Chroniques Du Xviiie Si Cle Gazette Anecdotique Du R Gne De Louis Xvi
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Chroniques Du Xviiie Si Cle Gazette Anecdotique Du R Gne De Louis Xvi
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Author : Édouard Rouveyre
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
Chroniques Du Xviiie Si Cle Gazette Anecdotique Du R Gne De Louis Xvi written by Édouard Rouveyre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with France categories.
Painted Love
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Author : Hollis Clayson
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2003-10-30
Painted Love written by Hollis Clayson and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-30 with Art categories.
In this engrossing book, Hollis Clayson provides the first description and analysis of French artistic interest in women prostitutes, examining how the subject was treated in the art of the 1870s and 1880s by such avant-garde painters as Cézanne, Degas, Manet, and Renoir, as well as by the academic and low-brow painters who were their contemporaries. Clayson not only illuminates the imagery of prostitution-with its contradictory connotations of disgust and fascination-but also tackles the issues and problems relevant to women and men in a patriarchal society. She discusses the conspicuous sexual commerce during this era and the resulting public panic about the deterioration of social life and civilized mores. She describes the system that evolved out of regulating prostitutes and the subsequent rise of clandestine prostitutes who escaped police regulation and who were condemned both for blurring social boundaries and for spreading sexual licentiousness among their moral and social superiors. Clayson argues that the subject of covert prostitution was especially attractive to vanguard painters because it exemplified the commercialization and the ambiguity of modern life.
From The Royal To The Republican Body
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Author : Sara E. Melzer
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1998-07-20
From The Royal To The Republican Body written by Sara E. Melzer and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-07-20 with History categories.
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 mastered subjects' minds by disciplining the body through dance, music, drama, art, and social rituals. The last essays in the volume focus on the unmaking of the king's body and the substitution of a new, republican body. Throughout, the authors explore how race and gender shaped the body politic under the Bourbons and during the Revolution. This compelling study expands our conception of state power and demonstrates that seemingly apolitical activities like the performing arts, dress and ritual, contribute to the state's hegemony. From the Royal to the Republican Body will be an essential resource for students and scholars of history, literature, music, dance and performance studies, gender studies, art history, and political theory.
Crescendo Of The Virtuoso
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Author : Paul Metzner
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2024-07-26
Crescendo Of The Virtuoso written by Paul Metzner and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-26 with History categories.
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 audiences. Who these characters were, how they attained their fame, and why Paris became the focal point of their activities is the subject of Paul Metzner's absorbing study. Covering the years 1775 to 1850, Metzner describes the careers of a handful of virtuosos: chess masters who played several games at once; a chef who sculpted hundreds of four-foot-tall architectural fantasies in sugar; the first police detective, whose memoirs inspired the invention of the detective story; a violinist who played whole pieces on a single string. He examines these virtuosos as a group in the context of the society that was then the capital of Western civilization. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999.
Orestes
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Author : Voltaire
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-08-02
Orestes written by Voltaire and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-02 with Drama categories.
Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived deep enough into the human heart. I will moreover fairly confess, that there are beauties peculiar not only to the Greek language, but to the climate, to manners and times, which it would be ridiculous to transplant hither. Therefore I have not copied exactly the Electra of Sophocles-much more I knew would be necessary; but I have taken, as well as I could, all the spirit and substance of it."
The Red And The Black
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Author : Stendhal
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2008-10-15
The Red And The Black written by Stendhal and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-15 with Fiction categories.
"The Red and the Black" is a reflective novel about the rise of poor, intellectually gifted people to High Society. Set in 19th century France it portrays the era after the exile of Napoleon to St. Helena. The influential, sharp epigrams in striking prose, leave reader almost as intrigued by the author s talent as the surprising twists that occur in the arduous love life.
Women In The French Revolution 1789
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Author : Yves Bessieres
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Women In The French Revolution 1789 written by Yves Bessieres and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with France categories.
Journal Of My Life
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Author : Jacques-Louis Ménétra
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1986
Journal Of My Life written by Jacques-Louis Ménétra and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Jaques-Louis Menetra's journal reads like a historian's dream come true. It conveys his understanding of what it meant to grow up in Paris, where he was born in 1738; to tramp around provincial shops on a journeyman's tour de France; to settle down as a Parisian master with a shop and family of his own; and to live through the great events of the Revolution as a militant in his local Section.
The French Revolution From Its Origins To 1793
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Author : Georges Lefebvre
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1962
The French Revolution From Its Origins To 1793 written by Georges Lefebvre and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with France categories.
Music And The Occult
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Author : Joscelyn Godwin
language : en
Publisher: Boydell Press
Release Date : 1995
Music And The Occult written by Joscelyn Godwin and has been published by Boydell Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Music categories.
This book is an adventure into the unexplored territory of French esoteric philosophies and their relation to music. Occultism and esotericism flourished in nineteenth-century France as they did nowhere else. Many philosophers sought the key to the universe, some claimed to have found it, and, in the unitive vision that resulted, music invariably played an important part. These modern Pythagoreans all believed in the Harmony of the Spheres and in the powerful effects of music on the human soul and body. Faced with the challenge of the rationalist Enlightenment, then with that of modern scientism, they adapted their occultism to the prevailing style. A widely published musicologist and authority on esotericism, Godwin is able to give a clear and concise context for these philosophers' often surprising beliefs, and he demonstrates how this "speculative music" influenced composers such as Satie and Debussy, who were familiar with occultism. His long study of music and the Western esoteric tradition makes him uniquely qualified to unravel the strange story of these forgotten sages.