Igor Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress

Igor Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
Title Igor Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress PDF eBook
Author Paul Griffiths
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 128
Release 1982-09-02
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780521281997

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The Rake's Progress is Stravinsky's biggest work and one of the few great operas written since the 1920s, rare too for the unusual quality of its libretto, by Auden and Kallman. Its importance is undisputed, but so too are the problems it raises: problems of both performance and understanding, caused by the irony with which it is so thoroughly permeated. In aspects of style and operatic convention it looks back to the eighteenth century, and in particular to the operas of Mozart and da Ponte, while making references also to other periods, to operas from Monteverdi to Verdi. Yet at the same time it is wholly a work of the twentieth-century, and indeed it is centrally concerned with the impossibility of return, artistic, psychological or actual, as well as with the nature and limitation of human free will. The Rake's Progress is not one of unbridled dissipation but rather, more interestingly, one of attachment to naive notions of freedom and choice, and his tragedy is that he can never go back.

Rake's Progress

Rake's Progress
Title Rake's Progress PDF eBook
Author Rachel Johnson
Publisher Knopf
Pages 273
Release 2021
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0593318196

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"The true story of how Rachel Johnson - born into one of Britain's most famous political families - tries and fails to get elected in the 2019 hard-fought effort to stop Brexit, running against her older brother, Boris, and what she learns in the process about politics, ambition, family, marriage, and winning and losing"--

Rake's Progress

Rake's Progress
Title Rake's Progress PDF eBook
Author Denis Rake
Publisher
Pages 280
Release 1968
Genre History
ISBN

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The Rake's Progress

The Rake's Progress
Title The Rake's Progress PDF eBook
Author Marjorie Bowen
Publisher Good Press
Pages 263
Release 2019-12-06
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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"The Rake's Progress" by Marjorie Bowen Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long, who used the pseudonyms Marjorie Bowen and Joseph Shearing, was a British author who wrote historical romances. In this book, she follows a so-proclaimed rake, a womanizer who was perfectly set in his ways. However, even the most charming playboy isn't immune to the magic that happens when stricken by true love and the desire for romance.

The Rake's Progress

The Rake's Progress
Title The Rake's Progress PDF eBook
Author Ronald Searle
Publisher
Pages 128
Release 1955
Genre English wit and humor, Pictorial
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Hogarth, Place and Progress

Hogarth, Place and Progress
Title Hogarth, Place and Progress PDF eBook
Author William Hogarth
Publisher
Pages 144
Release 2019-10
Genre
ISBN 9781999693213

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A highly illustrated journey through Hogarth's series paintings and engravings, from the blockbuster 'Rake's Progress and Marriage a la Mode' to the enigmatic and lesser known Happy Marriage this book offers a close analysis of place and setting in Hogarth's works' in order to revisit the artist's complex stance on morality, society, and the city, and the enduring appeal of his satires in the present.0William Hogarth (1697-1764) remains one of Britain's best loved painters. His most renowned works, the series relating to moral subjects, are rarely displayed together, and will be united at the Soane Museum for the first time in its history.0The book also focusses tightly on Hogarth's series; The Soane Museum's own Rake's Progress and An Election, as well as Marriage a la Mode, the Four Times of Day, as well as the three surviving paintings of The Happy Marriage engraved series such as Stages of Cruelty, Industry and Idleness and Gin Lane and Beer Street. It is edited by David Bindman, a world authority on Hogarth and comprises four essays by leading academics, along with Bindman's own introduction to each of the series according to the themes of "place" and "progress".00Exhibition: Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK (09.10.2019-05.01.2020).

Artists & Prints

Artists & Prints
Title Artists & Prints PDF eBook
Author Deborah Wye
Publisher The Museum of Modern Art
Pages 296
Release 2004
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780870701252

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Volume covers the Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books, not the collection of artists' books.