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| 21. |  | Title: Gadamer's repercussions: reconsidering philosophical hermeneutics  Author: Krajewski, Bruce 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | European Studies Publisher's Description: Certainly one of the key German philosophers of the twentieth century, Hans-Georg Gadamer also influenced the study of literature, art, music, sacred and legal texts, and medicine. Indeed, while much attention has been focused on Gadamer's writings about ancient Greek and modern German philosophy, t . . . [more] Matches in book (419): Similar Items |
| 22. |  | Title: Lovis Corinth Author: Uhr, Horst 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art | Art History Publisher's Description: This splendid and generously illustrated monograph by Horst Uhr is the first comprehensive study of one of the great individualists in the history of art. Lovis Corinth (1858-1925) has long been recognized as a major figure in German painting, along with Emile Nolde and Max Beckmann. Spanning a trem . . . [more] Matches in book (212): ...True Art Means Seeking to Capture the Unreal"... Similar Items...10 , 10 Gurlitt, Fritz: promoting modern art in Berlin, 44 -45, 67 , 203 ; as... ...pp. 73-74; see also Hisinger, Art Nouveau in Munich , pp. 158-159. 57. Corinth,... |
| 23. |  | Title: Cultivating music in America: women patrons and activists since 1860 Author: Locke, Ralph P Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Music | Women's Studies | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: This wide-ranging collection brings together leading authorities on the social history of American art music to reveal the indispensable contribution that women have made to American musical life. Some chapters discuss collective endeavors, such as music clubs, Wagnerites, supporters of "modern musi . . . [more] Matches in book (482): ...Western Art Music: Undemocratic? Insufficiently American?... Similar Items...Women, Patronage, and the Future of Art Music... ...Ten— Reflections on Art Music in America, on Stereotypes of the Woman Patron,... |
| 24. |  | Title: Contemplating the ancients: aesthetic and social issues in early Chinese portraiture Author: Spiro, Audrey Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art | Architecture | China Publisher's Description: Drawing on a wide variety of contemporaneous sources from Chinese history, literature, religious writings, and art and literary criticism, Spiro provides the modern reader with an aesthetic and social context for understanding early Chinese portraiture. Contemplating the Ancients introduces portrait . . . [more] Matches in book (189): Similar Items |
| 25. |  | Title: Red city, blue period: social movements in Picasso's Barcelona Author: Kaplan, Temma 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Art | European History | Cultural Anthropology | Gender Studies | Art History Publisher's Description: In Red City, Blue Period , Kaplan combines the methods of anthropology and the new cultural history to examine the civic culture of Barcelona between 1888 and 1939. She analyzes the peculiar sense of solidarity the citizens forged and explains why shared experiences of civic culture and pageantry so . . . [more] Matches in book (232): ...2— Popular Art and Rituals... Similar Items...2— Popular Art and Rituals... ...politics, some of which may have found their way into his art then and later.... |
| 26. |  | Title: Dynasty and empire in the age of Augustus: the case of the of the Boscoreale Cups Author: Kuttner, Ann L Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art History | Classical History | Ancient History Publisher's Description: The two silver skyphoi commonly known as the Boscoreale Cups of Augustus and Tiberius are indispensable for providing the documentation of one of the only two cycles of Roman imperial state reliefs to survive from the Julio-Claudian period. Ann Kuttner offers the first comprehensive examination of t . . . [more] Matches in book (310): ...Conclusion: The Boscoreale Cups and Roman Art... Similar Items...Conclusion: The Boscoreale Cups and Roman Art... ...Index of Art, History, Sites, and Subjects... |
| 27. |  | Title: The country of memory: remaking the past in late socialist Vietnam Author: Tai, Hue-Tam Ho 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Southeast Asia | Film | Gender Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Popular Culture | Asian History Publisher's Description: The American experience in the Vietnam War has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet surprisingly little has been written about how the war is remembered by Vietnamese themselves. The Country of Memory fills this gap in the literature by addressing the subject of history, memory, an . . . [more] Matches in book (270): ...the movements in reaction to official art in Vietnam took a passive rather than... Similar Items...those artists who display none of the state criteria for nationalistic art.... ...Nguyen Tu Nghiem's interest in village art reveal, they were nonconformist and... |
| 28. |  | Title: Culture of the future: the Proletkult movement in revolutionary Russia Author: Mally, Lynn Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Russian and Eastern European Studies | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Just days before the October 1917 Revolution, the Proletkult was formed in Petrograd to serve as an umbrella organization for numerous burgeoning working-class cultural groups. Advocates of the Proletkult hoped to devise new forms of art, education, and social relations that would express the spirit . . . [more] Matches in book (223): ...Worker-Centered Art... Similar Items...5 Iron Flowers: Proletkult Creation in the Arts... ...Instead, they were "the rich black soil from which a new art will grow." 20... |
| 29. |  | Title: The Arnolfini betrothal: medieval marriage and the enigma of Van Eyck's double portrait Author: Hall, Edwin 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Criticism | Medieval History Publisher's Description: Commonly known as the "Arnolfini Wedding" or "Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride," Jan van Eyck's double portrait, painted in 1434, is probably the most widely recognized panel painting of the fifteenth century. One of the great masterpieces of early Flemish art, this enigmatic picture has also arouse . . . [more] Matches in book (71): ...the contribution provided by the Art Book Fund of the Associates of the ... Similar Items...the subject reappears in Western art for the first time in many centuries with a... ...in the Iconology of Netherlandish Art, 1400–1800 . The Hague, 1990. Bennett, H.... |
| 30. |  | Title: Joyce in America: cultural politics and the trials of Ulysses Author: Segall, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | American Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature Publisher's Description: When James Joyce's Ulysses was first published in America, it quickly became a dynamic symbol of both modern art and the modern age. Jeffrey Segall skillfully demonstrates how various political, ideological, and religious allegiances influenced the critical reception and eventual canonization of wha . . . [more] Matches in book (158): ...modernists, 122 -23; on politics and art, 120 -21; politics of, 115 -16 Tindall,... Similar Items...Wenxue Pinlun Ji . Shanghai: Literature and Art Publishing House, 1984. Litz, A.... ...1957. ———. Leon Trotsky on Literature and Art . Edited by Paul Siegel. New York:... |
| 31. |  | Title: History and tropology: the rise and fall of metaphor Author: Ankersmit, F. R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Literary Theory and Criticism | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: "The chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history," claimed Collingwood. In this remarkable collection of essays, many published for the first time, Frank Ankersmit demonstrates the prescience of that remark and goes a long way toward meeting its challen . . . [more] Matches in book (175): ...4. Modern Art and Modern Historiography... Similar Items...3. Representation in Art and History... ...E. H. : substitution theory of art of, 110 -112, 114 , 170 ; and illusionism,... |
| 32. |  | Title: Mexico at the world's fairs: crafting a modern nation Author: Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Latin American History | Latin American Studies | Literature Publisher's Description: This intriguing study of Mexico's participation in world's fairs from 1889 to 1929 explores Mexico's self-presentation at these fairs as a reflection of the country's drive toward nationalization and a modernized image. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo contrasts Mexico's presence at the 1889 Paris fair - whe . . . [more] Matches in book (209): Similar Items |
| 33. |  | Title: Constructive dissonance: Arnold Schoenberg and the transformations of twentieth-century culture Author: Brand, Juliane Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Composers | Intellectual History | Art History Publisher's Description: Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is a pivotal figure of musical modernism. The "father of serialism" has influenced nearly every major composer of this century, and the idea of Schoenberg, now wild-eyed radical, now embattled moralist, now lonely prophet, is woven into the mythos of modern art. What is . . . [more] Matches in book (188): ...Twelve Schoenberg's Concept of Art in Twentieth-Century Music History... Similar Items...Twelve Schoenberg's Concept of Art in Twentieth-Century Music History... ...Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, trans. M.T.H. Sadler (reprint, New... |
| 34. |  | Title: Light moving in time: studies in the visual aesthetics of avant-garde film Author: Wees, William C. (William Charles) 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film Publisher's Description: To view a film is to see another's seeing mediated by the technology and techniques of the camera. By manipulating the cinematic apparatus in unorthodox ways, avant-garde filmmakers challenge the standardized versions of seeing perpetuated by the dominant film industry and generate ways of seeing th . . . [more] Matches in book (129): ...Works on Visual Perception, Art, and Image Making... Similar Items...is open to the visionary traditions of art and religion that both East and West... ...and "Between Agonism and the Autonomy of Art: The Case of Al Razutis," Cantrills... |
| 35. |  | Title: Myth, meaning, and memory on Roman sarcophagi Author: Koortbojian, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics | Art | Art History | Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: Michael Koortbojian brings a novel approach to his study of the role of Greek mythology in Roman funerary art. He looks at two myths - Aphrodite and Adonis and Selene and Endymion - not only with respect to their appearance on Roman sarcophagi, but also with regard to the myths' significance in the . . . [more] Matches in book (119): ...Antique, Early Christian, and Medieval Art: Selected Papers (London, 1980), 42–... Similar Items...on its appropriateness and significance in the context of sepulchral art.... ...dead not only provided these works of art with an audience but fulfilled their... |
| 36. |  | Title: The strands of a life Author: Sinsheimer, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | Biology | History and Philosophy of Science | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: From heading a campus of the largest public university in the nation to participating in the birth of molecular biology, Robert L. Sinsheimer's experiences have given him a unique vantage point from which to view the paths that science and education have taken in the twentieth century. This book tel . . . [more] Matches in book (46): ...The Science of DNA and the Art of Education... Similar Items...significantly enhanced our theater arts program. It seemed to me to make eminent... ...education), 203 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 142 American Association... |
| 37. |  | Title: Made in God's image?: Eve and Adam in the Genesis mosaics at San Marco, Venice Author: Jolly, Penny Howell Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Art History | Medieval Studies | Women's Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: The stunning mosaics that illustrate the story of Creation in the church of San Marco in Venice are the focus of Penny Howell Jolly's compelling and provocative book. Scholars of medieval art have long been interested in the Genesis mosaics because they copy a nearly destroyed fifth-century illumina . . . [more] Matches in book (102): ...Medieval Rape Imagery and Its Transformation." Art Bulletin 75 (1993): 39–64.... Similar Items...Despair in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art , New York, 1976, 13-14, examines... ...Representations of Medieval Peasant Labor." Art Bulletin 72 (1990): 436–52.... |
| 38. |  | Title: From the royal to the republican body: incorporating the political in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France Author: Melzer, Sara E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | European Literature | Cinema and Performance Arts | Politics Publisher's Description: In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the sacralization of the king's body through a gendered textual and visual rhetoric. Others show how the monarchy . . . [more] Matches in book (38): ...A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art , ed. Leon S. Rondiez, trans. Thomas... Similar Items...as the two-volume Lettres sur les arts imitateurs en général, et sur la danse en... ...Entry Ceremony: Politics, Ritual, and Art in the Renaissance (Geneva: Librairie... |
| 39. |  | Title: Renaissance Paris: architecture and growth, 1475-1600 Author: Thomson, David 1912- Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Art | Architecture Publisher's Description: In the modern literature on Renaissance art and architecture, Paris has often been considered the Cinderella of the European capitals. The prestigious buildings that were erected soon after François I decided in 1528 to make Paris his residence have long since been lost. Thomson, however, restores t . . . [more] Matches in book (57): ...on 'natte'. 95. Jean-Pierre Babelon, art. cit. , Revue de l'Art, 1978, p. 87.... Similar Items...Ecole des Beaux-Arts, see Paris Ecouen, Château de 164 , 174 Elizabeth I 163... ...pp. 427-438. 16. Boudon et al. , art. cit. , Fig. 12. 17. See Rudolf Wittkower:... |
| 40. |  | Title: The origins of modernism in Russian architecture Author: Brumfield, William Craft 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Architecture | Architectural History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The dramatic transformation of Russian architecture from the 1880s to the 1917 revolution reflected the profound changes in Russian society as it entered the modern industrial age. William Craft Brumfield examines the extraordinary diversity of architectural styles in this period and traces the sear . . . [more] Matches in book (420): ...the Dean of the Faculty of the Liberal Arts and Sciences. Lori Hylton, research... Similar Items...21. Muir and Mirrielees 22. Moscow Art Theater 23. Moscow Merchants' Club... ...apartment house 49. Museum of Fine Arts 50. Tretiakov Refuge 51. Tretiakov ... |