Old Masters New Subjects

Author : Dolora A. Wojciehowski
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Cynthia Saltzman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781440633959

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Old Masters, New World by Cynthia Saltzman Pdf

A spellbinding account of the rapacious pursuit of the most exquisite paintings in the world In the Gilded Age, newly wealthy and culturally ambitious Americans began to compete for Europe's extraordinary Old Master pictures, causing a major migration of art across the Atlantic. Old Masters, New World is a backstage look at the cutthroat competition, financial maneuvering, intrigue, and double-dealing often involved in these purchases, not to mention the seductive power of the ravishing paintings that drove these collectors-including financier J. Pierpont Morgan, sugar king H. O. Havemeyer, Boston aesthete Isabella Stewart Gardner, and industrialist Henry Clay Frick. Packed with stunning reproductions, this is an ideal gift book for art lovers and history buffs alike.

Author : Thomas Bernhard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226074344

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Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard Pdf

In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher—who fears Reger's plans to kill himself—gives us a portrait of the musicologist: his wisdom, his devotion to his wife, and his love-hate relationship with art. With characteristically acerbic wit, Bernhard exposes the pretensions and aspirations of humanity in a novel at once pessimistic and strangely exhilarating. "Bernhard's . . . most enjoyable novel."—Robert Craft, New York Review of Books. "Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction."—George Steiner

Author : Sarah Tytler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Painters
ISBN : HARVARD:FL3FE8

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The Old Masters and Their Pictures by Sarah Tytler Pdf

Author : Michael Eissenhauer,Tal Sterngast
Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783775749091

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Tal Sterngast. Twelve Paintings by Michael Eissenhauer,Tal Sterngast Pdf

Berlin's Gemäldegalerie is known for its outstanding collection of European paintings from the thirteenth to eighteenth century. Each chapter in this book is dedicated to one painting from the collection. In the breadth of this idiosyncratic selection, painting, as it discovers itself becomes a medium for the formulation of modern subjectivity. Each painting in focus unfolds its own making and its artistic concerns as they reflect contemporary issues, today. What are the paradoxes within which art is made by women? How does the primordial drive to destroy works of art affect today's art discourse? Where did the modern struggle of painting against the picture begin? Why does the Wild Man from early German Renaissance still haunt us? And why doesn't it matter whether Jan Vermeer used an optical device for his paintings? Twelve Paintings highlights the currentness of the Old Masters.

Author : C. Harol
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781403983657

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Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature by C. Harol Pdf

Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature analyzes the history of the English virgin at the height of her celebrity. In so doing, it presents new arguments about the early English novel and its relationship to science, religion, and feminist theory.

Author : Miranda Anderson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474438155

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Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture by Miranda Anderson Pdf

This collection brings together 14 essays by international specialists in Medieval and Renaissance culture to bring recent insights from cognitive science and philosophy of mind to bear on how cognition was seen as distributed across brain, body and world between the 9th and 17th centuries.

Author : Albert Russell Ascoli
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438438061

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"Favola fui" by Albert Russell Ascoli Pdf

Examines the interplay between reading and writing in the works of Petrarch and Dante. Building upon his 2008 book Dante and the Making of a Modern Author, Albert Russell Ascoli here reflects on the extent to which Petrarch’s addresses to and figurations of his relationship to his readers intersect with the oft-asserted “modernity” of his authorial stances. In particular, Ascoli argues that following in the wake of Dante’s double staging of himself as reader of his own works (especially in the Vita Nuova), Petrarch shows a keen and probing awareness of how the process of poetic signification involves a continual interchange between author and reader, as well as a strong desire to control the nature of that interchange as much as he can. Ascoli asserts that between Dante and Petrarch two primary—and contradictory—features of literary modernity can be identified: the affirmation of the preeminence of authorial intention and the foregrounding of readerly freedom of interpretation. The Aldo S. Bernardo Lecture Series in the Humanities honors Professor Emeritus Aldo S. Bernardo, his scholarship in medieval Italian literature, and his service to Binghamton University as Professor of Romance Languages and University Distinguished Service Professor. The Bernardo Lecture Series is endowed by the Bernardo Fund and administered by Binghamton University’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS), which Professor Bernardo cofounded and codirected with Professor Bernard Huppé from 1966 to 1973. The series offers annual lectures by distinguished scholars on topics related to Professor Bernardo’s primary fields of interest—medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, with a particular focus on Dante Studies, and intellectual history.

Author : Richard Muther
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Painting
ISBN : HARVARD:FL167N

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The History of Modern Painting by Richard Muther Pdf

Author : Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Rome
ISBN : PRNC:32101064295957

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The History of Rome by Barthold Georg Niebuhr Pdf

Author : David W. Galenson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Kathryn Schwarz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812205039

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What You Will by Kathryn Schwarz Pdf

In What You Will Kathryn Schwarz traces a curious pattern in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century representations of femininity: women pose a threat when they conform too willingly to social conventions. Exemplary texts describe chaste women who kill their rapists, constant wives who make marriage a debilitating obligation, and devoted mothers who destroy the fitness of children. These cautionary tales draw attention to the more ordinary, necessary choices that take prescribed roles as a mandate for purposeful acts. For early modern narratives, writes Schwarz, intentional compliance poses a complex problem: it sustains crucial tenets of order and continuity but unsettles the hierarchical premises from which those tenets derive. Feminine will appears as a volatile force within heterosociality, lending contingent security to a system that depends less on enforced obedience than on contract and consent. The book begins with an examination of early modern disciplines that treat will as an aspect of the individual psyche, of rhetoric, and of sexual and gendered identities. Drawing on these readings, Schwarz turns to Shakespearean works in which feminine characters articulate and manage the values that define them, revealing the vital force of conventional acts. Her analysis engages with recent research that has challenged the premise of feminine subordination, both by identifying alternative positions and by illuminating resistance within repressive structures. Schwarz builds on this awareness of disparate modes and sites of action in formulating the book's central questions: With what agency, and to what effect, do feminine subjects inhabit the conventions of femininity? In what sense are authenticity and masquerade inseparable aspects of social performance? How might coercive systems produce effective actors? What possibilities emerge from the paradox of prescribed choice? Her conclusions have implications not only for early modern scholarship but also for histories of gender and sexuality, queer studies, and theories of the relationship between subjectivity and ideological constraint.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030021887205

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The Spectator; a new ed. with biographcail noties of the contributors;complete in one volume by Anonim Pdf

Author : M. Nottebohm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1910258040

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Old Masters Rock by M. Nottebohm Pdf

This book "demystifies western art and demonstrates that it is accessible to all of us--adults and children alike ... It introduces the type of questions that help us discover things about a work of art and how we feel about it ... Throughout, the emphasis is on looking at the paintings and drawing one's own conclusions about what one is seeing. Grouped into thirteen themes, ... 50 paintings from the fourteenth century through to the early twentieth century are featured"--Publisher's website.

Author : Timothy Rosendale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108418843

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Theology and Agency in Early Modern Literature by Timothy Rosendale Pdf

Explores fundamental questions of human will and action in early modern theology and literature.