The Courtezan Olympia
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The Courtezan Olympia An Intimate Survey Of Artists And Their Mistress Models
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Author : C. J. Bulliet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-06
The Courtezan Olympia An Intimate Survey Of Artists And Their Mistress Models written by C. J. Bulliet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06 with categories.
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The Courtesan S Arts
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Author : Martha Feldman
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2006-03-23
The Courtesan S Arts written by Martha Feldman and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-23 with History categories.
Courtesans, hetaeras, tawaif-s, ji-s--these women have exchanged artistic graces, elevated conversation, and sexual favors with male patrons throughout history and around the world. In Ming dynasty China and early modern Italy, exchange was made through poetry, speech, and music; in pre-colonial India through magic, music, chemistry, and other arts. Yet like the art of courtesanry itself, those arts have often thrived outside present-day canons and modes of transmission, and have mostly vanished without trace.The Courtesan's Arts delves into this hidden legacy, while touching on its equivocal relationship to geisha. At once interdisciplinary, empirical, and theoretical, the book is the first to ask how arts have figured in the survival or demise of courtesan cultures by juxtaposing research from different fields. Among cases studied by writers on classics, ethnomusicology, anthropology, and various histories of art, music, literature, and political culture are Ming dynasty China, twentieth-century Korea, Edo and modern Japan, ancient Greece, early modern Italy, and India, past and present. Refusing a universal model, the authors nevertheless share a perception that courtesans hover in the crevices of space, time, and practice--between gifts and money, courts and cities, subtlety and flamboyance, feminine allure and masculine power, as wifely surrogates but keepers of culture. What most binds them to their arts in our post-industrialized world of global services and commodities, they find, is courtesans' fragility, as their cultures, once vital to civilizations founded in leisure and pleasure, are now largely forgotten, transforming courtesans into national icons or historical curiosities, or reducing them to prostitution.
In The Company Of The Courtesan
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Author : Sarah Dunant
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-07-02
In The Company Of The Courtesan written by Sarah Dunant and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-02 with Fiction categories.
With their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her companion dwarf Bucino escape the sack of Rome. It's 1527. They head for the shimmering, decadent city of Venice. Sarah Dunant's epic novel of sixteenth-century Renaissance Italy is a story about the sins of pleasure and the pleasures of sin, an intoxicating mix of fact and fiction, and a dazzling portait of one of the worlds greatest cities at its most potent moment in history.
Manet Olympia
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Author : Theodore Reff
language : en
Publisher: Viking
Release Date : 1977
Manet Olympia written by Theodore Reff and has been published by Viking this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Female nude in art categories.
A Companion To Nineteenth Century Art
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Author : Michelle Facos
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2018-12-06
A Companion To Nineteenth Century Art written by Michelle Facos and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-06 with Art categories.
A comprehensive review of art in the first truly modern century A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art contains contributions from an international panel of noted experts to offer a broad overview of both national and transnational developments, as well as new and innovative investigations of individual art works, artists, and issues. The text puts to rest the skewed perception of nineteenth-century art as primarily Paris-centric by including major developments beyond the French borders. The contributors present a more holistic and nuanced understanding of the art world during this first modern century. In addition to highlighting particular national identities of artists, A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art also puts the focus on other aspects of identity including individual, ethnic, gender, and religious. The text explores a wealth of relevant topics such as: the challenges the artists faced; how artists learned their craft and how they met clients; the circumstances that affected artist’s choices and the opportunities they encountered; and where the public and critics experienced art. This important text: Offers a comprehensive review of nineteenth-century art that covers the most pressing issues and significant artists of the era Covers a wealth of important topics such as: ethnic and gender identity, certain general trends in the nineteenth century, an overview of the art market during the period, and much more Presents novel and valuable insights into familiar works and their artists Written for students of art history and those studying the history of the nineteenth century, A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art offers a comprehensive review of the first modern era art with contributions from noted experts in the field.
Alias Olympia
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Author : Eunice Lipton
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-15
Alias Olympia written by Eunice Lipton and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Eunice Lipton was a fledging art historian when she first became intrigued by Victorine Meurent, the nineteenth-century model who appeared in Edouard Manet's most famous paintings, only to vanish from history in a haze of degrading hearsay. But had this bold and spirited beauty really descended into prostitution, drunkenness, and early death—or did her life, hidden from history, take a different course altogether? Eunice Lipton's search for the answer combines the suspense of a detective story with the revelatory power of art, peeling off layers of lies to reveal startling truths about Victorine Meurent—and about Lipton herself.
Alias Olympia
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Author : Eunice Lipton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Alias Olympia written by Eunice Lipton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Artists' models categories.
A biography, memoir and detective story, this is an account of the life of Victorine Meurent, Edouard Manet's favourite model. Her defiant gaze from the canvas of such famous - and scandalous - paintings as Olympia and Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe provoked a riot. But was she, as her contemporaries testified, simply a drunkard and a courtesan? Or was she an accomplished artist in her own right?
Impressions Of French Modernity
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Author : Richard Hobbs
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1998
Impressions Of French Modernity written by Richard Hobbs and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Art categories.
International specialists in French art and literature come together in this volume to investigate moderniteacute; through painting, sculpture, the novel, diaries, dance, poetry, criticism and theory.
Thinking Through The Mothers
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Author : Janet Beizer
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-15
Thinking Through The Mothers written by Janet Beizer and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
If questions of subjectivity and identification are at stake in all biographical writing, they are particularly trenchant for contemporary women biographers of women. Often, their efforts to exhume buried lives in hope of finding spiritual foremothers awaken maternal phantoms that must be embraced or confronted. Do women writing in fact have any greater access to their own mothers' lives than to the lives of other women whose stories have been swept away like dust in the debris of the past? In Thinking through the Mothers, Janet Beizer surveys modern women's biographies and contemplates alternatives to an approach based in lineage and the form of thought that emphasizes the line, the path, hierarchy, unity, resemblance, reflection, and the aesthetic-mimesis-that depends on these ideas. Through close readings of memoirs and fictions about mothers, Beizer explores how biographers of the women who came before rehearse and rewrite relationships to their own mothers biographically as they seek to appropriate the past in a hybrid genre she calls "bio-autography." Thinking through the Mothers features the work of George Sand and Colette and spans such varied figures as Gustave Flaubert, Julian Barnes, Louise Colet, Eunice Lipton, Vladimir Nabokov, Huguette Bouchardeau, and Christa Wolf. Beizer seeks an alternative to women's "salvation biography" or "resurrection biography" that might resist nostalgia, be attentive to silence, and reinvent the means to represent the lives of precursors without appropriating traditional models of genealogy.
Leaving The Twentieth Century
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Author : McKenzie Wark
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2024-08-20
Leaving The Twentieth Century written by McKenzie Wark and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-20 with Philosophy categories.
The acclaimed history of the groundbreaking Situationist movement The Situationist International, which leaped to the fore during the Paris tumult of 1968, has extended its revolutionary influence right up to the present day. In Leaving the Twentieth Century, the movement is captured for the first time in its full range and diversity. McKenzie Wark traces the group’s development from the bohemian Paris of the ’50s to the explosive days of May ’68. She introduces the group as an ensemble, revealing the work and activities of thinkers previously obscured by the reputation of founding member Guy Debord. Roaming through Europe and exploring the vital lives its members—including Constant, Asger Jorn, Michèle Bernstein, Alexander Trocchi, and Jacqueline de Jong—Wark uncovers a group riven with conflicting passions. She follows the narrative beyond 1968, to the Situationists International’s disintegration and beyond: the ideas of T. J. Clark, the Fourierist utopia of Raoul Vaneigem, René Vienet’s earthy situationist cinema, Gianfranco Sanguinetti’s pranking of the Italian ruling class, Alice Becker-Ho’s account of the anonymous language of the Romany, and Debord’s late films and his surprising work as a game designer.