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| 81. |  | Title: Inscribed landscapes: travel writing from imperial China  Author: Strassberg, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | Asian History | China Publisher's Description: Alongside the scores of travel books about China written by foreign visitors, Chinese travelers' impressions of their own country rarely appear in translation. This anthology is the only comprehensive collection in English of Chinese travel writing from the first century A.D. through the nineteenth. . . . [more] Matches in book (26): ...of Yüeh-yang . The Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Insitution, Washington, ... Similar Items...monuments of Chinese literature and art, establishing the place as a literary... ...of T'eng . The Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, ... |
| 82. |  | Title: Behind the scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the struggle for the Abbey Theatre Author: Frazier, Adrian Woods Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Poetry | Theatre Publisher's Description: Behind the Scenes presents the story of Dublin's famous Abbey Theatre and its major creative personalities: W. B. Yeats, Annie Horniman, J. M. Synge, and Lady Gregory. Part history, part sociology, part biography, Frazier's work recreates the forces that shaped the Abbey stage, forces that involved . . . [more] Matches in book (144): ...of the thoroughgoing effectuality of art, and was finally thrown into... Similar Items...the position of defending "pure art," "... ...art for art's sake."... |
| 83. |  | Title: Displaying the Orient: architecture of Islam at nineteenth-century world's fairs Author: Çelik, Zeynep Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Architecture | European History | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Gathering architectural pieces from all over the world, the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867 introduced to fairgoers the notion of an imaginary journey, a new tourism en place . Through this and similar expositions, the world's cultures were imported to European and American cities as artifacts an . . . [more] Matches in book (108): ...69. See Commission des sciences et arts d'Egypte, Description de l'Egypte, 9... Similar Items...Gleon, 10. This is an early instance of a Western art collector's obsession with... ...saving non-Western art that is not valued by the indigenous—a phenomenon James... |
| 84. |  | Title: And now my soul is hardened: abandoned children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930 Author: Ball, Alan M Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Warfare, epidemics, and famine left millions of Soviet children homeless during the 1920s. Many became beggars, prostitutes, and thieves, and were denizens of both secluded underworld haunts and bustling train stations. Alan Ball's study of these abandoned children examines their lives and the strat . . . [more] Matches in book (129): ...from 1936, see SU , 1936, no. 9, art. 49. For the figure of 350,000 orphans... Similar Items...Ibid. , ed. khr. 4, ll. 86–87. Ibid. , l. 86; SU , 1923, no. 28, art. 326; SU ,... ...1924, no. 23, art. 222. TsGA RSFSR, f. 1575, o. 6, ed. khr. 4, l. 86; Pervyi... |
| 85. |  | Title: The chances of rhyme: device and modernity Author: Wesling, Donald Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Literature | English Literature Matches in book (90): ...The Fortuitousness of Art... Similar Items...are the material condition of all verbal art, but which (by their boldness in... ...44. break 16. Coleridge, "On Poesy or Art," p. 262. 17. Ibid. , pp. 254-255. 16.... |
| 86. |  | Title: William Grant Still: a study in contradictions Author: Smith, Catherine Parsons 1933- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | Composers | African American Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: During the 1930s and 1940s William Grant Still (1895-1978) was known as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers." He worked as an arranger for early radio, on Broadway, and in Hollywood; major symphony orchestras performed his concert works; and an opera, written in collaboration with Langston Hughes, . . . [more] Matches in book (161): ...from the beginning of his career in composing art music on Negro themes. 36... Similar Items...and its usefulness as a basis for modern art music by integrating it within an... ...of Arkansas—Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, 1985), 2. 9. The Clef Club... |
| 87. |  | Title: A silent minority: deaf education in Spain, 1550-1835 Author: Plann, Susan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Language and Linguistics | Medieval History | European History | Education | European Studies | Medieval Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This timely, important, and frequently dramatic story takes place in Spain, for the simple reason that Spain is where language was first systematically taught to the deaf. Instruction is thought to have begun in the mid-sixteenth century in Spanish monastic communities, where the monks under vows of . . . [more] Matches in book (134): ...Chapter 4 The "Entirely Spanish Art" Returns to Its Homeland 1795–1805... Similar Items...Chapter 4 The "Entirely Spanish Art" Returns to Its Homeland 1795–1805... ...end of the century, Spain could point to few, if any, practitioners of the art.... |
| 88. |  | Title: The rhetoric of confession: shishōsetsu in early twentieth-century Japanese fiction Author: Fowler, Edward Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Literature | Japan | Literary Theory and Criticism | Asian Literature Publisher's Description: The shishosetsu is a Japanese form of autobiographical fiction that flourished during the first two decades of this century. Focusing on the works of Chikamatsu Shuko, Shiga Naoya, and Kasai Zenzo, Edward Fowler explores the complex and paradoxical nature of shishosetsu , and discusses its linguisti . . . [more] Matches in book (130): ...Art Writes Life... Similar Items...Self, Nature, Art, and Beyond... ...Tenkei. "Genmetsu jidai no geijutsu" [Art in an age of disillusionment]. In KBHT... |
| 89. |  | Title: The memory of Tiresias: intertextuality and film Author: I︠A︡mpolʹskiĭ, M. B Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Literature | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: The concept of intertextuality has proven of inestimable value in recent attempts to understand the nature of literature and its relation to other systems of cultural meaning. In The Memory of Tiresias , Mikhail Iamposlki presents the first sustained attempt to develop a theory of cinematic intertex . . . [more] Matches in book (142): ...Kak my pishem, 185-186. 8. Yates, Art of Memory, 96. 9. Ibid. , 349. 10. Ibid. ,... Similar Items...in 'stone dolls. ' . . . .true art is never fixed, but always flowing." 33.... ...noting, however, that Vachel Lindsay ( Art of the Moving Picture, 267-269) with... |
| 90. |  | Title: Reflections of an American composer Author: Berger, Arthur 1912- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | American Music | Classical Music | Contemporary Music | Composers | Musicology Publisher's Description: In this engrossing collection of essays, distinguished composer, theorist, journalist, and educator Arthur Berger invites us into the vibrant and ever-changing American music scene that has been his home for most of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane, and always entertaining, Berger describes the . . . [more] Matches in book (122): ...cultivated especially by folk in the arts. Thomson was discussing a soprano who... Similar Items...Raison d'etre of Criticism in the Arts,” in Music and Criticism: A Symposium,... ...toward the National Endowmentfor the Arts, except that now the conflict, though... |
| 91. |  | Title: Representation and its discontents: the critical legacy of German romanticism Author: Seyhan, Azade Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Philosophy | Literary Theory and Criticism | German Studies Publisher's Description: Azade Seyhan provides a concise, elegantly argued introduction to the critical theory of German Romanticism and demonstrates how its approach to the metaphorical and linguistic nature of knowledge is very much alive in contemporary philosophy and literary theory. Her analysis of key thinkers such as . . . [more] Matches in book (106): ...where accepted notions of knowledge, art, and history face critical challenges.... Similar Items...allegory of the cave or library lies the art of remembering the collective tales... ...understood as a commentary on the work of art or literature. As Novalis put it,... |
| 92. |  | Title: A skeptic among scholars: August Frugé on university publishing Author: Frugé, August 1909- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Reference | Publishing Publisher's Description: When August Frugé joined the University of California Press in 1944, it was part of the University's printing department, publishing a modest number of books a year, mainly monographs by UC faculty members. When he retired as director 32 years later, the Press had been transformed into one of the la . . . [more] Matches in book (121): ...17 Mega Biblion: Exposing the Press to Art History... Similar Items...Emily, Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry , 92 -93 Villon, François,... ...214 il Arnheim, Rudolf, 165 -66, 231 -32 Art and art history, 73 , 79 , 229 -44,... |
| 93. |  | Title: An archaeology of Greece: the present state and future scope of a discipline Author: Snodgrass, Anthony M Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Classics | Archaeology | European History Publisher's Description: Classical archaeology probably enjoys a wider appeal than any other branch of classical or archaeological studies. As an intellectual and academic discipline, however, its esteem has not matched its popularity. Here, Anthony Snodgrass argues that classical archaeology has a rare potential in the who . . . [more] Matches in book (89): ...Chapter Five The First Figure-scenes in Greek Art... Similar Items...68 Dorians, 47 , 196 Double figures, in Geometric art, 157 -58 Ducrey, P. , 65... ...Sicily, 52 -54 Geneva, 65 -66 Geometric art, 147 -58, 164 -69 Gombrich, E. , 134... |
| 94. |  | Title: Hollywood in Berlin: American cinema and Weimar Germany Author: Saunders, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | German Studies | Film | United States History | European History Publisher's Description: The setting is 1920s Berlin, cultural heart of Europe and the era's only serious cinematic rival to Hollywood. In his engaging study, Thomas Saunders explores an outstanding example of one of the most important cultural developments of this century: global Americanization through the motion picture. . . . [more] Matches in book (116): ...George . The Sociology of Film Art. New York: Basic Books, 1965. Jacobsen,... Similar Items...1989. Willett, John . The New Sobriety: Art and Politics in the Weimar Period.... ...162. Cf. John Willett, The New Sobriety: Art and Politics in the Weimar Period (... |
| 95. |  | Title: Aristotle on the goals and exactness of ethics Author: Anagnostopoulos, Georgios Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Classical Philosophy Publisher's Description: Philosophers as diverse as Socrates, Plato, Spinoza, and Rawls have sometimes argued that ethics can be an exact discipline whose propositions can match the exactness we associate with mathematics. Yet for Aristotle, knowledge of ethical matters is essentially inexact, and his perceptive criticisms . . . [more] Matches in book (174): ...Indianapolis: Library of Liberal Arts, 1945. Hardie, W. F. R. Aristotle's... Similar Items...Odes . Indianapolis: Library of Liberal Arts, 1974. Poincaré, H. Mathematics and... ...the N.E. "in the loose sense of 'art', 'practical science', sometimes almost '... |
| 96. |  | Title: Plato's Euthydemus: analysis of what is and is not philosophy Author: Chance, Thomas H Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Classical Philosophy | Literature Publisher's Description: With Plato's Euthydemus , Thomas Chance solves a longstanding riddle of Platonic studies. Thought to be an early, immature work, the Euthydemus has come across to scholars as lacking Plato's characteristic greatness. This apparent lack, Chance argues, is not a failure of the text but of scholarly pe . . . [more] Matches in book (120): ...The Royal Art (291 B 1-292 E 7)... Similar Items...The Art of Logic-Production (289 C 6-290 A 6)... ...and differences exist between both arts and that, in particular, they share the... |
| 97. |  | Title: The American musical landscape Author: Crawford, Richard 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Music | Musicology | American Studies | United States History Publisher's Description: In this refreshingly direct and engaging historical treatment of American music and musicology, Richard Crawford argues for the recognition of the distinct and vital character of American music. What is that character? How has musical life been supported in the United States and how have Americans u . . . [more] Matches in book (130): ...New York, 1985. Becker, Howard. Art Worlds . Berkeley, 1982. Belfy, Jeanne. The... Similar Items...The Classification and Framing of American Art." Media, Culture, and Society 4 (... ...Darby, eds. Music in America. (The Art of Music , edited by Daniel Gregory... |
| 98. |  | Title: The new German cinema: music, history, and the matter of style Author: Flinn, Caryl Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | German Studies | Music Publisher's Description: When New German cinema directors like R. W. Fassbinder, Ulrike Ottinger, and Werner Schroeter explored issues of identity - national, political, personal, and sexual - music and film style played crucial roles. Most studies of the celebrated film movement, however, have sidestepped the role of music . . . [more] Matches in book (116): ...THE ART OF NOISE... Similar Items...conspicuously small role in these "art-melodramas" of the 1970s only increases... ...like musicals, operas, and performance art, will often enrapture its viewers.... |
| 99. |  | Title: The limits of realism: Chinese fiction in the revolutionary period Author: Anderson, Marston Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | Asian Literature Publisher's Description: Chinese intellectuals of the early twentieth century were attracted to realism primarily as a tool for social regeneration. Realism encouraged writers to adopt the stance of the independent cultural critic and drew into the compass of serious literature the disenfranchised "others" of Chinese societ . . . [more] Matches in book (98): ...wenyi shi (History of the literature and arts of the Chinese War of Resistance).... Similar Items...Mao Dun's essays on literature and the arts). 2 vols. Shanghai: Shanghai wenyi... ...Taipei, Taiwan: Tamkang College of Arts and Sciences, 1970–. Tuohuangzhe (... |
| 100. |  | Title: Cognition: an introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit Author: Rockmore, Tom 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit , the philosopher's first and perhaps greatest work, is the most important philosophical treatise of the nineteenth century. In this companion volume to his general introduction to Hegel, Tom Rockmore offers a passage-by-passage guide to the Phenomenology for first-ti . . . [more] Matches in book (70): ...a. The Abstract Work of Art (Kunstwerk)... Similar Items...b. The Living Work of Art... ...c. The Spiritual Work of Art... |