian worldview courses for Christian college or university students. This volume will also be of interest to Christian students in secular post-secondary institutions, who may be encountering challenges to their faith--both implicit and explicit--from peers or professors who assume that holding a strong Christian faith and pursuing a rigorous college or university education are essentially incompatible. This book should also be helpful for college and university professors who embrace the Christian faith but whose post-secondary academic background--because of its secular orientation--has left them inadequately prepared to intelligently apply the implications of their faith to their particular academic specialty. Such specialists, be they professors or upper-level graduate students, will find the extensive bibliographies of recent scholarship at the end of the individual chapters particularly helpful.