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| 41. |  | Title: Chuck Jones: a flurry of drawings  Author: Kenner, Hugh Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: American Studies | Film | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Creator of the mono-maniacal Wile E. Coyote and his elusive prey, the Road Runner, Chuck Jones has won three Academy Awards and been responsible for many classics of animation featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd. Who better to do Chuck Jones than Hugh Kenner, master wordsmith . . . [more] Matches in book (38): ...Babbitt, Art, 44 Barre, Raoul, 4 Beauty and the Beast (Disney), 106 Beck &... Similar Items...xi , 8 , 10 , 53 , 100 Chouinard Art Institute, xi , 17 , 23 , 30 , 102 Chuck... ...in what was available, Chouinard Art Institute, in Los Angeles of all places, at... |
| 42. |  | Title: 1910, the emancipation of dissonance Author: Harrison, Thomas J 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Comparative Literature | European Literature | Art History Publisher's Description: The year 1910 marks an astonishing, and largely unrecognized, juncture in Western history. In this perceptive interdisciplinary analysis, Thomas Harrison addresses the extraordinary intellectual achievement of the time. Focusing on the cultural climate of Middle Europe and paying particular attentio . . . [more] Matches in book (336): ...Gorizia, Judaic Indeterminacy and Triestine Art... Similar Items...Ladies of the Unicorn: Structive Art... ...of rhetoric produce goodness and art as "upheavals" (Lukács 1911c: 377).... |
| 43. |  | Title: Critical crossings: the New York intellectuals in postwar America Author: Jumonville, Neil Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Sociology | Politics | American Studies Publisher's Description: The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the representative act of the intellectual. Rethinking this interval in our culture, Neil Jumonville focuses on the group of writers and thinkers w . . . [more] Matches in book (153): ...63 , 64 , 158 -64, 266 nn. 41 and 42; art, 137 , 139 -40, 160 -62, 265 -66n.32,... Similar Items...the first of his career. Perhaps an art critic was destined to be the first to... ...Origins of Abstract-Expressionist Art Criticism," pp. 25-29. 100. H. Rosenberg,... |
| 44. |  | Title: Garrett Eckbo: modern landscapes for living Author: Treib, Marc Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Architecture | Art History | California and the West Publisher's Description: One of the central figures in modern landscape architecture, Garrett Eckbo (1910-2000) was a major influence in the field during an active career spanning five decades. While most of the early American designers concentrated on the private garden and the corporate landscape, Eckbo's work demonstrate . . . [more] Matches in book (181): ...The Social Art of Landscape Design... Similar Items...The Art of Social Landscape Design... ...The Social Art of Landscape Design... |
| 45. |  | Title: Masks of the spirit: image and metaphor in Mesoamerica Author: Markman, Peter T Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Art | Folklore and Mythology Matches in book (436): ...HEINRICH 1962 Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization. Joseph Campbell,... Similar Items...intercourse yet discovered in Maya art. 52. These various interpretations are... ...a highly controversial reading of the art of Teotihuacán (Donald Robertson calls... |
| 46. |  | Title: Images and ideologies: self-definition in the Hellenistic world Author: Bulloch, A. W Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics | Philosophy | Classical Philosophy | Ancient History | Art History Publisher's Description: This volume captures the individuality, the national and personal identity, the cultural exchange, and the self-consciousness that have long been sensed as peculiarly potent in the Hellenistic world. The fields of history, literature, art, philosophy, and religion are each presented using the format . . . [more] Matches in book (105): ...PART THREE SELF-DEFINITION IN HELLENISTIC ART... Similar Items...Stewart Professor of Greek and Roman Art, University of California, Berkeley... ...mid-3d cent. BC (copy: Museum of Art, Budapest). Photo: Phaidon Press. d.... |
| 47. |  | Title: A sheep's song: a writer's reminiscences of Japan and the world Author: Katō, Shūichi 1919- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature | Asian History | Japan | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: This critically acclaimed autobiography was an instant bestseller in Japan, where it has gone through more than forty printings since its first publication. Cultural critic, literary historian, novelist, poet, and physician, Kato Shuichi reconstructs his dramatic spiritual and intellectual journey f . . . [more] Matches in book (148): ...with one's love. Within the world of art, I found its equivalent in music. Did... Similar Items...like the development of the war, the art of staying alive, and our precarious... ...however, has nothing to do with the art of articulation. 4 Returning from... |
| 48. |  | Title: Literary architecture: essays toward a tradition: Walter Pater, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Marcel Proust, Henry James Author: Frank, Ellen Eve Published: University of California Press, 1983 Subjects: Literature | European Literature Matches in book (261): ...great respect for Ruskin, see The Art of Travel , ed. M. D. Zabel (New York,... Similar Items...significance but more suggestive of art-as-craft or techne: bringing is like... ...35. Frances A. Yates, The Art of Memory (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1966). 36.... |
| 49. |  | Title: The naked text: Chaucer's Legend of good women Author: Delany, Sheila Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Medieval Studies | English Literature | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: A sequel to her seminal book on Chaucer's House of Fame , Sheila Delany's elegant and innovative study of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women explores what it meant to be a reader and a writer, and to be English and a courtier, in the late fourteenth century. The richness of late medieval art, philosophy . . . [more] Matches in book (66): ...Aristotle, 2 , 30 , 44 , 139 Art, musical, 136 , 235 ; plastic and visual, 21 -... Similar Items...The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms. New York: Methuen, 1985. Huygens,... ...revised by G. P. Gould, 1977. ———. The Art of Love and Other Poems. Trans. J. H.... |
| 50. |  | Title: War and popular culture: resistance in modern China, 1937-1945 Author: Hung, Chang-tai 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Asian History | China Publisher's Description: This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as "The War of Resistance against Japan"). Chang-tai Hung shows in compelling detail how Chinese resisters used a variety of popu . . . [more] Matches in book (315): ...Art for Politics' Sake... Similar Items...A New Form of Art... ...15 , 78 , 83 "Village literature and art" (xiang-cun wenyi), 266 , 283 . See... |
| 51. |  | Title: Behind the postmodern facade: architectural change in late twentieth-century America Author: Larson, Magali Sarfatti Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Architecture | Architecture | Philosophy | Politics | American Studies | Sociology | Social Theory Publisher's Description: Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects - from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, . . . [more] Matches in book (300): ...Elites, Art, and Profession... Similar Items...Chapter One— Architecture As Art and Profession... ...Chapter One— Architecture As Art and Profession... |
| 52. |  | Title: Theocritus's urban mimes: mobility, gender, and patronage Author: Burton, Joan B 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Drawing on current literary, cultural, and historical approaches, Joan Burton presents sophisticated new readings of Theocritus's urban mimes, which are among the most frequently cited evidence of Hellenistic cultural life, religion, magic, and aesthetics. Unlike Theocritus's bucolic poems, which fo . . . [more] Matches in book (269): ...Reception of Art... Similar Items...Transitions between Art and Reality... ...Chapter 3 Ekphrasis and the Reception of Works of Art... |
| 53. |  | Title: Early Gothic Saint-Denis: restorations and survivals Author: Blum, Pamela Z Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Art | Architectural History | Art History | Medieval Studies | Archaeology Publisher's Description: quality. Indeed, the well-preserved sculptural passages provide a key to the Early Gothic style as well as revealing the distinct imprints of three artists and their influences on each other. Blum's penetrating analyses of the restorative techniques and materials are accompanied by telling photograp . . . [more] Matches in book (43): ...of archaeologists and historians of art concerned not only with medieval... Similar Items...Instruments and Their Symbolism in Western Art. New York, ca. 1967. 2nd edition,... ...Master of the Elders/patriarchs; Master of the Tympanum Angels; Romanesque art... |
| 54. |  | Title: The life of a text: performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas Author: Lutgendorf, Philip Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Hinduism | South Asia | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text - the epic Ramcaritmanas - and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers intereste . . . [more] Matches in book (93): ...Four The Art of Manas-Katha... Similar Items...of the performance itself; see Verbal Art as Performance , 37-45. Initial... ...has always been a major center for the art, but it should not obscure the fact... |
| 55. |  | Title: Victorian literature and the Victorian visual imagination Author: Christ, Carol T Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | Art History | English Literature | Victorian History | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Nineteenth-century British culture frequently represented the eye as the preeminent organ of truth. These essays explore the relationship between the verbal and the visual in the Victorian imagination. They range broadly over topics that include the relationship of optical devices to the visual imag . . . [more] Matches in book (267): ...Oil on canvas. Photograph: Bridgeman/Art Resource, New York. Fig. 94. John ... Similar Items...43 × 31 in. Photograph: Bridgeman/Art Resource, New York. Copyright A&F ... ...February 1887): 30. 32. "Science and Art," American Journal of Photography (May... |
| 56. |  | Title: Wising up the marks: the modern William Burroughs Author: Murphy, Timothy S 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Philosophy Publisher's Description: William S. Burroughs is one of the twentieth century's most visible, controversial, and baffling literary figures. In the first comprehensive study of the writer, Timothy S. Murphy places Burroughs in the company of the most significant intellectual minds of our time. In doing so, he gives us an imm . . . [more] Matches in book (76): ...Philosophie de la Série noire." Arts & Loisirs 18 ( 26 Jan. –-1 Feb. 1966): 12–... Similar Items...Carfagno. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. Richter, Hans. Dada: Art and... ...Anti-Art . Trans. David Britt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. Rooks,... |
| 57. |  | Title: City culture and the madrigal at Venice Author: Feldman, Martha Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Music | Musicology | European History Publisher's Description: Martha Feldman's exploration of sixteenth-century Venetian madrigals centers on the importance to the Venetians of Ciceronian rhetorical norms, which emphasized decorum through adherence to distinct stylistic levels. She shows that Venice easily adapted these norms to its long-standing mythologies o . . . [more] Matches in book (81): ...their disciplines with the rhetorical arts, with equal emphasis on styles of... Similar Items...Milan and Naples, 1954. Aristotle. "Art" of Rhetoric. Trans. John Henry Freese.... ...25, 26 (pl. ), 26 -31; as patrons of arts, 29 -32 stylistic levels, 102 , 116 ,... |
| 58. |  | Title: The king's midwife: a history and mystery of Madame du Coudray Author: Gelbart, Nina Rattner Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | French Studies | History and Philosophy of Science | Medicine Publisher's Description: This unorthodox biography explores the life of an extraordinary Enlightenment woman who, by sheer force of character, parlayed a skill in midwifery into a national institution. In 1759, in an effort to end infant mortality, Louis XV commissioned Madame Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray to . . . [more] Matches in book (80): ...Spence's remarks in Mandell, Life into Art , pp. 149-50. 22. See the remarks of... Similar Items...Dictionnaire raisonné universel des arts et métiers, contenant l'histoire, la... ...Paris, 1771. ———. Treatise on the Art of Midwifery . London, 1760. Onderwys voor... |
| 59. |  | Title: The poet's truth: a study of the poet in Virgil's Georgics Author: Perkell, Christine Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language Publisher's Description: The controversy over Virgil's optimism or pessimism, which has long absorbed readers of his poetry, might fruitfully yield to a perspective which allows contradictions to stand unresolved, to constitute, in fact, the essence of his poems' meaning. So interpreted, the pervasive contradictions of the . . . [more] Matches in book (48): ...12 (1965):64–77. Linforth, Ivan. The Arts of Orpheus . Berkeley, 1941. Lloyd, G.... Similar Items...Reprint. 1965. Parry, Adam. "The Idea of Art in Virgil's Georgics ." Arethusa... ...unseen particles), 175 -76 on fine arts, 36 on irregular occurrences, 160 as... |
| 60. |  | Title: Flight from Eden: the origins of modern literary criticism and theory Author: Cassedy, Steven Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | European Literature Publisher's Description: Steven Cassedy takes aim at two of the most enduring myths of modern criticism: that it is secular, and that it is new and autonomous. He argues that though modern criticism is often forbiddingly scientific and technical, the modern critic remains something of a mystic. Every school of modern critic . . . [more] Matches in book (235): ...p. 173; English translation in Bowlt, Russian Art of the Avant-Garde, p. 81. 9.... Similar Items...took hold in the literary and visual arts (which were often hard to distinguish... ...the same cult of relationalism in the arts as we find in human sciences like... |