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  • Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century

    by Jennifer Milam, David Maskill, Jessica Priebe, Matthew J. Martin, Jessica Fripp, Wiebke Windorf, Melanie Cooper, Jennifer Ferng ...
    Series series Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture
    This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experience occasioned by reception during the long eighteenth century. The event that gave rise to the collection was the 15th David Nochol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies, which launched a new Australian and New Zealand Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies. Two strands of interest are explored by ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris

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    Edmund White has just met you at a party and he's going to tell you about a friend. But his 'friend' is one of the greatest cities in the world, beloved by many and yet really known by only a few. And he is one of those few. -Alexander CheeEdmund White's New York Times bestselling guided sojourn through the streets of Paris, with a new foreword by Alexander Chee.Legendary paterfamilias of queer ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art

    by Michelle Facos ...
    Using the tools of the "new" art history (feminism, Marxism, social context, etc.) An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art offers a richly textured, yet clear and logical, introduction to nineteenth-century art and culture. This textbook will provide readers with a basic historical framework of the period and the critical tools for interpreting and situating new and unfamiliar works of art ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • Architecture in Words

    Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture

    by Louise Pelletier ...
    What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? This was the assumption of generations of architects at the beginning of modernity.Exploring the role of theatre and fiction in defining character in architecture, Louise ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Delphi Collected Works of Alfred Sisley (Illustrated)

    by Alfred Sisley, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 63 - Delphi Masters of Art
    The English artist Alfred Sisley was a founding member of Impressionism — one of the most important movements of the modern age. His landscapes are celebrated for their subtlety and quiet variety, offering some of the finest canvases of all nineteenth-century art. His frank and sincere character is present in all of his paintings, noted for their perfection of tone, polished composition and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art

    by Jennifer D. Milam ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    The Rococo emerged in France around 1700 as a playful revolt against the grandeur of the Baroque and the solemnity of Classicism. It flourished during the reign of Louis XV and began to go out of fashion in the second half of the 18th century. During this brief period of less than a century, it spread throughout the courts and cities of Europe, with significant regional variations on the style ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Paris Fashion

    A Cultural History

    by Valerie Steele ...
    Paris has been the international capital of fashion for more than 300 years. Even before the rise of the haute couture, Parisians were notorious for their obsession with fashion, and foreigners eagerly followed their lead. From Charles Frederick Worth to Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent, fashion history is dominated by the names of Parisian couturiers. But Valerie ... Read more

    $34.09 USD

  • Tales of Two Cities

    Paris, London and the Birth of the Modern City

    by Jonathan Conlin ...
    Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period 1750–1914, when they vied to be the world's greatest city. Each city has been the focus of many books, yet Jonathan Conlin here explores the complex relationship between them for the first time. The reach and influence of both cities was such that the story of their rivalry has global implications. By ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris

    Edited by Anna-Louise Milne ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    No city more than Paris has had such a constant and deep association with the development of literary forms and cultural ideas. The idea of the city as a space of literary self-consciousness started to take hold in the sixteenth century. By 1620, where this volume begins, the first in a long line of extraordinary works of the human imagination, in which the city represented itself to itself, had ... Read more

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  • The Summits of Modern Man

    Mountaineering after the Enlightenment

    by Peter H. Hansen ...
    The history of mountaineering has long served as a metaphor for civilization triumphant. Once upon a time, the Alps were an inaccessible habitat of specters and dragons, until heroic men—pioneers of enlightenment—scaled their summits, classified their strata and flora, and banished the phantoms forever. A fascinating interdisciplinary study of the first ascents of the major Alpine peaks and Mount ... Read more

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  • The Work of Art

    Plein Air Painting and Artistic Identity in Nineteenth-century France

    by Anthea Callen ...
    Plein-air painting became standard practice for French landscape artists early in the nineteenth century, and by the 1850s landscape was the most popular artistic genre. Landscape painting in general, Anthea Callen argues, and the ‘plein air’ oil sketch in particular were the key drivers of change in artistic practice in the nineteenth century – which led ultimately to the Impressionist revolution ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Gustave Courbet

    (Grove Art Essentials)

    by Klaus Herding ...
    Series series Grove Art Essentials Series
    An artist assessed as much by his personality as by his work, French painter and writer Gustave Courbet's renown centers on his paintings of peasants and labourers of the mid-nineteenth century and his presentation of himself as a passionate social commentator. Motivated by strong political views, Courbet's art formed a paradigm of Realism: a consciously democratic attempt to objectively represent ... Read more

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