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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1910401064
Haunting black and white photographs of moths, beetles and butterflies, presented alongside an essay by the artist.
Author : Jeffrey Gray,Mary McAleer Balkun,James McCorkle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798216046608
The ethnically diverse scope, broad chronological coverage, and mix of biographical, critical, historical, political, and cultural entries make this the most useful and exciting poetry reference of its kind for students today. American poetry springs up out of all walks of life; its poems are "maternal as well as paternal...stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine," as Walt Whitman wrote, adding "Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion." Written for high school and undergraduate students, this two-volume encyclopedia covers U.S. poetry from the Colonial era to the present, offering full treatments of hundreds of key poets of the American canon. What sets this reference apart is that it also discusses events, movements, schools, and poetic approaches, placing poets in their social, historical, political, cultural, and critical contexts and showing how their works mirror the eras in which they were written. Readers will learn about surrealism, ekphrastic poetry, pastoral elegy, the Black Mountain poets, and "language" poetry. There are long and rich entries on modernism and postmodernism as well as entries related to the formal and technical dimensions of American poetry. Particular attention is paid to women poets and poets from various ethnic groups. Poets such as Amiri Baraka, Nathaniel Mackey, Natasha Trethewey, and Tracy Smith are featured. The encyclopedia also contains entries on a wide selection of Latino and Native American poets and substantial coverage of the avant-garde and experimental movements and provides sidebars that illuminate key points.
Author : Walter Benn Michaels
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226210261
Bertolt Brecht once worried that how we feel about the victims of a social problem can get in the way of the beauty and attraction of the problem itself. In this book, Walter Benn Michaels explores the same dilemma through a study of several contemporary artist-photographers whose work speaks to questions of political economy. Michaels focuses on the work of several artists, mostly born in the 1970s and thus raised in a world where artistic ambition has been identified with a critique of autonomous form and of meaning as a function of intention. Michaels shows that these artists engage but also push beyond this critique of autonomy and intentionality, producing works that embody a new commitment to form and meaning. The explanation for this commitment, he argues, is these artists consciousness of making art in an economy riven by structural conflict, especially an unprecedented rise in inequality. For them, he argues, the relationship of the art work to the worldto its subject and to its beholderfunctions as an emblem of the relation between classes (rather than identities or subject positions). This book will join the short shelf of essential writings about the medium of photography."
Author : Malin Pereira
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135711627
This study argues that twentieth-century American women writers' textual representations of female beauty generally recognize a link between beauty standards and aesthetic ideology, exploring female beauty as a symptom of prevailing ideas about art and esthetics. Female beauty, in their texts, is not merely an issue of whether a female character is pretty or not; it is an expression of the controlling discourses negotiated by character, text, and author. In this study, therefore, the women writers' texts are read after interchapters outlining their key cultural and literary contexts. Revising Paul de Man's method of exploring scenes of reading, this study focuses on scenes of beauty in which a character, narrator, or speaker negotiates ideas about beauty. The author pairs Euro-American and African American women writers across the century in three generations: H.D. and Zora Neale Hurston; Gwendolyn Brooks and Sylvia Plath; and Toni Morrison and Louis Gluck. As such, this study offers a landmark black/white dialogue on female beauty in twentieth-century American culture and literature. Scenes of beauty in the texts of these writers suggest multiple feminine aesthetics in twentieth-century American writing, unified in their negotiation of the aesthetic ideologies embodied in female beauty.
Author : Ronald Paulson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421430966
Originally published in 1995. In The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange, Ronald Paulson fills a lacuna in studies of aesthetics at its point of origin in England in the 1700s. He shows how aesthetics took off not only from British empiricism but also from such forms of religious heterodoxy as deism. The third earl of Shaftesbury, the founder of aesthetics, replaced the Christian God of rewards and punishments with beauty—worship of God, with a taste for a work of art. William Hogarth, reacting against Shaftesbury's "disinterestedness," replaced his Platonic abstractions with an aesthetics centered on the human body, gendered female, and based on an epistemology of curiosity, pursuit, and seduction. Paulson shows Hogarth creating, first in practice and then in theory, a middle area between the Beautiful and the Sublime by adapting Joseph Addison's category (in the Spectator) of the Novel, Uncommon, and Strange. Paulson retrieves an aesthetics that had strong support during the eighteenth century but has been obscured both by the more dominant academic discourse of Shaftesbury (and later Sir Joshua Reynolds) and by current trends in art and literary history. Arguing that the two traditions comprised not only painterly but also literary theory and practice, Paulson explores the innovations of Henry Fielding, John Cleland, Laurence Sterne, and Oliver Goldsmith, which followed and complemented the practice in the visual arts of Hogarth and his followers.
Author : David Robinson,Dean Ray Koontz
Publisher : Penguin Press HC
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Cemeteries
ISBN : UCSD:31822023558489
A collection of photographs from the burial grounds of Europe explores the beauty of cemeteries and the emotions the survivors of the dead placed into the making of the tombs.
Author : Corrado Federici,Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons,Ernesto Virgulti
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820488100
Original Scholarly Monograph
Author : John George Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3EX1
Author : John George Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Natural history
ISBN : OXFORD:600016431
Author : Harsha V. Dehejia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015062903482
India is a civilisation of many images, a culture of many visual feasts, a tradition where the visible and the palpable are as important as the oral and the occurrent, where our highest truths are embodied in our kathas and gathas, our songs and stories, where our temples are not only places of worship but equally a gallery of beautiful forms and figures, where myth is as important as doctrine, where ancient memories are full of cherished narratives, where mythic beings are real in many different ways and we enrich our lives by festivals which celebrate events from the lives of our mythic gods and goddesses, and where knowledge is gained as much from itinerant performers as it is from learned discourses and where, when the wind blows through the Pipal tree it is as if we hear the hymns of the Vedas.Harsha V. Dehejia presents in this book selected myths and symbols from the Hindu tradition and offers a refreshingly different aesthetic and non-theistic analysis and shows how these mythic narratives and visual symbols are an alternative form of knowledge.The essays are richly illustrated with paintings andobjects from his personal collection.
Author : Rebecca James
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571255306
So. Were you glad, deep down? Were you glad to be rid of her? Your perfect sister? Were you secretly glad when she was killed? Following a horrific tragedy that leaves her once perfect family devastated, Katherine Patterson moves to a new city, starts at a new school, and looks forward to a new life of quiet anonymity. But when Katherine meets the gregarious and beautiful Alice Parrie her resolution to live a solitary life becomes difficult. Katherine is unable resist the flattering attention that Alice pays her and is so charmed by Alice's contagious enthusiasm that the two girls soon become firm friends. Alice's joie de vivre is transformative; it helps Katherine forget her painful past and slowly, tentatively, Katherine allows herself to start enjoying life again. But being friends with Alice is complicated - and as Katherine gets to know her better she discovers that although Alice can be charming and generous she can also be selfish and egocentric. Sometimes, even, Alice is cruel. And when Katherine starts to wonder if Alice is really the kind of person she wants as a friend, she discovers something else about Alice - she doesn't like being cast off. Shocking and utterly absorbing, Rebecca James's strong narrative will grip readers from the very first page. BEAUTIFUL MALICE has become a publishing phenomenon, sparking numerous auctions worldwide, selling to 27 countries, and launching a previously unknown writer into the centre of the international book market.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : HARVARD:32044044303840
Author : Karsten Engelberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106006896150
Author : Theodore Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11573342
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z259084509