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  • The Versailles Effect

    Objects, Lives, and Afterlives of the Domaine

    Edición de Mark Ledbury, Robert Wellington ...
    Series series Material Culture of Art and Design
    The essays in this volume show that Versailles was not the static creation of one man, but a hugely complex cultural space; a centre of power, but also of life, love, anxiety, creation, and an enduring palimpsest of aspirations, desires, and ruptures. The splendour of the Château and the masterpieces of art and design that it contains mask a more complex and sometimes more sordid history of human ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719-1797)

    Theatre, Opera and Art

    Edición de David Charlton, Mark Ledbury ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 2000, this book highlights the interst Sedaine's life and work is now, belatedly, provoking in many scholarly disciplines. If Sedaine speaks today to literary history, theatre history and opera studies, it is because he possessed a multivalent vision, one which accounts for both his past neglect and is present rediscovery. Like many others, he believed that the established, ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • Fictions of Art History

    de Paul Barolsky, Professor Thomas Crow, Gloria Kury, Ralph Lieberman, Maria H. Loh, Alexander Nemerov, Joanna Scott, Cole Swensen, Marianna Torgovnick, Caroline Vout, Marina Warner ...
    Fictions of Art History, the most recent addition to the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, addresses art history’s complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art historians’ viewing practices and modes of writing. How, the contributors ask, are we to unravel the supposed facts of history from the fictions constructed ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

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  • Paris

    The Biography of a City

    de Colin Jones ...
    From the Roman Emperor Julian, who waxed rhapsodic about Parisian wine and figs, to Henry Miller, who relished its seductive bohemia, Paris has been a perennial source of fascination for 2,000 years. In this definitive and illuminating history, Colin Jones walks us through the city that was a plague-infested charnel house during the Middle Ages, the bloody epicenter of the French Revolution, the ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Return of Martin Guerre

    de Natalie Zemon Davis ...
    The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse when, on a summer’s day in 1560, a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the continent. Told and retold over the centuries, the story of ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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  • The Streets of Paris

    A Guide to the City of Light Following in the Footsteps of Famous Parisians Throughout History

    de Susan Cahill, Marion Ranoux ...
    From the author of Hidden Gardens of Paris, The Streets of Paris is Susan Cahill's wonderfully unique guide to present-day Paris following in the footsteps of famous Parisians through the last 800 years.For hundreds of years, the City of Light has set the stage for larger-than-life characters—from medieval lovers Héloïse and Abelard to the defiant King Henri IV to the brilliant scientist Madame ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • A Traveller&Amp;Apos;S History Of Paris

    de Robert Cole ...
    Paris, in many people’s view, is the epitome of the perfect city – beautiful, romantic and imbued with vitality and culture. It is a wonderful place to visit and to live. A ‘pride of place’ mentality has characterised Parisians for centuries: ‘To be in Paris, is to be’ enthused an anonymous correspondent as early as 1323. Packed with fact, anecdote and insight, ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Architecture in Words

    Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture

    de Louise Pelletier ...
    What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? This was the assumption of generations of architects at the beginning of modernity.Exploring the role of theatre and fiction in defining character in architecture, Louise ... Leer más

    $115.99 USD

  • An Infinite History

    The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries

    de Emma Rothschild ...
    An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generationsMarie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764, she made her fleeting mark on the historical record through two documents: a power of ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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  • The Invention of Paris

    A History in Footsteps

    de Eric Hazan ...
    Traducido por David Fernbach ...
    The Invention of Paris is a tour through the streets and history of the French capital under the guidance of radical Parisian author and publisher Eric Hazan.Hazan reveals a city whose squares echo with the riots, rebellions and revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Combining the raconteur’s ear for a story with a historian’s command of the facts, he introduces an incomparable ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Information Master

    Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System

    de Jacob Soll ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    "Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry. More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively and persuasive book, Jake Soll has given us a third Colbert, the information manager."---Peter Burke, University of Cambridge"Jacob Soll gives us a road map drawn from the French state under Colbert. With a stunning ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Paris Fashion

    A Cultural History

    de Valerie Steele ...
    Paris has been the international capital of fashion for more than 300 years. Even before the rise of the haute couture, Parisians were notorious for their obsession with fashion, and foreigners eagerly followed their lead. From Charles Frederick Worth to Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent, fashion history is dominated by the names of Parisian couturiers. But Valerie ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD