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Vermeer’s Afterlives
Inbunden, 2026
401 kr
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How a once-forgotten Dutch painter inspired generations of artists, writers, and filmmakersJohannes Vermeer (1632–1675) is one of the most beloved painters in the world. But when an enterprising French journalist and art critic set out to recover his work in the mid-nineteenth century, both his …
Harems of the Mind
Passages of Western Art and Literature
Häftad, 2013
692 kr
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Fascinating and mysterious, the idea of the harem long captured the imagination of the West. The Muslim practice of concealing the women of the household from the eyes of alien men tempted Europeans to extravagant projections of their own wishes and fears. This intriguing book examines the art that …
Art of the Everyday
Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel
Häftad, 2009
421 kr
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Realist novels are celebrated for their detailed attention to ordinary life. But two hundred years before the rise of literary realism, Dutch painters had already made an art of the everyday--pictures that served as a compelling model for the novelists who followed. By the mid-1800s, …
Picture Titles
How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names
Inbunden, 2015
395 kr
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A picture's title is often our first guide to understanding the image. Yet paintings didn't always have titles, and many canvases acquired their names from curators, dealers, and printmakers--not the artists. Taking an original, historical look at how Western paintings were named, Picture Titles …
Vermeer's Afterlives
E-bok, 2026
574 kr
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How a once-forgotten Dutch painter inspired generations of artists, writers, and filmmakersJohannes Vermeer (16321675) is one of the most beloved painters in the world. But when an enterprising French journalist and art critic set out to recover his work in the mid-nineteenth century, both his name …
Sex, Politics, and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Häftad, 1991
449 kr
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Six critics consider what is significantly not present-- or at least significantly well hidden-- in a provocative examination of the cultural anxieties that the nineteenth-century novel manipulates and conceals. Probing the connections between literary and sexual politics, the authors question the …
Picture Titles
How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names
E-bok, 2015
514 kr
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How the practice of titling paintings has shaped their reception throughout modern history A picture''s title is often our first guide to understanding the image. Yet paintings didn’t always have titles, and many canvases acquired their names from curators, dealers, and printmakers—not the artists. …
Death And Letters Of Alice James
Av Alice James, Ruth Yeazell m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
182 kr
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Selected Correspondence, Edited with a Biographical Essay by Ruth Bernard Yeazell Alice James, 1848-1892, was the sister of Henry and William James, as literary as her brothers bu but never formally educated. Here Yeazell argues that Alice James instead made a career of her lifelong neurastenic …
