Oedipus at Thebes
Title | Oedipus at Thebes PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Knox |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1998-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780300074239 |
Examines the way in which Sophocles' play "Oedipus Tyrannus" and its hero, Oedipus, King of Thebes, were probably received in their own time and place, and relates this to twentieth-century receptions and interpretations, including those of Sigmund Freud.
Conversations with Cézanne
Title | Conversations with Cézanne PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Cézanne |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520225176 |
This book gathers the commentary of people who knew the painter Paul Cezanne, especially in his later years. Now seen as one of the most influential of modern painters, in his 40s he returned to his village of Aix-en-Provence where, he worked in near obscurity and with great dedication until his death in 1906.
A History of Turin
Title | A History of Turin PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony L. Cardoza |
Publisher | |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9788806181246 |
Immersion in the Visual Arts and Media
Title | Immersion in the Visual Arts and Media PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2015-10-27 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004308237 |
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume brings together contributions by distinguished experts from different disciplinary fields for a multidimensional view on immersion in the visual arts and media. In the current media debate, immersion has frequently been linked to the advent of digital technology and its capacity to provide vivid sensations of being placed in or surrounded by an artificial space. The idea of ‘liquidity’ contained in this promise to plunge into another world informs wide areas of contemporary cultural imagination, referring to a myriad of phenomena that relate to experiences of uncertainty and instability, of complexity and change. Considering the fact, however, that the idea of ‘liquid’ spaces appeared long before the digital creation of augmented or virtual environments, the contributors to this volume trace its reemerging throughout the history of the visual arts and media. By focusing on selected works of painting and architecture, photography and cinema, video installation and media art, they explore the variability of immersive experiences according to the different media environments and interfaces that constitute the actual sites of historically shifting relations between media and users. Contributors are: Matthias Bauer, Jörg von Brincken, Robin Curtis, Burcu Dogramaci, Thomas Elsaesser, Ole W. Fischer, Gundolf S. Freyermuth, Ursula Frohne, Henry Keazor, Matthias Krüger, Katja Kwastek, Fabienne Liptay, Karl Prümm, Martin Warnke.
Prince of Europe
Title | Prince of Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Mansel |
Publisher | Orion Publishing Company |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780753818558 |
The Habsburg courtier Charles-Joseph Prince de Ligne seduced and symbolized eighteenth-century Europe. Speaking French, the international language of the day, he travelled between Paris and St Petersburg, charming everyone he met. He stayed with Madame du Barry, dined with Frederick the Great and travelled to the Crimea with Catherine the Great. But Ligne was more than a frivolous charmer. He participated in and recorded some of the most important events and movements of his day: the Enlightenment; the struggle for mastery in Germany; the decline of the Ottoman Empire; the birth of German nationalism; and the wars to liberate Europe from Napoleon. He had surprisingly radical views, believing for example in property rights for women, legal rights for Jews and the redistribution of wealth. He was also a highly respected writer and his books on gardens, his letters from the Crimea and his epigrams are considered minor classics of French literature.
Queenship in Europe 1660-1815
Title | Queenship in Europe 1660-1815 PDF eBook |
Author | Clarissa Campbell Orr |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 2004-08-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780521814225 |
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Visuality/Materiality
Title | Visuality/Materiality PDF eBook |
Author | Divya P. Tolia-Kelly |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2016-02-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317001125 |
Two of the key theoretical shifts over the past two decades of critical work have been the 'visual turn' and the 'material turn'. This book argues that these hitherto distinct fields should be understood as in continual dialogue and co-constitution and focuses on reconceptualising the visual as an embodied, material, and often politically-charged realm. This edited volume elaborates this conceptual argument through a series of contemporary case studies, drawn from the disciplines of Architecture, Sociology, Media Studies, Geography and Cultural Studies. The case studies included are paired around four themes: consumption, translation, practice and ethics. As well as exploring the bringing together of visuality and materiality studies, the contributors raise questions of social identity and social critique, and also focus on the ethics of material visualities.