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| 61. |  | Title: In a cold crater: cultural and intellectual life in Berlin, 1945-1948  Author: Schivelbusch, Wolfgang 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | German Studies | European History | Literature | Film | Music Publisher's Description: Although the three conspicuous cultures of Berlin in the twentieth century - Weimar, Nazi, and Cold War - are well documented, little is known about the years between the fall of the Third Reich and the beginning of the Cold War. In a Cold Crater is the history of this volatile postwar moment, when . . . [more] Matches in book (54): ...enterprise and relative freedom of the arts. NKVD Russian acronym for Narodnyn... Similar Items...in Berlin, so open to experiment, and in art and spirit so radical, had already... ...radio, film, theater, music, and art" (288). 78. Clay to McClure, December 14,... |
| 62. |  | Title: The humanities in American life: report of the Commission on the Humanities Author: Commission on the Humanities (1978- ) Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Social Science Matches in book (170): ...mothers and expanded to include art and music as components of a literacy-in-... Similar Items...to define culture narrowly as the arts, often failing to see the more subtle... ...Rosovsky, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University John E.... |
| 63. |  | Title: Imaging Aristotle: verbal and visual representation in fourteenth-century France Author: Sherman, Claire Richter Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art History | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Nicole Oresme's translation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Economics into French from Latin in the 1370s is the subject of Claire Sherman's stunningly illustrated book. Though both the text translations and their images have been studied separately, this is the first time they are . . . [more] Matches in book (223): ...Art... Similar Items...1963): 158–73. Yates, Frances A. The Art of Memory . London: Penguin Books,... ...of the layout, the position of Art and Sapience on the left and right... |
| 64. |  | Title: Bolshevik festivals, 1917-1920 Author: Von Geldern, James Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | European Literature | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: In the early years of the USSR, socialist festivals - events entailing enormous expense and the deployment of thousands of people - were inaugurated by the Bolsheviks. Avant-garde canvases decorated the streets, workers marched, and elaborate mass spectacles were staged. Why, with a civil war raging . . . [more] Matches in book (211): ...The October Revolution and the Arts... Similar Items...113 We, 9 Zhizn' iskusstva (The Life of Art) , 98 Zielinski, Tadeusz, 164 Zimin... ...Osvobozhdennyi trud . Arkhangelsk, 1920. Arts Council of Great Britain. Art in... |
| 65. |  | Title: Hellenistic history and culture Author: Green, Peter 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Ancient History | History Publisher's Description: In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age.A di . . . [more] Matches in book (181): ...The Base Mechanic Arts”?... Similar Items...What Is “Hellenistic” about Hellenistic Art?... ...Martin Robertson, A History of Greek Art (Cambridge, 1975), 445–590. J. J.... |
| 66. |  | Title: Opera in seventeenth-century Venice: the creation of a genre Author: Rosand, Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Opera | European History Publisher's Description: Ellen Rosand shows how opera, born of courtly entertainment, took root in the special social and economic environment of seventeenth-century Venice and there developed the stylistic and aesthetic characteristics we recognize as opera today. With ninety-one music examples, most of them complete piece . . . [more] Matches in book (72): ...urban fabric. Opera as we know it, as an art appealing to a broad audience, had... Similar Items...interest and excitement in the new art. Their success created a market for opera... ...preeminence. Once representatives of the art, they became its very embodiment.... |
| 67. |  | Title: Giambologna: narrator of the Catholic Reformation Author: Gibbons, Mary Weitzel 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art History Publisher's Description: Arguably the pre-eminent European sculptor of his age, but historically considered little more than the facile court sculptor to the grand dukes of Florence, Giambologna played a major role in the artistic transformations of the late sixteenth century. Mary Weitzel Gibbons seeks to broaden our hithe . . . [more] Matches in book (151): ...Queensland Art Gallery, in Brisbane, Giambologna's work at, 179 , 185... Similar Items...on the Painting of the Maniera." Art Bulletin 47 (1965): 187-97. ———. Painting... ...del Gonfalone and Its Oratory in Rome: Art and Counter-Reformation Spiritual... |
| 68. |  | Title: Urban forms and colonial confrontations: Algiers under French rule Author: Çelik, Zeynep Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Architecture | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | French Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: During its long history as the French colonial city par excellence , Algiers was the site of recurrent conflicts between colonizer and colonized. Through architecture and urban forms confrontations were crystallized, cultural identities were defined, and social engineering programs were shaped and c . . . [more] Matches in book (37): ...Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art. New York, 1972. Thornton, L. The... Similar Items...104, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Steinberg Fund, 1960, ©... ...Linda Nochlin, "The Imaginary Orient," Art in America 71, no. 5 (May 1983): 120-... |
| 69. |  | Title: Loyola's acts: the rhetoric of the self Author: Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Renaissance History | Christianity | Rhetoric | Art History | Medieval History Publisher's Description: This revisionist view of Ignatius Loyola argues that his "autobiography" - until now taken to be a literal, documentary account - is in reality a work of rhetoric, a moral narrative that exploits the techniques of fiction. In radically reinterpreting this canonical text, our main source of informati . . . [more] Matches in book (196): ...21, 25. 208. Frances A. Yates, The Art of Memory (Chicago: University of Chicago... Similar Items...arte tripudii: On the Practice or Art of Dancing. Ed. Barbara Sparti. Oxford:... ...Aristotle, Rhetorica 3.14.6; The "Art" of Rhetoric , trans. John Henry Freese (... |
| 70. |  | Title: Crescendo of the virtuoso: spectacle, skill, and self-promotion in Paris during the Age of Revolution Author: Metzner, Paul 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | European Studies Publisher's Description: During the Age of Revolution, Paris came alive with wildly popular virtuoso performances. Whether the performers were musicians or chefs, chess players or detectives, these virtuosos transformed their technical skills into dramatic spectacles, presenting the marvelous and the outré for spellbound au . . . [more] Matches in book (222): ...Oeuvres complètes, vol. 1, p. 5; Carême, Art de la cuisine française, 1981 ed. ,... Similar Items...Paris ed. , 1846), unpaginated. Carême, Art de la cuisine française, 1981 ed. ,... ...vol. 1, p. lxvi; Cussy, “L’Art culinaire,” in Classiques de la table, 1855 ed. ,... |
| 71. |  | Title: Empire of ecstasy: nudity and movement in German body culture, 1910-1935 Author: Toepfer, Karl Eric 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | German Studies | Gender Studies | Dance Publisher's Description: Empire of Ecstasy offers a novel interpretation of the explosion of German body culture between the two wars - nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs. Karl Toepfer presents t . . . [more] Matches in book (248): ...Graphic Arts... Similar Items...reason it can at best build a bridge to an acceptable practical art, never to... ...a high art, which always demands something unconditional" (HFK 218).... |
| 72. |  | Title: Russia's last capitalists: the Nepmen, 1921-1929 Author: Ball, Alan M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: In 1921 Lenin surprised foreign observers and many in his own Party, by calling for the legalization of private trade and manufacturing. Within a matter of months, this New Economic Policy (NEP) spawned many thousands of private entrepreneurs, dubbed Nepmen. After delineating this political backgrou . . . [more] Matches in book (150): ...p. 84. 70. For some of these tax decrees, see SZ, 1931, No. 31, art. 237; SZ,... Similar Items...1931, No. 40, art. 279; and SZ,... ...1932, No. 75, art. 459. 71. Trifonov, Ocherki, p. 130. 72. See, for example,... |
| 73. |  | Title: Revenge of the aesthetic: the place of literature in theory today Author: Clark, Michael 1950- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Philosophy Publisher's Description: This cutting-edge collection of essays showcases the work of some of the most influential theorists of the past thirty years as they grapple with the question of how literature should be treated in contemporary theory. The contributors challenge trends that have recently dominated the field--especia . . . [more] Matches in book (175): ...Marvell and the Art of Disappearance... Similar Items...lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of art" (W 72).... ...between literature and the visual arts, considered within the domain of the... |
| 74. |  | Title: An unmastered past: the autobiographical reflections of Leo Lowenthal Author: Lowenthal, Leo Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Sociology | Social Theory | Social and Political Thought Matches in book (172): ...173 , 223 , 266 ; and function of art, 122 -23, 128 , 172 , 173 , 196 ; Jewish,... Similar Items...revisionism appears in "Eine Art Schadensabwicklung: Die apologetischen... ...of the sociology of literature as art. Adorno once said, "Works of art . . .... |
| 75. |  | Title: Cecil B. DeMille and American culture: the silent era Author: Higashi, Sumiko Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | History | Film | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture demonstrates that the director, best remembered for his overblown biblical epics, was one of the most remarkable film pioneers of the Progressive Era. In this innovative work, which integrates cultural history and cultural studies, Sumiko Higashi shows how DeMil . . . [more] Matches in book (180): ...practice became the basis for a redefinition of cinema as a democratic art form.... Similar Items...214 n. 12, 240 n. 6. See also Arthur, Art; Hayne, Donald Automobile, 176 Ayres,... ...Photography by J. Peverell Marley. Art direction by Paul Iribe. Starring Lillian... |
| 76. |  | Title: Inside the drama-house: Rama stories and shadow puppets in South India Author: Blackburn, Stuart H Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | South Asia | Cinema and Performance Arts | Hinduism Publisher's Description: Stuart Blackburn takes the reader inside a little-known form of shadow puppetry in this captivating work about performing the Tamil version of the Ramayana epic. Blackburn describes the skill and physical stamina of the puppeteers in Kerala state in South India as they perform all night for as many . . . [more] Matches in book (34): ...SARASVATI: goddess of learning and arts; wife of Brahma SASTRAS : books of... Similar Items...Resources Centre for Folk Performing Arts. Krishna Iyer, K. V. 1973 (1942). The... ...P. 1986. Rama in Indian Literature, Art, and Thought . 2 vols. Delhi: Sundeep... |
| 77. |  | Title: Landscapes of resistance: the German films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub Author: Byg, Barton 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | German Studies | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Fervently admired and frequently reviled, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet - who have lived and worked together for almost forty years - may well be the most uncompromising, not to say intransigent, filmmakers in the history of the medium. Their radical and deeply political films placed them as . . . [more] Matches in book (190): ...use of this knowledge, and the work of art cannot presume to prescribe how this... Similar Items...Journal from the Royal College of Art (January 1976):97. 53. "Andi Engel Talks... ...the Left: The Search for a Dialectic of Art and Life (Heidelberg: Carl Winter... |
| 78. |  | Title: Hollywood quarterly: film culture in postwar America, 1945-1957 Author: Smoodin, Eric Loren Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: The first issue of Hollywood Quarterly, in October 1945, marked the appearance of the most significant, successful, and regularly published journal of its kind in the United States. For its entire life, the Quarterly held to the leftist utopianism of its founders, several of whom would later be blac . . . [more] Matches in book (186): ...and important activities of New York's Museum of Modern Art, and the screenings... Similar Items...of San Francisco's Art in Cinema and other societies are now bearing fruit. As... ...Scenario, Erich von Stroheim. Hamlet. Art-Film, 1920. Director, Svend Gade.... |
| 79. |  | Title: The collected essays of Robert Creeley. Author: Creeley, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Literature | English Literature Publisher's Description: For nearly four decades, Robert Creeley has been a popular and often controversial force in American poetry and letters. His essays, written from the 1950s to the 1980s and collected here for the first time, show a poet deeply touched by and in touch with the concerns of his post-war generation. His . . . [more] Matches in book (203): ...An Intensely Singular Art"... Similar Items...Feedback: "Contemporary Voices in the Arts"... ...wish to define his own commitment to this art, "For My Son When He Can Read"—the... |
| 80. |  | Title: Writing signs: the Fatimid public text Author: Bierman, Irene A Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Literature Publisher's Description: Irene Bierman explores the complex relationship between alphabet and language as well as the ways the two elements are socially defined by time and place. She focuses her exploration on the Eastern Mediterranean in the sixth through twelfth centuries, notably Cairo's Fatimid dynasty of 969-1171. Exa . . . [more] Matches in book (116): ...1998 To the critical issues in Islamic Art History that Oleg Grabar forced us... Similar Items...no longer extant. Peter R. L. Brown, “Art and Society in Late Antiquity,” in The... ...Weitzmann (Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton University Press, 1980), 17–... |