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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jen e boyle”
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  • Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature

    Mediation and Affect

    by Jen E. Boyle ...
    Series series Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
    Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature explores the prevalence of anamorphic perspective in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England. Jen Boyle investigates how anamorphic media flourished in early modern England as an interactive technology and mode of affect in public interactive art, city and garden design, and as a theory and figure in literature, political theory and natural and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • The Nabis

    Prophets of colour and intimacy in fin-de-siècle Paris

    by Albert Kostenevitch ...
    Pierre Bonnard was the leader of the group of post-impressionist painters who called themselves “the Nabis”, from the Hebrew word for “prophet”. Influenced by Odilon Redon, Puvis de Chavannes, popular imagery, and Japanese woodblock printing, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton and Denis (to name the most prominent members) revolutionised the spirit of decorative technique during one of the richest ... Read more

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  • Salvador Dalí

    by Mary Ann Caws ...
    Series Book 20 - Critical Lives
    Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech, Marquis of Pubol, was born in Catalonia on May 11, 1904, and died on January 23, 1989. Best known as a surrealist painter, his artistic output also included film, sculpture, photography and writing. Dalí is also notorious for his eccentric behaviour and his involvement with the Dada movement, which often drew more attention to himself than his art ... Read more

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  • Gauguin

    by Jp. A. Calosse ...
    Paul Gauguin was first a sailor, then a successful stockbroker in Paris. In 1874 he began to paint at weekends as a Sunday painter. Nine years later, after a stock-market crash, he felt confident of his ability to earn a living for his family by painting and he resigned his position and took up the painter’s brush full time. Following the lead of Cézanne, Gauguin painted still-lifes from the very ... Read more

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  • Modern Painters, Volume I

    by John Ruskin ...
    The work now laid before the public originated in indignation at the shallow and false criticism of the periodicals of the day on the works of the great living artist to whom it principally refers. It was intended to be a short pamphlet, reprobating the matter and style of those critiques, and pointing out their perilous tendency, as guides of public feeling. But, as point after point presented ... Read more

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  • Thresholds and Boundaries

    Liminality in Netherlandish Art (1385-1530)

    by Lynn F. Jacobs ...
    Series series Visual Culture in Early Modernity
    Although liminality has been studied by scholars of medieval and seventeenth-century art, the role of the threshold motif in Netherlandish art of the late fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries -- this late medieval/early ‘early modern’ period -- has been much less fully investigated. Thresholds and Boundaries: Liminality in Netherlandish Art (1385-1550) addresses this issue through a ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Medieval German Literature

    A Companion

    by Marion Gibbs, Sidney M. Johnson ...
    Medieval German Literature provides a comprehensive survey of this Germanic body of work from the eighth century through the early fifteenth century. The authors treat the large body of late-medieval lyric poetry in detail for the first time. ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Collecting and Displaying China's “Summer Palace” in the West

    The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France

    Edited by Louise Tythacott ...
    Series series The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950
    In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the ... Read more

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  • Resisting Abstraction

    Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism

    by Gordon Hughes ...
    Robert Delaunay was one of the leading artists working in Paris in the early decades of the twentieth century, and his paintings have been admired ever since as among the earliest purely abstract works.With Resisting Abstraction, the first English-language study of Delaunay in more than thirty years, Gordon Hughes mounts a powerful argument that Delaunay was not only one of the earliest artists to ... Read more

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  • Invention and Authorship in Medieval England

    by Robert R. Edwards ...
    Series series Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
    From the twelfth century onwards, medieval English writers adapted the conventions of high literary culture to establish themselves as recognized authors and claim a significant place for works of imagination beside those of doctrine and instruction. Their efforts extended over three languages—Latin, French, and English—and across a discontinuous literary history. Their strategy was to approach ... Read more

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  • Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture

    The Devil in the Latrine

    by Martha Bayless ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
    This important new contribution to the history of the body analyzes the role of filth as the material counterpart of sin in medieval thought. Using a wide range of texts, including theology, historical documents, and literature from Augustine to Chaucer, the book shows how filth was regarded as fundamental to an understanding of human history. This theological significance explains the prominence ... Read more

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  • Piety in Pieces

    How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts

    by Kathryn M. Rudy ...
    Medieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, illuminators, book binders) with labour-intensive processes using exclusive and sometimes exotic materials (parchment made from dozens or hundreds of skins, inks and paints made from prized minerals, animals and plants), books were expensive and built to last. They usually outlived their owners. Rather ... Read more

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