Author : Lynn Garafola
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 25,33 MB
Release : 2005-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780819566744
Selected writings illuminate a century of international dance.
Author : John Bellows
Publisher :
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 12,24 MB
Release : 1911
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Ivor Guest
Publisher : Dance Books Limited
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
The cradle of ballet, tracing the origin of ballet as a theatre art back to its foundation by Louis XIV in 1669.
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 1917
Category : American poetry
ISBN :
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 34,8 MB
Release : 2013-08-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1627933212
Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived deep enough into the human heart. I will moreover fairly confess, that there are beauties peculiar not only to the Greek language, but to the climate, to manners and times, which it would be ridiculous to transplant hither. Therefore I have not copied exactly the Electra of Sophocles-much more I knew would be necessary; but I have taken, as well as I could, all the spirit and substance of it."
Author : Gustave Flaubert
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3736808011
Madame Bovary is the French writer Gustave Flaubert's debut novel. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns. Flaubert was a notorious perfectionist and claimed always to be searching for le mot juste ("the precise word"). Long established as one of the greatest novels ever written, the book has often been described as a "perfect" work of fiction. Henry James writes: "Madame Bovary has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone; it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgment." Giorgio de Chirico said that in his opinion "from the narrative point of view, the most perfect book is Madame Bovary by Flaubert".
Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 2015-08-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781297790614
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Author : GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 17,66 MB
Release : 1904
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Caroline Potter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 1317141792
Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a quirky, innovative and enigmatic composer whose impact has spread far beyond the musical world. As an artist active in several spheres - from cabaret to religion, from calligraphy to poetry and playwriting - and collaborator with some of the leading avant-garde figures of the day, including Cocteau, Picasso, Diaghilev and René Clair, he was one of few genuinely cross-disciplinary composers. His artistic activity, during a tumultuous time in the Parisian art world, situates him in an especially exciting period, and his friendships with Debussy, Stravinsky and others place him at the centre of French musical life. He was a unique figure whose art is immediately recognisable, whatever the medium he employed. Erik Satie: Music, Art and Literature explores many aspects of Satie's creativity to give a full picture of this most multifaceted of composers. The focus is on Satie's philosophy and psychology revealed through his music; Satie's interest in and participation in artistic media other than music, and Satie's collaborations with other artists. This book is therefore essential reading for anyone interested in the French musical and cultural scene of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Author : Georges Riat
Publisher : Parkstone Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN :
Child of materialism and positivism, Courbet was without a doubt one of the most complex painters of the nineteenth century. Symbolising the rejection of traditions, Courbet did not hesitate to confront the public with the truth by liberating painting of conventional rules. He became from then on the leader of pictorial realism.
