Oedipus at Thebes

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

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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

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

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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

A History of Turin
Title A History of Turin PDF eBook
Author Anthony L. Cardoza
Publisher
Pages 281
Release 2006
Genre History
ISBN 9788806181246

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Immersion in the Visual Arts and Media

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

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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

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

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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

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

Visuality/Materiality
Title Visuality/Materiality PDF eBook
Author Divya P. Tolia-Kelly
Publisher Routledge
Pages 210
Release 2016-02-11
Genre History
ISBN 1317001125

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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.