The Efflorescence Of Caricature 1759 838

Author : Todd Porterfield
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0754665917

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The Efflorescence of Caricature, 1759-1838 by Todd Porterfield Pdf

Searing disputes over caricature have recently sparked flames across the world-the culmination, not the beginning of the story of one of modernity's definitive artistic practices. This essay collection explores caricature's rise, its spread across North America and Europe, and the visual cultures of its production, its political, social, and art historical milieu. It weighs visual satire's vaunted civilizational claims on individual character, artistic supremacy, political liberty, and global domination.

Author : Margot Finn,Kate Smith
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787350274

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The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 by Margot Finn,Kate Smith Pdf

The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies.

Author : Jane O. Newman
Publisher : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801460883

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Benjamin's Library by Jane O. Newman Pdf

In Benjamin’s Library, Jane O. Newman offers, for the first time in any language, a reading of Walter Benjamin’s notoriously opaque work, Origin of the German Tragic Drama that systematically attends to its place in discussions of the Baroque in Benjamin’s day. Taking into account the literary and cultural contexts of Benjamin’s work, Newman recovers Benjamin’s relationship to the ideologically loaded readings of the literature and political theory of the seventeenth-century Baroque that abounded in Germany during the political and economic crises of the Weimar years. To date, the significance of the Baroque for Origin of the German Tragic Drama has been glossed over by students of Benjamin, most of whom have neither read it in this context nor engaged with the often incongruous debates about the period that filled both academic and popular texts in the years leading up to and following World War I. Armed with extraordinary historical, bibliographical, philological, and orthographic research, Newman shows the extent to which Benjamin participated in these debates by reconstructing the literal and figurative history of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century books that Benjamin analyzes and the literary, art historical and art theoretical, and political theological discussions of the Baroque with which he was familiar. In so doing, she challenges the exceptionalist, even hagiographic, approaches that have become common in Benjamin studies. The result is a deeply learned book that will infuse much-needed life into the study of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.

Author : The J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892360185

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The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal by The J. Paul Getty Museum Pdf

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 6/7 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, paintings, sculpture, and works of art. This volume includes an editorial statement by the journal’s editors: Burton B. Fredericksen, curator of Paintings, Jiří Frel, curator of Antiquities, and Gillian Wilson, curator of Decorative Arts. Conservation problems are discussed along with articles written by K. Christiansen, B. B. Fredericksen, S. Holo, G. Wilson, B. L. Shifman, M. Shapiro, J. Frel, D. M. Brinkerhoff, C. C. Vermeule, G. Koch, S. Downey, l. Kilian-Dirlmeier, C. Cardon, F. Brommer, M. A. Del Chiaro, P. Visonà, J. Cody, R. Mellor, D. L. Thompson, E. Langlotz, P. Zazoff, S. Knudsen Morgan, M. Jentoft-Nilsen, and A. Manzoni.

Author : Humphrey Jennings
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848315860

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Pandaemonium 1660–1886 by Humphrey Jennings Pdf

Collecting texts taken from letters, diaries, literature, scientific journals and reports, Pandæmonium gathers a beguiling narrative as it traces the development of the machine age in Britain. Covering the years between 1660 and 1886, it offers a rich tapestry of human experience, from eyewitness reports of the Luddite Riots and the Peterloo Massacre to more intimate accounts of child labour, Utopian communities, the desecration of the natural world, ground-breaking scientific experiments, and the coming of the railways. Humphrey Jennings, co-founder of the Mass Observation movement of the 1930s and acclaimed documentary film-maker, assembled an enthralling narrative of this key period in Britain's national consciousness. The result is a highly original artistic achievement in its own right. Thanks to the efforts of his daughter, Marie-Louise Jennings, Pandæmonium was originally published in 1985, and in 2012 it was the inspiration behind Danny Boyle's electrifying Opening Ceremony for the London Olympic Games. Frank Cottrell Boyce, who wrote the scenario for the ceremony, contributes a revealing new foreword for this edition.

Author : Dara Culhane
Publisher : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Gitksan Indians
ISBN : OCLC:43964360

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Delgamuukw and the People Without Culture [microform] : Anthropology and the Crown by Dara Culhane Pdf

Author : Ainslie Thomas Embree,Carol Gluck
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 1563242656

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Asia in Western and World History by Ainslie Thomas Embree,Carol Gluck Pdf

This comprehensive volume provides teachers and students with broad and stimulating perspectives on Asian history and its place in world and Western history. Essays by over forty leading scholars suggest many new ways of incorporating Asian history, from ancient to modern times, into core curriculum history courses. Now featuring "Suggested Resources for Maps to Be Used in Conjunction with Asia in Western and World History".

Author : Carol A. Breckenridge,Peter van der Veer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0812214366

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Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament by Carol A. Breckenridge,Peter van der Veer Pdf

This book explores the ways in which colonial administrators constructed knowledge about the society and culture of India and the processes through which that knowledge has shaped past and present Indian reality.

Author : William Hardy McNeill,Jerry H. Bentley
Publisher : Berkshire Publishing Group LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : World history
ISBN : 0974309109

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Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History by William Hardy McNeill,Jerry H. Bentley Pdf

The Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History is the first true encyclopedic reference on world history. It is designed to meet the needs of students, teachers, and scholars who seek to explore -- and understand -- the panorama of our shared history of humans. Anyone who loves history -- including those who are making history today -- will find this work an endless source of fascinating, thought-provoking coverage of events, people, patterns, and processes. To assure the highest quality, the encyclopedia was developed by an editorial team of over 30 leading scholars and educators, led by William H. McNeill, Jerry H. Bentley, David Christian, David Levinson, J. R. McNeill, Heidi Roupp, and Judith Zinsser. Its 550 articles were written by a team of 330 historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and other experts from around the world. Students and teachers at the high school and college levels, as well as scholars and professionals, will turn to this defi

Author : Thomas LaMarre
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822325187

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Uncovering Heian Japan by Thomas LaMarre Pdf

Literary criticism of classical Japanese poetry, focusing on the emergence of "Kokinwakashu, ' an imperial anthology of waka poetry compiled in the 9th century.

Author : Kazi Zla-Ba-Bsam-'Grub
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9354150756

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An English-Tibetan Dictionary, Containing a Vocabulary of Approximately Twenty Thousand Words and Their Tibetan Equivalents by Kazi Zla-Ba-Bsam-'Grub Pdf

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Author : Samuel Dill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Paganism
ISBN : UOM:39015069862699

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Roman Society in the Last Century of the Western Empire by Samuel Dill Pdf

Author : John Shakespear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : English language
ISBN : CHI:56933265

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A Dictionary, Hindūstānī and English by John Shakespear Pdf

Author : Francesca Orsini,Samira Sheikh
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0199450668

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After Timur Left by Francesca Orsini,Samira Sheikh Pdf

Papers presented at the Conference 'After Timur Came: Multiple Spaces of Cultural Production and Circulation in Fifteenth-Century North India' held at London during 29-31 May, 2007.

Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547684077

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Zastrozzi (Horror Classic) by Percy Bysshe Shelley Pdf

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Pietro Zastrozzi, an outlaw, and his two servants, Bernardo and Ugo, disguised in masks, abduct Verezzi from the inn near Munich where he lives and take him to a cavern hideout. Verezzi is locked in a room with an iron door. Chains are placed around his waist and limbs and he is attached to the wall. Verezzi is able to escape and to flee his abductors, and finally settles in Venice, but Zastrozzi is driven by the blind hatred and doesn't give up on ruining Verezzi's life.