Author : Edward Ruscha
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 14,48 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN :
Ed Ruscha: Course of Empire~ISBN 3-7757-1654-8 U.S. $19.95 / Paperback, 10 x 5 in. / 64 pgs / 10 color. ~Item / Available / Art
Author : Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 2001-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520938052
Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a new model of modernity that would resolve the contemporary European crisis as well as long-standing problems of the national past. Ben-Ghiat shows that—at a time of fears over the erosion of national and social identities—Mussolini presented fascism as a movement that would allow economic development without harm to social boundaries and national traditions. She demonstrates that although the regime largely failed in its attempts to remake Italians as paragons of a distinctly fascist model of mass society, twenty years of fascism did alter the landscape of Italian cultural life. Among younger intellectuals in particular, the dictatorship left a legacy of practices and attitudes that often continued under different political rubrics after 1945.
Author : Pietro Rossi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 311042083X
Europe’s boundaries have mainly been shaped by cultural, religious, and political conceptions rather than by geography. This volume of bilingual essays from renowned European scholars outlines the transformation of Europe’s boundaries from the fall of the ancient world to the age of decolonization, or the end of the explicit endeavor to “Europeanize” the world. From the decline of the Roman Empire to the polycentrism of today’s world, the essays span such aspects as the confrontation of Christian Europe with Islam and the changing role of the Mediterranean from “mare nostrum” to a frontier between nations. Scandinavia, eastern Europe and the Atlantic are also analyzed as boundaries in the context of exploration, migratory movements, cultural exchanges, and war. The Boundaries of Europe, edited by Pietro Rossi, is the first installment in the ALLEA book series Discourses on Intellectual Europe, which seeks to explore the question of an intrinsic or quintessential European identity in light of the rising skepticism towards Europe as an integrated cultural and intellectual region.
Author : Emilio Morasso
Publisher : Bruno Mondadori
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,20 MB
Release : 2003
Category :
ISBN : 8842426253
Author : Nicolas Oikonomides
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1000939332
Society, Culture and Politics in Byzantium is the fourth selection of papers by the late Nicolas Oikonomides to be published in the Variorum Collected Studies Series. Its focus is upon the Byzantine world after the Fourth Crusade and during the Palaeologan period, though several studies deal with a longer time span. The twenty-eight articles included look first at questions of language and literacy, and then at the relationships between art and politics. The final sections examine aspects of the history of the later empire, in the age of its decline, caught between the economic penetration of the Western European states and the expansion of the Ottoman Turks, and consider the development of Byzantine institutions, monasteries and the Church in this period.
Author : Ettore Pais
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 17,97 MB
Release : 1900
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Iskrena Yordanova
Publisher : Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 3990127705
This volume explores the dense networks created by diplomatic relationships between European courts and aristocratic households in the early modern age, with the emphasis on celebratory events and the circulation of theatrical plots and practitioners promoted by political and diplomatic connections. The offices of plenipotentiary ministers were often outposts providing useful information about cultural life in foreign countries. Sometimes the artistic strategies defined through the exchanges of couriers were destined to leave a legacy in the history of arts, especially of music and theatre. Ministers favored or promoted careers, described or made pieces of repertoire available to new audiences, and even supported practitioners in their difficult travels by planning profitable tours. They stood behind extraordinary artists and protected many stage performers with their authority, while carefully observing and transmitting precious information about the cultural and musical life of the countries where they resided.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 18,91 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Archaeology
ISBN :
Author : Aristotle Kallis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1137314036
What kind of city was the Fascist 'third Rome'? Imagined and real, rooted in the past and announcing a new, 'revolutionary' future, Fascist Rome was imagined both as the ideal city and as the sacred centre of a universal political religion. Kallis explores this through a journey across the sites, monuments, and buildings of the fascist capital.
Author : Great Britain. Foreign Office
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Italy
ISBN :
