{"title":"The arts","description":"Books on the subject of The arts","products":[{"product_id":"the-jew-the-cathedral-and-the-medieval-city-synagoga-and-ecclesia-in-the-thirteenth-century-paperback-9781107649989","title":"The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City; Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century (Paperback \/ softback) 9781107649989","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSynagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book examines the Synagoga-Ecclesia motif in the thirteenth century and argues that the figures conveyed a political message of Christian ascendancy and Jewish submission.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNina Rowe (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107649989, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 23 June 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e340 pages, 162 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e25.3 x 17.7 x 1.6 cm, 0.83 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Nina Rowe has succeeded in providing scholars with a provocative foray into the difficult problem of the relationship of artistic evidence to the lived realities of social and political life. Often she is forced to speculate, but she is always forthright about the limitations of her evidence. Not everyone will agree with all her conclusions, but no one working in the general area of her concerns can afford to ignore them. Speculum\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn the thirteenth century, sculptures of Synagoga and Ecclesia - paired female personifications of the Synagogue defeated and the Church triumphant - became a favoured motif on cathedral façades in France and Germany. Throughout the preceding centuries, the Jews of northern Europe prospered financially and intellectually, a trend that ran counter to the long-standing Christian conception of Jews as relics of the prehistory of the Church. In this book, Nina Rowe examines the sculptures as defining elements in the urban Jewish-Christian encounter. She locates the roots of the Synagoga-Ecclesia motif in antiquity and explores the theme's public manifestations at the cathedrals of Reims, Bamberg, and Strasbourg, considering each example in relation to local politics and culture. Ultimately, she demonstrates that royal and ecclesiastical policies to restrain the religious, social, and economic lives of Jews in the early thirteenth century found a material analog in lovely renderings of a downtrodden Synagoga, placed in the public arena of the city square.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: the Jew, the cathedral and the city\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Imagining Jews and Judaism in Life and Art: 1. The Jew in a Christian world: denunciation and restraint in the age of cathedrals\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ecclesia and Synagoga: the life of a motif\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Art and Life on the Ecclesiastical Stage - Three Case Studies: Introduction to Part II: nature, antiquity and sculpture in the early thirteenth century\u003cbr\u003e 3. Reims: 'our Jews' and the royal sphere\u003cbr\u003e 4. Bamberg: the empire, the Jews and earthly order\u003cbr\u003e 5. Strasbourg: clerics, burghers and Jews in the medieval city\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: the afterlife of an image.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Medieval history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Medieval history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Medieval%20history%20%5BHBLC1%5D%22\"\u003eHBLC1\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e], The arts [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The arts\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20arts%20%5BA%5D%22\"\u003eA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45899453628696,"sku":"9781107649989","price":33.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107649989i_575e8c87-44c6-4f43-8292-68d4bb8f8d76.jpg?v=1696781260"},{"product_id":"the-jew-the-cathedral-and-the-medieval-city-synagoga-and-ecclesia-in-the-thirteenth-century-hardback-9780521197441","title":"The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City; Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century (Hardback) 9780521197441","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSynagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book examines the Synagoga-Ecclesia motif in the thirteenth century and argues that the figures conveyed a political message of Christian ascendancy and Jewish submission.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNina Rowe (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521197441, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 April 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e346 pages, 162 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 18 x 2.5 cm, 0.98 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Nina Rowe has succeeded in providing scholars with a provocative foray into the difficult problem of the relationship of artistic evidence to the lived realities of social and political life. Often she is forced to speculate, but she is always forthright about the limitations of her evidence. Not everyone will agree with all her conclusions, but no one working in the general area of her concerns can afford to ignore them. Speculum\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn the thirteenth century, sculptures of Synagoga and Ecclesia - paired female personifications of the Synagogue defeated and the Church triumphant - became a favoured motif on cathedral façades in France and Germany. Throughout the preceding centuries, the Jews of northern Europe prospered financially and intellectually, a trend that ran counter to the long-standing Christian conception of Jews as relics of the prehistory of the Church. In this book, Nina Rowe examines the sculptures as defining elements in the urban Jewish-Christian encounter. She locates the roots of the Synagoga-Ecclesia motif in antiquity and explores the theme's public manifestations at the cathedrals of Reims, Bamberg, and Strasbourg, considering each example in relation to local politics and culture. Ultimately, she demonstrates that royal and ecclesiastical policies to restrain the religious, social, and economic lives of Jews in the early thirteenth century found a material analog in lovely renderings of a downtrodden Synagoga, placed in the public arena of the city square.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: the Jew, the cathedral and the city\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Imagining Jews and Judaism in Life and Art: 1. The Jew in a Christian world: denunciation and restraint in the age of cathedrals\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ecclesia and Synagoga: the life of a motif\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Art and Life on the Ecclesiastical Stage - Three Case Studies: Introduction to Part II: nature, antiquity and sculpture in the early thirteenth century\u003cbr\u003e 3. Reims: 'our Jews' and the royal sphere\u003cbr\u003e 4. Bamberg: the empire, the Jews and earthly order\u003cbr\u003e 5. Strasbourg: clerics, burghers and Jews in the medieval city\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: the afterlife of an image.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Medieval history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Medieval history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Medieval%20history%20%5BHBLC1%5D%22\"\u003eHBLC1\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e], The arts [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The arts\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20arts%20%5BA%5D%22\"\u003eA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45899649220888,"sku":"9780521197441","price":91.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521197441i_fcf8da67-5b7a-4c93-900b-ac7512d71d79.jpg?v=1691373839"},{"product_id":"gender-and-body-language-in-roman-art-hardback-9780521842730","title":"Gender and Body Language in Roman Art (Hardback) 9780521842730","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGender and Body Language in Roman Art\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnalysis of the body language of statues of men and women as an indicator of gender relations in Roman society.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGlenys Davies (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521842730, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 31 May 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 88 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e26.2 x 18.3 x 2.2 cm, 0.96 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eCan we reconstruct Roman body language? Was it the same as ours? Does body language express and reinforce gender differences and the relative positions of men and women (dominant\/subordinate) in society? Can analysis of the postures and gestures of Roman statues add to our understanding of gender in the Roman world? In this book, Glenys Davies explores these questions. Using studies on body language in modern Western societies, Roman literary sources, as well as her own analysis of statues of Roman men and women in an array of guises - nude, draped, standing, seated and represented together - she offers a nuanced and complex picture of gender relations. Her study shows that gender relations in the notoriously patriarchal society of Ancient Rome were not so different from what we experience today. Her book will be of interest to scholars of the classical world, gender history, art history, and body language in its social context.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Body language and gender in the Roman world, I: men\u003cbr\u003e 3. Body language and gender in the Roman world, II: women\u003cbr\u003e 4. The standing nude\u003cbr\u003e 5. Clothed standing figures of men\u003cbr\u003e 6. Draped statues of women\u003cbr\u003e 7. Seated statues\u003cbr\u003e 8. Men and women together\u003cbr\u003e 9. 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Jung (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108430760, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 July 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages, 180 b\/w illus.  30 colour illus.\u003cbr\u003e27.5 x 21.3 x 1.8 cm, 0.93 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"At the turn of this century, Jacqueline Jung published an influential article on choir screens in Gothic great churches. She has been regarded as the leading Anglo-American specialist on these furnishings ever since, a status maintained through publication of subsequent essays. Now, at last, her monograph on the topic has arrived in the form of an authoritative statement of the role of screens as space-co-ordinating, performative, psychology-conditioning objects.\"  \u003cbr\u003eJulian Luxford, The Burlington Magazine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAt the heart of Gothic cathedrals, the threshold between nave and sanctuary was marked by the choir screen, a partitioning structure of special complexity, grandeur, and beauty. At once a canopy for altars, a stage for performance, a pedestal for crucifixes and reliquaries, and a ground for spectacular arrays of narrative and iconic sculptures, the choir screen profoundly shaped the spaces of liturgy and social interaction for the diverse communities, both clerical and lay, who shared the church interior. For the first time, this book draws together the most important examples - some fully extant, others known through fragments and graphic sources - from thirteenth- and fourteenth-century France and Germany. Through analyses of both their architectural and sculptural components, Jacqueline E. Jung reveals how these furnishings, far from being barricades or hindrances, were vital vehicles of communication and shapers of a community centered on Christian rituals and stories.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Screen as Sculpture: 1. The choir screen as partition\u003cbr\u003e 2. The choir screen as bridge\u003cbr\u003e 3. The choir screen as frame\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Sculpture on the Screen: 4. Women, men, and the social order\u003cbr\u003e 5. Jews, Christians, and the question of the individual\u003cbr\u003e 6. Nobles, peasants, and the vernacular mode\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of religion [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of religion\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20religion%20%5BHRAX%5D%22\"\u003eHRAX\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e], History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e], The arts [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The arts\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20arts%20%5BA%5D%22\"\u003eA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45909119205656,"sku":"9781108430760","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108430760i_c3fbb6b5-d231-4a0a-b8f3-639665985cc5.jpg?v=1696699899"},{"product_id":"the-art-of-sculpture-in-fifteenth-century-italy-hardback-9781108428842","title":"The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy (Hardback) 9781108428842","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eComprising nineteen essays by top scholars and a comprehensive introduction, this book surveys fifteenth-century Italian sculpture in all its variety.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAmy R. Bloch (Edited by), Daniel M. Zolli (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108428842, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 27 February 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e454 pages, 112 colour illus.\u003cbr\u003e28.7 x 22.2 x 2.8 cm, 1.87 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This volume offers much new research and abundant riches, including 250 illustrations, many of them color plates. Specialists will discover much of interest and value in this varied cornucopia. The pictures alone make this a visual banquet worth attending … Highly recommended.' W. E. Wallace, Choice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFifteenth-century Italy witnessed sweeping innovations in the art of sculpture. Sculptors rediscovered new types of images from classical antiquity and invented new ones, devised novel ways to finish surfaces, and pushed the limits of their materials to new expressive extremes. The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy surveys the sculptural production created by a range of artists throughout the peninsula. It offers a comprehensive overview of Italian sculpture during a century of intense creativity and development. Here, nineteen historians of Quattrocento Italian sculpture chart the many competing forces that led makers, patrons, and viewers to invest sculpture with such heightened importance in this time and place. Methodologically wide-ranging, the essays, specially commissioned for this volume, explore the vast range of techniques and media (stone, metal, wood, terracotta, and stucco) used to fashion works of sculpture. They also examine how viewers encountered those objects, discuss varying approaches to narrative, and ponder the increasing contemporary interest in the relationship between sculpture and history.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction – making and unmaking sculpture in fifteenth-century Italy Amy R. Bloch and Daniel M. Zolli\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Surface Effects: 1. The color white in fifteenth-century Tuscan sculpture Una Roman D'Elia\u003cbr\u003e 2. The colors of monochrome sculpture Frank Fehrenbach\u003cbr\u003e 3. New light on Luca della Robbia's glazes Catherine Kupiec\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Sculptural Bodies: 4. Donatello, Alberti, and the free-standing statue in fifteenth-century Florence Peter Jonathan Bell\u003cbr\u003e 5. Francesco di Valdambrino's wood sculpture at the high altar of Siena Cathedral Ashley Elston\u003cbr\u003e 6. Sculptural transformations in Quattrocento Italy Megan Holmes\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Sculptural Norms, Made and Unmade: 7. The body, space, and narrative in Central and Northern Italian sculpture David J. Drogin\u003cbr\u003e 8. Rethinking style in fifteenth-century Italian sculpture Robert Glass\u003cbr\u003e 9. Bellano's invention at the Santo Sarah Blake McHam\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Sculpture as Performance: 10. Sculpture and sacrifice Adrian Randolph\u003cbr\u003e 11. Illuminated sculpture and visionary experience at the Cardinal of Portugal Chapel in Florence Morgan Ng\u003cbr\u003e 12. Tullio Lombardo, Antonio Rizzo, and sculptural audacity in Renaissance Venice Lorenzo G. Buonanno\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Sculpture in the Expanded Field: 13. Stucco as substrate and surface in Quattrocento Florence (and Beyond) Yvonne Elet\u003cbr\u003e 14. The punch marks on Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise: an intersection of economy and ritual Lauren Jacobi\u003cbr\u003e 15. Relief effects in Donatello and Mantegna Henrike Lange\u003cbr\u003e 16. Candelabra-columns and the Lombard architecture of sculptural assemblage Michael J. Waters\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Sculpture and history: 17. Jacopo della Quercia's Fonte Gaia Amy R. Bloch\u003cbr\u003e 18. Virgil's forge Daniel M. Zolli\u003cbr\u003e 19. Quattrocento perspectives on the historical value of sculpture Joost Keizer.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e], Renaissance art [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Renaissance art\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Renaissance%20art%20%5BACND%5D%22\"\u003eACND\u003c\/a\u003e], History of art \/ art \u0026amp; design styles [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of art \/ art \u0026amp; design styles\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20art%20\/%20art%20\u0026amp;%20design%20styles%20%5BAC%5D%22\"\u003eAC\u003c\/a\u003e], The arts [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The arts\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20arts%20%5BA%5D%22\"\u003eA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45909189656856,"sku":"9781108428842","price":83.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108428842i.jpg?v=1696699828"},{"product_id":"art-and-immortality-in-the-ancient-near-east-hardback-9781107154957","title":"Art and Immortality in the Ancient Near East (Hardback) 9781107154957","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eArt and Immortality in the Ancient Near East\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFar from being a Judeo-Christian invention, apocalyptic thought had its roots in the ancient Near East and was expressed in its art.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMehmet-Ali Ataç (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107154957, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 March 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e298 pages, 59 b\/w illus.  1 map\u003cbr\u003e26 x 18.5 x 1.8 cm, 0.81 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDiscussions of apocalyptic thought and its sources in the ancient Near East, particularly Mesopotamia, have a long scholarly history, with a renewed interest and focus in the recent decades. 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He brilliantly shows that to be truly open to the encounter with art one needs to embrace perceptual ambiguity and let go of rigorous cognitive control. Masterfully intertwining theories of art reception with phenomenology and recent findings in cognitive sciences, he casts light on the complexity of aesthetic relations unfolding beneath the surface of the conscious mind.' Cristina Albu, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA, and author of Mirror Affect: Seeing Self, Observing Others in Contemporary Art\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book examines the psychology involved in handling, and responding to, materials in artistic practice, such as oils, charcoal, brushes, canvas, earth, and sand. Artists often work with intuitive, tactile sensations and rhythms that connect them to these materials. Rhythm connects the brain and body to the world, and the world of abstract art. The book features new readings of artworks by Matisse, Pollock, Dubuffet, Tápies, Benglis, Len Lye, Star Gossage, Shannon Novak, Simon Ingram, Lee Mingwei, L. N. Tallur and many others. Such art challenges centuries of philosophical and aesthetic order that has elevated the substance of mind over the substance of matter. This is a multidisciplinary study of different metastable patterns and rhythms: in art, the body, and the brain. This focus on the propagation of rhythm across domains represents a fresh art historical approach and provides important opportunities for art and science to cooperate.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e List of figures\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: a rhythm analysis of art\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Rhythms of Mind and Matter: 1.1. Philosophical approaches\u003cbr\u003e 1.2. Henri Bergson\u003cbr\u003e 1.3. Recent mind and matter complications\u003cbr\u003e 1.4. The matter of the brain\u003cbr\u003e 1.5. The matter of sensation\u003cbr\u003e 1.6. Anton Ehrenzweig: daydreaming matter\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Rhythms of the Brain and Matter Outside of It: 2.1. Buzsáki\u003cbr\u003e 2.2. Metastability across brain, body and art: Pollock\u003cbr\u003e 2.3. The aesthetics of mind wandering\u003cbr\u003e 2.4. Mind wandering and creativity\u003cbr\u003e 2.5. Metastability and emotion\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Rhythm, Dirt, Art: 3.1. Emergence\u003cbr\u003e 3.2. Henri Matisse\u003cbr\u003e 3.3. Cubism\u003cbr\u003e 3.4. Surrealism\u003cbr\u003e 3.5. Abstraction\u003cbr\u003e 3.6. Informel\u003cbr\u003e 3.7. Andre Masson\u003cbr\u003e 3.8. Jean Fautrier\u003cbr\u003e 3.9. Jean Dubuffet\u003cbr\u003e 3.10. Antoni Tàpies\u003cbr\u003e 3.11. Alberto Burri\u003cbr\u003e 3.12. Zen and abstraction\u003cbr\u003e 3.13. Further developments in dirty rhythm\u003cbr\u003e 3.14. 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He brilliantly shows that to be truly open to the encounter with art one needs to embrace perceptual ambiguity and let go of rigorous cognitive control. Masterfully intertwining theories of art reception with phenomenology and recent findings in cognitive sciences, he casts light on the complexity of aesthetic relations unfolding beneath the surface of the conscious mind.' Cristina Albu, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA, and author of Mirror Affect: Seeing Self, Observing Others in Contemporary Art\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book examines the psychology involved in handling, and responding to, materials in artistic practice, such as oils, charcoal, brushes, canvas, earth, and sand. Artists often work with intuitive, tactile sensations and rhythms that connect them to these materials. Rhythm connects the brain and body to the world, and the world of abstract art. The book features new readings of artworks by Matisse, Pollock, Dubuffet, Tápies, Benglis, Len Lye, Star Gossage, Shannon Novak, Simon Ingram, Lee Mingwei, L. N. Tallur and many others. Such art challenges centuries of philosophical and aesthetic order that has elevated the substance of mind over the substance of matter. This is a multidisciplinary study of different metastable patterns and rhythms: in art, the body, and the brain. This focus on the propagation of rhythm across domains represents a fresh art historical approach and provides important opportunities for art and science to cooperate.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e List of figures\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: a rhythm analysis of art\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Rhythms of Mind and Matter: 1.1. Philosophical approaches\u003cbr\u003e 1.2. Henri Bergson\u003cbr\u003e 1.3. Recent mind and matter complications\u003cbr\u003e 1.4. The matter of the brain\u003cbr\u003e 1.5. The matter of sensation\u003cbr\u003e 1.6. Anton Ehrenzweig: daydreaming matter\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Rhythms of the Brain and Matter Outside of It: 2.1. Buzsáki\u003cbr\u003e 2.2. Metastability across brain, body and art: Pollock\u003cbr\u003e 2.3. The aesthetics of mind wandering\u003cbr\u003e 2.4. Mind wandering and creativity\u003cbr\u003e 2.5. Metastability and emotion\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Rhythm, Dirt, Art: 3.1. Emergence\u003cbr\u003e 3.2. Henri Matisse\u003cbr\u003e 3.3. Cubism\u003cbr\u003e 3.4. Surrealism\u003cbr\u003e 3.5. Abstraction\u003cbr\u003e 3.6. Informel\u003cbr\u003e 3.7. Andre Masson\u003cbr\u003e 3.8. Jean Fautrier\u003cbr\u003e 3.9. Jean Dubuffet\u003cbr\u003e 3.10. Antoni Tàpies\u003cbr\u003e 3.11. Alberto Burri\u003cbr\u003e 3.12. Zen and abstraction\u003cbr\u003e 3.13. Further developments in dirty rhythm\u003cbr\u003e 3.14. 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Susan Rutherford, Revue de musicologie\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFrom the 'old world' to the 'new' and back again, this transnational history of the performance and reception of Bizet's Carmen – whose subject has become a modern myth and its heroine a symbol – provides new understanding of the opera's enduring yet ever-evolving and resituated presence and popularity. This book examines three stages of cultural transfer: the opera's establishment in the repertoire; its performance, translation, adaptation and appropriation in Europe, the Americas and Australia; its cultural 'work' in Soviet Russia, in Japan in the era of Westernisation, in southern, regionalist France and in Carmen's 'homeland', Spain. As the volume reveals the ways in which Bizet's opera swiftly travelled the globe from its Parisian premiere, readers will understand how the story, the music, the staging and the singers appealed to audiences in diverse geographical, artistic and political contexts.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of figures\u003cbr\u003e List of tables\u003cbr\u003e List of contributors\u003cbr\u003e Foreword and acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Establishment in Paris and the repertoire: 1. Carmen at home and abroad Clair Rowden and Richard Langham Smith\u003cbr\u003e 2. Carmen's second chance: revival in Vienna Laura Moeckli\u003cbr\u003e 3. Carmen faces Paris and the provinces Clair Rowden\u003cbr\u003e 4. Carmen dusted down: Albert Carré's 1898 revival at the Opéra-Comique Michela Niccolai\u003cbr\u003e 5. Refashioning Carmen at the Théâtre de La Monnaie, 1902 Bruno Forment\u003cbr\u003e 6. How Carmen became a repertory opera in Italy and in Italian Matthew Franke\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Across frontiers: 7. A new performance for a new world: Carmen in America Kristen M. Turner\u003cbr\u003e 8. The unstoppable march of time: Carmen, and New Orleans in transition Charlotte Bentley\u003cbr\u003e 9. The return of the habanera: Carmen's early reception in Latin America José Manuel Izquierdo, Jaime Cortés-Polanía and Juan Francisco Sans\u003cbr\u003e 10. From Spain to Lusophone lands: Carmen in Portugal and Brazil David Cranmer\u003cbr\u003e 11. Carmen in the antipodes Kerry Murphy\u003cbr\u003e 12. Carmen, as seen and heard in Victorian Britain Paul Rodmell\u003cbr\u003e 13. Celtic Carmens: rebellion and redemption Linda J. Buckley and Jennifer Millar\u003cbr\u003e 14. Carmen for the Czechs and Germans, 1880 to 1945 Martin Nedbal\u003cbr\u003e 15. Carmen in Poland prior to 1918 Renata Suchowiejko\u003cbr\u003e 16. 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Moreover, with its focus on mythmaking by women, it revises the traditional male-dominated canon of Irish drama and provides an alternative history of theatre and performance (not only) in Ireland. The book develops a complex theoretical framework of genealogical writing, covers abroad range of dramatic texts in the widest sense (including ballet and tableaux vivants) and manages to enrich the textual analyses by means of close readings of the productions of the plays … the book is well-written and … clear …' Anette Pankratz, Anglia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe rich legacy of women's contributions to Irish theatre is traditionally viewed through a male-dominated literary canon and mythmaking, thus arguably silencing their work. In this timely book, Shonagh Hill proposes a feminist genealogy which brings new perspectives to women's mythmaking across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The performances considered include the tableaux vivants performed by the Inghinidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of Ireland), plays written by Alice Milligan, Maud Gonne, Lady Augusta Gregory, Eva Gore-Booth, Mary Devenport O'Neill, Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy, Paula Meehan, Edna O'Brien and Marina Carr, as well as plays translated, adapted and performed by Olwen Fouéré. The theatrical work discussed resists the occlusion of women's cultural engagement that results from confinement to idealised myths of femininity. This is realised through embodied mythmaking: a process which exposes how bodies bear the consequences of these myths, while refusing to accept the female body as passive bearer of inscription through the assertion of a creative female corporeality.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: a creative female corporeality\u003cbr\u003e 1. Revolutionary bodies: mythmaking and Irish feminisms\u003cbr\u003e 2. Unhomely bodies: transforming space\u003cbr\u003e 3. Process and resistance: metamorphic 'bodies that matter'\u003cbr\u003e 4. Staging female death: sacrificial and dying bodies\u003cbr\u003e 5. Haunted bodies and violent pasts\u003cbr\u003e 6. Olwen Fouéré's Corpus: the performer's body and her body of work.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: plays \u0026amp; playwrights [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: plays \u0026amp; playwrights\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20plays%20\u0026amp;%20playwrights%20%5BDSG%5D%22\"\u003eDSG\u003c\/a\u003e], Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e], Literature \u0026amp; literary studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature \u0026amp; literary studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature%20\u0026amp;%20literary%20studies%20%5BD%5D%22\"\u003eD\u003c\/a\u003e], Theatre studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theatre studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theatre%20studies%20%5BAN%5D%22\"\u003eAN\u003c\/a\u003e], The arts [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The arts\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20arts%20%5BA%5D%22\"\u003eA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46001942987032,"sku":"9781108706841","price":29.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108706841i_b6fc31c9-d906-4ded-a952-5f15b5c8bbc6.jpg?v=1696708631"},{"product_id":"giovan-pietro-bellori-the-lives-of-the-modern-painters-sculptors-and-architects-a-new-translation-and-critical-edition-paperback-9780521139540","title":"Giovan Pietro Bellori: The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects; A New Translation and Critical Edition (Paperback) 9780521139540","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGiovan Pietro Bellori: The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA New Translation and Critical Edition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is the first complete translation of the biographies of fifteen artists, including Annibale Carracci, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, written by the seventeenth-century antiquarian Giovan Pietro Bellori.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHellmut Wohl (Edited by), Alice Wohl (Edited and translated by), Tommaso Montanari (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521139540, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 16 November 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e516 pages, 42 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e27.6 x 21.5 x 2.9 cm, 1.17 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Giovan Pietro Bellori's language has found its match in Wohl's translation… We shall all learn from reading this intelligent and skilful translation.' Burlington Magazine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is the first complete translation of the biographies of fifteen artists, including Annibale Carracci, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, written by the seventeenth-century antiquarian Giovan Pietro Bellori. Originally conceived as a continuation of Vasari's famous Lives, it is a fundamental source for seventeenth-century Italian art and artistic theory, providing detailed descriptions of extant and lost works of art, while casting light on the cultural politics of contemporary Rome and the relations between Rome and France. The importance of Bellori's Lives lies in the scrupulous documentation of artists, many of whom he knew personally; the author's detailed descriptions of their works; and his exposition of the classicist theory of art in the introductory lecture, the Idea. This volume contains the twelve Lives published in the original edition of 1672 and three Lives (Guido Reni, Andrea Sacchi, and Carlo Maratti) that survive in manuscript form and that were published for the first time in 1942.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Note on the illustrations\u003cbr\u003e 1. Dedication\u003cbr\u003e 2. To the reader\u003cbr\u003e 3. Philostratus the Younger\u003cbr\u003e 4. The idea of the painter, the sculptor and the architect\u003cbr\u003e 5. Life of Annibale Carracci\u003cbr\u003e 6. Life of Agostino Carracci\u003cbr\u003e 7. Life of Domenico Fontana\u003cbr\u003e 8. Life of Federico Barocci\u003cbr\u003e 9. Life of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio\u003cbr\u003e 10. Life of Peter Paul Rubens\u003cbr\u003e 11. Life of Anthony van Dyck\u003cbr\u003e 12. Life of Francois Du Quesnoy\u003cbr\u003e 13. Life of Domenico Zampieri, il Domenichino\u003cbr\u003e 14. Life of Giovanni Lanfranco\u003cbr\u003e 15. Life of Alessandro Algardi\u003cbr\u003e 16. Life of Nicolas Poussin\u003cbr\u003e 17. Life of Guido Reni\u003cbr\u003e 18. Life of Andrea Sacchi\u003cbr\u003e 19. 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Authored by Ruth Towse, a widely recognised expert in cultural economics, the book offers a comprehensive, up-to-date overview and analysis of the field in the digital era. Written in an accessible style, and with suggestions for further reading, it covers a range of topics, from the more traditional arts to the creative industries (such as music, film, games, broadcasting, and publishing), as well as the economics of artists' labour, markets and copyright. This second edition considers the creative economy up to the present, emphasising the role of digitisation across the creative industries. It will appeal to students taking courses in the economics of art and culture, and can also be used in courses on arts management and cultural policy.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. General Issues in Cultural Economics: 1. Introduction to cultural economics\u003cbr\u003e 2. 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Susan Rutherford, Revue de musicologie\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFrom the 'old world' to the 'new' and back again, this transnational history of the performance and reception of Bizet's Carmen – whose subject has become a modern myth and its heroine a symbol – provides new understanding of the opera's enduring yet ever-evolving and resituated presence and popularity. This book examines three stages of cultural transfer: the opera's establishment in the repertoire; its performance, translation, adaptation and appropriation in Europe, the Americas and Australia; its cultural 'work' in Soviet Russia, in Japan in the era of Westernisation, in southern, regionalist France and in Carmen's 'homeland', Spain. As the volume reveals the ways in which Bizet's opera swiftly travelled the globe from its Parisian premiere, readers will understand how the story, the music, the staging and the singers appealed to audiences in diverse geographical, artistic and political contexts.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of figures\u003cbr\u003e List of tables\u003cbr\u003e List of contributors\u003cbr\u003e Foreword and acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Establishment in Paris and the repertoire: 1. Carmen at home and abroad Clair Rowden and Richard Langham Smith\u003cbr\u003e 2. Carmen's second chance: revival in Vienna Laura Moeckli\u003cbr\u003e 3. Carmen faces Paris and the provinces Clair Rowden\u003cbr\u003e 4. Carmen dusted down: Albert Carré's 1898 revival at the Opéra-Comique Michela Niccolai\u003cbr\u003e 5. Refashioning Carmen at the Théâtre de La Monnaie, 1902 Bruno Forment\u003cbr\u003e 6. How Carmen became a repertory opera in Italy and in Italian Matthew Franke\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Across frontiers: 7. A new performance for a new world: Carmen in America Kristen M. Turner\u003cbr\u003e 8. The unstoppable march of time: Carmen, and New Orleans in transition Charlotte Bentley\u003cbr\u003e 9. The return of the habanera: Carmen's early reception in Latin America José Manuel Izquierdo, Jaime Cortés-Polanía and Juan Francisco Sans\u003cbr\u003e 10. From Spain to Lusophone lands: Carmen in Portugal and Brazil David Cranmer\u003cbr\u003e 11. Carmen in the antipodes Kerry Murphy\u003cbr\u003e 12. Carmen, as seen and heard in Victorian Britain Paul Rodmell\u003cbr\u003e 13. Celtic Carmens: rebellion and redemption Linda J. Buckley and Jennifer Millar\u003cbr\u003e 14. Carmen for the Czechs and Germans, 1880 to 1945 Martin Nedbal\u003cbr\u003e 15. Carmen in Poland prior to 1918 Renata Suchowiejko\u003cbr\u003e 16. A woman or a demon: Carmen in the late nineteenth-century Nordic countries Ulla-Britta Broman-Kananen\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Localising Carmen: 17. Russian Carmens and 'Carmenism': from Imperial import to ideological benchmark Michelle Assay\u003cbr\u003e 18. The other reversed? Japan's assimilation of Carmen between 1885 and 1945 Naomi Matsumoto\u003cbr\u003e 19. Flamenco and the 'hispanicisation' of Bizet's Carmen in the Belle Époque Michael Christoforidis and Elizabeth Kertesz\u003cbr\u003e 20. Carmen at home: between Andalusia and the Basque Provinces (1845–1936) Lola San Martín Arbide\u003cbr\u003e 21. Carmen in the midi amphitheatres: a 'tauro-comique' spectacle Sabine Teulon Lardic\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Individual composers \u0026amp; musicians, specific bands \u0026amp; groups [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Individual composers \u0026amp; musicians, specific bands \u0026amp; groups\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Individual%20composers%20\u0026amp;%20musicians,%20specific%20bands%20\u0026amp;%20groups%20%5BAVH%5D%22\"\u003eAVH\u003c\/a\u003e], Music [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Music\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Music%20%5BAV%5D%22\"\u003eAV\u003c\/a\u003e], The arts [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The arts\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20arts%20%5BA%5D%22\"\u003eA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004645986584,"sku":"9781108481618","price":80.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108481618i_c097080b-45bd-4f3f-a94f-eb0c4431b3cc.jpg?v=1696706127"},{"product_id":"reuse-and-renovation-in-roman-material-culture-functions-aesthetics-interpretations-hardback-9781108473897","title":"Reuse and Renovation in Roman Material Culture; Functions, Aesthetics, Interpretations (Hardback) 9781108473897","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReuse and Renovation in Roman Material Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFunctions, Aesthetics, Interpretations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe reuse of architectural and sculptural materials (spoliation) was common centuries earlier than previously realized, during the Roman empire.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDiana Y. Ng (Edited by), Molly Swetnam-Burland (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108473897, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 September 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 77 b\/w illus.  1 map\u003cbr\u003e26.1 x 18.5 x 1.8 cm, 0.79 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Throughout, the volume is impressively well illustrated. It is wide ranging, informative, challenging and thought provoking. It is one of the best edited volumes I have read for some time. While each paper has a specific aim, sight of the bigger picture and wider context is never lost. Moreover, the fact that the papers communicate with each other throughout the volume is indicative of both careful editing and collaborative participation by the contributors in the overall process. The success of this volume means that there is good scope to broaden the contributions to include extra-urban regions and more provinces in future endeavours.' Rebecca J. Sweetman, The Journal of Roman Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book explores the spoliation of architectural and sculptural materials during the Roman empire. Examining a wide range of materials, including imperial portraits, statues associated with master craftsmen, architectural moldings and fixtures, tombs and sarcophagi, arches and gateways, it demonstrates that secondary intervention was common well before Late Antiquity, in fact, centuries earlier than has been previously acknowledged. The essays in this volume, written by a team of international experts, collectively argue that reuse was a natural feature of human manipulation of the physical environment, rather than a sign of social pressure. Reuse often reflected appreciation for the function, form, and design of the material culture of earlier eras. Political, social, religious, and economic factors also contributed to the practice. A comprehensive overview of spoliation and reuse, this volume examines the phenomenon in Rome and throughout the Mediterranean world.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction. 'Reuse, renovation, reiteration' Diana Y. Ng and Molly Swetnam-Burland\u003cbr\u003e 1. 'The reuse and redisplay of honorific statues in Pompeii' Brenda Longfellow\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'The Vigiles, dynastic succession and symbolic reappropriation in the Caserma dei Vigili at Ostia' Margaret L. Laird\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'The epigraphy of appropriation: retrospective signatures of Greek sculptors in the Roman World' Catherine M. Keesling\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'Gateways to the past: the Hadrianic architecture of procession in Pisidian Antioch and Athens' Adrian J. Ossi\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'Visual literacy and reuse in the architecture of late Imperial Rome' Elisha Ann Dumser\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'Urban transformations at Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity: destruction or intentional preservation?' Esen Ogus\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'Acquiring the antique in Byzantine Rome: the economics of architectural reuse at Santa Maria Antiqua' Gregor Kalas\u003cbr\u003e 8. 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Ruben Borg, Journal of Modern Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSamuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity is the first sustained exploration of aporia as a vital, subversive, and productive figure within Beckett's writing as it moves between prose and theatre. Informed by key developments in analytic and continental philosophies of language, Tubridy's fluent analysis demonstrates how Beckett's translations - between languages, genres, bodies, and genders - offer a way out of the impasse outlined in his early aesthetics. The primary modes of the self's extension into the world are linguistic (speaking, listening) and material (engaging with bodies, spaces and objects). Yet what we mean by language has changed in the twenty-first century. Beckett's concern with words must be read through the information economy in which contemporary identities are forged. Derval Tubridy provides the groundwork for new insights on Beckett in terms of the posthuman: the materialist, vitalist and relational subject cathected within differential mechanisms of power.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The old credentials\u003cbr\u003e 2. This cursed first person\u003cbr\u003e 3. No knowing not said\u003cbr\u003e 4. Whom else\u003cbr\u003e 5. 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Exploring how studies of animal crypsis and visibility drew on artistic theory and techniques to reconceptualise nature as a realm of signs and interpretation, Abberley shows that in turn, this science complicated religious views of nature as a text of divine meanings, inspiring literary authors to rethink human appearances and perceptions through a Darwinian lens. Providing fresh insights into writers from Alfred Russel Wallace and Thomas Hardy to Oscar Wilde and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Abberley reveals how the biology of appearance generated new understandings of deception, identity and creativity; reacted upon narrative forms such as crime fiction and the pastoral; and infused the rhetoric of cultural criticism and political activism.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction. Adaptive appearance in nineteenth-century culture\u003cbr\u003e 1. Seeing things: art, nature and science in representations of crypsis\u003cbr\u003e 2. Divine displays: Charles Kingsley, hermeneutic natural theology and the problem of adaptive appearance\u003cbr\u003e 3. Criminal chameleons: the evolution of deceit in Grant Allen's fiction\u003cbr\u003e 4. Darwin's little ironies: evolution and the ethics of appearance in Thomas Hardy's fiction\u003cbr\u003e 5. Blending in and standing out I: crypsis versus individualism in fin-de-siècle cultural criticism\u003cbr\u003e 6. Blending in and standing out II: mimicry, display and identity politics in the literary activism of Israel Zangwill and Charlotte Perkins Gilman\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. 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Elsner (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108473071, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 March 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e530 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.3 x 18 x 2.9 cm, 1.28 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book reveals the rewards of exploring the relationship between art and religion in the first millennium, and the particular problems of comparing the visual cultures of different emergent and established religions of the period in Eurasia - Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity and the pagan religions of the Roman world. Most of these became established and remained in play as what are called 'the world religions'. The chapters in this volume show how the long traditions of studying these topics are caught up in complex local, ancestral, colonial and post-colonial discourses and biases, which have made comparison difficult. The study of Late Antiquity turns out also to be an examination of the intellectual histories of modernity.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction Ja? Elsner\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Imperial Context: 2. The Gandharan problem Robert Bracey\u003cbr\u003e 3. Writing the art, archaeology and religion of the Roman Mediterranean Philippa Adrych and Dominic Dalglish\u003cbr\u003e 4. Mystery cult and material culture in the Graeco-Roman world Philippa Adrych and Dominic Dalglish\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Viennese invention of late antiquity: between politics and religion in the forms of late Roman art Ja? Elsner\u003cbr\u003e 6. The rise of Byzantine art and archaeology in late Imperial Russia Maria Lidova\u003cbr\u003e 7. Ferdinand Piper's Monumentale Theologie (1867) and Schleiermacher's legacy: the attempted foundation of a Protestant theology of art Stefanie Lenk\u003cbr\u003e Part II. After Imperialism: Orientalism and its Resistances\u003cbr\u003e 8. The road from decadence: agendas and personal histories in the rise of early Islamic art Nadia Ali\u003cbr\u003e 9. Connecting art and Zoroastrianism in Sasanian studies Rachel Wood\u003cbr\u003e 10. 'Hindu' art and the primordial ?iva Robert Bracey\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Post-colonialist, Old Colonialist and Nationalist Fantasies: 11. Jewish art: before and after the Jewish state (1948) Jesse Lockard and Ja? Elsner\u003cbr\u003e 12. Whose history is it anyway? Contests for India's past in the twentieth century Robert Bracey\u003cbr\u003e 13. Acculturated natives who rebel: revivalist, Ottomanist and Pan-Arabist engagements with early Islamic art (1876–1930s) Nadia Ali\u003cbr\u003e 14. Barbarians at the British Museum: Anglo-Saxon art, race and religion Katherine Cross.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of religion [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of religion\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20religion%20%5BHRAX%5D%22\"\u003eHRAX\u003c\/a\u003e], Religion: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Religion: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Religion:%20general%20%5BHRA%5D%22\"\u003eHRA\u003c\/a\u003e], Religion \u0026amp; beliefs [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Religion \u0026amp; beliefs\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Religion%20\u0026amp;%20beliefs%20%5BHR%5D%22\"\u003eHR\u003c\/a\u003e], Humanities [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Humanities\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Humanities%20%5BH%5D%22\"\u003eH\u003c\/a\u003e], History of art: ancient \u0026amp; classical art,BCE to c 500 CE [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of art: ancient \u0026amp; classical art,BCE to c 500 CE\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20art:%20ancient%20\u0026amp;%20classical%20art,BCE%20to%20c%20500%20CE%20%5BACG%5D%22\"\u003eACG\u003c\/a\u003e], History of art \/ art \u0026amp; design styles [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of art \/ art \u0026amp; design styles\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20art%20\/%20art%20\u0026amp;%20design%20styles%20%5BAC%5D%22\"\u003eAC\u003c\/a\u003e], The arts [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The arts\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20arts%20%5BA%5D%22\"\u003eA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004995784984,"sku":"9781108473071","price":100.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108473071i.jpg?v=1696702562"},{"product_id":"music-and-metamorphosis-in-graeco-roman-thought-paperback-9781316602638","title":"Music and Metamorphosis in Graeco-Roman Thought (Paperback \/ softback) 9781316602638","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMusic and Metamorphosis in Graeco-Roman Thought\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExamines questions raised, in antiquity and now, by mythical narratives about humans transforming into non-human musical beings.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePauline A. 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What kind of agency does a song have? What is at the root of musical pleasure? Can music die? These are some of the questions the Greeks and the Romans asked about music, song, and the soundscape within which they lived, and that this book examines. Focusing on mythical narratives of metamorphosis, it investigates the aesthetic and ontological questions raised by fantastic stories of musical origins. Each chapter opens with an ancient text devoted to a musical metamorphosis (of a girl into a bird, a nymph into an echo, men into cicadas, etc.) and reads that text as a meditation on an aesthetic and ontological question, in dialogue with 'contemporary' debates – contemporary with debates in the Greco-Roman culture that gave rise to the story, and with modern debates in the posthumanities about what it means to be a human animal enmeshed in a musicking environment.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Forest: on surrounds\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ringdove: on the uncanny power of performance\u003cbr\u003e 3. Cicadas: on the voice\u003cbr\u003e 4. Echo: on listening\u003cbr\u003e 5. Reeds: on musical objects\u003cbr\u003e 6. Nightingale: on expression\u003cbr\u003e 7. 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Richard Talbot, Nexus Network Journal\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMost works of art, whether illustrative, musical or literary, are created subject to a set of constraints. In many (but not all) cases, these constraints have a mathematical nature, for example, the geometric transformations governing the canons of J. S. Bach, the various projection systems used in classical painting, the catalog of symmetries found in Islamic art, or the rules concerning poetic structure. This fascinating book describes geometric frameworks underlying this constraint-based creation. The author provides both a development in geometry and a description of how these frameworks fit the creative process within several art practices. He furthermore discusses the perceptual effects derived from the presence of particular geometric characteristics. 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She shows us that it is possible to reconceive and reevaluate some of the most familiar early modern works, and she demonstrates the richness of previously undiscovered sources. Most significantly, perhaps, Eubanks Winkler presents us with a methodology to reanimate the past through the lens of our own experiences.' Sarah Williams, Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMusic, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools is the first book to systematically analyze the role that the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation. Although the material record is riddled with gaps, Amanda Eubanks Winkler sheds light on the subject through an innovative methodology that combines rigorous archival research with phenomenological and performance studies approaches. She organizes her study around a series of performance-based questions that demonstrate how the schoolroom intersected with the church, the court, the domicile, the concert room, and the professional theater, which allows her to provide fresh perspectives on well-known canonical operas performed by children, as well as lesser-known works. Eubanks Winkler also interrogates the notion that performance is ephemeral, as she considers how scores and playtexts serve as a conduit between past and present, and demonstrates the ways in which pedagogical performance is passed down through embodied praxis.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction. Minding the gaps\u003cbr\u003e 1. Situating pedagogical performance\u003cbr\u003e 2. Performing piety\u003cbr\u003e 3. Performing prestige\u003cbr\u003e 4. Performing accomplishment\u003cbr\u003e 5. Performing vice\u003cbr\u003e 6. Performing the professional\u003cbr\u003e 7. 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Two and a half millennia after its construction, this monument continues to generate important research across a wide range of fields, from classics and art history to archaeology and the physical sciences. This book, which grows out of a conference held at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, presents the latest developments in Parthenon research by an international cast of scholars and scientists. It offers new interpretations of some of the most crucial issues, ranging from the authorship of the frieze to the reconstruction of its missing sculpture, as well as the sociopolitical context in which the monument was created and the application of new technologies in Parthenon studies. Showcasing the most up to date research on the Parthenon, this book not only presents the current state of Parthenon studies but also marks the future direction of scholarship.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: the methodological framework of Parthenon studies Michael B. Cosmopoulos\u003cbr\u003e 1. A new analysis of the Parthenon frieze Sarantis Symeonoglou\u003cbr\u003e 2. Classic moments: time in the Parthenon frieze Jenifer Neils\u003cbr\u003e 3. Work sections and repeating patterns in the Parthenon frieze John G. Younger\u003cbr\u003e 4. Pandora and the Panathenaic Peplos Noel Robertson\u003cbr\u003e 5. A reconstruction of the Parthenon's east pediment Georgios Mostratos\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Parthenon East Metopes, the Gigantomachy, and digital technology Katherine A. Schwab\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Parthenon in 1687: new sources William St. Clair and Robert Picken\u003cbr\u003e 8. IntraQuarry sourcing of the Parthenon marbles: applications of the Pentelic Marble Stable Isotope Database Scott Pike\u003cbr\u003e 9. 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Through case studies of individual figures, including William Hogarth and Horace Walpole, and broader reflections on cross-cultural interaction, Porter's readings develop interpretations of eighteenth-century ideas of luxury, consumption, gender, taste and aesthetic nationalism. Illustrated with many examples of Chinese and Chinese-inspired objects and art, this is a major contribution to eighteenth-century cultural history and to the history of contact and exchange between China and the West.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction. Monstrous beauty\u003cbr\u003e Part I. China and the Aesthetics of Exoticism: 1. Eighteenth-century fashion and the aesthetics of the Chinese taste\u003cbr\u003e 2. Cross-cultural aesthetics in William Chambers' Chinese Garden\u003cbr\u003e Part II. What Do Women Want?: 3. Gendered Utopias in transcultural context\u003cbr\u003e 4. William Hogarth and the gendering of Chinese exoticism\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Of Rocks, Gardens, and Goldfish: 5. The socio-aesthetics of the Scholar's Stone\u003cbr\u003e 6. Horace Walpole and the Gothic repudiation of Chinoiserie\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. China and the Invention of Englishness: 7. Chinaware and the evolution of a modern domestic ideal\u003cbr\u003e 8. Thomas Percy's Sinology and the origins of English Romanticism\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20modern%20history:%20c%201450\/1500%20to%20c%201700%20%5BHBLH%5D%22\"\u003eHBLH\u003c\/a\u003e], British \u0026amp; Irish history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on British \u0026amp; Irish history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22British%20\u0026amp;%20Irish%20history%20%5BHBJD1%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD1\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201500%20to%20c%201800%20%5BDSBD%5D%22\"\u003eDSBD\u003c\/a\u003e], Literature \u0026amp; literary studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature \u0026amp; literary studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature%20\u0026amp;%20literary%20studies%20%5BD%5D%22\"\u003eD\u003c\/a\u003e], Art styles not defined by date [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Art styles not defined by date\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Art%20styles%20not%20defined%20by%20date%20%5BACB%5D%22\"\u003eACB\u003c\/a\u003e], The arts [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The arts\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20arts%20%5BA%5D%22\"\u003eA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006904717592,"sku":"9780521192996","price":95.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521192996i_92ac090f-222d-44fc-883f-1e13ca67c84d.jpg?v=1691373596"},{"product_id":"performance-and-authenticity-in-the-arts-hardback-9780521454193","title":"Performance and Authenticity in the Arts (Hardback) 9780521454193","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePerformance and Authenticity in the Arts\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThese essays investigate the complex and developing interaction between performance and authenticity in the arts.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSalim Kemal (Edited by), Ivan Gaskell (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521454193, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 December 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e286 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.7 x 15.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book brings together a distinguished group of scholars from music, drama, poetry, performance art, religion, classics and philosophy to investigate the complex and developing interaction between performance and authenticity in the arts. The volume begins with a perspective on traditional understandings of that relation, examining the crucial role of performance in the Poetics, the marriage of art with religion, the experiences of religious and aesthetic authenticity, and modernist conceptions of authenticity. Several essays then consider music as a performative art. The final essays discuss the link of authenticity to sincerity and truth in poetry, explain how performance, as an authentic feature of poetry, embodies a collective effort, and culminate in a discussion of the dark side of performance - its constant susceptibility to inauthenticity. Together the essays suggest how issues of performance and authenticity enter into consideration of a wide range of the arts.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of contributors\u003cbr\u003e Editor's acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e 1. Performance and authenticity Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Performance, Religion, and Authenticity: 2. The Poetics of performance: the necessity of spectacle, music, and dance in Aristotelian tragedy Gregory Scott\u003cbr\u003e 3. The 'confessing animal' on stage: authenticity, asceticism, and the constant 'inconstancie' of Elizabethan character Peter Iver Kaufman\u003cbr\u003e 4. Art, religion, and the hermeneutics of authenticity Nicholas Davey\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Understanding, Performance, and Authenticity: 5. Understanding music Michael Tanner\u003cbr\u003e 6. Understanding music Malcolm Budd\u003cbr\u003e 7. Musical performance as analytic communication Fred Everett Maus\u003cbr\u003e 8. Performance authenticity: possible, practical, virtuous Stan Godlovitch\u003cbr\u003e 9. Why is it impossible in language to articulate the meaning of a work of music? Joseph J. Kockelmans\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Authenticity, Poetry, and Performance: 10. Inauthenticity, insincerity, and poetry Alex Neill\u003cbr\u003e 11. Poetry's oral stage Peter Middleton\u003cbr\u003e 12. True stories: Spalding Gray and the authenticities of performance Henry M. 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Feinberg (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107002395, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 August 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e216 pages, 76 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e26 x 18.6 x 1.8 cm, 0.63 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Feinberg nicely interweaves biography, the implacable social milieu in fifteenth-century Italy and analysis of Leonardo's rapidly evolving paintings and drawings. Among the book's best features is its keen avoidance of idealizing puffery, which makes Leonardo's accomplishments under often difficult daily circumstances all that much more impressive.' Los Angeles Times\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eLeonardo da Vinci is often presented as the 'transcendent genius', removed from or ahead of his time. This book, however, attempts to understand him in the context of Renaissance Florence. Larry J. Feinberg explores Leonardo's origins and the beginning of his career as an artist. While celebrating his many artistic achievements, the book illuminates his debt to other artists' works and his struggles to gain and retain patronage, as well as his career and personal difficulties. Feinberg examines the range of Leonardo's interests, including aerodynamics, anatomy, astronomy, botany, geology, hydraulics, optics, and warfare technology, to clarify how the artist's broad intellectual curiosity informed his art. Situating the artist within the political, social, cultural, and artistic context of mid- and late-fifteenth-century Florence, Feinberg shows how this environment influenced Leonardo's artistic output and laid the groundwork for the achievements of his mature works.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Childhood\u003cbr\u003e 2. Florence and Cosimo the Elder\u003cbr\u003e 3. The cultural climate of Florence\u003cbr\u003e 4. First years in Florence and the Verrocchio workshop\u003cbr\u003e 5. First works in Florence and the artistic milieu\u003cbr\u003e 6. Early pursuits in engineering – hydraulics and the movement of water\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Bust of a Warrior and Leonardo's creative method\u003cbr\u003e 8. Early participation in the Medici court\u003cbr\u003e 9. Leonardo's personality and place in Florentine society\u003cbr\u003e 10. Important productions and collaborations in the Verroccio shop\u003cbr\u003e 11. Leonardo's colleagues in the workshop\u003cbr\u003e 12. Leonardo's Madonna of the Carnation and the exploration of optics\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Benois Madonna and continued meditations on the theme of sight\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Madonna of the Cat\u003cbr\u003e 15. Leonardo, the Medici, and public executions\u003cbr\u003e 16. Leonardo and Ginevra de'Benci\u003cbr\u003e 17. Leonardo as portraitist and master of the visual pun\u003cbr\u003e 18. The young sculptor\u003cbr\u003e 19. The Madonna Litta\u003cbr\u003e 20. The Adoration of the Magi and invention of the High Renaissance style\u003cbr\u003e 21. The Adoration and Leonardo's military interests\u003cbr\u003e 22. Leonardo and allegorical conceits for the Medici court\u003cbr\u003e 23. Early ideas for the Last Supper\u003cbr\u003e 24. Leonardo and the Saint Sebastian\u003cbr\u003e 25. Saint Jerome\u003cbr\u003e 26. First thoughts for the Virgin of the Rocks and the invention of the Mary Magdelene-courtesan genre\u003cbr\u003e 27. Milan\u003cbr\u003e 28. 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Jung (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107022959, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 December 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages, 180 b\/w illus.  30 colour illus.\u003cbr\u003e28.7 x 22 x 2 cm, 1.17 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"At the turn of this century, Jacqueline Jung published an influential article on choir screens in Gothic great churches. She has been regarded as the leading Anglo-American specialist on these furnishings ever since, a status maintained through publication of subsequent essays. Now, at last, her monograph on the topic has arrived in the form of an authoritative statement of the role of screens as space-co-ordinating, performative, psychology-conditioning objects.\"  \u003cbr\u003eJulian Luxford, The Burlington Magazine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAt the heart of Gothic cathedrals, the threshold between nave and sanctuary was marked by the choir screen, a partitioning structure of special complexity, grandeur, and beauty. At once a canopy for altars, a stage for performance, a pedestal for crucifixes and reliquaries, and a ground for spectacular arrays of narrative and iconic sculptures, the choir screen profoundly shaped the spaces of liturgy and social interaction for the diverse communities, both clerical and lay, who shared the church interior. For the first time, this book draws together the most important examples - some fully extant, others known through fragments and graphic sources - from thirteenth- and fourteenth-century France and Germany. Through analyses of both their architectural and sculptural components, Jacqueline E. Jung reveals how these furnishings, far from being barricades or hindrances, were vital vehicles of communication and shapers of a community centered on Christian rituals and stories.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Screen as Sculpture: 1. The choir screen as partition\u003cbr\u003e 2. The choir screen as bridge\u003cbr\u003e 3. The choir screen as frame\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Sculpture on the Screen: 4. Women, men, and the social order\u003cbr\u003e 5. Jews, Christians, and the question of the individual\u003cbr\u003e 6. 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'Some dear or sad fantasy': faith, idolatry, infidelity Sophie Duval\u003cbr\u003e 4. I am [not] a painting: how Chardin and Moreau dialogue in Proust's writing Christie McDonald\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Apprenticing and Integrating: 5. Art and craft in Marcel Proust's life and work Virginie Greene\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'Those blessed days': Ruskin, Proust, and Carpaccio in Venice Susan Ricci Stebbins\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'Cette douceur, pour ainsi dire wagnérienne': musical resonance in Proust's Recherche John Hamilton\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Expanding the Arts: 8. Proust and archeological discovery Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa\u003cbr\u003e 9. Swann's gift, Odette's face: photography, money and desire in À la recherche du temps perdu Suzanne Guerlac\u003cbr\u003e 10. Oriane's artful fashions Caroline Weber\u003cbr\u003e 11. Glass and clay: Proust and Gallé Elaine Scarry\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Perceiving and Transforming: 12. Proust's eye Françoise Leriche\u003cbr\u003e 13. Sound and music in Proust: what the Symbolists heard Sindhumathi Revuluri\u003cbr\u003e 14. Inside a red cover: Proust and the art of the book Evelyne Ender and Serafina Lawrence\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Creative Identities: 15. Proust and the Marx Brothers Elisabeth Ladenson\u003cbr\u003e 16. Proust, Jews, and the arts Maurice Samuels\u003cbr\u003e 17. 'Irregular' kin: Madeleine Lemaire and Reynaldo Hahn in Les plaisirs et les jours François Proulx\u003cbr\u003e 18. The day Proust recognized he was a great writer Antoine Compagnon\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20fiction,%20novelists%20\u0026amp;%20prose%20writers%20%5BDSK%5D%22\"\u003eDSK\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: from c 1900 -\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20from%20c%201900%20-%20%5BDSBH%5D%22\"\u003eDSBH\u003c\/a\u003e], The arts [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The arts\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20arts%20%5BA%5D%22\"\u003eA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265606439192,"sku":"9781107103368","price":90.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107103368i.jpg?v=1696793213"},{"product_id":"empires-of-faith-in-late-antiquity-histories-of-art-and-religion-from-india-to-ireland-paperback-9781108460941","title":"Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity; Histories of Art and Religion from India to Ireland (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108460941","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEmpires of Faith in Late Antiquity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHistories of Art and Religion from India to Ireland\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplores the problems for studying art and religion in Eurasia arising from ancestral, colonial and post-colonial biases in historiography.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJa? Elsner (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108460941, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 23 March 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e531 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.4 x 17 x 2.9 cm, 1.076 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book reveals the rewards of exploring the relationship between art and religion in the first millennium, and the particular problems of comparing the visual cultures of different emergent and established religions of the period in Eurasia - Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity and the pagan religions of the Roman world. Most of these became established and remained in play as what are called 'the world religions'. The chapters in this volume show how the long traditions of studying these topics are caught up in complex local, ancestral, colonial and post-colonial discourses and biases, which have made comparison difficult. The study of Late Antiquity turns out also to be an examination of the intellectual histories of modernity.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction Ja? Elsner\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Imperial Context: 2. The Gandharan problem Robert Bracey\u003cbr\u003e 3. Writing the art, archaeology and religion of the Roman Mediterranean Philippa Adrych and Dominic Dalglish\u003cbr\u003e 4. Mystery cult and material culture in the Graeco-Roman world Philippa Adrych and Dominic Dalglish\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Viennese invention of late antiquity: between politics and religion in the forms of late Roman art Ja? Elsner\u003cbr\u003e 6. The rise of Byzantine art and archaeology in late Imperial Russia Maria Lidova\u003cbr\u003e 7. Ferdinand Piper's Monumentale Theologie (1867) and Schleiermacher's legacy: the attempted foundation of a Protestant theology of art Stefanie Lenk\u003cbr\u003e Part II. After Imperialism: Orientalism and its Resistances\u003cbr\u003e 8. The road from decadence: agendas and personal histories in the rise of early Islamic art Nadia Ali\u003cbr\u003e 9. Connecting art and Zoroastrianism in Sasanian studies Rachel Wood\u003cbr\u003e 10. 'Hindu' art and the primordial ?iva Robert Bracey\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Post-colonialist, Old Colonialist and Nationalist Fantasies: 11. Jewish art: before and after the Jewish state (1948) Jesse Lockard and Ja? Elsner\u003cbr\u003e 12. Whose history is it anyway? Contests for India's past in the twentieth century Robert Bracey\u003cbr\u003e 13. Acculturated natives who rebel: revivalist, Ottomanist and Pan-Arabist engagements with early Islamic art (1876–1930s) Nadia Ali\u003cbr\u003e 14. 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Moreover, the fact that the papers communicate with each other throughout the volume is indicative of both careful editing and collaborative participation by the contributors in the overall process. The success of this volume means that there is good scope to broaden the contributions to include extra-urban regions and more provinces in future endeavours.' Rebecca J. Sweetman, The Journal of Roman Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book explores the spoliation of architectural and sculptural materials during the Roman empire. Examining a wide range of materials, including imperial portraits, statues associated with master craftsmen, architectural moldings and fixtures, tombs and sarcophagi, arches and gateways, it demonstrates that secondary intervention was common well before Late Antiquity, in fact, centuries earlier than has been previously acknowledged. The essays in this volume, written by a team of international experts, collectively argue that reuse was a natural feature of human manipulation of the physical environment, rather than a sign of social pressure. Reuse often reflected appreciation for the function, form, and design of the material culture of earlier eras. Political, social, religious, and economic factors also contributed to the practice. A comprehensive overview of spoliation and reuse, this volume examines the phenomenon in Rome and throughout the Mediterranean world.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction. 'Reuse, renovation, reiteration' Diana Y. Ng and Molly Swetnam-Burland\u003cbr\u003e 1. 'The reuse and redisplay of honorific statues in Pompeii' Brenda Longfellow\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'The Vigiles, dynastic succession and symbolic reappropriation in the Caserma dei Vigili at Ostia' Margaret L. Laird\u003cbr\u003e 3. 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Moreover, with its focus on mythmaking by women, it revises the traditional male-dominated canon of Irish drama and provides an alternative history of theatre and performance (not only) in Ireland. The book develops a complex theoretical framework of genealogical writing, covers abroad range of dramatic texts in the widest sense (including ballet and tableaux vivants) and manages to enrich the textual analyses by means of close readings of the productions of the plays … the book is well-written and … clear …' Anette Pankratz, Anglia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe rich legacy of women's contributions to Irish theatre is traditionally viewed through a male-dominated literary canon and mythmaking, thus arguably silencing their work. In this timely book, Shonagh Hill proposes a feminist genealogy which brings new perspectives to women's mythmaking across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The performances considered include the tableaux vivants performed by the Inghinidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of Ireland), plays written by Alice Milligan, Maud Gonne, Lady Augusta Gregory, Eva Gore-Booth, Mary Devenport O'Neill, Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy, Paula Meehan, Edna O'Brien and Marina Carr, as well as plays translated, adapted and performed by Olwen Fouéré. The theatrical work discussed resists the occlusion of women's cultural engagement that results from confinement to idealised myths of femininity. This is realised through embodied mythmaking: a process which exposes how bodies bear the consequences of these myths, while refusing to accept the female body as passive bearer of inscription through the assertion of a creative female corporeality.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: a creative female corporeality\u003cbr\u003e 1. Revolutionary bodies: mythmaking and Irish feminisms\u003cbr\u003e 2. Unhomely bodies: transforming space\u003cbr\u003e 3. Process and resistance: metamorphic 'bodies that matter'\u003cbr\u003e 4. Staging female death: sacrificial and dying bodies\u003cbr\u003e 5. Haunted bodies and violent pasts\u003cbr\u003e 6. Olwen Fouéré's Corpus: the performer's body and her body of work.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: plays \u0026amp; playwrights [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: plays \u0026amp; playwrights\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20plays%20\u0026amp;%20playwrights%20%5BDSG%5D%22\"\u003eDSG\u003c\/a\u003e], Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e], Literature \u0026amp; literary studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature \u0026amp; literary studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature%20\u0026amp;%20literary%20studies%20%5BD%5D%22\"\u003eD\u003c\/a\u003e], Theatre studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theatre studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theatre%20studies%20%5BAN%5D%22\"\u003eAN\u003c\/a\u003e], The arts [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The arts\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20arts%20%5BA%5D%22\"\u003eA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266369966360,"sku":"9781108485333","price":84.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108485333i_69e36686-4113-4a25-9590-51e9e4c67f1f.jpg?v=1696706294"},{"product_id":"mimicry-and-display-in-victorian-literary-culture-nature-science-and-the-nineteenth-century-imagination-paperback-9781108725767","title":"Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture; Nature, Science and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108725767","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNature, Science and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe book reveals how Victorians biologized appearance, reimagining imitation, concealment and self-presentation as evolutionary adaptations.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWill Abberley (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108725767, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 June 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e309 pages, 10 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.451 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Mimicry and Display fits nicely within the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture series, which has done so much to expand the range of high-quality scholarship on topics related to science and nature, technology, environment, and medicine.  The  chapters  on  Allen,  Hardy,  and  late-century  cultural  criticism  are  especially  good,  and  the  book  displays  how  widely  and  deeply  scientific  accounts  of  mimicry  and  camouflage in the natural world reverberated through Victorian literary culture.' Jonathan Smith, Victorian Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eRevealing the web of mutual influences between nineteenth-century scientific and cultural discourses of appearance, Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture argues that Victorian science and culture biologized appearance, reimagining imitation, concealment and self-presentation as evolutionary adaptations. Exploring how studies of animal crypsis and visibility drew on artistic theory and techniques to reconceptualise nature as a realm of signs and interpretation, Abberley shows that in turn, this science complicated religious views of nature as a text of divine meanings, inspiring literary authors to rethink human appearances and perceptions through a Darwinian lens. Providing fresh insights into writers from Alfred Russel Wallace and Thomas Hardy to Oscar Wilde and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Abberley reveals how the biology of appearance generated new understandings of deception, identity and creativity; reacted upon narrative forms such as crime fiction and the pastoral; and infused the rhetoric of cultural criticism and political activism.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction. Adaptive appearance in nineteenth-century culture\u003cbr\u003e 1. Seeing things: art, nature and science in representations of crypsis\u003cbr\u003e 2. Divine displays: Charles Kingsley, hermeneutic natural theology and the problem of adaptive appearance\u003cbr\u003e 3. Criminal chameleons: the evolution of deceit in Grant Allen's fiction\u003cbr\u003e 4. Darwin's little ironies: evolution and the ethics of appearance in Thomas Hardy's fiction\u003cbr\u003e 5. Blending in and standing out I: crypsis versus individualism in fin-de-siècle cultural criticism\u003cbr\u003e 6. Blending in and standing out II: mimicry, display and identity politics in the literary activism of Israel Zangwill and Charlotte Perkins Gilman\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. 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Burroughs, and others, navigated the intermedial spaces between texts and recordings. Numerous scholars have taken up remix - a term co-opted from DJs and sound engineers - as the defining aesthetic of twenty-first century art and literature. Others have examined modernism's debt to the phonograph. But in the gap between these moments, one finds that the reciprocal relationship between the literary arts and sonic technologies continued to evolve over the twentieth century. A mix of American literary history, sound studies, and media archaeology, this interdisciplinary study will appeal to scholars, students, and audiophiles.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Resonant Reading: Listening to American Literature After the Phonograph\u003cbr\u003e 1. Ears Taut to Hear: John Dos Passos Records America\u003cbr\u003e 2. 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Recording Music in the Early Ptolemaic Empire Yvona Trnka-Amrhein\u003cbr\u003e 6. Teichoacoustics, or the Wall as Sonic Medium in Antiquity Peter McMurray\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Audience, Music, and Repertoire: 7. Iacchus Resonatus: Sound, Memory, and Salvation in Aristophanes' Frogs Tim Power\u003cbr\u003e 8. Performance, Memory, and Affect: Animal Choruses in Attic Vase Painting Naomi Weiss\u003cbr\u003e 9. Meter, Music, and Memory in Roman Comedy Timothy J. Moore\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Music and Memorialization: 10. Sirens on the Edge of the Classical Attic Funerary Monument Seth Estrin\u003cbr\u003e 11. Music as Mn?ma on Athenian White-Ground Lekythoi Sheramy D. 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Numerous scholars have taken up remix - a term co-opted from DJs and sound engineers - as the defining aesthetic of twenty-first century art and literature. Others have examined modernism's debt to the phonograph. But in the gap between these moments, one finds that the reciprocal relationship between the literary arts and sonic technologies continued to evolve over the twentieth century. A mix of American literary history, sound studies, and media archaeology, this interdisciplinary study will appeal to scholars, students, and audiophiles.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Resonant Reading: Listening to American Literature After the Phonograph\u003cbr\u003e 1. Ears Taut to Hear: John Dos Passos Records America\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ethnographic Transcription and the Jazz Auto\/Biography: Alan Lomax, Jelly Roll Morton, Zora Neale Hurston, and Sidney Bechet\u003cbr\u003e 3. Press Play: Jack Kerouac, William S. 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