Literary Objets D Art

Author : Linda M. Clemente
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001594485

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Literary Objets D'art by Linda M. Clemente Pdf

The genesis of this book was the coincidence of two readings: Virgil's Aeneid and Dante's Purgatorio. Each work includes descriptions of art objects, Daedalus' and God's artwork respectively. These descriptions, or ekphraseis, also occur frequently in Old French romances. Too long considered as embellishment or artistic virtuosity, they have received little rigorous critical attention. This book offers a step in that direction by analyzing the narrative significance of art objects in three very different works: the anonymous Eneas, Chrétien de Troyes' Erec et Enide, and Jean Renart's Escoufle. Along with intertextuality and mise en abyme, ekphrasis opens new avenues for interpreting this literature.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691187174

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Goethe, Volume 3 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

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 : Allan Hepburn
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781442698451

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Enchanted Objects by Allan Hepburn Pdf

Enchanted Objects investigates the relationship between visual art and contemporary fiction, addressing the problems that arise when paintings, deluxe books, porcelains, or statues are represented in contemporary novels. The distinction between objects and art objects depends on aesthetics. While some objects are authenticated through museum exhibits, others are hidden, broken, neglected, coveted, hoarded, or salvaged. Allan Hepburn asks four broad questions about aesthetics and value: What is a detail in visual art? Is all art ornamental? Does the value of an object increase because it is fragile? What defines ugliness? Contemporary novels, such as Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring, Barry Unsworth's Stone Virgin, and Bruce Chatwin's Utz offer implicit answers to these questions while critiquing museums and the determination to invest objects with value through display. Addressing current debates in museum studies, cultural studies, art history, and literary criticism, Enchanted Objects develops an extensive theory of how contemporary literature engages with and relates to aesthetic objects.

Author : Logan E. Whalen
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813215099

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Marie de France and the Poetics of Memory by Logan E. Whalen Pdf

Marie de France and the Poetics of Memory presents the first exhaustive treatment of the rhetorical use of description and memory in all the narrative works of the late 12th-century poet, Marie de France--the first woman to compose literary texts in French.

Author : Robert T. Lambdin,Laura C. Lambdin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literature, Medieval
ISBN : 9781579580544

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Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature by Robert T. Lambdin,Laura C. Lambdin Pdf

A comprehensive guide to literature written 500 to 1500 A.D., a period that gave rise to some of the world's most influential works; its emphasis is on English texts, but also covers Islamic, Hispanic, Germanic, Italian, and Russian works.

Author : Janell Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139426633

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Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust by Janell Watson Pdf

This book addresses the issues of collecting, consuming, classifying and describing the curiosities, antiques and objets d'art that proliferated in French literary texts during the last decades of the nineteenth century. After Balzac made such issues significant in canonical literature, the Goncourt brothers, Huysmans, Mallarmé and Maupassant celebrated their golden age. Flaubert and Zola scorned them. Rachilde and Lorrain perverted them. Proust commemorated their last moments of glory. Focusing on the bibelot (the modern French term for knick-knack, curiosity or other collectible), Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century literature signals a massive change in attitudes to the world of goods, which in turn restructured the literary text according to the practical logic of daily life, calling into question established scholarly notions of order. Her study makes an important contribution to the literary history of material culture.

Author : Maria Rubins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781349627363

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Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures by Maria Rubins Pdf

Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures is the first book-length study of the aesthetic similarities between the French Parnassians, a 19th-century group of poets led by Théophile Gautier, and the Russian Acmeist poets, including Osip Mandelstam and Anna Akhmatova, who were active in the second decade of the 20th century. The Acmeists shared with the Parnassians a classical sensibility, an aspiration to state-of-the-art verbal craftsmanship, and a keen interest in the three-dimensional, physical world. Their love of plastic beauty as embodied in painting, sculpture, and architecture found natural release in verse about works of art. The book shows how Acmeist texts document aspects of Russian Modernist culture while continuing the Parnassian tradition of poetry inspired by visual art.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:924212271

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Essays on Art and Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ian Higgins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:32000006444824

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Literature and the Plastic Arts, 1880-1930 by Ian Higgins Pdf

The relation between the linguistic and the plastic arts came to acquire particular importance for artists during the period covered by this volume. Yet most studies on the subject concentrate on biography and parallels in subject-matter. The problem for the artists themselves, however, was often not what the subject-matter would be, but whether there should or could be one, what the relation of subjective experience is to the objective world--whether to express or to transcend a mysterious and changing world. It is clear that the aesthetic questions raised by the volume as a whole, which may be summed up as the problem of 'metaphor' in and between the arts, cannot be fully grasped without some hypothesis of a common primary stimulus, not essentially verbal or pictorial.

Author : Thomas Munro
Publisher : Cleveland : Press of Western Reserve University
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : MINN:31951001583547X

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The Arts and Their Interrelations by Thomas Munro Pdf

"The Arts and Their Interrelations" is the first book of its kind. It did much to stimulate the present educational trend toward comparative surveys of the arts. This enlarged edition opens the way to further progress in the understanding of the arts from a standpoint of content, form, and function. Most book on the arts today are highly specialized, focusing on one art form, artist, style, or collection. By contrast, "The Arts and Their Interrelations" deals with all the arts: the visual arts, literature, music, theater, film, and industrial arts. Dr. Munro offers a theoretical explanation of these arts which is applicable to works of any place and period. The nature of each major art form of today is outlined, and comparisons are made with earlier art forms with respect to media and psychological materials, to forms, techniques, and processes employed, and to functions served in society. A concise historical sketch of the changing concepts of art and systems of classification since the time of Plato is also presented. -- From publisher's description

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783849658717

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Goethe's Literary Essays by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

Professor Spingarn has done students of literature a real favor; for he has gathered into a single and well-made volume, golden pages from one of the great masters of literature. As divergent-minded judges as Carlyle, Matthew Arnold and Sainte-Beuve acclaimed Goethe the supreme literary critic of all time and, whatever might be said against so superlative an opinion, certainly Goethe's many-sidedness, his undoubted genius, and his keen insight all conspired to give his judgments on literature a value too great to be ignored. All phases of his critical activity are represented in this excellent volume, which is the work of several translators, all of high standard. Goethe was keenly interested in French and in English literature, no less than in German, and for the English reader there will be much to stimulate thought in his sympathetic appreciation of Shakespeare. Those of us who have found the great dramatist's plays strangely failing in power to lift us out of ou selves, can find much to ponder over in Goethe's declaration: "Shakespeare gets his effect by means of the living word, and it is for this reason that one should hear him read, for then the attention is not distracted either by a too adequate or too in adequate stage-setting. There is no higher . . . pleasure than to sit with closed eyes and hear a naturally expressive voice recite, not declaim, a play of Shakespeare's." Goethe was no hard and fast critic, and as he re-read a book and found that it appealed to him in a new light, he did not hesitate to revise his earlier opinions and even to call attention to corrected impressions or reversals of judgments. It was because of his open-mindedness to new impressions that his critical dicta appear perennially fresh and stimulate the reader by their frankness and their vitality. The task of collecting these admirable and valuable essays required a scholar. It found one in Professor Spingarn, to whom the lovers of the best in literature owe genuine gratitude for this volume. The essays are grouped under The theory of art — The theory of literature — On Shakespeare — On other writers — Extracts from the conversations with Eckermann.

Author : Jen Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317104650

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Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians by Jen Harrison Pdf

What are we to make of the Victorians’ fascination with collecting? What effect did their encounters with the curious, exotic and downright odd have on Victorian writers and their works? The essays in this collection take up these questions by examining the phenomenon of bric-à-brac in Victorian literature. The contributors to Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities explore sites of unusual concurrence (including museums, the home, art galleries, private collections) and the way in which bric-à-brac brought the alien into everyday settings, the past into the present and the wild into the domestic. Focusing on the representation of material culture in Victorian literature, the essays in this volume seek out miscellaneous and incongruous objects that take readers beyond the commonplace paradigms associated with commodity culture. Individual chapters analyse the work of writers as different as Edward Lear and John Henry Newman, Robert Browning and George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll. In so doing they shed light on a dizzying array of topics and objects that include class and capitalism, the occult and the sacraments, Darwinism and dandyism, umbrellas, textiles, the Philosopher’s Stone and even the household nail.

Author : Harry Quilter
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 0365153338

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Preferences in Art, Life, and Literature (Classic Reprint) by Harry Quilter Pdf

Excerpt from Preferences in Art, Life, and Literature My first desire has been, by presenting my views upon Art and its connection with life, in various forms, and by recording in connected sequence the critical opinions expressed during many years upon English and Foreign painting, to enable the public to judge whether these views and criticisms be substantially just or no, and whether time has not, so far at all events, justified my words. Not even the bitterest critic - and some critics are very bitter - can feel more keenly than myself the imperfections of temper, haste, and form which have so frequently dis figured my periodical writing. Nor can any one resent more than I deplore the apparent indifference and scorn with which Ithave approached and censured work which has always taken labour and thought, and patient, if mis taken, skill to produce. Of old, when I considered that a picture was in a bad style of art, I habitually ignored, if I did not forget, the personal feeling of the artist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Timothy Wilson
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781588395610

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Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Timothy Wilson Pdf

The form of tin-glazed earthenware known as maiolica reveals much about the culture and spirit of Renaissance Italy. Engagingly decorative, often spectacularly colorful, sometimes whimsical or frankly bawdy, these magnificent objects, which were generally made for use rather than simple ornamentation, present a fascinating glimpse into the realities of daily life. Though not as well known as Renaissance painting and sculpture, maiolica is also prized by collectors and amateurs of the decorative arts the world over. This volume offers highlights of the world-class collection of maiolica at the Metropolitan Museum. It presents 135 masterpieces that reflect more than four hundred years of exquisite artistry, ranging from early pieces from Pesaro—including an eight-figure group of the Lamentation, the largest, most ambitious piece of sculpture produced in a Renaissance maiolica workshop—to everyday objects such as albarelli (pharmacy jars), bella donna plates, and humorous genre scenes. Each piece has been newly photographed for this volume, and each is presented with a full discussion, provenance, exhibition history, publication history, notes on form and glaze, and condition report. Two essays by Timothy Wilson, widely considered the foremost scholar in the field, provide overviews of the history and technique of maiolica as well as an account of the formation of The Met's collection. Also featured is a wide-ranging introduction by Luke Syson that examines how the function of an object governed the visual and compositional choices made by the pottery painter. As the latest volume in The Met's series of decorative arts highlights, Maiolica is an invaluable resource for scholars and collectors as well as an absorbing general introduction to a multifaceted subject.

Author : Steven F. Joseph
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9789462700475

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Belgian Photographic Literature of the 19th Century. L’édition photographique belge au 19e siècle. by Steven F. Joseph Pdf

First comprehensive and richly illustrated overview of historical Belgian photographic literature The development of photography from its roots in 19th-century science gradually transformed book illustration and the dissemination of images. This fully bilingual reference work presents a first comprehensive survey of Belgian photographic literature of the 19th century, both of illustrated books and of technical publications. It makes a major contribution to academic study in the field, with a corpus composed of 681 entries and, for each title, indicates locations of surviving copies in institutional collections in Belgium and elsewhere. An introductory essay plots the development of photographic publishing in Belgium, making full use of primary and secondary sources. An album of over eighty images draws on the rich iconography of early Belgian photographic literature, most reprinted here for the first time. Premier bilan complet et illustré de l’édition photographique belge au 19e siècle L’évolution de la photographie depuis ses origines dans les sciences du 19e siècle a transformé progressivement l’illustration du livre et la diffusion des images. Le présent ouvrage de référence, entièrement bilingue, a pour but de dresser un premier bilan complet de l’édition photographique belge au 19e siècle, tant iconographique que scientifique. Il constitue une importante contribution aux connaissances historiques dans le domaine et se compose d’un corpus de 681 notices, assorties chacune d’un recensement d’exemplaires localisés dans les collections publiques en Belgique comme ailleurs. Une introduction trace l’évolution de l’édition photographique belge, exploitant pleinement des sources primaires et secondaires. Un album de plus de quatre-vingts illustrations puise dans la riche iconographie des débuts de l’édition photographique belge ; la plupart sont reproduites ici pour la première fois.