Author : New York Public Library. Spencer Collection
Publisher :
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 25,70 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Bookbinding
ISBN :
Author : Hollis Clayson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892367296
In this engrossing book, Hollis Clayson provides the first description and analysis of French artistic interest in women prostitutes, examining how the subject was treated in the art of the 1870s and 1880s by such avant-garde painters as Cézanne, Degas, Manet, and Renoir, as well as by the academic and low-brow painters who were their contemporaries. Clayson not only illuminates the imagery of prostitution-with its contradictory connotations of disgust and fascination-but also tackles the issues and problems relevant to women and men in a patriarchal society. She discusses the conspicuous sexual commerce during this era and the resulting public panic about the deterioration of social life and civilized mores. She describes the system that evolved out of regulating prostitutes and the subsequent rise of clandestine prostitutes who escaped police regulation and who were condemned both for blurring social boundaries and for spreading sexual licentiousness among their moral and social superiors. Clayson argues that the subject of covert prostitution was especially attractive to vanguard painters because it exemplified the commercialization and the ambiguity of modern life.
Author : Emmanuel Bénézit
Publisher :
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Artists
ISBN :
Author : Stendhal
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1528765311
This book contains the memoirs of Stendahl or in his own words the 'chatter about his private life' between 1821 and 1830. It was between these dates that he moved to Paris and here looks back on his life as an eccentric bachelor. 'As well as Beyle the clairvoyant self-investigator, the sardonic analyst of Parisian salon society and deliberate cultivator of wit, here emerges Beyle the despairing lover, the shakespearean enthusiast, whose romantic sentiment run always parallel with his eighteenth-century logic'. Marie-Henri Beyle - better-known by his pen name, Stendhal - was born in Grenoble, France in 1783. He turned to writing after the final defeat of Napoleon in 1815, notable works include A Life of Rossini (1824), A Life of Napoleon (1929) and The Red and the Black published in 1830. A number of works were published posthumously, including Lamiel (1889), Memoirs of an Egotist (1892) and Lucien Leuwen (1894). Stendhal is now regarded as one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of literary realism.
Author : James Patty
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,22 MB
Release : 2005-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813171938
" Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. His paintings, especially his rugged landscapes and their evocation of the sublime, appealed to Romantic writers, and his work was highly influential on several generations of European writers. James S. Patty analyzes Rosa’s tremendous influence on French writers, chiefly those of the nineteenth century, such as Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, George Sand, and Théophile Gautier. Arranged in chronological order, with numerous quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works, Salvator Rosa in French Literature forms a narrative account of the reception of Rosa’s life and work in the world of French letters. James S. Patty, professor emeritus of French at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Dürer in French Letters . He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 24,21 MB
Release : 2019-11-18
Category :
ISBN : 9231003550
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Art critics
ISBN :
Author : Alain Besançon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 30,56 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226044130
This book discusses the privileging and prohibition of religious images over two and a half millennia in the West.
Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher :
Page : 1230 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 1967
Category : English imprints
ISBN :
Author : the younger Pliny
Publisher : Lebooks Editora
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 6558942380
The Letters of Pliny the Younger, also known as the Epistles of Pliny the Younger, have been studied for centuries, as they offer a unique and intimate glimpse into the daily life of Romans in the 1st century AD. Through his letters, the Roman writer and lawyer Pliny the Younger (whose full name was Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus) discusses philosophical and moral issues; but he also talks about everyday matters and topics related to his administrative duties. One of these letters, Letter 16 from Book VI, addressed to Tacitus, holds unparalleled historical value. In it, Pliny describes the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which destroyed the city of Pompeii. Many scholars claim that with his letters, Pliny invented a new literary genre: the letter written not only to establish pleasant communication with peers but also to publish it later. Pliny compiled copies of every letter he wrote throughout his life and published those he considered the best in twelve books. This edition presents selected letters chosen for their various characteristics and covering several books, focusing mainly on Books I, II, and III. The work is part of the famous collection: 501 Books You Must Read.
