Author : Georges Riat
Publisher : Parkstone Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,74 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.
Author : Louis Marin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 39,65 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780804734776
The eminent scholar and critic Louis Marin considered the paintings and the writings of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) an enduring source of inspiration, and he returned to Poussin again and again over the years. The ten major essays in this volume constitute his definitive statement on the painter who inspired his most eloquent and probing commentary. 17 illustrations.
Author : Phillip B. Zarrilli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 15,11 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0415462231
Providing a clear journey through centuries of European, North and South American, African and Asian forms of theatre and performance, this introduction helps the reader think critically about this exciting field through fascinating yet plain-speaking essays and case studies.
Author : Eric Wollencott Barnes
Publisher : New York : Scribner
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 33,16 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Dramatists, American
ISBN :
Author : Christopher B. Balme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,20 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108487890
Explores the fascinating career of Maurice E. Bandmann and his global theatrical circuit in the early twentieth century.
Author : Michael Levey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780802021137
Lectures presented at the Dürer Festival held by the University of Manchester in collaboration with the Goethe Institute, 1971.
Author : Alex Potts
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300087369
Winckelmann's writing has a richness and density that take it well beyond the bounds of the simple rationalist art history and Neo-classical art theory with which it is usually associated. He often seems to speak disturbingly directly to our present awareness of the discomforting ideological and psychic contradictions inherent in supposedly ideal symbolic forms.
Author : Giacomo Meyerbeer
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Composers
ISBN :
A collection of letters by Meyerbeer, the operatic composer who died in 1864. Critics have recently re-evaluated his work, recognizing his musical craftmanship, his dramatic sense and his influence on later operatic composers. The editors also edited Letters and Diaries of Meyerbeer.
Author : Irene Castle
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Ballroom dancers
ISBN :
Story of the once famous and highest paid ballroom dancers in the country, and of Irene's life after Vernon's fatal crash in 1918.
Author : A.B.De Vries
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 1978-08-18
Category : Art
ISBN :
