Author : Christopher Breward
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
What is the relationship between fashion and modernity, and how is this unique relationship manifested in the material world? This book considers how the relationship between fashion and modernity tests the very definition of modernity and enhances our understanding of the role of fashion in the modern world.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 32,64 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 : Voltaire
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,13 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Philostratus (the Athenian)
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 1912
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Jean F. Tulard
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780828824910
Author : Robert Wodrow
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 2024-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385129664
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
Author : Philippe Perrot
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 21,59 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691000817
By the middle of the century, men were prompted to disdain the decadent and gaudy colors of the pre-Revolutionary period and wear unrelievedly black frock coats suitable to the manly and serious world of commerce. Their wives and daughters, on the other hand, adorned themselves in bright colors and often uncomfortable and impractical laces and petticoats, to signal the status of their family.
Author : Anne Hollander
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 1993-03-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520082311
In this generously illustrated book, Anne Hollander examines the representation of the body and clothing in Western art, from Greek sculpture and vase painting through medieval and renaissance portraits, to contemporary films and fashion photography. First published ahead of its time, this book has become a classic.
Author : Tamar Garb
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500018422
BODIES OF MODERNITY explores the ways in which men's and women's bodies were represented in late 19th-century France. A series of case studies looks at well-known works by Cezanne, Renoir, and Seurat with new interpretation, while lesser-known works are considered seriously for the first time. 140 illustrations, 14 in color.
Author : Elizabeth Kolbinger Menon
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN :
'Evil be Design' documents the search for the origins of the iconic 'femme fatale'. This text uses popular sources to make the critical link between the femme fatale and the rise of feminism.
