Great Historical Geographical and Poetical Dictionary

Great Historical Geographical and Poetical Dictionary
Title Great Historical Geographical and Poetical Dictionary PDF eBook
Author Louis Moreri
Publisher Routledge
Pages
Release 2004-11
Genre
ISBN 9780415200462

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Rethinking Boucher

Rethinking Boucher
Title Rethinking Boucher PDF eBook
Author Melissa Lee Hyde
Publisher Getty Publications
Pages 304
Release 2006
Genre Art
ISBN 9780892368259

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"Unequivocally a modern, Francois Boucher (1703-70) defined the French artistic avant-garde throughout his career. Yet the triumph of modernist aesthetics - with its focus on the self-critical, the autonomous, and the intellectually challenging - has long discouraged art historians and other viewers from taking Boucher's playful and alluring works seriously. Rethinking Boucher revisits the cultural meanings and reception of his diverse oeuvre, inviting us to revise the interpretive cliches by which we have sought to tame this artist and his epoch."--BOOK JACKET.

Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Title Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe PDF eBook
Author Meredith Martin
Publisher Routledge
Pages 428
Release 2017-07-05
Genre Art
ISBN 1351576062

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Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors explores how a diverse, pan-European group of eighteenth-century patrons - among them bankers, bishops, bluestockings, and courtesans - used architectural space and décor to shape and express identity. Eighteenth-century European architects understood the client's instrumental role in giving form and meaning to architectural space. In a treatise published in 1745, the French architect Germain Boffrand determined that a visitor could "judge the character of the master for whom the house was built by the way in which it is planned, decorated and distributed." This interdisciplinary volume addresses two key interests of contemporary historians working in a range of disciplines: one, the broad question of identity formation, most notably as it relates to ideas of gender, class, and ethnicity; and two, the role played by different spatial environments in the production - not merely the reflection - of identity at defining historical and cultural moments. By combining contemporary critical analysis with a historically specific approach, the book's contributors situate ideas of space and the self within the visual and material remains of interiors in eighteenth-century Europe. In doing so, they offer compelling new insight not only into this historical period, but also into our own.

Furnishing the Eighteenth Century

Furnishing the Eighteenth Century
Title Furnishing the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook
Author Dena Goodman
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 262
Release 2007
Genre Art
ISBN 041594953X

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The Acharnians

The Acharnians
Title The Acharnians PDF eBook
Author Aristophanes
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 44
Release 2012-11-01
Genre Drama
ISBN 1625580681

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Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta.

Cannibalismes disciplinaires

Cannibalismes disciplinaires
Title Cannibalismes disciplinaires PDF eBook
Author Musée du quai Branly
Publisher Musée du quai Branly
Pages 406
Release 2010
Genre Art
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Ce volume est issu du colloque "Histoire de l'art et anthropologie" qui s'est tenu du 21 au 23 juin 2007

Luxury in the Eighteenth Century

Luxury in the Eighteenth Century
Title Luxury in the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook
Author M. Berg
Publisher Springer
Pages 270
Release 2016-01-11
Genre History
ISBN 0230508278

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'Luxury in the 18th Century' explores the political, economic, moral and intellectual effects of the production and consumption of luxury goods, and provides a broadly-based account from a variety of perspectives, addressing key themes of economic debate, material culture, the principles of art and taste, luxury as 'female vice' and the exotic.