The Neapolitan Crèche At The Art Institute Of Chicago

Author : Art Institute of Chicago,Sylvain Bellenger,Carmine Romano,Jesse Rosenberg
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780300222357

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The Neapolitan Crèche at the Art Institute of Chicago by Art Institute of Chicago,Sylvain Bellenger,Carmine Romano,Jesse Rosenberg Pdf

The 18th-century Neapolitan crèche at the Art Institute of Chicago, which contains over 200 figures arranged in a panorama of street life, represents the pinnacle of a rich artistic heritage. This luxurious catalogue is the first to study the crèche in the context of art and music history. Essays explore the Neapolitan crèche tradition and examine the design of Chicago's example with reference to other important crèches in Europe and the United States. Entries on individual figures identify the characters and types they represent, as well as their social and historical meaning and religious significance. Other entries address groups of figures, animals, and cultural themes present in the crèche. Together the essays and entries highlight the astonishing realism and potent symbolism of these figures, which range from heavenly angels and the Holy Family around the manger to street vendors and revelers feasting, drinking, and dancing in a tavern.

Author : Sylvain Bellenger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0865592675

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Neapolitan Crèche by Sylvain Bellenger Pdf

Author : Andrea Feeser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000190465

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Jimmie Durham, Europe, and the Art of Relations by Andrea Feeser Pdf

This book investigates Jimmie Durham’s community-building process of making and display in four of his projects in Europe: Something ... Perhaps a Fugue or an Elegy (2005); two Neapolitan nativities (2016 and ongoing); The Middle Earth (with Maria Thereza Alves, 2018); and God’s Poems, God’s Children (2017). Andrea Feeser explores these artworks in the context of ideas about connection set forth by writers Ann Lauterbach, Franz Rosenzweig, Pamela Sue Anderson, Vinciane Despret, and Hirokazu Miyazaki, among others. Feeser argues that the materials in Durham’s artworks; the method of their construction; how Durham writes about his pieces; how they exist with respect to one another; and how they address viewers, demonstrate that we can create alongside others a world that embraces and sustains what has been diminished. The book will be of interest to scholars working in contemporary art, animal studies, new materialism research, and eco-criticism.

Author : Cody Marrs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-25
Category : Aesthetics in literature
ISBN : 9780192871725

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Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies by Cody Marrs Pdf

In this fascinating book, Cody Marrs retraces Melville's engagement with beauty and provides a revisionary account of Melville's philosophy, aesthetics, and literary career.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271096605

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Author : Robin L. Thomas
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271096599

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Palaces of reason by Robin L. Thomas Pdf

Author : Cather Studies
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496217646

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Cather Studies, Volume 12 by Cather Studies Pdf

Over the five decades of her writing career Willa Cather responded to, and entered into dialogue with, shifts in the terrain of American life. These cultural encounters informed her work as much as the historical past in which much of her writing is based. Cather was a multifaceted cultural critic, immersing herself in the arts, broadly defined: theater and opera, art, narrative, craft production. Willa Cather and the Arts shows that Cather repeatedly engaged with multiple forms of art, and that even when writing about the past she was often addressing contemporary questions. The essays in this volume are informed by new modes of contextualization, including the increasingly popular view of Cather as a pivotal or transitional figure working between and across very different cultural periods and by the recent publication of Cather’s correspondence. The collection begins by exploring the ways Cather encountered and represented high and low cultures, including Cather’s use of “racialized vernacular” in Sapphira and the Slave Girl. The next set of essays demonstrates how historical research, often focusing on local features in Cather’s fiction, contributes to our understanding of American culture, from musicological sources to the cultural development of Pittsburgh. The final trio of essays highlights current Cather scholarship, including a food studies approach to O Pioneers! and an examination of Cather’s use of ancient philosophy in The Professor’s House. Together the essays reassess Cather’s lifelong encounter with, and interpretation and reimagining of, the arts.

Author : John Shea
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814645840

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Seeing Haloes by John Shea Pdf

Christmas is unavoidable. But if it is going to happen for us, we need to take time. We need to slow down and do something out of the ordinary, something that has to do with the spiritual meaning of the feast and the season. Reading the Christmas poems of Seeing Haloes is one way of doing this. John Shea hopes that each poem strikes a chord and brings us into memories we may have forgotten and present experiences we may have overlooked. When this happens, the Spirit arrives to illumine our minds, inspire our wills, and gladden our hearts. Christmas happens.

Author : Robert Henri,Marian Wardle,Sarah Burns,Brigham Young University. Museum of Art
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Modernism (Art)
ISBN : 0813536847

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American Women Modernists by Robert Henri,Marian Wardle,Sarah Burns,Brigham Young University. Museum of Art Pdf

The seven essays included in this volume move beyond the famed Ashcan School to recover the lesser known work of Robert Henri's women students. The contributors, who include well-known scholars of art history, American studies, and cultural studies demonstrate how these women participated in the "modernizing" of women's roles during this era.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0810996928

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The Angel Tree by Anonim Pdf

This book showcases the magnificent collection of Neapolitan Baroque angels and crche figures that have thrilled visitors from across the country each Christmas season for more than 50 years. New fiber-optic lighting and a new tree now enhance its beauty.

Author : Luke Syson,Sheena Wagstaff,Emerson Bowyer,Brinda Kumar
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588396440

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Like Life by Luke Syson,Sheena Wagstaff,Emerson Bowyer,Brinda Kumar Pdf

Since before the myth of Pygmalion bringing a statue to life through desire, artists have used sculpture to explore the physical materiality of the body. This groundbreaking volume examines key sculptural works from thirteenth-century Europe to the global present, revealing new insights into the strategies artists deploy to blur the distinction between art and life. Three-dimensional renderings of the human figure are presented here in numerous manifestations, created by artists ranging from Donatello and Edgar Degas to Kiki Smith and Jeff Koons. Featuring works created in media both traditional and unexpected—such as glass, leather, and blood—Like Life presents sculpture by turns conventional and shocking, including effigies, dolls, mannequins, automata, waxworks, and anatomical models. Texts by curators and cultural historians as well as contemporary artists complete this provocative exploration of realistic representations of the human body. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}

Author : Louis van Tilborgh,David J. Getsy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300214864

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Van Gogh's Bedrooms by Louis van Tilborgh,David J. Getsy Pdf

Catalogus bij de tentoonstelling van schilderijen die Van Gogh maakte van de slaapkamers in de 37 huizen waar hij gedurende zijn leven woonde.

Author : Iskrena Yordanova,Giuseppina Raggi,Maria Ida Biggi
Publisher : Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783990127728

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Theatre Spaces for Music in 18th-Century Europe by Iskrena Yordanova,Giuseppina Raggi,Maria Ida Biggi Pdf

This book explores the specificity and the heterogeneity of spaces for opera during the eighteenth century from a multidisciplinary point of view. Architects, musicologists and theatre specialists are discussing various cases that concern the dense network of court and public theatres, including the ephemeral ones, the multiple aspects of theatre presentations in different architectonic spaces, the contexts and the occasions of social life and representativity.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Board of Trustees
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN : MINN:31951P00275804U

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Annual Report of the Trustees by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Board of Trustees Pdf

Author : Matthew S. Witkovsky,Devin Fore
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300225716

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Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! by Matthew S. Witkovsky,Devin Fore Pdf

Groundbreaking new insight into a rich spectrum of early Soviet art and its spaces of display Published on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this landmark book gathers information from the forefront of current research in early Soviet art, providing a new understanding of where art was presented, who saw it, and how the images incorporated and conveyed Soviet values. More than 350 works are grouped into areas of critical importance for the production, reception, and circulation of early Soviet art: battlegrounds, schools, the press, theaters, homes and storefronts, factories, festivals, and exhibitions. Paintings by El Lissitzky and Liubov Popova are joined by sculptures, costumes and textiles, decorative arts, architectural models, books, magazines, films, and more. Also included are rare and important artifacts, among them a selection of illustrated children's notes by Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Allilueva, as well as reproductions of key exhibition spaces such as the legendary Obmokhu (Constructivist) exhibition in 1921; Aleksandr Rodchenko's 'Workers' Club in 1925; and a Radio-Orator kiosk for live, projected, and printed propaganda designed by Gustav Klutsis in 1922. Bountifully illustrated, this book offers an unprecedented, cross-disciplinary analysis of two momentous decades of Soviet visual culture.