On Modern Beauty

Author : Richard R. Brettell
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606066065

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On Modern Beauty by Richard R. Brettell Pdf

A thought-provoking examination of beauty using three works of art by Manet, Gauguin, and Cézanne. As the discipline of art history has moved away from connoisseurship, the notion of beauty has become increasingly problematic. Both culturally and personally subjective, the term is difficult to define and nearly universally avoided. In this insightful book, Richard R. Brettell, one of the leading authorities on Impressionism and French art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dares to confront the concept of modern beauty head-on. This is not a study of aesthetic philosophy, but rather a richly contextualized look at the ambitions of specific artists and artworks at a particular time and place. Brettell shapes his manifesto around three masterworks from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Édouard Manet’s Jeanne (Spring), Paul Gauguin’s Arii Matamoe (The Royal End), and Paul Cézanne’s Young Italian Woman at a Table. The provocative and wide-ranging discussion reveals how each of these exceptional paintings, though depicting very different subjects—a fashionable actress, a preserved head, and a weary working woman—enacts a revolutionary, yet enduring, icon of beauty.

Author : Gloria Groom
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606066041

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Manet and Modern Beauty by Gloria Groom Pdf

This stunning examination of the last years of Édouard Manet's life and career is the first book to explore the transformation of his style and subject matter in the 1870s and early 1880s. The name Manet often evokes the provocative, heroically scaled pictures he painted in the 1860s for the Salon, but in the late 1870s and early 1880s the artist produced quite a different body of work: stylish portraits of actresses and demimondaines, luscious still lifes, delicate pastels, intimate watercolors, and impressionistic scenes of suburban gardens and Parisian cafés. Often dismissed as too pretty and superficial by critics, these later works reflect Manet’s elegant social world, propose a radical new alignment of modern art with fashionable femininity, and record the artist’s unapologetic embrace of beauty and visual pleasure in the face of death. Featuring nearly three hundred illustrations and nine fascinating essays by established and emerging Manet specialists, a technical analysis of the late Salon painting Jeanne (Spring), a selection of the artist’s correspondence, a chronology, and more, Manet and Modern Beauty brings a diverse range of approaches to bear on a little-studied area of this major artist’s oeuvre.

Author : Alexander Edmonds
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-13
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780822348016

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Pretty Modern by Alexander Edmonds Pdf

This ethnographic account of Brazils emergence as a global leader in plastic surgery takes readers from Ipanema socialite circles to telenovela studios to the packed waiting rooms of public hospitals offering free cosmetic surgery.

Author : Bobbi Brown
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781452162225

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Bobbi Brown Beauty from the Inside Out by Bobbi Brown Pdf

Bestselling author and world-famous makeup artist Bobbi Brown reveals her secrets to radiant beauty in this gorgeous lifestyle guide. Featuring the best beauty food recipes, fitness tailoring, recommendations on nutrients, and restorative yoga and mindfulness, Bobbi lays the foundation for beauty from within. Building on her lifelong philosophies, she provides essential skincare routines, cool makeup techniques, the latest cutting-edge beauty treatments, and stunning makeovers to complement that inner glow. Full of inspiring photographs and illuminating contributions from experts in a range of wellness fields, Beauty from the Inside Out is the go-to manual for beautiful confidence for life.

Author : Kari Molvar,gestalten
Publisher : Gestalten
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 389955860X

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The New Beauty by Kari Molvar,gestalten Pdf

Modern Beauty explores this shift from historical, scientific and journalistic perspectives, in a title that will not only appeal to industry insiders, but also to all those readers with an interest in feeling well in their own skin - and letting the world know.

Author : Bronwen Meredith
Publisher : Lane, Allen
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Beauty, Personal
ISBN : 0713910364

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Vogue Body and Beauty Book by Bronwen Meredith Pdf

Author : Edith Snook
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230302235

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Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England by Edith Snook Pdf

Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals.

Author : Aida Yuen Wong
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789888083893

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Visualizing Beauty by Aida Yuen Wong Pdf

Visualizing Beauty examines the intersections between feminine ideals and changing socio-political circumstances in China, Japan, and Korea during the first half of the twentieth century. Eight essays present a broad range of visual products that informed concepts of beauty and womanhood, including fashion, interior design magazines, newspaper illustrations, and paintings of and by women. Studying "Traditional Woman" and "New Woman" as historical categories, this anthology contemplates the complex relations between feminine subjectivity and the promotion of modernity, commerce, and colonialism.

Author : Leigh Hatchmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0645371122

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Beautiful by Leigh Hatchmann Pdf

You think you know their story . . . Bella-Rosa Amato My life is the envy of women everywhere. I live in a gorgeous mansion, wear expensive clothes, go to A-list parties, and attend a prestigious college. It is a life of beauty and glamor . . . and all of it is a lie. Behind closed doors, I am bullied by my cold and powerful father. With no money of my own, I have no choice but to obey him . . .Until I am attacked, and a half man-half beast intervenes. Kit takes me to his home to heal, where I am immersed in his secret world. As we bond over unexpected experiences and shared interests, my gratitude changes into something that feels as old as time. Kit/King I was created for the darkness and, for a while, it controlled me. But I escaped that life and made a new home for myself. Before Bella crossed my path, I didn't think happiness was possible. But she not only accepts my differences, she offers friendship.Her gentle and compassionate heart opens me up to those parts within me.With her, I don't feel like the beast I have always been labeled. But the closer we get, the more I wonder if I am truly as human as she believes, and whether the mistakes of the beast can ever be forgiven . . . When an old enemy resurfaces, Bella and Kit will need to stand firm in their love, face the brutalities of the past, and trust in the beauty that comes from within to make it out alive.BEAUTIFUL is a sweet and dark, modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast. The themes of beauty, strength, redemption, and love shine through in an unforgettable tale that will make you question everything you think you know about beauty . . . and the beast.

Author : Aidan Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN : 0852447825

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Beauty, Spirit, Matter by Aidan Hart Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bush Street Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781937445010

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Asian Beauty Secrets: Ancient and Modern Tips from the Far East by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cecil Beaton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Beauty, Personal
ISBN : UCSD:31822017747098

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The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton Pdf

Sketches of various contemporary women of note, with portraits.

Author : Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674237307

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Aesthetic Life by Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit Pdf

This study of modern Japan engages the fields of art history, literature, and cultural studies, seeking to understand how the "beautiful woman" (bijin) emerged as a symbol of Japanese culture during the Meiji period (1868-1912). With origins in the formative period of modern Japanese art and aesthetics, the figure of the bijin appeared across a broad range of visual and textual media: photographs, illustrations, prints, and literary works, as well as fictional, critical, and journalistic writing. It eventually constituted a genre of painting called bijinga (paintings of beauties). Aesthetic Life examines the contributions of writers, artists, scholars, critics, journalists, and politicians to the discussion of the bijin and to the production of a national discourse on standards of Japanese beauty and art. As Japan worked to establish its place in the world, it actively presented itself as an artistic nation based on these ideals of feminine beauty. The book explores this exemplary figure for modern Japanese aesthetics and analyzes how the deceptively ordinary image of the beautiful Japanese woman--an iconic image that persists to this day--was cultivated as a "national treasure," synonymous with Japanese culture.

Author : Naomi Wolf
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780061969942

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The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf Pdf

The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."

Author : Sheila Jeffreys
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134264438

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Beauty and Misogyny by Sheila Jeffreys Pdf

Should western beauty practices, ranging from lipstick to labiaplasty, be included within the United Nations understandings of harmful traditional/cultural practices? By examining the role of common beauty practices in damaging the health of women, creating sexual difference, and enforcing female deference, this book argues that they should. In the 1970s feminists criticized pervasive beauty regimes such as dieting and depilation, but some ‘new’ feminists argue that beauty practices are no longer oppressive now that women can ‘choose’ them. However, in the last two decades the brutality of western beauty practices seems to have become much more severe, requiring the breaking of skin, spilling of blood and rearrangement or amputation of body parts. Beauty and Misogyny seeks to make sense of why beauty practices are not only just as persistent, but in many ways more extreme. It examines the pervasive use of makeup, the misogyny of fashion and high-heeled shoes, and looks at the role of pornography in the creation of increasingly popular beauty practices such as breast implants, genital waxing and surgical alteration of the labia. It looks at the cosmetic surgery and body piercing/cutting industries as being forms of self-mutilation by proxy, in which the surgeons and piercers serve as proxies to harm women’s bodies, and concludes by considering how a culture of resistance to these practices can be created. This essential work will appeal to students and teachers of feminist psychology, gender studies, cultural studies, and feminist sociology at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and to anyone with an interest in feminism, women and beauty, and women’s health.