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Category : Art auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Category : Art auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Furnishing the Eighteenth Century
Author: Dena Goodman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 041594953X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 041594953X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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The Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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Androids in the Enlightenment
Author: Adelheid Voskuhl
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022603402X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the German lands. Designed to perform sophisticated activities such as writing, drawing, or music making, these “Enlightenment automata” have attracted continuous critical attention from the time they were made to the present, often as harbingers of the modern industrial age, an era during which human bodies and souls supposedly became mechanized. In Androids in the Enlightenment, Adelheid Voskuhl investigates two such automata—both depicting piano-playing women. These automata not only play music, but also move their heads, eyes, and torsos to mimic a sentimental body technique of the eighteenth century: musicians were expected to generate sentiments in themselves while playing, then communicate them to the audience through bodily motions. Voskuhl argues, contrary to much of the subsequent scholarly conversation, that these automata were unique masterpieces that illustrated the sentimental culture of a civil society rather than expressions of anxiety about the mechanization of humans by industrial technology. She demonstrates that only in a later age of industrial factory production did mechanical androids instill the fear that modern selves and societies had become indistinguishable from machines.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022603402X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the German lands. Designed to perform sophisticated activities such as writing, drawing, or music making, these “Enlightenment automata” have attracted continuous critical attention from the time they were made to the present, often as harbingers of the modern industrial age, an era during which human bodies and souls supposedly became mechanized. In Androids in the Enlightenment, Adelheid Voskuhl investigates two such automata—both depicting piano-playing women. These automata not only play music, but also move their heads, eyes, and torsos to mimic a sentimental body technique of the eighteenth century: musicians were expected to generate sentiments in themselves while playing, then communicate them to the audience through bodily motions. Voskuhl argues, contrary to much of the subsequent scholarly conversation, that these automata were unique masterpieces that illustrated the sentimental culture of a civil society rather than expressions of anxiety about the mechanization of humans by industrial technology. She demonstrates that only in a later age of industrial factory production did mechanical androids instill the fear that modern selves and societies had become indistinguishable from machines.
The Annual American Catalogue
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance
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Category : Literary and political reviews
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Category : Literary and political reviews
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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The Book of Upholstery
Author: Candace Ord Manroe
Publisher: Crescent
ISBN: 9780517142721
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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For do-it-yourself home decorators and dreamers, here is an indispensable guide to the art of furniture upholstery, complete with beautiful full-color photographs throughout and a glossary of fabrics, terms, materials, and techniques.
Publisher: Crescent
ISBN: 9780517142721
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
For do-it-yourself home decorators and dreamers, here is an indispensable guide to the art of furniture upholstery, complete with beautiful full-color photographs throughout and a glossary of fabrics, terms, materials, and techniques.
The Annual American Catalogue 1886-1900
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Author: Parke-Bernet Galleries
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
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Author: Brentano's
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Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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