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Book SynopsisBlack Models and White Myths examines the racial assumptions behind representations of Africans that emphasized the contrast between civilization and savagery and the development of so-called scientific and ethnographic racism. These works often depicted Africans' allegedly natural behavior as a counterpoint to inhibited European conduct.Trade ReviewA fascinating story of the changing image of Africa’s people in Western art. The images are simply extraordinary and the scholarship inspiring. Anyone who cares about Western art or about Africa and her diaspora ought to know these magnificent volumes. -- Kwame Anthony AppiahIn addition to being an indispensable guide to the evolving meanings of racial difference, these dazzling volumes filled with extraordinary images and rich arguments contribute to an alternative history of the Western world. An invaluable gift for both specialists and general readers. -- Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double ConsciousnessThe Image of the Black in Western Art [is] a truly epic project… The series, scheduled for completion in 2014, is, so far, as eye-opening to view as it is to read and, one volume at a time, could be the answer to gift gifting for several years to come. -- Holland Cotter * New York Times *

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Book SynopsisEurope and the World Beyond focuses geographically on peoples of South America and the Mediterranean as well as Africa, but conceptually it emphasizes the ways that visual constructions of blacks mediated between Europe and a faraway African continent that was impinging ever more closely on daily life in cities and ports engaged in the slave trade.Trade ReviewThis volume, part of a monumental series about the depiction of black peoples in Western art history, covers the period from the Renaissance and Baroque eras into the imperialism and colonialism of the 18th century… The volume is richly illustrated with artworks from many sources in a wide variety of media… This volume and the rest of the series has inestimable value in furthering understanding of how attitudes toward issues of race have evolved. -- Eugene C. Burt * Library Journal (starred review) *Inspired to collect images of Africans and the diaspora during the height of the Civil Rights movement, Dominique Schlumberger de Menil and her husband John amassed over 30,000 images as an artistic and academic counter against racism. These images were sorted, studied, and grouped into a series of volumes originally published in the late 1970s and early 1980s; long out of print, they are now beautifully reproduced along with additional color plates and scholarly commentary. This edition focuses on the depictions of blacks during the 16th–18th centuries. Due to Eurocentric attitudes of the time, few works depict black individuals; rather, people of African descent were often studied at an anthropological level and commonly depicted as pages, slaves, or servants. Though the series has rightfully become embraced by academia, even armchair historians will find the book to be a feast of information and commentary. Digressions on the black Magus and the debate about the race of Madonna and Jesus are fascinating, but it is the breathtaking collection of artwork that makes the greatest impact. The rich and varied array, printed on high-quality paper, must be seen to be fully appreciated. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *Monumental and groundbreaking volumes…[with] beautifully reproduced and thought-provoking images… A vast array of different ‘Images of the Black’ appear in these volumes, from statues of black saints such as St. Maurice or St. Benedict the Moor, to portraits of notable African ambassadors and kings, poets and musicians, or drawings of literary characters such as Shakespeare’s Othello, Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, or Yarico from George Colman’s Inkle and Yarico… Africans have been painted and sculpted by some of the most eminent artists in the Western tradition, including Titian, Tiepolo, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Reynolds, Hogarth, Watteau and Gainsborough. More importantly, they have not been caricatured, but sensitively portrayed by these masters, their humanity captured on canvas for all to see… In placing such a vast variety of different images together, both positive and negative, these volumes show that the ‘Image of the Black’ was not at all homogenous but rather reflected the wide range of the Western response to the ‘other.’ …Seen through the prism of ‘Western Art,’ these ‘Images of the Black’ often tell us more about the Europeans and their agendas than the Africans they portray. Nonetheless, the cumulative effect of the images is to demonstrate a continuous black presence in the Western imagination and experience… This series will pose new questions to scholars of art, history and literature and provoke us all to reconsider the role of ‘the Black’ in Western civilization. -- Miranda Kaufmann * Times Literary Supplement *A fascinating story of the changing image of Africa’s people in Western art. The images are simply extraordinary and the scholarship inspiring. Anyone who cares about Western art or about Africa and her diaspora ought to know these magnificent volumes. -- Kwame Anthony AppiahIn addition to being an indispensable guide to the evolving meanings of racial difference, these dazzling volumes filled with extraordinary images and rich arguments contribute to an alternative history of the Western world. An invaluable gift for both specialists and general readers. -- Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness

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Book SynopsisMiryam Sas explores the theoretical and cultural implications of Japanese experimental arts in a range of media, casting light on important moments in the arts from the 1960s to the early 1980s. This book also locates Japanese experimental arts in an extensive, sustained dialogue with key issues of contemporary critical theory.

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Book SynopsisThis is the classic introduction to Chinese calligraphy. In nine richly illustrated chapters Chang explores the aesthetics and the technique of this art in which rhythm, line, and structure are perfectly embodied.Trade ReviewA splendid book in which the plates alone would make a valuable acquisition… Chiang is the confident master, writing in a manner that is both businesslike and imaginative. * The Times *Table of ContentsPreface, by Sir Herbert Read Author's Note I. Introduction II. The Origin and Construction of Chinese Characters III. The Styles IV. The Abstract Beauty of Chinese Calligraphy V. Technique VI. The Strokes VII. Composition VIII. Training IX. The Relations Between Calligraphy and Other Forms of Chinese Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJames Cahill explores the radiant painting of that tumultuous era when the collapse of the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu conquest of China dramatically changed the lives and thinking of artists and intellectuals. Over 250 illustrations, including 12 color plates, are drawn from collections in the United States, Europe, Japan, and China.Trade ReviewA book of immense breadth… With its profundity and richness…this book is one no serious student of Chinese art can afford to be without. -- Ellen Johnston Laing * Ars Orientalis *A generously illustrated book, extraordinarily rich in insights, ideas, and information… Cahill throws light on individuals and specific issues, bringing out the diversity of what he portrays as an intensely experimental, ‘self-conscious’ age of Chinese painting… Perhaps the single most important contribution to the book is Cahill’s demonstration of western influence on Chinese painting from the beginning of the seventeenth century… His analysis of this question, and of many others, opens new doors for the field, which will never truly be the same. -- Susan E. Nelson * Journal of Asian History *Among the most important works on later Chinese painting to appear in any Western language. -- Thomas Lawton, Director, Freer GalleryThe book gives compelling lessons on what to see, where to look, and how to infer ideas and meaning through pictorial form and techniques… For breaking new grounds in the study of Chinese paintings, for teaching us how to look, and for bringing issues of Chinese art into the wider perspective of art history, we award the 1982 Charles Rufus Morey Award for the best art history book of the year to James Cahill’s The Compelling Image. -- Citation presented by the College Art Association of America

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Book SynopsisThe Harvard University Art Museums hold one of the world's finest collections of early 19th-century drawings; the nearly 500 works reproduced heremany published for the first timeinclude the most significant groups of drawings outside France by the masters of the age: David, Gericault, Ingres, Delacroix, and Prud'hon.Trade ReviewThe Fogg’s holdings of early 19th-century French drawings are a near embarrassment of riches. Along with the Ingres, the Fogg owns the most significant groups of drawings of David, Gericault, Delacroix and Prud’hon outside of France...‘David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum’ also celebrates the publication of a major catalog of the same name. Thirty years in the making, it is the grand effort of the legendary curator of drawings and former director of the Fogg, Agnes Mongan...[A] landmark. -- Nancy Stapen * Boston Globe *[A] masterful piece of scholarship...Author Agnes Mongan and a host of contributing scholars assembled this catalog over the course of decades, creating a work whose text offers as much to the historian and biographer as its handsome plates do to fanciers of draftsmanship. For those who can't travel to Boston to visit this superb collection, Mongan has created a portable resource...whose first-rate illustrations capture the nuances of touch that are so much the appeal of drawing for connoisseurs. More than 300 drawings are illustrated in black and white, including works by such major figures as Delacroix, Gericault and Ingres...To see them all reproduced in this catalog is a bit like peeking over the artist's shoulder as he sketched. -- Chris Waddington * Lagniappe *[Mongan’s] catalog includes a detailed, interesting, and scholarly text, which accompanies the reproduction of each drawing. The provenance is included for each drawing, as well as an extensive bibliography of books and an appendix of historically relevant exhibitions. The book provides a wonderful visit to the Fogg’s internationally renowned collection of these 19th-century French drawings. * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword by James Cuno Preface Note to the Catalogue CATALOGUE Appendix A. The Leclere and Percier-Fontaine Albums Appendix B. Drawings Aquired since 1979 Bibliography Exhibitions

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPious Fashion is a look at contemporary dress and how it can help us see the ‘Muslim community’ as a vast array of individuals rather than an inscrutable monolith… Bucar disabuses readers of any preconceived ideas that women who adhere to an aesthetic of modesty are unfashionable or frumpy. -- Robin Givhan * Washington Post *I defy anyone not to be beguiled by [Bucar's] generous-hearted yet penetrating observation of pious fashion in Indonesia, Turkey and Iran…Outlining how young Muslim women in Tehran, Yogyakarta and Istanbul shape urban cultures of modest dress, Bucar uses interviews with consumers, designers, retailers and journalists alongside ethnographic vignettes of outfits to examine the presumptions that modest dressing can’t be fashionable, and fashion can’t be faithful. -- Reina Lewis * Times Higher Education *The brilliance of Bucar’s book is that she goes beyond the hijab, showing how seamlessly (pun unintended) an entire outfit can carry multiple resonances, simultaneously revealing truths about piety, the body, gender, and politics. She shows how women’s sartorial choices within Islamic norms—and their interpretations of those choices—reflect and shape the values of a faith tradition, create spaces for agency and judgment, indicate or obscure economic status, secure or foreclose access to political power, and allow for individual expression…She blends history, anthropology, personal experience, interviews, and stunning photographs from fashion blogs to present a vivid cross-cultural picture of the complex relationship between clothing, faith, and beauty. -- Elizabeth Palmer * Christian Century *In Pious Fashion Elizabeth Bucar adds her voice to a growing body of literature that seeks to move beyond simplistic and polemical arguments for or against ‘the veil’ towards an exploration of the complex and thriving world of Islamic fashion…[Pious Fashion] manages to be informative, ethnographically rich and highly readable, and to those unfamiliar with the topic, it provides an engaging introduction…[Bucar] brings out both the sensuality and pleasure of sartorial experimentation and also its politics. -- Emma Tarlo * Times Literary Supplement *[Bucar] comes across as warm, engaging and funny. The women she studies trust her and she has an eye for minute details: the book is packed with them, and this is where Bucar comes into her own. Amid the descriptions of fabrics, colors and styles, she really gets under the skin of how [Muslim] women like to dress…There are fascinating insights too. -- Ramita Navai * Literary Review *[A] persuasive case for taking fashion seriously in religious studies…An ethnographic project vast in scope as it introduces the diversity and complexity of pious fashion among Muslim women…Bucar’s expansive understanding of piety is helpful as she applies it to nationalism, cultural fidelity, religious sincerity, and class as the means and expertise to participate in aesthetic-making activities. -- Jeanine Viau * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *At a time when Muslim women’s clothing is discussed in terms of freedom, oppression, and piety, Bucar…explains that modest clothing in Muslim cultures means much more than religious authority and social conformity…Bucar reveals an underexplored segment of the fashion industry and excellently exhibits the ways in which Muslim women engage with their faith and the world of fashion by choosing head coverings, clothing, and accessories that are both reverent and in vogue. Featuring street style photos of fashionable women, this book adds some much-needed frills to debates surrounding the hijab. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *A smart, eye-opening guide to the creative sartorial practices of young Muslim women who live in Tehran, Istanbul, and Yogyakarta. Bucar’s lively narrative illuminates fashion choices, moral aspirations, and social struggles that will unsettle those who prefer to stereotype rather than inform themselves about women’s everyday lives in the fast-changing, diverse, and historically specific societies that constitute the Muslim world. -- Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Do Muslim Women Need Saving?Islamic dress is in the news. Either as a symbol of female oppression or as a new, colorful statement on the global fashion stage, Islamic dress can be misunderstood because it seems singular and monolithic. This book offers first-person observations from the stores and streets of three cities in Muslim-majority countries. Through vivid descriptions of styles and shoppers, readers realize that Muslim women dress in as many varied ways as non-Muslim women do. -- Carla Jones, University of Colorado Boulder[Bucar] argues in this fascinating read that pious fashion is much more than modest dress standards imposed on women. It is a way that Muslim women claim their identity and express their faith in a world that is rapidly westernizing. * WATER: Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual *It's thrilling to learn of the often extraordinarily complex meanings accompanying different varieties of dress…Truly an eye-opening book. -- Megan Volpert * PopMatters *Throughout this informative addition to literature about Muslim women, the author reminds her readers that hijab—as worn on the head or other parts of a woman’s body or called by another name—is open to limitless interpretations and is bound by meanings that are socially constructed and sufficiently fluid for further evolution. -- Debra Majeed * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *

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Book SynopsisAdam Kern offers a close reading of the vibrant popular imagination through kibyoshi, a genre of sophisticated pictorial fiction from late-eighteenth-century Japan. Illustrated with rare prints from Japanese archival collections, these entertaining works will appeal to the general reader as well as to the student of Japanese cultural history.Trade ReviewManga from the Floating World is a treasure trove of cultural tidbits… Kern’s love of his subject is infectious; how many scholarly books can be described as a joy to read? Mirroring the contradictions embodied in his beloved kibyoshi, Kern’s seemingly effortless, flowing prose belies a Mount Fuji of thoughtfulness, planning, imagination and erudition. He writes, as was once said of Raymond Chandler, like a slumming angel—but much more engagingly. His prodigious command of sources and generosity in crediting ideas are exemplary. His deft deployment of literary and cultural theory is as masterful as it is discreet. The book generates broad questions that resonate in the reader’s mind: How does humor ‘work’? What is the social role of the bestseller? What kinds of things do urban myths really tell us? How does the concept of au courant embody the seeds of its own demise? Why do people read? Some twenty years ago I asked Henry Smith why no one tried to do for Edo what Robert Darnton accomplished for eighteenth-century France in his classic The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History: giving readers the gift of mental time travel. The answer was that the Japanese material is nearly impossible for any single person to retrieve on that scale. Manga from the Floating World demonstrates that scholarship has advanced to the point that this now is possible. Kern’s book rivals Darnton’s. As one of Enjiro’s savvy cronies might have said to the author: ‘Arigatayama!’ -- Melinda Takeuchi * Impressions *The present volume is a brilliant introduction to the world of kibyoshi. Taking account of very different aspects of Edo’s literary and cultural life, Kern provides a fascinating view of a long-disregarded form of Edo literature. -- Stephan Kohn * Monumenta Nipponica *Adam L. Kern’s stylish study demonstrates clearly the lack of any ongoing tradition: the kibyoshi were forgotten until the modern Japanese comics industry, accused of slavish imitation of America, needed to provide itself with roots, or at least with distant, childless cousins. -- Roz Kaveney * Times Literary Supplement *An indispensable text in the fields of manga studies and the history of early modern Japanese popular culture…Kern’s work stands the test of time and amply illustrates his contention that, despite not having given rise to manga, the kibyôshi ‘offers a similarly informative, visually compelling, and perhaps even an ultimately meaningful glimpse into one of the world’s most fascinating civilizations during one of that civilization’s greatest cultural efflorescences.’ Students and scholars of manga studies, comics studies, and Japanese history will find much to reward them. -- Andrea Horbinski * Journal of Anime and Manga Studies *

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Book SynopsisChinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting chronicles the life of a modern art form. In the late 1910s Chinese painters began working outdoors. They also adopted linear perspective and Cartesian optics. Yi Gu reflects on the complex interaction of local and Western aesthetics within the new form and on the nature of visual modernity in China.Trade ReviewYi Gu not only provides an innovative perspective from which to reflect on complicated interactions of the global and local in China, but also calls for rethinking the nature of Chinese visual modernity…After reading Yi Gu’s book…we have a clearer and fresher view of open-air paintings in China and how they have reflected social, political, and cultural changes from the very beginning of open-air painting since 1910. -- Xiaoxiao Li * Chinese Historical Review *[A] penetrating study of 20th-century Chinese landscape painting. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisChinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting chronicles the life of a modern art form. In the late 1910s Chinese painters began working outdoors. They also adopted linear perspective and Cartesian optics. Yi Gu reflects on the complex interaction of local and Western aesthetics within the new form and on the nature of visual modernity in China.Trade ReviewYi Gu not only provides an innovative perspective from which to reflect on complicated interactions of the global and local in China, but also calls for rethinking the nature of Chinese visual modernity…After reading Yi Gu’s book…we have a clearer and fresher view of open-air paintings in China and how they have reflected social, political, and cultural changes from the very beginning of open-air painting since 1910. -- Xiaoxiao Li * Chinese Historical Review *[A] penetrating study of 20th-century Chinese landscape painting. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisBernard Berenson: Formation and Heritage explores the intellectual world of Berenson (1865–1959), who put the connoisseurship of Renaissance art on a firm footing at the turn of the twentieth century. Essays explore his relationships with various cultural figures including William James, Jean Paul Richter, Katherine Dunham, and many others.Trade ReviewIn the past fifty years, Villa I Tatti has become a powerhouse of scholarly production on all aspects of Renaissance studies, and Bernard Berenson: Formation and Heritage celebrates this achievement by examining the founder’s intellectual achievements. Thoughtfully edited by Joseph Connors and Louis Waldman, the book stems from a conference held at I Tatti in 2009, and the range of papers published here is a testimony to the enduring fascination with Berenson. -- Bruce Boucher * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisThe publication of Portraits of John Quincy Adams and His Wife makes available a record which both affords unique visual documentation of the most varied political career in American history and exemplifies the work of the principal American portraitists from the days of Copley and Stuart to the dawn of the Daguerrean era. Included in the volume's 159 illustrations are all the known life portraits, busts, and silhouettes of John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams, along with important replicas, copies, engravings, and representative likenesses of their siblings. The book is organized into seven chapters which generally coincide with the major divisions of John Quincy Adams' political career. Within each chapter are discussed the artists, their relationships with the Adams's, and the provenance of each of their works. A comprehensive chronology of John Quincy Adams' life for each period accompanies the chapter to which it pertains. All important information about the size of each likeness, the inscriptions if any, the date executed, and present ownership where known is summarized in the List of Illustrations. The Adams's, as they watched themselves age over the years in the marble, ink, or oil of the artists who portrayed them, recorded much by way of commentary on the artistic talent and process at hand. Andrew Oliver, in his detailed and lively discussions of each likeness, makes full use of the diaries and correspondence preserved in the Adams Papers, thus combining a learned appreciation with an intimate glimpse of Adams's as they saw themselves. The volume continues the record of Adams family portraiture begun with Portraits of John and Abigail Adams. The two volumes together constitute Series IV of the distinguished Adams Papers publications.

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Book SynopsisThis catalogue documents the exhibition Art of Jazz, a collaborative installation at the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art and Harvard Art Museums. The book explores the intersection of the visual arts and jazz music, and presents a visual feast of full color plates of artworks, preceded by a series of essays.

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Book SynopsisHarlem: Found Ways burnishes Harlem's luster but never attempts to smooth its rough edges. Multimedia works explore the invention of Harlem, and reinvent it. Vibrantly illustrated, the catalog features essays on the uniquely layered urban landscape and is an important resource for students of contemporary African American art and the city.

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Book SynopsisA biography of Vermeer, one of the greatest painters of the seventeenth century. It presents a social history of the colorful extended family to which he belonged and of the town life of the period. It focuses on the relationship of Vermeer to his principal patron.Trade Review"[With Montias] the past is hard put to hide what were in all truth its secrets... One will read Vermeer and His Milieu several times, as [Montias] has read the archives; he is an indispensable companion for anyone who likes the seventeenth century."--Lawrence Gowing, The [London] Times Literary Supplement "What if 454 documents related to Vermeer and his family were lying, long undisturbed, in the archives of no fewer than 17 Dutch and Belgian cities? And what if someone were to transcribe and translate every one of them? Wouldn't we want to know all about it? Of course we would, and now that we have John Michael Montias' new book, Vermeer and His Milieu, we can see how right we are... As detective work, and as a portrait of an era, [this book] ranks high."--New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisIn this study, originally published in Norway as Fra Principat Til Dominat, Professor L'Orange sets down the essence of his thought on the crucial period of transition from decentralization to standardization in civic and cultural life-a period not unlike our own.Trade Review"This slim volume presents an admirably succinct analysis of one of the great turning points in Western art and civilization."--Art Bulletin "L'Orange has distilled for the non-specialist reader's benefit the essence of those important studies of late-antique art, and the ideologies informing it, for which he has long been famed."--Classical Review

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Book SynopsisIncorporates the additions and corrections recorded by Erwin Panofsky until the time of his death in 1968.Trade Review"Dr. Panofsky is to be congratulated on producing, for the first time in any modern language, the whole of Suger's writing on St.-Denis, an unparalleled historical, archaeological, and ecclesiological text, and one of the world's literary treasures, a central pillar of the twelfth-century renaissance... This is a work of first-class importance, and destined to remain the standard edition for a long time to come."--The Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsPREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION vii PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION xi LIST OF FIGURES xvi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xvii INTRODUCTION 1 TEXT AND TRANSLATIONS 39 LIBER DE REBUS IN ADMINISTRATIONE SUA GESTIS 40 LIBELLUS ALTER DE CONSECRATIONE ECCLEA SANCTI DIONYSII 82 ORDINATO A.D. MCXL VEL MCXLI CONFIRMATA 122 COMMENTARY 139 PRELIMINARY REMARKS THE TEXTS; DATES; TRANSMISSION, AND READINGS 141 PERSONS AND PLACES; UNITS OF WEIGHT AND CURRENCY 146 AUTHOR'S NOTE 146 COMMENTARY UPON THE "LIBER REBUS IN ADMINISTRATION SUA GESTIS" 147 COMMENTARY UPON THE "LIBEELLUS ALTER DE CONSECRATIONE ECCLESIAE SANCTI DIONYSII" 224 COMMENTARY UPON THE "ORDINATIO" OF 1140 OR 1141 251 GLOSSARY 260 BIBLIOGRAPHIC ABBREVIATIONS 262 ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY SINCE 1945 264 INDEX 277 ILLUSTRATIONS 285

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"As a work which condenses the essence of many heavy volumes and of years of specialized research within a few pages, readable and accurate, scholarly and charming, Religious Art is, to this reviewer's mind, a unique achievement, such as perhaps only French scholarship could have produced... There is a mellowness and wisdom in this book which demonstrate impressively what art history could mean to the general public were works such as this one more frequent."--Otto von Simson, Commonweal

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Book SynopsisPicasso's extraordinary capacity to work in a variety of mediums and styles amazed his critics since the first years of the century. This collection of critical and personal reactions to Picasso provides an account of the many innovations and changes of direction that baffled his contemporaries. It also reveals his working methods and attitudes.Trade Review"The hundred or so brief documents collected here, dating back to 1900, are a kind of Richter-scale recording of Picasso's impact on this century."--The New Yorker "Sheds light not only on Picasso, but also on those others--Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, and Salvador Dali--who interpreted and influenced the master's art."--The Wilson QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction I. The early years Jaime Sabartes (1897) On Science and Charity Manuel Rodriguez Codola 1900 Els IV Gats: Ruiz Picazzo Exhibition Sebastia Trullol i Plana 1900 Picasso at Els Quatre Gats Unidentified visitor 1900 Picasso at Els Quatre Gats Charles Ponsonailhe 1900 Derniers Moments at the Paris Exposition Carles Casagemas 1900 Letter from Paris (25 October) to Ramon Reventos Pablo Picasso Carles Casagemas 1900 Letter from Paris (11 November) to Ramon Reventos Miquel Utrillo 1901 On Arte Joven Pablo Picasso 1901 Letter from Madrid to Miquel Utrillo Gustave Coquiot 1901 Review of the exhibition at Vollard's gallery, Paris Pere Coll 1901 Review of the exhibition at Vollard's gallery, Paris Pablo Picasso 1901 Letter from Paris (13 July) to Vidal Ventosa Max Jacob (1901) Meeting Picasso in Paris Pablo Picasso 1902 Letter from Barcelona (13 July) to Max Jacob Pablo Picasso 1903 Letter from Barcelona to Max Jacob El Liberal 1903 On La Vie Carlos Juner-Vidal 1904 Picasso and his work 2. Picasso moves to Paris and the development of Cubism Fernande Olivier (1904) Picasso at the 'Bateau-Lavoir' Pablo Picasso 1905 Letter from Paris (22 February) to Jacinto Reventos Guillaume Apollinaire 1905 The Young: Picasso, Painter Jaume Pasarell (1905) Picasso in Tiana Max Jacob (1905-7) Picasso, Apollinaire, Salmon and Jacob Andre Salmon (1907) On Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1907) On Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Fernande Olivier (1908) The banquet for Douanier Rousseau Gertrude Stein (1908) The banquet for Douanier Rousseau Andre Salmon (1908) Response to Gertrude Stein Georges Braque (1908-10) Response to Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein (1909) Concerning Cubism Fernande Olivier 1910 Letter from Paris (17 June) to Gertrude Stein Josep Pla (1910) Manolo on Cubism Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1910) On Cubism Gino Severini (1912) On Souvenirs du Havre Guillaume Apollinaire 1913 Picasso, Cubist painter 3. Picasso's critical reputation outside France Roger Fry 1910 The Post-Impressionists: Picasso Arthur Hoeber 1911 Review of Photo-Secession exhibition, New York The Craftsman 1911 Review of Photo-Secession exhibition, New York Huntly Carter 1911 The Plato-Picasso Idea John Middleton Murry 1911 The Art of Pablo Picasso The Art Chronicle 1912 Review of Stafford Gallery exhibition, London Roger Fry 1912 The Second Post-Impressionist exhibition Ramon Reventos 1912 Review of Ca'n Dalmau exhibition, Barcelona Josep Junoy 1912 Picasso's Art Max Pechstein 1912 What is Picasso up to? Max Raphael 1912 Open Letter to Herr Pechstein Ludwig Coellen 1912 Romanticism in Picasso Heinrich Thannhauser 1913 Moderne Galerie exhibition, Munich M. K. Rohe 1913 Review of Moderne Galerie exhibition, Munich Wilhelm Bode 1913 The new art of Futurists and Cubists Hans Arp L. H. Neitzel 1913 The Cubists 4. The war years Georgy Chulkov 1914 Picasso's demons Yakov Tugendhold 1914 Picassos in the Shchukin collection Nikolay Berdyaev 1914 Picasso Ivan Aksenov (1915) Picasso's painting Jean Cocteau (1917) Picasso in Rome Enrico Prampolini (1917) Picasso in Rome Axel Salto (1916) Visiting Picasso in Paris Joan Miro (1919) Visiting Picasso in Paris Guillaume Apollinaire 1917 Calligram Guillaume Apollinaire 1918 Preface to Matisse-Picasso exhibition, Paris Guillaume Apollinaire 1918 Letter (late summer) to Picasso Guillaume Apollinaire 1918 Letter (4 September) to Picasso Roger Allard 1919 Picasso's latest paintings 5. The twenties Andre Salmon 1920 Picasso Clive Bell 1920 Picasso as an intellectual artist Vauvrecy (Amedee Ozenfant) 1921 Picasso's language Vaclav Nebesky 1921 The nature of space in Picasso's work Vicenc Kramar 1922 Manes Gallery exhibition, Prague Vladimir Mayakovsky 1922 Picasso's studio Picasso 1923-4 Statement about art Andre Breton 1925 Picasso and Surrealism Josep Llorens Artigas 1925 Pau Ruiz Picasso Georgy Yakulov 1926 Picasso Oskar Schurer 1926 Picasso's classicism E. Teriade 1927 Picasso's quest Carl Einstein 1928 Picasso: the last decade Sebastia Gasch 1928 Picasso Max J. Friedlander 1929 On style and manner Andre Schaeffner 1930 The man with the clarinet Leon Pierre-Quint 1930 Doubt and revelation in the work of Picasso 6. The thirties Waldemar George 1931 Picasso's 50th birthday and the death of still life Carl G. Jung 1932 Picasso Will Grohmann 1932 Dialectic and transcendence in Picasso's work Carles Capdevila 1934 Picasso at the Barcelona Museum Salvador Dali 1935 Invitation to the Picasso exhibition, Barcelona Juli Gonzalez 1935 From Paris Paul Eluard 1935 I speak of what is right Andre Breton 1935 Picasso poet Eugeni d'Ors 1936 Open letter to Picasso Christian Zervos 1937 On Guernica Jose Bergamin 1937 The Mystery Trembles: Picasso Furioso Herbert Read 1938 Picasso's Guernica Roland Penrose (1937) The Woman Weeping Andre Lhote 1939 Picasso's reputation 7. World War II and after Wyndham Lewis 1940 On Guernica Jaime Sabartes (1939) A new portrait Brassai (1939) On Sabartes' portrait Harriet Sidney Janis (1942) On Dora Maar's portrait Brassai (1943) Conversations with Picasso Georges Limbour 1944 Picasso at the Autumn Salon Harriet Sidney Janis (1944) Picasso's studio John Pudney 1944 Picasso -- A Glimpse in Sunlight Jerome Seckler 1945 Picasso Explains Francoise Gilot (1946) On La Femme Fleur Tristan Tzara 1947-8 Picasso and the knowledge of space Rene Gaffe 1947-8 Picasso a sculptor? Willy Boers 1947-8 Lithographs by Picasso Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1948) Talking to Picasso Francoise Gilot (1949) Aragon and the Dove Ilya Ehrenburg (1948-56) Picasso and peace Andre Breton 1961 80 carats... with a single flaw Maurice Raynal 1952 Picasso's revelation 8. The last twenty years Rosamond Bernier 1955 Picasso on Altdorfer Helene Parmelin (1955) Concerning Lola de Valence Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1955) Conversations about the Femmes d'Alger Michel Leiris 1959 Picasso and Las Meninas by Velazquez Lionel Prejger 1961 Picasso cuts out iron Georges Sadoul 1961 Picasso as a film-director Roland Penrose (1963) A monument for Chicago Roland Penrose 1968 Some recent drawings by Picasso Roberto Otero (1968) On Suite 347 Brassai 1971 The master at 90 Pierre Daix 1973 The last exhibition at Avignon Brassai Edouard Pignon Picasso on death Postscript John Richardson 1980 Picasso: a retrospective view Abbreviations Index

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Book SynopsisBela Bartok, who died in New York, is one of the most frequently performed twentieth-century composers. He is also the subject of a growing critical and analytical literature. Divided into three parts, this volume aims to provide insights into the life and reception of this musician, especially in Hungary.Trade Review"Adds important material to the slim library of English-language studies of Bartok's achievements."--The New York TimesTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsOut of Hungary: Bartok, Modernism, and the Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Music3Why Is a Bartok Thematic Catalog Sorely Needed?64The Gallows and the Altar: Poetic Criticism and Critical Poetry about Bartok in Hungary79Bartok's Reception in America, 1940-1945101Bluebeard as Theater: The Influence of Maeterlinck and Hebbel on Balazs's Bluebeard Drama119The Miraculous Mandarin: Melchior Lengyel, His Pantomime, and His Connections to Bela Bartok149Bartok and Stravinsky: Respect, Competition, Influence, and the Hungarian Reaction to Modernism in the 1920s172Travel Reports from Three Continents: A Selection of Letters from Bela Bartok203Bela Bartok: An Interview by Dezso Kosztolanyi228A Conversation with Bela Bartok235Recollections of Bela Bartok243A Change in Style276Bartok's Third String Quartet278Bartok's Foreign Tour282Two Bartok Obituaries290A Selection of Poems Inspired by Bela Bartok296Index of Names and Compositions307List of Contributors313

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Book SynopsisExplores musical, social, and religious implications of Bach's treatment of eighteenth-century musical hierarchies. This book argues that the Brandenburg Concertos are better understood not as an arbitrary collection of unrelated examples of "pure" instrumental music, but rather as a carefully compiled and meaningfully organized set.Trade Review"The field of Bach studies has been greatly enriched by the appearance of [this book]... [It] is full of significant insights into the nature of the [Brandenburg Concertos]... [It] offers a fascinatingly fresh approach to these masterworks."--F. Ellsworth Peterson, Notes "For anyone who is interested in exploring the remarkably rewarding challenge Bach lays down for the human family, this is a careful, helpful, plausible, and perceptive analysis."--Paul Westermeyer, Church History "Full of important and closely argued discussions of individual aspects of chronology, source criticism, musical structure, and [Bach's] biographical background... [Marissen] is very informative on analytical and historical points, effectively demolishing many received beliefs, especially regarding chronology and source filiation."--Michael Talbot, Music and LettersTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Bach's Musical Contexts3Ch. 1Relationships between Scoring and Structure in Individual Concertos11The First Brandenburg Concerto16The First Movement of the Sixth Brandenburg Concerto35The Fourth Brandenburg Concerto62Ch. 2The Six Concertos as a Set77Ch. 3Lutheran Belief and Bach's Music111Appendix 1: Text-Critical Notes on Early Copies of the Sixth Brandenburg Concerto121Appendix 2: Notes on Bach's Notation of the Gamba Parts in the Margrave of Brandenburg's Dedication Score129Works Cited135Index145

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Book SynopsisIt is a common article of faith that Mozart composed the most beautiful music we can know. But few of us ask why. Why does the beautiful in Mozart stand apart, as though untouched by human hands? This title describes a range of musical effects of Mozart's music to other domains of human significance, including expression, intimation, and more.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2014 Otto Kinkeldey Award, American Musicological Society One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013 "Here is analysis and commentary written with considerable enthusiasm and affection... Mozart's Grace is written with great fervour and yes, grace, together with a deep love of Mozart's music."--Classical Music Magazine "The premise: identify some of the best bits in Mozart's works, then discover why they succeed so well. The idea is so starkly simple that one could expect a puerile result. However, Burnham, an eminent teacher, writer, and Mozartean, produces something rather wonderful... [Mozart's Grace] is a book that does justice to its subject matter."--Choice "This book has only deepened my admiration for its author."--Leo Black, Musical Times "Mozart's Grace is written with great fervor and yes, grace, together with a deep love of Mozart's music. In these tough economic times one is heartened to see the publication of such a book."--John Robert Brown, Classical Music "Burnham offers a stirring, erudite, and deeply poetic treatment of around fifty select passages as a culmination of some three decades of thought and discussion... Through delightfully written prose bursting with musical metaphors that extend to all five senses, Scott Burnham argues persuasively for why we relentlessly submit ourselves to Mozart."--Steven D. Mathews, Notes "[Burnham's] writing, sentence by sentence, is clear as air yet shimmers with revelatory understanding of the effects that Mozart's music makes on the listener, illustrating and supporting his discoveries with penetrating and meticulous explication of details in the musical examples. In doing so he offers some of the most sensitive, nuanced, perceptive, and eloquent commentary about music (of any kind) I've read."--American Record Guide "Rarely does love pour from musicological writing as generously as it does from Scott Burnham's ingenious, congenial paean. At 169 pages of text including generous musical examples throughout, Mozart's Grace teaches us a great deal about Mozart, concision, and well-turned prose."--David Schneider, Music and LettersTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Invitation 1 I Beauty and Grace 7 II Thresholds 37 III Grace and Renewal 117 Knowing Innocence 165 Notes 171 Bibliography 183 Index 187

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Book SynopsisBetween the third and sixth centuries, the ancient gods, goddesses, and heroes who had populated the imagination of humankind for a millennium were replaced by a new imagery of Christ and his saints. This title explores the many different, often surprising, artistic images and religious interpretations of Christ during this period.Trade Review"This is a sumptuously illustrated book, in which the pictures are well married to the text. It makes an illuminating way into patristic theology and the religions of the first six centuries."--Leslie Holden, Theology "Mathews's argument is convincing. In his determination to challenge and overturn a long-held theory, he does not allow his chameleon Christ, who is both man and woman, magician and god, any role as Christ the king. The pendulum may swing back, but not on the same course again. This book has cleared the way for new understandings of the iconography of Christ. It should stimulate a reconsideration of stereotyped readings of other images and in other periods."--Ann Moffatt, ParergonTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsCh. 1The Mistake of the Emperor Mystique3Ch. 2The Chariot and the Donkey23Ch. 3The Magician54Ch. 4Larger-than-Life92Ch. 5Christ Chameleon115Ch. 6Convergence142Ch. 7The Intimate Icon177List of Abbreviations181Notes183List of Figures205Index213

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates the degree to which modernist styles are related to graphic and typographic design, to printed letters - 'black riders' on a blank page - that create language for the eye. This book sketches the relation of modernist writing to key developments in book design.Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Modernism and the Renaissance of Printing, with Particular Reference to the Writing of Yeats, Stein, and Dickinson3Pt. 1A Revolution of the Word431"Thing to Mind": The Materialist Aesthetic of William Morris452Composition as Explanation (of Modern and Postmodern Poetries)76Pt. 2Dichtung und Wahrheit1193The Truth of Poetry. An Argument1214The Poetry of Truth. A Dialogue (on Dialogue)151Afterword176Notes181Index191

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Book SynopsisIconoclastic study of the meanings of art in which the author designs a new set of categories for the artistic process and views artists and their work from a unique point of view.Trade Review"This massive study is one of the most important works of criticism of the twentieth century... Pithy, knowledgeable, and opinionated readings of 638 illustrations make the book thoroughly enjoyable to read."--Accent

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Book SynopsisThe description for this book, The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order, will be forthcoming.Trade Review"The Gothic Cathedral is the most stimulating and comprehensive work on the subject to date... If the cathedrals are to be understood, Mr. von Simson rightly declares, they must be seen not in the light of twentieth-century esthetic observation, but of twelfth-century religious experience, through which the supernatural permeated every aspect of human existence... The resulting interpretation of the monuments is a critical tour de force."--Allan Temko, The New York Times Book Review "Not since Mont-St.-Michel and Chartres has so poetic and so evocative a study of the Gothic movement been published... The Gothic Cathedral is based on a wide factual as well as intuitive knowledge, transformed by the author's illuminating style into a text both formidable and pleasurable."--The Virginia Quarterly Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Not only the best examination of the subject which has appeared up to the present time, it is the only one commensurate with [Scarlatti's] true artistic stature, and the significance of his music to his time and ours."--The New York Times

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Book SynopsisExamines both music, and discourse about music, as products of human activity that are perceived in varying ways by various cultures. This book proposes a global theory for the interpretation of specific pieces, the phenomenon of music, and the human behaviors that music elicits. It also reviews issues raised by the notion of the musical sign.

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Book SynopsisDiscusses ten of Wagner's most beloved operas, illuminates their key themes and the myths and literary sources behind the librettos, and demonstrates how the composer's style changed from work to work.Trade Review"Newman is one of the preeminent authorities on the German composer. This title analyzes ten of Wagner's greatest operas."--Library Journal

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Book Synopsis"Tenth paperback printing, for the first time in two volumes, 1991"--Title page verso.Trade Review"A model of objective biography, one that is amazingly modern and as valuable today as when it was written... Thayer's Life remains the definitive biography."--The New York Times

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Book Synopsis"Tenth paperback printing, for the first time in two volumes, 1991"--Title page verso.Trade Review"A model of objective biography, one that is amazingly modern and as valuable today as when it was written... Thayer's Life remains the definitive biography."--The New York Times

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Book SynopsisBringing together studies by art historians, historians, and political scientists, this work explores the themes and paradigms that pervaded protofascist and fascist aesthetic discourse, and artistic production in France and Italy. It investigates the intersection of fascist ideology and aesthetics through a range of historical examples.Trade Review"Fascist Visions is an innovative, thoughtful, informative, and consistently intelligent collection of essays. The presentation of the complex interplay between art history and history of ideas and politics constitutes a major historiographical achievement, which will have a deep impact on the debate on fascism."—Zeev Sternhell, Hebrew University of JerusalemTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsArt and Fascist Ideology in France and Italy: An Introduction3The Myth of National Regeneration in Italy: From Modernist Avant-Garde to Fascism25Ardengo Soffici and the Religion of Art46Valentine de Saint-Point and the Fascist Construction of Woman73Mario Sironi's Urban Landscapes: The Futurist/Fascist Nexus101La Cite francaise: Georges Valois, Le Corbusier, and Facist Theories of Urbanism134Waldemar George: A Parisian Art Critic on Modernism and Fascism171The State as Patron: Making Official Culture in Fascist Italy205Decadence and Renewal in the Decorative Arts under Vichy239Selected Bibliography263Notes on the Contributors275Index277

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Book SynopsisDescribes the rise of modernism from its beginnings in the Impressionist movement. This book reveals that market discourses were pervasive in the ideological defense of modernism from its very inception and that the avant-garde actually thrived on the commercial appeal of anti-commercialism at the turn of the century.Trade Review"[Jensen] provides new dimension to our understanding of the construction of the canon of modernist art history... Jensen's most significant contribution is ... a wide ranging perspective on the development of the modernist canon that is based not on style but on the politics of exhibition and reception."--Marjorie Schreiber Kinsey, Nineteenth-Century French Studies "Jensen's fascinating research takes us into the complexity of Kunstepolitiks at the end of the nineteenth century and provides new dimension to our understanding of the construction of the canon of modernist art history."--Marjorie Schreiber Kinsey, Nineteenth-Century French Studies "Jensen's contribution lies in explicating how art is marketed like any other consumer product, without denying its beauty, originality, or transcendence. His study is useful to marketing scholars as an example of how other fields use marketing concepts and how marketing is viewed by the outside world."--Jonathan E. Schroeder, Journal of MacromarketingTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction3Ch. 1"This painting sells"18Ch. 2"The circle of dealers"49Ch. 3Rhetoric from the Battlefield: Innovation and Independence81Ch. 4The Retrospective107Ch. 5The Juste Milieu International138Ch. 6Secessionism167Ch. 7The Rise of the Impressionist Weltanschauung201Ch. 8Der Fall Meier-Graefe235Postscript: 1905264Appendix277Notes279Index349

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Book SynopsisUsing a historical analysis of Vermeer's method of production and a close reading of his art, this book explores the originality of Vermeer in the context of 17th-century Dutch painting. It suggests that his confrontation with painting represented a very personal effort to define a new pictorial practice within the classical tradition of his art.Trade Review"Vermeer has always proved an elusive artist, yet he has also held a special fascination... [This book] makes considerable headway in outlining the reasons... Arasse ... brings both a nicely calibrated visual sensitivity and a thoughtful analytical bent to the pictures themselves [and] lay[s] out what he considers to have been a painting program by Vermeer."--Larry Silver, American Historical Review "The most important work to date on Vermeer's theory of painting and his oeuvre. Burnished by the excellent translation by Terry Grabar, this study presents a thoughtful assessment of Vermeer's personal interpretation of the nature of art."--Linda K. Varkonda, Sixteenth Century Journal "This intense, impassioned book reflects the ways in which we continue to be enthralled by the magic of Vermeer's light and deft touch."--Virginia Quarterly ReviewTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsCh. 1"The Mysterious Vermeer"3Ch. 2The Professional Context9Vermeer's Reputation9Vermeer and Money13Vermeer and Painting15Ch. 3The-Picture-within-the-Picture22False Citations23The Suspension of Meaning26The Mirror of Art33Ch. 4The Art of Painting40A Personal Allegory41The Painter's Double Horizon44"Nova Descriptio"48A Painter's Position54Ch. 5The Place Within59Surface Space59The Figure and Its Locus63Precision and Blur69Ch. 6Vermeer's Religion76Appendix 1: "The Mysterious Vermeer"87Appendix 2: About the Girl in a Red Hat99Notes103Bibliography127Index133

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Book SynopsisA collection of twelve essays that demonstrates, through the interpretation of a work of art, the abundance and complexity of methodological approaches available to art historians. It focuses on Manet's "A Bar at the Folies-Bergere" and applies to it different methodologies, including feminism, Marxism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and semiotics.Trade Review"[Twelve Views of Manet's Bar] is a fascinating glimpse into the almost infinite richness of one centrally situated work of visual art, and the evolving methodologies developed by art and cultural historians to account for its complexities of meaning."--Art HistoryTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsPrefaceIntroduction: Ascribing to Manet, Declaring the Author1Counter, Mirror, Maid: Some Infra-thin Notes on A Bar at the Folies-Bergere25Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere as an Allegory of Nostaligia47Art History in the Mirror Stage: Interpreting A Bar at the Folies-Bergere71Le Chef d'Oeuvre (bien connu)91The Dialectics of Desire, the Narcissism of Authorship: A Male Interpretation of the Psychological Origins of Manet's Bar115On Manet's Binarism: Virgin and/or Whore at the Folies-Bergere142Looking into the Abyss: The Poetics of Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere164Dumbshows: A Carefully Staged Indifference189Privilege and the Illusion of the Real214In Front of Manet's Bar: Subverting the "Natural"233Manet's Man Meets the Gleam of Her Gaze: A Psychoanalytic Novel250The "View from Elsewhere": Extracts from a Semi-public Correspondence about the Visibility of Desire278A Select Bibliography for Methodological Issues in Art History315

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book is well researched, providing an absorbing picture of some neglected figures and revealing the interminable discord between sexes."---Christian Kile, Sehepunkte

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Book SynopsisFrom local Kapellmeister to international icon, Joseph Haydn achieved success by developing a musical language aimed at both the connoisseurs and amateurs of the emerging musical public. This work examines Haydn's works in relation to the aesthetic and cultural crosscurrents of his time.Trade Review"The articles ... are linked by recurring themes and concepts, beyond Haydn, which become increasingly refined as they become illuminated from different disciplinary perspectives... highly recommended for anyone interested in eighteenth-century culture."--German Studies ReviewTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsHaydn, Shakespeare, and the Rules of Originality3The Creation, Haydn's Late Vocal Music, and the Musical Sublime57Haydn's London Piano Trios and His Salomon String Quartets: Private vs. Public?103The Symphony as Pindaric Ode131Representing the Aristocracy: The Operatic Haydn and Le pescatrici154Haydn as Orator: A Rhetorical Analysis of His Keyboard Sonata in D Major, Hob.XVI:42201The Demise of Philosophical Listening: Haydn in the Nineteenth Century255A Yearbook of Music in Vienna and Prague 1796ISpecial Friends, Protectors, and Connoisseurs in ViennaIIVirtuosos and Amateurs in ViennaIIIAmateur Concerts289Remarks on the Development of the Art of Music in Germany in the Eighteenth Century (1801)321Joseph Haydn's Library: An Attempt at a Literary-Historical Reconstruction395Index463List of Contributors473

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Book SynopsisOffers a view of opera buffa in the theatrical world of late-eighteenth-century Vienna. This book attributes opera buffa's success to its ability to provide 'sheer' pleasure and hence explores how the genre functioned as entertainment. It shows how the arias and ensembles convey a multifaceted picture of the repertory's social values and habits.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2000 Otto Kinkeldey Prize for best musicological book of 1999, American Musicological Society Co-Winner of the 2000 Otto Kinkeldey Award, American Musicological Society "Although opera buffa and Mozart's opera in general have been studied by many scholars and from many points of view, Hunter's work, based on such a large bosy of scores, provides new proofs and a unique focus on the entertainment value of the works."--Choice "A major addition to a central topic in Mozart studies."--Julian Rushton, Times Literary Supplement "Indisputably the most comprehensive discussion yet published on the repertory of Viennese opera that forms the context for Mozart's comic operas."--Eighteenth-Century Studies "Hunter's work establishes a pattern for interpreting opera that will surely be imitated. If her thoroughly systematic approach to unraveling meaning in opera is followed in similarly uncompromising, contextual analysis, there is much of eighteenth-century opera, of all kinds and locations, that we will yet learn. This is a marvelous beginning."--Dale E. Monoson, Current MusicologyTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsEditorial PoliciesAbbreviationsIntroduction3Pt. 1Opera Buffa as EntertainmentCh. 1Opera Buffa as Sheer Pleasure27Ch. 2Opera Buffa's Conservative Frameworks52Ch. 3Opera Buffa's Social Reversals71Pt. 2The Closed Musical Numbers of Opera Buffa and Their Social ImplicationsCh. 4Arias: Some Issues95Ch. 5Class and Gender in Arias: Five Aria Types110Ch. 6Ensembles156Ch. 7Beginning and Ending Together: Introduzioni and Finales196Pt. 3Cosi Fan Tutte le Opere? A Masterwork in ContextCh. 8Cosi fan tutte in Conversation247Ch. 9Cosi fan tutte and Convention273App. 1Operas Consulted299App. 2Musical Forms in Opera Buffa Arias305App. 3Plot Summaries for I finti eredi, Le gare generose, and L'incognita perseguitata309Works Cited313Index323

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Book SynopsisFeatures miniatures and cuttings from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. This book features the major schools of illumination that flourished in Europe from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments EGBERT HAVERKAMP-BEGEMANN Note to the Reader Illuminations and the "Art Of Painting" SANDRA HINDMAN CATALOGUE Northern Europe SANDRA HINDMAN Italy MIRELLA LEVI D'ANCONA, PIA PALLADINO, MARIA FRANCESCA SAFFIOTTI Concordance Bibliography Index of Manuscripts Cited General Index

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Book SynopsisPresents a collection of Carroll photographs, and illuminates his relationships with the children he photographed in light of the idealism and social conventions of the day.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2002 New York Book Show Award Kraszna-Krauz Special Commendation for the Best Book in Art in Culture and History "A sumptuous new book... [It] is clear how widely Dodgson's photographic work ranged over the course of 25 years. He photographed landscapes, anatomical specimens and thousands of friends as well as children, taking some 3,000 photographs in all."--Joanna Pitman, The Times of London "Little girls were not Lewis Carroll's problem... Yes, [he] liked to photograph children. Naked ones, too. [This] studied yet entirely accessible book shows that the children in [his] studio harbored no apprehensions about what they were doing or who they were doing it with."--Frederick Kaufman, New York Times Book Review "This handsomely designed volume shows the remarkable extent and complexity of Carroll's photographic art."--Joanna Pitman, The Times of London "This book presents a biographical and artistic reassessment of Lewis Carroll with great finesse. It is beautifully printed with both the text and images rendered on heavy ivory-toned paper... As a resource, it is unparalleled in the history of photography and offers a rare glimpse into the life and times of Victorian England... It is clearly and carefully written to appeal to a broad public and impart a new appreciation for the creative genius of Lewis Carroll."--Pamela White Trimpe, The Art Book "Above all, [Carroll] was a gifted, obsessive and dedicated photographer, one of the best that the medium's first century produced."--Lyle Rexer, Art in AmericaTable of ContentsIntroduction by Peter C. Bunnell vii "ALL IN THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON" The Photographs of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson by Roger Taylor 1 Chronology by Edward Wakeling 121 CATALOGUE OF THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ALBUMS by Edward Wakeling 123 Register of All Known Photographs by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson by Edward Wakeling 240 Acknowledgments 276 Selected Bibliography by Roger Taylor 278 Index 280

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