Author : Rachel Johnson
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 24,29 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0593318196
"The true story of how Rachel Johnson - born into one of Britain's most famous political families - tries and fails to get elected in the 2019 hard-fought effort to stop Brexit, running against her older brother, Boris, and what she learns in the process about politics, ambition, family, marriage, and winning and losing"--
Author : Paul Griffiths
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 22,64 MB
Release : 1982-09-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521281997
The Rake's Progress is Stravinsky's biggest work and one of the few great operas written since the 1920s, rare too for the unusual quality of its libretto, by Auden and Kallman. Its importance is undisputed, but so too are the problems it raises: problems of both performance and understanding, caused by the irony with which it is so thoroughly permeated. In aspects of style and operatic convention it looks back to the eighteenth century, and in particular to the operas of Mozart and da Ponte, while making references also to other periods, to operas from Monteverdi to Verdi. Yet at the same time it is wholly a work of the twentieth-century, and indeed it is centrally concerned with the impossibility of return, artistic, psychological or actual, as well as with the nature and limitation of human free will. The Rake's Progress is not one of unbridled dissipation but rather, more interestingly, one of attachment to naive notions of freedom and choice, and his tragedy is that he can never go back.
Author : Denis Rake
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Marjorie Bowen
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"The Rake's Progress" by Marjorie Bowen Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long, who used the pseudonyms Marjorie Bowen and Joseph Shearing, was a British author who wrote historical romances. In this book, she follows a so-proclaimed rake, a womanizer who was perfectly set in his ways. However, even the most charming playboy isn't immune to the magic that happens when stricken by true love and the desire for romance.
Author : Ronald Searle
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 18,40 MB
Release : 1955
Category : English wit and humor, Pictorial
ISBN :
Author : Paul Griffiths
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9780521245906
The Rake's Progress is Stravinsky's biggest work and one of the few great operas written since the 1920s, rare too for the unusual quality of its libretto, by Auden and Kallman. Its importance is undisputed, but so too are the problems it raises: problems of both performance and understanding, caused by the irony with which it is so thoroughly permeated. In aspects of style and operatic convention it looks back to the eighteenth century, and in particular to the operas of Mozart and da Ponte, while making references also to other periods, to operas from Monteverdi to Verdi. Yet at the same time it is wholly a work of the twentieth-century, and indeed it is centrally concerned with the impossibility of return, artistic, psychological or actual, as well as with the nature and limitation of human free will. The Rake's Progress is not one of unbridled dissipation but rather, more interestingly, one of attachment to naive notions of freedom and choice, and his tragedy is that he can never go back.
Author : William Hogarth
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 19,71 MB
Release : 2019-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781999693213
A highly illustrated journey through Hogarth's series paintings and engravings, from the blockbuster 'Rake's Progress and Marriage a la Mode' to the enigmatic and lesser known Happy Marriage this book offers a close analysis of place and setting in Hogarth's works' in order to revisit the artist's complex stance on morality, society, and the city, and the enduring appeal of his satires in the present.0William Hogarth (1697-1764) remains one of Britain's best loved painters. His most renowned works, the series relating to moral subjects, are rarely displayed together, and will be united at the Soane Museum for the first time in its history.0The book also focusses tightly on Hogarth's series; The Soane Museum's own Rake's Progress and An Election, as well as Marriage a la Mode, the Four Times of Day, as well as the three surviving paintings of The Happy Marriage engraved series such as Stages of Cruelty, Industry and Idleness and Gin Lane and Beer Street. It is edited by David Bindman, a world authority on Hogarth and comprises four essays by leading academics, along with Bindman's own introduction to each of the series according to the themes of "place" and "progress".00Exhibition: Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK (09.10.2019-05.01.2020).
Author : Deborah Wye
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780870701252
Volume covers the Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books, not the collection of artists' books.
Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 37,57 MB
Release : 2008-12-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520942795
The Danger of Music gathers some two decades of Richard Taruskin's writing on the arts and politics, ranging in approach from occasional pieces for major newspapers such as the New York Times to full-scale critical essays for leading intellectual journals. Hard-hitting, provocative, and incisive, these essays consider contemporary composition and performance, the role of critics and historians in the life of the arts, and the fraught terrain where ethics and aesthetics interact and at times conflict. Many of the works collected here have themselves excited wide debate, including the title essay, which considers the rights and obligations of artists in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In a series of lively postscripts written especially for this volume, Taruskin, America's "public" musicologist, addresses the debates he has stirred up by insisting that art is not a utopian escape and that artists inhabit the same world as the rest of society. Among the book's forty-two essays are two public addresses—one about the prospects for classical music at the end of the second millennium C. E., the other a revisiting of the performance issues previously discussed in the author's Text and Act (1995)—that appear in print for the first time.
Author : M. C. Beaton
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 MB
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : 67 Clarges Street (London, England : Imaginary place)
ISBN : 9780750539265
