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Author : Karl Kilinski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art and mythology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111988593
Author : Karl Kilinski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107013322
This richly illustrated book examines the legacy of Greek mythology in Western art from the classical era to the present. Tracing the emergence, survival, and transformation of key mythological figures and motifs from ancient Greece through the modern era, it explores the enduring importance of such myths for artists and viewers in their own time and over the millennia that followed.
Author : Daniel Swift
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429995924
In early June 1943, James Eric Swift, a pilot with the 83rd Squadron of the Royal Air Force, boarded his Lancaster bomber for a night raid on Münster and disappeared. Widespread aerial bombardment was to the Second World War what the trenches were to the First: a shocking and new form of warfare, wretched and unexpected, and carried out at a terrible scale of loss. Just as the trenches produced the most remarkable poetry of the First World War, so too did the bombing campaigns foster a haunting set of poems during the Second. In researching the life of his grandfather, Daniel Swift became engrossed with the connections between air war and poetry. Ostensibly a narrative of the author's search for his lost grandfather through military and civilian archives and in interviews conducted in the Netherlands, Germany, and England, Bomber County is also an examination of the relationship between the bombing campaigns of World War II and poetry, an investigation into the experience of bombing and being bombed, and a powerful reckoning with the morals and literature of a vanished moment.
Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108485401
The first study of Ovid, especially his Metamorphoses, as inherently visual literature, explaining his pervasive importance in our visual media.
Author : Daniel M. Ogilvie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780195157468
Aims to invigorate the field of personality psychology by challenging the contemporary academic view that individuals are best studied as carriers of traits. The theory is then applied to an array of well-known and obscure individuals with ascensionistic inclinations, including Peter Pan.
Author : Julia Listengarten,Yana Meerzon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350155640
This book considers arousal as a mode of theoretical and artistic inquiry to encourage new ways of staging and examining bodies in performance across artistic disciplines, modern history, and cultural contexts. Looking at traditional drama and theatre, but also visual arts, performance activism, and arts-based community engagement, this collection draws on the complicated relationship between arousing images and the frames of their representability to address what constitutes arousal in a variety of connotations. It examines arousal as a project of social, scientific, cultural, and artistic experimentation, and discusses how our perception of arousal has transformed over the last century. Probing “what arouses” in relation to the ethics of representation, the book investigates the connections between arousal and pleasures of voyeurism, underscores the political impact of aroused bodies, and explores how arousal can turn the body into a mediated object.
Author : Amalia Avramidou,Denise Demetriou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110308815
This volume consists consists of forty contributions written by an internationally renowned selection of scholars. The authors adopt an interdisciplinary methodology, examining both literary and archaeological sources, and a comparative perspective that transgresses national, chronological, and cultural boundaries, in order to investigate the nature of the links between text and image. This multifaceted approach to the study of ancient artifacts enables the authors to treat art and artistic production as activities that do not merely mirror social or cultural relationships but rather, and more significantly, as activities that create social and cultural relationships. The essays in this book are motivated by their authors' belief that there is no simple direct link between art and myths, art and text, or art and ritual, and that art should not be delegated to the role of a by-product of a literate culture. Instead, the contextual and symbolic analyses of artifacts and representations offered in this volume elucidate how art actively shaped myth, how it changed texts, how it transformed ritual, and how it altered the course of local, regional, and Mediterranean histories.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066043129
Author : Richard A. Lofthouse
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015063286689
Lofthouse (fellow, modern history, Oxford U.) sketches an overview of "the vitalist moment" of the early 20th century--"a moment which re-enchanted life in the face of mechanistic onslaught, sought a reprieve from the more demoralizing implications of evolutionary inquiry and left open a space for spirit or even God in nature"--then pursues vitalism in modernism and modern art. He emphasizes Germany and Great Britain, focusing on the artists Dix, Spencer, Beckmann, and Epstein. The study includes nine color plates and about a dozen b&w images of the four artists and their work. Annotation :2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015058329098
Author : Alessandro Arcangeli,Jörg Rogge,Hannu Salmi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000097917
The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World is a comprehensive examination of recent discussions and findings in the exciting field of cultural history. A synthesis of how the new cultural history has transformed the study of history, the volume is divided into three parts – medieval, early modern and modern – that emphasize the way people made sense of the world around them. Contributions cover such themes as material cultures of living, mobility and transport, cultural exchange and transfer, power and conflict, emotion and communication, and the history of the senses. The focus is on the Western world, but the notion of the West is a flexible one. In bringing together 36 authors from 15 countries, the book takes a wide geographical coverage, devoting continuous attention to global connections and the emerging trend of globalization. It builds a panorama of the transformation of Western identities, and the critical ramifications of that evolution from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, that offers the reader a wide-ranging illustration of the potentials of cultural history as a way of studying the past in a variety of times, spaces and aspects of human experience. Engaging with historiographical debate and covering a vast range of themes, periods and places, The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World is the ideal resource for cultural history students and scholars to understand and advance this dynamic field.
Author : James A. Dator
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781461430940
This title presents a uniquely human perspective on the quest to explore space and to understand the universe through the lens of the arts, humanities, and social sciences. It considers early stories about the universe in various cultures; recent space fiction; the origins and cultural rationale for the space age; experiences of humans in space and their emerging interactions with robots and artificial intelligence; how humans should treat environments and alien life; and the alternative futures of space exploration and settlement.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026438064
Author : Arthur Milton Young
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1958-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822975496
Classical mythology came west from Greece, bearing the thoughts, feelings, and distilled experiences of ancient peoples that have, in turn, been formed by the skilled hands of artists into tangible creations of beauty and significance. Before there were records to preserve significant events, these stories were passed down in tales and songs. Adapted and embellished by successive generations, they were later written down and used to create art from many different materials in different mediums. Within these stories and the creations they inspired was an impulse either to recover the secrets of something that had been lost or to create something new from the old material. Young examines nine legends-Perseus and Andromeda; Demeter and Persephone; Pyramus and Thisbe; Pygmalion and Galatea; Daedalus and Icarus; Atlanta and Hippomenes; Philemon and Baucis; Echo and Narcissus; and Pomona and Vertumnus-explaining the legends themselves and tracing their dissemination through centuries and civilizations and across various art forms. In Young's view, classical mythology, through expressing humanity's enthusiasms, visions, and talents, might well be considered the “skilled midwife” of human civilization, proof of our constant effort to possess life symbolically and express it through arts.
Author : Diane Fortenberry,Rebecca Morrill
Publisher : Phaidon Press Limited
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822043986363
The first major survey to reveal the ways in which Classical mythology has inspired art throughout the last 2,500 years From the films of Woody Allen and the Coen Brothers to Margaret Atwood's books and Arcade Fire's songs, Classical Greek and Roman myths continue to be a source of cultural inspiration. The struggles of heroes, both triumphant and tragic, with gods, monsters, and fate, exert a particular grip on our imagination. Visual artists have long expressed and reworked these foundational stories. This is the first book to unite myth-inspired artworks by ancient, modern, and contemporary artists, from Botticelli and Caravaggio to Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst.
