Virginia Woolf And The European Avant Garde London Painting Film And Photography

Author : Allison Tzu Yu Lin
Publisher : 秀威出版
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Arts, European
ISBN : 9789862211465

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Virginia Woolf and the European Avant-Garde : London, Painting, Film and Photography by Allison Tzu Yu Lin Pdf

Virginia Woolf and the European Avant-Garde: London, Painting, Film and Photography explores the aesthetics of Woolf’s image of London in her writings. The image of London does not make Woolf a “stay-at-home” writer. Through her life long engagement with the visual arts, art criticism and philosophy, Woolf finds related expression in literature, as one can see in her narrative: the Post-Impressionist dual vision of painting in writing, Cubist cinematic flashback and montage of shots, and Surrealist snapshort of life, death and desire. Woolf’s narrative from defines her own modernism in the context of the city. Her vision shows the dialectics of inner and outer spheres, in which the aesthetics of the urban gendered gaze is significant.【秀威資訊科技股份有限公司製作】

Author : Lorraine Sim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501314322

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Ordinary Matters by Lorraine Sim Pdf

Shortlisted for the 2017 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship Ordinary Matters is the first major interdisciplinary study of the ordinary in modernist women's literature and photography. It examines how women photographers and writers including Helen Levitt, Lee Miller, Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Richardson envision the sphere of ordinary life in light of the social and cultural transformations of the period that shaped and often radically re-shaped it: for example, urbanism, instrumentalism, the Great Depression and war. Through a series of case studies that explore such topics as the street, domestic things, gesture and the face, Sim contends that the paradigmatic shifts that define early twentieth-century modernity not only inform modernist women's aesthetics of the everyday, but their artistic and ethical investments in that sphere. The everyday has been noted as a “keynote of the New Modernist Studies” (Todd Avery). Ordinary Matters comprises a vital contribution to recent scholarship on the topic and will be of value to scholars working in British and American modernism, multimedia modernisms, photography, twentieth-century literature, and critical and cultural histories of the everyday.

Author : Jed Rasula
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780192570727

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Acrobatic Modernism from the Avant-Garde to Prehistory by Jed Rasula Pdf

This is a book about artistic modernism contending with the historical transfigurations of modernity. As a conscientious engagement with modernity's restructuring of the lifeworld, the modernist avant-garde raised the stakes of this engagement to programmatic explicitness. But even beyond the vanguard, the global phenomenon of jazz combined somatic assault with sensory tutelage. Jazz, like the new technologies of modernity, re-calibrated sensory ratios. The criterion of the new as self-making also extended to names: pseudonyms and heteronyms. The protocols of modernism solicited a pragmatic arousal of bodily sensation as artistic resource, validating an acrobatic sensibility ranging from slapstick and laughter to the pathos of bereavement. Expressivity trumped representation. The artwork was a diagram of perception, not a mimetic rendering. For artists, the historical pressures of altered perception provoked new models, and Ezra Pound's slogan 'Make It New' became the generic rallying cry of renovation. The paradigmatic stance of the avant-garde was established by Futurism, but the discovery of prehistoric art added another provocation to artists. Paleolithic caves validated the spirit of all-over composition, unframed and dynamic. Geometric abstraction, Constructivism and Purism, and Surrealism were all in quest of a new mythology. Making it new yielded a new pathos in the sensation of radical discrepancy between futurist striving and remotest antiquity. The Paleolithic cave and the USSR emitted comparable siren calls on behalf of the remote past and the desired future. As such, the present was suffused with the pathos of being neither, but subject to both.

Author : Maggie Humm
Publisher : Springer Science & Business
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0813532663

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Modernist Women and Visual Cultures by Maggie Humm Pdf

This volume takes some of the visual aspects of modernism - photo albums and image-texts - and examines the ways in which modernist women explore a freer range of aesthetics in their work.

Author : Scott W. Klein,Michael Valdez Moses
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199379453

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A Modernist Cinema by Scott W. Klein,Michael Valdez Moses Pdf

"In A Modernist Cinema, edited by Scott W. Klein and Michael Valdez Moses, sixteen distinguished scholars in the field of the New Modernist Studies explore the interrelationships among modernism, cinema, and modernity. Focusing on several culturally influential films from Europe, America, and Asia produced between 1914 and 1941, this collection of essays contends that cinema was always a modernist enterprise. Examining the dialectical relationship between a modernist cinema and modernity itself, these essays reveal how the movies represented and altered our notions and practices of modern life, as well as how the so-called crises of modernity shaped the evolution of filmmaking. Attending to the technical achievements and formal qualities of the works of several prominent directors-Giovanni Pastrone, D. W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, F. W. Murnau, Carl Theodore Dreyer, Dziga Vertov, Luis Buänuel, Yasujiro Ozu, John Ford, Jean Renoir, Charlie Chaplin, Leni Riefenstahl, and Orson Welles-these essays investigate several interrelated topics: how a modernist cinema represented and intervened in the political and social struggles of the era; the ambivalent relationship between cinema and the other modernist arts; the controversial interconnection between modern technology and the new art; the significance of representing the mobile human body in a new medium; the gendered history of modernity; and the transformative effects of cinema on modern conceptions of temporality, spatial relations, and political geography. Contributors: Richard Begam, Maurizia Bascagli, Enda Duffy, Laura Frost, Andrzej Gasiorek, Scott W. Klein, Douglas Mao, Laura Marcus, Jesse Matz, Tyrus Miller, Michael Valdez Moses, Michael North, Elizabeth Otto, Carrie J. Preston, Lisa Siraganian, Michael Wood"--

Author : Sascha Bru
Publisher : EUP
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Art, European
ISBN : 0748695915

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The European Avant-Gardes, 1905-1935 by Sascha Bru Pdf

The works of the classic European avant-gardes (cubism, futurism, expressionism, Dadaism, constructivism and many other -isms) today still strike many students of modernism as strange or incomprehensible. Is this art? Do we have to take a sound poem seriously? How, at all. are we to read and interpret avant-garde works? And what on earth is the fourth dimension in physics that fascinated so many avant-gardists? This engaging introduction is designed to answer all these questions and more.

Author : Sarah Cole
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231550161

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Inventing Tomorrow by Sarah Cole Pdf

H. G. Wells played a central role in defining the intellectual, political, and literary character of the twentieth century. A prolific literary innovator, he coined such concepts as “time machine,” “war of the worlds,” and “atomic bomb,” exerting vast influence on popular ideas of time and futurity, progress and decline, and humanity’s place in the universe. Wells was a public intellectual with a worldwide readership. He met with world leaders, including Roosevelt, Lenin, Stalin, and Churchill, and his books were international best-sellers. Yet critics and scholars have largely forgotten his accomplishments or relegated them to genre fiction, overlooking their breadth and diversity. In Inventing Tomorrow, Sarah Cole provides a definitive account of Wells’s work and ideas. She contends that Wells casts new light on modernism and its values: on topics from warfare to science to time, his work resonates both thematically and aesthetically with some of the most ambitious modernists. At the same time, unlike many modernists, Wells believed that literature had a pressing place in public life, and his works reached a wide range of readers. While recognizing Wells’s limitations, Cole offers a new account of his distinctive style as well as his interventions into social and political thought. She illuminates how Wells embodies twentieth-century literature at its most expansive and engaged. An ambitious rethinking of Wells as both writer and thinker, Inventing Tomorrow suggests that he offers a timely model for literature’s moral responsibility to imagine a better global future.

Author : A.L. Rees
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838714192

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A History of Experimental Film and Video by A.L. Rees Pdf

Avant-garde film is almost indefinable. It is in a constant state of change and redefinition. In his highly-acclaimed history of experimental film, A.L. Rees tracks the movement of the film avant-garde between the cinema and modern art (with its postmodern coda). But he also reconstitutes the film avant-garde as an independent form of art practice with its own internal logic and aesthetic discourse. In this revised and updated edition, Rees introduces experimental film and video to new readers interested in the wider cinema, as well as offering a guide to enthusiasts of avant-garde film and new media arts. Ranging from Cézanne and Dada, via Cocteau, Brakhage and Le Grice, to the new wave of British film and video artists from the 1990s to the present day, this expansive study situates avant-garde film between the cinema and the gallery, with many links to sonic as well as visual arts. The new edition includes a review of current scholarship in avant-garde film history and includes updated reading and viewing lists. It also features a new introduction and concluding chapter, which assess the rise of video projection in the gallery since the millennium, and describe new work by the latest generation of experimental film-makers. The new edition is richly illustrated with images of the art works discussed.

Author : Lauren Rabinovitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015019813107

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Points of Resistance by Lauren Rabinovitz Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Drawing
ISBN : UVA:X001897608

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The Print Collector's Newsletter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tobin Claudia Tobin
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781474455169

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Modernism and Still Life by Tobin Claudia Tobin Pdf

Explores the 'still life spirit' in modern painting, prose, dance, sculpture and poetryChallenges the conventional positioning of still life a 'minor' genre in art historyProposes a radical alternative to narratives of modernism that privilege speed and motion by revealing forms of stillness and still life at the heart of modern literature and visual cultureProvides the first study of still life to consider the genre across modern literature, visual cultures and danceUncovers connections and cultural exchange between networks of European and American artists including the Bloomsbury Group and Wallace StevensThe late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been characterised as the 'age of speed' but they also witnessed a reanimation of still life across different art forms. This book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and the visual arts by examining the potential for movement and transformation in the idea of stillness and the ordinary. It ranges widely in its material, taking Czanne and literary responses to his still life painting as its point of departure. It investigates constellations of writers, visual artists and dancers including D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, David Jones, Winifred Nicholson, Wallace Stevens, and lesser-known figures including Charles Mauron and Margaret Morris. Claudia Tobin reveals that at the heart of modern art were forms of stillness that were intimately bound up with movement: the still life emerges charged with animation, vibration and rhythm; an unstable medium, unexpectedly vital and well suited to the expression of modern concerns.

Author : Robert P. McParland
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443866446

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Film and Literary Modernism by Robert P. McParland Pdf

In Film and Literary Modernism, the connections between film, modernist literature, and the arts are explored by an international group of scholars. The impact of cinema upon our ways of seeing the world is highlighted in essays on city symphony films, avant-garde cinema, European filmmaking and key directors and personalities from Charlie Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein and Alain Renais to Alfred Hitchcock and Mae West. Contributors investigate the impact of film upon T. S. Eliot, time and stream of consciousness in Virginia Woolf and Henri Bergson, the racial undercurrents in the film adaptations of Ernest Hemingway’s fiction, and examine the film writing of William Faulkner, James Agee, and Graham Greene. Robert McParland assembles an international group of researchers including independent film makers, critics and professors of film, creative writers, teachers of architecture and design, and young doctoral scholars, who offer a multi-faceted look at modernism and the art of the film.

Author : Betsy van Schlun
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110491081

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The Pool Group and the Quest for Anthropological Universality by Betsy van Schlun Pdf

The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015034693708

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Artbibliographies Modern by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christine Cipriani
Publisher : Fodor's
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0679033955

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Europe by Christine Cipriani Pdf

Fodor's newest travel series is designed for travelers who want to travel well and spend less. With candid reviews and a fresh outlook, Fodor's upCLOSE points the way to authentic experiences that will take travelers away from the crowds and close to the culture -- without having to spend a fortune. "Fodor's upCLOSE Europe is smart, fun, and informative. It gives you quirky, never-obvious facts about major sights, as well as the lowdown on the minor ones. It's in-the-know about what's going on. It reveals the essence of each country and helps you get the most Europe for your travel dollar. In short, it's the best of all possible travel companions. All the places to go, from Stockholm to Sofia Sprawling castles, crumbling abbeys, and ancient ruins What to do and when, from the midnight sun to the running of the bulls Mountain walks, riverside bike trails, and unspoiled beaches Choice views: spires, ramparts, and piazzas to ease the eyes Tell-all reviews of small hotels and pensions Where to stay that's charming (and doesn't cost an arm and a leg) Hotels from top to bottom: what to expect when you arrive Hostels with character (and characters) Bonding with locals: how to stay in a private home The buzz on restaurants, cafes, and nightlife Great pints in great company: where to go after dark Unwinding to jazz and hip-hop, retro and techno, opera and "fado Restaurants for every craving, and how much you'll spend Historic coffeehouses, chippies in a pinch, fab bistros, and hot tapas Practical info, great maps Airfare deals and how to get around Tips on traveling smart and losing the crowds Clear, easy-to-read maps