Author: Virginia E. Swain
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421429233
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Charles Baudelaire is usually read as a paradigmatically modern poet, whose work ushered in a new era of French literature. But the common emphasis on his use of new forms and styles overlooks the complex role of the past in his work. In Grotesque Figures, Virginia E. Swain explores how the specter of the eighteenth century made itself felt in Baudelaire's modern poetry in the pervasive textual and figural presence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Not only do Rousseau's ideas inform Baudelaire's theory of the grotesque, but Rousseau makes numerous appearances in Baudelaire's poetry as a caricature or type representing the hold of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution over Baudelaire and his contemporaries. As a character in "Le Poème du hashisch" and the Petits Poèmes en prose, "Rousseau" gives the grotesque a human form. Swain's literary, cultural, and historical analysis deepens our understanding of Baudelaire and of nineteenth-century aesthetics by relating Baudelaire's poetic theory and practice to Enlightenment debates about allegory and the grotesque in the arts. Offering a novel reading of Baudelaire's ambivalent engagement with the eighteenth-century, Grotesque Figures examines nineteenth-century ideological debates over French identity, Rousseau's political and artistic legacy, the aesthetic and political significance of the rococo, and the presence of the grotesque in the modern.
Author: Frances K. Barasch
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111715108
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Author: Lucia Tantardini
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004679758
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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Grotesque and Caricature: Leonardo to Bernini examines these two genres across Renaissance and Early Modern Italy. Although their origins stem from Antiquity, it were Leonardo da Vinci’s early teste caricate that injected fresh life into the tradition, greatly inspiring generations of artists. Critical among them were his Milanese followers, such as Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, and also Michelangelo and Sebastiano del Piombo as well as, notably, Annibale Carracci, Guercino, and Bernini among others. Their artistic production—drawings, prints, paintings, and sculpture—reveals deep interest in physical, physiognomic, and psychological observations with a penchant for humour and wit. Written by an international group of established and emerging scholars, this volume explores new insights to these complementary artistic genres. Contributors include: Carlo Avilio, Ilaria Bernocchi, Christophe Brouard, Sandra Cheng, Susan Klaiber, Michael W. Kwakkelstein, Tod A. Marder, Rebecca Norris, Lucia Tantardini, Nicholas J. L. Turner, Mary Vaccaro, and Matthias Wivel.
Author: A. Raguenet
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ISBN: 9780486470160
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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Enter a mysterious world of fantasy, beauty, and horror with this historic collection of architectural details from centuries-old structures — gargoyles, busts, cartouches, pedestals, more. Bonus CD-ROM includes all images from the book.
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Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Author: William H. Holmes
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752322551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Reproduction of the original: Ancient Art of the Province of Chiriqui by William H. Holmes
Author: George Grant MacCurdy
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Category : Bones
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Author: Liverpool Museum (Liverpool, England)
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Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Author: Richard George Hatton
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Category : Anatomy, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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