Old Masters In New Interpretations

Author : Anna Kwiatkowska
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443868457

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Old Masters in New Interpretations by Anna Kwiatkowska Pdf

The volume offers a variety of new interpretations of a selection of well-known and culturally established works of verbal and visual culture. It demonstrates how the two spheres of literature and broadly understood art, as well as the two qualities of old and new, interfuse, affect, re-shape, and complement each other. The focus here is particularly directed towards the perception of the canonical texts of culture by the modern, often young, addressee. Who are the Old Masters? Are contemporary works of art influenced by them? Is it possible to create ‘new classics’ without reference to the established conventions? These basic questions serve as a starting point for a stimulating academic discussion and a vibrant intellectual exchange.

Author : Patrick De Rynck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-07
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015059565633

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How to Read a Painting by Patrick De Rynck Pdf

This book decodes the imagery of more than 150 of the most influential and admired artworks of all time.

Author : Dolora A. Wojciehowski
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804723869

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Old Masters, New Subjects by Dolora A. Wojciehowski Pdf

The encounter - sometimes conflict - between traditional Renaissance studies and poststructuralism occasions this book. In it, the author analyzes "old masteries," certain notions of freedom, individualism, and control long associated with the Renaissance, in relation to the ideologies of non-mastery that recur in theory today. This book has a dual purpose. First, it recontextualizes the debates on freedom and determinism presented by five "masters" - Petrarch, Luther, Loyola, Teresa of Avila, and Galileo - by showing that their paradigmatic discourses on will share a distinct rhetorical strategy. Second, it argues that the dominant critical paradigms of the late twentieth century, while ostensibly rejecting and transcending early modern ideas of subjecthood, actually recast Renaissance debates on freedom and power. In many ways, the early modern functions as the unconscious of critical theory.

Author : Susanna Avery-Quash,Barbara Pezzini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501348150

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Old Masters Worldwide by Susanna Avery-Quash,Barbara Pezzini Pdf

As a result of the Napoleonic wars, vast numbers of Old Master paintings were released on to the market from public and private collections across continental Europe. The knock-on effect was the growth of the market for Old Masters from the 1790s up to the early 1930s, when the Great Depression put an end to its expansion. This book explores the global movement of Old Master paintings and investigates some of the changes in the art market that took place as a result of this new interest. Arguably, the most important phenomenon was the diminishing of the traditional figure of the art agent and the rise of more visible, increasingly professional, dealerships; firms such as Colnaghi and Agnew's in Britain, Goupil in France and Knoedler in the USA, came into existence. Old Masters Worldwide explores the ways in which the pioneering practices of such businesses contributed to shape a changing market.

Author : John D. Morgenstern
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781942954552

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The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual by John D. Morgenstern Pdf

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual features the year’s best scholarship on this major literary figure.

Author : David W. Galenson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781400837397

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Old Masters and Young Geniuses by David W. Galenson Pdf

When in their lives do great artists produce their greatest art? Do they strive for creative perfection throughout decades of painstaking and frustrating experimentation, or do they achieve it confidently and decisively, through meticulous planning that yields masterpieces early in their lives? By examining the careers not only of great painters but also of important sculptors, poets, novelists, and movie directors, Old Masters and Young Geniuses offers a profound new understanding of artistic creativity. Using a wide range of evidence, David Galenson demonstrates that there are two fundamentally different approaches to innovation, and that each is associated with a distinct pattern of discovery over a lifetime. Experimental innovators work by trial and error, and arrive at their major contributions gradually, late in life. In contrast, conceptual innovators make sudden breakthroughs by formulating new ideas, usually at an early age. Galenson shows why such artists as Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Cézanne, Jackson Pollock, Virginia Woolf, Robert Frost, and Alfred Hitchcock were experimental old masters, and why Vermeer, van Gogh, Picasso, Herman Melville, James Joyce, Sylvia Plath, and Orson Welles were conceptual young geniuses. He also explains how this changes our understanding of art and its past. Experimental innovators seek, and conceptual innovators find. By illuminating the differences between them, this pioneering book provides vivid new insights into the mysterious processes of human creativity.

Author : Emer O'Sullivan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781538122921

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Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature by Emer O'Sullivan Pdf

History is constantly evolving, and the history of children’s literature is no exception. Since the original publication of Emer O’Sullivan’s Historical Dictionary of Children’s Literature in 2010, much has happened in the field of children’s literature. New authors have come into print, new books have won awards, and new ideas have entered the discourse within children’s literature studies. Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries. This book will be an excellent resource for students, scholars, researchers, and anyone interested in the field of children’s literature studies.

Author : Jan Brokken
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626743694

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The Music of the Netherlands Antilles by Jan Brokken Pdf

Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart is not your usual musical scholarship. In October 1999, eleven Antilleans attended the service held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin’s death. This service, held in the Warsaw church where the composer’s heart is kept in an urn, was an opportunity for these Antilleans to express their debt of gratitude to Chopin, whose influence is central to Antillean music history. Press coverage of this event caused Dutch novelist and author Jan Brokken (b. 1949) to start writing this book, based on notes he took while living on Curaçao from 1993 to 2002. Anyone hoping to discover an overlooked chapter of Caribbean music and music history will be amply rewarded with this Dutch-Caribbean perspective on the pan-Caribbean process of creolization. On Curaçao, the history and legacy of slavery shaped culture and music, affecting all the New World. Brokken’s portraits of prominent Dutch Antillean composers are interspersed with cultural and music history. He puts the Dutch Caribbean’s contributions into a broader context by also examining the nineteenth-century works by pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk from New Orleans and Manuel Saumell from Cuba. Brokken explores the African component of Dutch Antillean music—examining the history of the rhythm and music known as tambú as well as American jazz pianist Chick Corea’s fascination with the tumba rhythm from Curaçao. The book ends with a discussion of how recent Dutch Caribbean adaptations of European dance forms have shifted from a classical approach to contemporary forms of Latin jazz.

Author : Abolala Soudavar
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 1845116585

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Decoding Old Masters by Abolala Soudavar Pdf

In this work, Abolala Soudavar examines seven paintings by some of the great masters of the 15th century and demonstrates how we can better understand the state of international relations and the political rivalries of the time by decoding the figures, their postures and gestures, the background scenes, the compositions and much else in these paintings. This is a period of geopolitical turmoil, with the Muslim Turkish assault on Europe causing distress within the Christian World. Yet it is also a time of courtly opulence and Shakespearean drama, with murders and vendettas, wars and crusades, intrigue and treachery dominating contemporary life. -- Dust Jacket.

Author : Samuel A. Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Sermons, American
ISBN : HARVARD:32044077899912

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Latest Interpretation by Samuel A. Gardner Pdf

Author : Patricia Ranft
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739174326

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How the Doctrine of the Incarnation Shaped Western Culture by Patricia Ranft Pdf

In recent years numerous scholars in disciplines not traditionally associated with theology have promoted an interesting thesis. They maintain that one particular Christian doctrine, the Incarnation, had an inordinate influence on the shape of Western culture. The doctrine, they say, was so radical that it mandated an epistemological break with pagan society's perception of the universe and forced Christians to form a new culture. As medieval society worked out the consequences of the doctrine, it gave birth to those attitudes, institutions, and actions that define modern Western culture. The claims are well argued, but it is a historically untested thesis. How the Doctrine of Incarnation Shaped Western Culture is a response to the situation. It investigates whether the presence of the doctrine had the definitive effect on Western culture that so many scholars claim it did. It searches early Christian and medieval sources for evidence and concludes that the doctrine had a dominant effect on the developing culture. No other idea was as omnipresent or pervasive in Western society during its formative stage as the Incarnation doctrine. The doctrine was influential in the establishment of every major facet of Western culture. Its paradox, irrationality, and juxtaposition of opposites created a tension that cried out for resolution, and society responded accordingly. The ideas within the doctrine acted as catalysts for cultural change. As a result, the West developed its most characteristic traits and forged a path that was uniquely its own.

Author : Christine Sylvester
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317263517

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Art/Museums by Christine Sylvester Pdf

Art/Museums takes the study of international relations to the art museum. It seeks to persuade those who study international relations to take art/museums seriously and museum studies to take up the insights of international relations. And it does so at a time when both international relations and art are said to be at an end-that is, out of control and beyond sight of their usual constituencies. The book focuses on the British Museum, the National Gallery of London, the Museum of Iraq, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Getty museums, the Guggenheim museums, and "museum" spaces instantly created by the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. The art includes works over which museums might struggle, acquire through questionable means, hoard and possibly lose, such as the Parthenon sculptures, Raphael's Madonna of the Pinks, the ancient art of Babylon, modern art, and the art/museum itself in an era of rapid museum expansion. Bringing art, museums, and international relations together draws on the art technique of collage, which combines disparate objects, themes, and time periods in one work to juxtapose unexpected elements, leaving the viewer to relate objects that are not where they are expected to be.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004358041

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Essays on Word/Music Adaptation and on Surveying the Field by Anonim Pdf

The twelve essays presented in this volume are drawn from the Fifth International Conference on Word and Music Studies held at Santa Barbara, CA, in 2005. The conference was organized and sponsored by The International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA) and in its central section explored the theme of “Word/Music Adaptation”. In these wide-ranging papers, a great variety of cases of intermedial transposition between music, literature, drama and film are examined. The music of Berlioz, Biber, Chopin, Carlisle Floyd, Robert Franz, Bernard Herrmann, Liszt, Richard Strauss, Verdi, and pop singer Kate Bush confronts and commingles with the writings of Emily Brontë, Goethe, Nancy Huston, George Sand, and Shakespeare in these cutting-edge adaptation studies. In addition, four films are discussed: Wuthering Heights, Fedora, Otello, and The Notebook. The articles collected will be of interest not only to music and literary scholars, but also to those engaged in the study of adaptation theory, semiotics, literary criticism, narrative theory, art history, feminism or postmodernism.

Author : Ossian Ward
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500239674

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Look Again by Ossian Ward Pdf

An approachable guide to Old Master paintings from a new perspective that offers a simple aid to looking at and demystifying the often obscure strategies of the greatest painters of all time. This book engages with some of history’s greatest art, from the spectacular theatrics of Bosch to the luminous scenes of Giotto, and starts with the idea that the art of the past can and should be seen from the viewpoint of a contemporary observer of visual culture—rather than just an elitist, academic interpretation. Ossian Ward’s simple, ten-step guide acts as an aid to looking at and breaking down the often obscure strategies of the Old Masters into intuitive categories—from Art as Honesty to Art as Vision. Just as contemporary art should be judged by how it moves us, cajoles our senses, and envelops us, so too can the great paintings of history be seen as immersive, captivating, and even participatory experiences. Look Again does not deny the specific complexities and barriers associated with looking at art from other eras, instead it offers methods that not only provide the viewer with the tools to interpret the art, but also assumes that we intuitively hold some of this knowledge within ourselves already.

Author : Bonnie J. Fuchs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:X67543

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Fitz Hugh Lane's Views of Old Masters and American Prospects by Bonnie J. Fuchs Pdf