Death Masks and Life Masks of the Famous and Infamous

Death Masks and Life Masks of the Famous and Infamous PDF Author: Scotland's Cultural Heritage
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Undying Faces

Undying Faces PDF Author: Georg Kolbe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494093594
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.

Mendelssohn Perspectives

Mendelssohn Perspectives PDF Author: Nicole Grimes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317097394
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 391

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If the invective of Nietzsche and Shaw is to be taken as an endorsement of the lasting quality of an artist, then Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy takes pride of place beside Tennyson and Brahms in the canon of great nineteenth-century artists. Mendelssohn Perspectives presents valuable new insights into Mendelssohn’s music, biography and reception. Critically engaging a wide range of source materials, the volume combines traditional musical-analytical studies with those that draw on other humanistic disciplines to shed new light on the composer’s life, and on his contemporary and posthumous reputations. Together, these essays bring new historical and interpretive dimensions to Mendelssohn studies. The volume offers essays on Mendelssohn's Jewishness, his vast correspondence, his music for the stage, and his relationship with music of the past and future, as well as the compositional process and handling of form in the music of both Mendelssohn and his sister, the composer Fanny Hensel. German literature and aesthetics, gender and race, philosophy and science, and issues of historicism all come to bear on these new perspectives on Mendelssohn.

New Museology

New Museology PDF Author: Peter Vergo
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1861896700
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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With essays by Charles Saumarez Smith, Ludmilla Jordanova, Paul Greenhalgh, Colin Sorensen, Nick Merriman, Stephen Bann, Philip Wright, Norman Palmer and Peter Vergo. "A lively and controversial symposium ... thought-provoking"—The Sunday Times (Paperbacks of the Year, 1989) "The essays are all distinguished by their topicality and lucidity."—MuseumNews "A welcome addition to the library of Museology"—Art Monthly "The New Museology is essential reading for all those seeking to understand the current debate in museum ideologies."—International Journal of Museum Management and Scholarship

Museums as Cultures of Copies

Museums as Cultures of Copies PDF Author: Brita Brenna
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351106473
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 319

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Few institutions are warier of copies than museums. Few fields of knowledge are more prone to denounce copies as fake than the heritage field. Few discourses are as concerned with authenticity, aura, originals and provenance as those concerning exhibiting and collecting. So why is it that these are institutions, fields and discourses where copies proliferate and copying techniques have thrived for hundreds of years? Museums as Cultures of Copies aims to make the copying practices of museums visible and to discuss, from a range of interrelated perspectives, precisely what function copies fulfil in the heritage field and in museums today. With contributions from Europe and Canada, the book interrogates the meaning of copies and presents copying as a fully integrated part of museum work. Including chapters on ethnographic mannequins, digitalized photos, death masks, museum documentation and mechanical models, contributors consider how copying as a cultural form changes according to time and place and how new forms of copying and copy technologies challenge and expand museum work today. Arguing that copying is at the basis of museum practice and that new technologies and practices have been taken up and developed in museums since their inception, the book presents both heritage work and copies in a new light. Museums as Cultures of Copies should be of great interest to academics, scholars and postgraduate students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies, as well as visual studies, cultural history and archaeology. It should also be essential reading for museum practitioners.

Portraits of Coleridge

Portraits of Coleridge PDF Author: Morton D. Paley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198184690
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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The eminent Coleridgean and Romantic scholar Morton D. Paley here examines the twenty-four portraits known to have been painted of Coleridge during his life. Illustrated with reproductions throughout.

Spectacular Bodies

Spectacular Bodies PDF Author: Martin Kemp
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520227927
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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"Illustrated and with essays by Martin Kemp, Spectacular Bodies reveals a new way of seeing ourselves."--BOOK JACKET.

An Inquisition Into Death Masks

An Inquisition Into Death Masks PDF Author: Ruth Gayleen S. Ellis
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Category : Death in art
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Death Mask

Death Mask PDF Author: Alex Archer
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460344863
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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The face of evil. And the face of greed… The video showed a nearly naked man bloodied and beaten. Even as archaeologist and TV presenter Annja Creed watched, the clock on his suicide vest ticked down, and precious seconds were lost. But this was no stranger. Garin was her friend. Their fates had been bound by the secrets of Joan of Arc's sword. And Annja had less than twenty-four hours to save his life…. The price for Garin's life was the lost mask of Torquemada, rumored to have been cast by the Grand Inquisitor himself, five hundred years ago during the Spanish Inquisition. Abandoned crypts, lost palaces and a cruel and ancient brotherhood: all clues to the mask's complicated and deadly mystery that Annja, and her mentor, Roux—using all of their considerable resources and cunning—must solve before Garin runs out of time. Annja Creed is facing her greatest trial. And not even the holy sword of Joan of Arc can spare her from the final judgment.

The Death-Mask and Other Ghosts

The Death-Mask and Other Ghosts PDF Author: Hd Everett
Publisher: Andesite Press
ISBN: 9781296804688
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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