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Sprezzatura
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Author : Paolo D'Angelo
language : en
Publisher: Columbia Themes in Philosophy
Release Date : 2018
Sprezzatura written by Paolo D'Angelo and has been published by Columbia Themes in Philosophy this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Art categories.
Paolo D'Angelo traces the history of concealing art--which Italian calls sprezzatura--from ancient rhetoric to our own times. Finding the precept that art must be hidden from cosmetics to interior design, politics to poetry, the English garden to shabby chic, Sprezzatura is an erudite and surprising tour of aesthetics, philosophy, and art history.
Sprezzatura
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Author : Peter D'Epiro
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Sprezzatura written by Peter D'Epiro and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with History categories.
A witty, erudite celebration of fifty great Italian cultural achievements that have significantly influenced Western civilization from the authors of What Are the Seven Wonders of the World? “Sprezzatura,” or the art of effortless mastery, was coined in 1528 by Baldassare Castiglione in The Book of the Courtier. No one has demonstrated effortless mastery throughout history quite like the Italians. From the Roman calendar and the creator of the modern orchestra (Claudio Monteverdi) to the beginnings of ballet and the creator of modern political science (Niccolò Machiavelli), Sprezzatura highlights fifty great Italian cultural achievements in a series of fifty information-packed essays in chronological order.
Sprezzatura
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Author : Paolo D'Angelo
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-06
Sprezzatura written by Paolo D'Angelo 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 2018-03-06 with Art categories.
The essence of art is to conceal art. A dancer or musician does not only need to perform with ability. There should also be a lack of visible effort that gives an impression of naturalness. To disguise technique and feign ease is to heighten beauty. To express this notion, Italian has a word with no exact equivalent in other languages, sprezzatura: a kind of unaffectedness or nonchalance. In this book, the first to consider sprezzatura in its own right, philosopher of art Paolo D’Angelo reconstructs the history of concealing art, from ancient rhetoric to our own times. The word sprezzatura was coined in 1528 by Baldassarre Castiglione in The Book of the Courtier to mean a kind of grace with a special essence: the ability to conceal art. But the idea reaches back to Aristotle and Cicero and forward to avant-garde works such as Duchamp’s ready-mades, all of which share the suspicion of the overt display of skill. The precept that art must be hidden turns up in a number of fields, from cosmetics to interior design, politics to poetry, the English garden to shabby chic. Through exploring different articulations of this idea, D’Angelo shows the paradox of aesthetics: art hides that it is art, but in doing so it reveals itself to be art and becomes an assertion about art. When art is concealed, it appears as spontaneous as nature—yet, paradoxically, also reveals its indebtedness to technique. An erudite and surprising tour through aesthetics, philosophy, and art history, Sprezzatura presents a strikingly original argument with deceptive ease.
The Absence Of Grace
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Author : Harry Berger
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2000
The Absence Of Grace written by Harry Berger and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Absence of Grace is a study of male fantasy, representation anxiety, and narratorial authority in two sixteenth-century books, Baldassare Castiglione's Il libro del Cortegiano (1528) and Giovanni Della Casa's Galateo (1558). The interpretive method is a form of close reading the author describes as reconstructed old New Criticism, that is, close reading conditioned by an interest in and analysis of the historical changes reflected in the text. The book focuses on the way the Courtier and Galateo cope with and represent the interaction between changes of elite culture and the changing construction of masculine identity in early modern Europe. More specifically, it connects questions of male fantasy and masculine identity to questions about the authority and reliability of narrators, and shows how these questions surface in narratorial attitudes toward socioeconomic rank or class, political power, and gender. The book is in three parts. Part One examines a distinction and correlation the Courtier establishes between two key terms, (1) sprezzatura, defined as a behavioral skill intended to simulate the attributes of (2) grazia, understood as the grace and privileges of noble birth. Because sprezzatura is negatively conceptualized as the absence of grace it generates anxiety and suspicion in performers and observers alike. In order to suggest how the binary opposition between these terms affected the discourse of manners, the author singles out the titular episode of Galateo, an anecdote about table manners, which he reads closely and then sets in its historical perspective. Part Two takes up the question of sprezzatura in the gender debate that develops in Book 3 of the Courtier, and Part Three explores in detail the characterization of the two narrators in the Courtier and Galateo, who are represented as unreliable and an object of parody or critique.
Sprezzatura 50 Ways Italian Genius Shaped The World
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Author : Peter D'Epiro
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2001-10
Sprezzatura 50 Ways Italian Genius Shaped The World written by Peter D'Epiro and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-10 with History categories.
From Dante to Da Vinci, from Boccaccio to Brunelleschi, from the Romans to Roberto Rossellini, Italy has enriched the way we live. In these fascinating and information-packed essays, Sprezzatura offers an irresistible anatomy of Italian know-how, as expressed through its greatest cultural achievements.
Writing Fashion In Early Modern Italy
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Author : Eugenia Paulicelli
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-17
Writing Fashion In Early Modern Italy written by Eugenia Paulicelli and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-17 with Art categories.
The first comprehensive study on the role of Italian fashion and Italian literature, this book analyzes clothing and fashion as described and represented in literary texts and costume books in the Italy of the 16th and 17th centuries. Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy emphasizes the centrality of Italian literature and culture for understanding modern theories of fashion and gauging its impact in the shaping of codes of civility and taste in Europe and the West. Using literature to uncover what has been called the ’animatedness of clothing,’ author Eugenia Paulicelli explores the political meanings that clothing produces in public space. At the core of the book is the idea that the texts examined here act as maps that, first, pinpoint the establishment of fashion as a social institution of modernity; and, second, gauge the meaning of clothing at a personal and a political level. As well as Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier and Cesare Vecellio’s The Clothing of the Renaissance World, the author looks at works by Italian writers whose books are not yet available in English translation, such as those by Giacomo Franco, Arcangela Tarabotti, and Agostino Lampugnani. Paying particular attention to literature and the relevance of clothing in the shaping of codes of civility and style, this volume complements the existing and important works on Italian fashion and material culture in the Renaissance. It makes the case for the centrality of Italian literature and the interconnectedness of texts from a variety of genres for an understanding of the history of Italian style, and serves to contextualize the debate on dress in other European literatures.
Sprezzatura And The Art Of Painting Finely
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Author : Philipp P. Fehl
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Sprezzatura And The Art Of Painting Finely written by Philipp P. Fehl and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Brushwork categories.
Apelles -- Raphael Sanzio -- Michelangelo Buonarotti -- Titiaan di Gregorio Vecellio -- Rembrandt van Rijn -- Borch, Gerard ter -- Sprezzatura.
Bel Canto
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Author : James Stark
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Bel Canto written by James Stark and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Music categories.
A history of vocal pedagogy from the beginning of the bel canto tradition of solo singing in the late 16th century and dealing extensively with such topics as the emergence of virtuoso singing, national singing styles, and the 'secrets' of bel canto.
You Re Too Kind
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Author : Richard Stengel
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2002-02-05
You Re Too Kind written by Richard Stengel 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 2002-02-05 with Social Science categories.
From the primates to the ancient world all the way to Hollywood, "You're Too Kind" presents a primer on flattery--where it originated, its development through the ages, and its myriad uses in contemporary culture.
The Book Of The Courtier
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Author : Baldassarre Castiglione
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928
The Book Of The Courtier written by Baldassarre Castiglione and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with categories.