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Taylor & Francis Ltd National Traditions in NineteenthCentury Opera
Book SynopsisThis volume covers opera in Italy, France, England and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914). The book is divided into four sections that are thematically, rather than geographically, conceived: Places-essays centering on contexts for operatic culture; Genres and Styles-studies dealing with the question of how operas in this period were put together; Critical Studies of individual works, exemplifying particular critical trends; and Performance.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Contexts: Some difficulties in the historiography of Italian opera, Fabrizio Della Seta; Metaphors for Meyerbeer, Cormac Newark; Italian romanticism and Italian opera: an essay in their affinities, Gary Tomlinson; Verismo: origin, corruption and redemption of an operatic term, Andreas Giger; Felice Romani, librettist by trade, Alessandro Roccatagliati; Frederick Gye and 'the dreadful business of opera management', Gabriella Dideriksen and Matthew Ringel; Opera audiences in Paris 1830-1870, Steven Huebner; Verdian opera burlesqued: a glimpse into mid-Victorian theatrical culture, Roberta Montemorra Marvin. Part II Composition and Analysis: History and works that have no history: reviving Rossini's Neapolitan operas, Philip Gossett; 'La solita forma and 'the uses of convention"', Harold S. Powers; A key for chi? Tonal areas in Puccini, Roger Parker and Allan W. Atlas; 'Tristan' in the composition of 'Pelléas', Carolyn Abbate. Part III Criticism: 'Dormez donc, mes chers amours': Hérold's La Somnambule (1827) and dream phenomena on the Parisian lyric stage, Sarah Hibberd; 'TB sheets': love and disease in La Traviata, Arthur Groos; Masked balls, Ralph Hexter; Return of the repressed: the prima donna from Hoffmann's Tales to Offenbach's Contes, Heather Hadlock; Smyth the anarchist: fin-de-siècle radicalism in The Wreckers, Suzanne B. Robinson. Part IV Performance: Knowing the score: Italian opera as work and play, Philip Gossett; Ornamenting Verdi's arias: the continuity of a tradition, David Lawton; 'La cantate delle passioni:' Giuditta Pasta and the idea of operatic performance, Susan B. Rutherford; The sea and the stars and the wastes of the desert, Roger Parker; Name Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd National Traditions in NineteenthCentury Opera Volume II
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Taylor & Francis Sculpture and the Garden
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Taylor & Francis Painting the Bible
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Historys Beauties
Book SynopsisThe ''beauties'' - women of note - who were welcomed to the National Portrait Gallery''s early collection were those whose lives and portraits were recognized as significant to the ''civil, ecclesiastical and literary history of the nation''. This brief was interpreted to include figures as diverse as the devout Lady Margaret Beaufort, and the entertaining Lady Emma Hamilton. History''s Beauties, the first detailed study of this collection, maps a culture of femininity that reframes the Victorian fascination with women''s domestic and sentimental presence by locating it within a Parliament-centred ''national'' culture. Including an essay on the Gallery''s Trustees, the book traces the translation of their governors'' culture to a public institution through discussions of three themes in the National Portrait Gallery''s collection of women''s portraits: portraits of the Royal family and the cult of legitimacy in antiquities and in national identity; the educated woman as model of domestTrade Review'Lara Perry's interdisciplinary approach weaves together in a complex pattern many ideas, topics, and strands of thought. ... This is a stimulating book, offering much to provoke further studies.’ Reviews in History ’... provides readers with a renewed glimpse into the relationship between gender and culture in the Victorian era.’ Victorian Studies ’... [a] fascinating and thoughtful book...’ Museum and Society ’... a refreshing addition to the literature of museum studies.’ The Art BookTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: The nation's beauties: women in the nineteenth-century museum; Women, the National, and the Portrait Gallery; Victoria and her predecessors; Sentimental histories; Beauty; The arts of women; Conclusion: The varieties of the public woman; Appendix 1: The trustees of the National Portrait Gallery; Appendix 2: List of women's portraits acquired by the National Portrait Gallery between 1856 and 1900; Notes; Bibliography, Index.
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Taylor & Francis Between Union and Liberation
Book SynopsisThe essays collected here investigate art made by women in South Africa between 1910, the year of Union, and 1994, the year of the first democratic election. During this period, complex political circumstances and the impact of modernism in South Africa affected the production of images and objects. The essays explore the ways in which the socio-political circumstances associated with twentieth-century modernity had a paradoxical impact on women. If some were empowered, others were disadvantaged: while some were able to further their social and cultural development and expression, the advancement of others was impeded. The contributors study the lives and achievements of women - named and un-named, black and white, and from different cultural groups and social contexts - and consider objects and images that are historically associated with both 'art' and 'craft'. In all the essays, gender theory is related to South African circumstances. The volume explores gender theory in relation tTrade Review'This is a remarkable celebration of the creative endeavours of women artists in south Africa from 1910 to 1994' Women's History Magazine ’Between Union and Liberation is an admirable book and fulfils its task competently within its specified parameters... it makes a constructive contribution to the discourse.’ De Art April 2006 ’This is an important book and its essays make significant contributions to the field of art history in South Africa. They bring forth new material and offer fresh insights into old material. Gathered here, they confront gender biases and sexism within art historical discourse and social practice. We can only benefit from such a book.’ H-New Book Review, Feb 06 ’Between Union and Liberation: Women Artists in South Africa 1910-1994 is a valuable book for several reasons...The book underscores tensions among people with similar skin colors, thus it counters the popular notion (troublingly prevalent outside of South Africa) that identity in the twentieth century was reduced to black and white.’ African ArtsTable of ContentsContents: Visual culture in context: the implications of Union and Liberation, Marion Arnold; Florence Phillips, patronage and the arts at the time of Union, Jillian Carman; European modernism and African domicile: women painters and the search for identity, Marion Arnold; Constance Stuart Larrabee's photographs of the Ndzundza Ndebele: performance and history beyond the modernist frame, Brenda Danilowitz; Art, gender ideology and Afrikaner nationalism - a case study, Liese van der Watt; Technologies and transformations: baskets, women and change in 20th-century KwaZulu-Natal, Nessa Leibhammer; Breaking the mould: women ceramists in KwaZulu-Natal, Wilma Cruise; On pins and needles: gender politics and embroidery projects before the first democratic election, Brenda Schmahmann; Narratives of migration in the works of Noria Mabasa and Mmakgabo Sebidi, Jacqueline Nolte; Representing regulation - rendering resistance: female bodies in the art of Penny Siopis, Brenda Schmahmann; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd ReOrienting AustraliaChina Relations
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ottoman Women Builders The Architectural Patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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Taylor & Francis The Music of Mauricio Kagel
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Taylor & Francis Brazilian Popular Music
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Taylor & Francis Articulating British Classicism
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Taylor & Francis Humans and Other Animals in EighteenthCentury British Culture Representation Hybridity Ethics
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Taylor & Francis Hawthorne Sculpture and the Question of American Art
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Taylor & Francis Ltd How Britain Got the Blues The Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style in the United Kingdom Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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Taylor & Francis Composing the Modern Subject Four String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Orientalism and Representations of Music in the NineteenthCentury British Popular Arts
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Redeeming Beauty Soundings in Sacral Aesthetics
Book SynopsisRedeeming Beauty explores the richness of orthodox Christian tradition, both Western and Eastern, in matters of ''sacral aesthetics'' - a term used to denote the foundations, production and experience of religiously relevant beauty. Aidan Nichols investigates five principal themes: the foundation of beauty in the natural order through divine creative action; explicitly ''evangelical'' beauty as a quality of biblical revelation and notably at its climax in Christ; the legitimacy of making and venerating artworks; qualities of the self in relation to objective presentation of the religiously beautiful; and the difficulties of practising a sacral aesthetic, whether as producer or consumer, in an epoch when the visual arts themselves have left behind not only Church but for the greater part the public as well. The thought of theologians such as Augustine, Aquinas, Balthasar, Ratzinger, Bulgakov, Maritain and others are explored.Trade Review’Nichols's essays raise many other questions that point, directly or indirectly, to the most significant issues in discussion in contemporary theological aesthetics. For this reason, as well as for its historical surveys, the book is of great value for scholars interested in the interrelationships between God, religion, beauty, and the arts.’ Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies ’Redeeming Beauty is a fine addition to a very welcome series... adds to the growing number of recent volumes that emphasize the importance of the visual arts for the disciplines of theology and biblical studies...’ TheologyTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Part 1 Foundations, in Creation and Grace: Aesthetics in Augustine and Aquinas; The origin and crisis of Christian art. Part 2 Twentieth Century Theologians of the Image: Hans Urs von Balthasar on art as redemptive beauty; Sergei Bulgakov on the art of the icon; Pope Benedict XVI on holy images. Part 3 The Difficulties of Practice: The French Dominicans and the journal L’Art Sacré; The English uses of Maritain’s aesthetics: Eric Gill and David Jones. Conclusion: Christ and the muses; Index of names.
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Taylor & Francis The Printed Image in Early Modern London
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dress and Identity in British Literary Culture 18701914
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shbahoth Songs of Praise in the Babylonian Jewish Tradition From Baghdad to Bombay and London SOAS Studies in Music
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Taylor & Francis Art and Communication in the Reign of Henry VIII
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Taylor & Francis Louis H. Sullivan and a 19thCentury Poetics of Naturalized Architecture
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Taylor & Francis Glass Exchange between Europe and China 15501800
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Taylor & Francis The Turk and Islam in the Western Eye 1450â1750
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Taylor & Francis The Defence of Tradition in Brazilian Popular Music Politics Culture and the Creation of Msica Popular Brasileira Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Marriage Performance and Politics at the Jacobean Court Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
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Taylor & Francis Cultural Seeds Essays on the Work of Nick Cave
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Framing Childhood in EighteenthCentury English Periodicals and Prints 16891789 5 Studies in Childhood 1700 to the Present
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Old Age Masculinity and Early Modern Drama
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Taylor & Francis Paradosiak Music Meaning and Identity in Modern Greece SOAS Studies in Music
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Taylor & Francis Samuel Palmer Revisited
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Taylor & Francis Staging Pain 15801800 Violence and Trauma in British Theater
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Popular Music and Human Rights
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mark E. Smith and The Fall
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Popular Music And Television In Britain Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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Taylor & Francis Mark E. Smith and The Fall Art Music and Politics
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Taylor & Francis Prince The Making of a Pop Music Phenomenon Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Redefining Gender in American Impressionist
Book SynopsisWere late nineteenth-century gender boundaries as restrictive as is generally held? In Redefining Gender in American Impressionist Studio Paintings: Work Place/Domestic Space, Kirstin Ringelberg argues that it is time to bring the current re-evaluation of the notion of separate spheres to these images. Focusing on studio paintings by American artists William Merritt Chase and Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low, she explores how the home-based painting studio existed outside of entrenched gendered divisions of public and private space and argues that representations of these studios are at odds with standard perceptions of the images, their creators, and the concept of gender in the nineteenth century. Unlike most of their bourgeois contemporaries, Gilded Age artists, whether male or female, often melded the worlds of work and home. Through analysis of both paintings and literature of the time, Ringelberg reveals how art history continues to support a false dichotomy; that, in fact, paintiTrade Review'Kirstin Ringelberg combines critical theory, artist biography, and close analysis in an intellectually engaging manner to bring an understudied topic to art-historical attention. In this important book, she asks us to rethink the standard view of Gilded Age art and consider that male as well as female professional artists of the period were compelled to navigate slippery gender boundaries in their search for critical and popular esteem.' David Lubin, Wake Forest University, USATable of ContentsContents: Introduction: the studio, the domestic interior and the ideology of separate spheres; Working men and leisurely ladies: tropes of gender and the artist's studio in the late 19th century; 'The prince of the atelier': negotiating effeminacy in A Friendly Call by William Merritt Chase; 'The painter will not sink into the mother': Mary Fairchild's nursery/studio; Rendering invisible by display: representations of late 19th-century American women; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Walsingham in Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to Modernity
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Taylor & Francis Cultural Exchange in SeventeenthCentury France and England
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England
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Taylor & Francis The Life Music and Thought of Woody Guthrie
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Opera Indigene Representing First Nations and Indigenous Cultures Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Books Buildings and Social Engineering Early Public Libraries in Britain from Past to Present
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Taylor & Francis Ltd More than an Ally
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mortality Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the IndoPacific
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