Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts – serie
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Pierre Klossowski
The Pantomime of Spirits
Häftad, 2014
880 kr
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This book examines the many facets of the work of Pierre Klossowski (1905–2001). Klossowski first established himself as a writer and was known and admired by peers such as Bataille, Blanchot, Gide, Foucault, Deleuze and Lacan. But in 1972 he gave up writing to devote himself to his ‘mutism’: …
Dancing with Time
The Garden as Art
Av John Powell
Häftad, 2019
815 kr
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Gardens provoke thought and engagement in ways that are often overlooked. This book shines new light on long-held assumptions about gardens and proposes novel ways in which we might reconsider them. The author challenges traditional views of how we experience gardens, how we might think of gardens …
Roman Shakespeare
Intersecting Times, Spaces, Languages
Häftad, 2018
956 kr
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This book addresses the memory of Rome: the dialectic between the glorious historical past of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire and its echoes, representations and interpretations in the works of Shakespeare. The essays explore multiple layers of time and place in relation to Shakespearean …
Pre-Raphaelites in the Spirit World
The Séance Diary of William Michael Rossetti
Av J. B. Bullen, Rosalind White m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
570 kr
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«This is a new and scholarly study of William Michael Rossetti’s séance diary, which is a fascinating first-hand source for the Rossetti brothers in the 1860s and offers a new perspective on the relationship between the Pre-Raphaelite circle and the spiritualist world.»(Jan Marsh) «As quirky and …
Water and Women in the Victorian Imagination
Av Béatrice Laurent, Béatrice Laurent
Häftad, 2021
838 kr
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During the Victorian period, naturally wet spaces – marshland, rivers and the sea – were construed as feminised loci, articulating contrasted visions of Woman as the angelic Undine or the demonic Siren. This essentialised the concept of feminine fluidity at the same time as it supported the …
Mediality of Smells / Médialité des odeurs
Av Jean-Alexandre Perras, Érika Wicky
Häftad, 2021
838 kr
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The study of scents and all things olfactory is thriving, a sign of the great interest that our information-based society feels for a sense that seems to offer a direct and immediate experience of reality. But smells resist description and representation, especially given that they are closely …
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
Art, Poetry and Female Agency in Victorian Britain
Av Glenda Youde, Robert Wilkes
Häftad, 2022
803 kr
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This is the first edited collection of essays entirely devoted to the women of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite Sisters exhibition and conference of 2019–20, the individual essays present new research into the wide-ranging creativity of the Pre-Raphaelite women. Artistic …
Victorian Love Letters in Literature and Art
Av Roberta Zanasi, J. B. Bullen
Häftad, 2024
742 kr
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«This book is a fascinating study of the love letter in a rich historical context, in which painting played an essential part – not merely illustrating epistolary dynamics, but creating them. Roberta Zanasi’s very engaging approach creates a fresh and significant subject in literary and art …
Where Love Happens
Changing Social Practices of Love in the Long Nineteenth Century
Av Helene Grøn, Lene Østermark-Johansen m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
804 kr
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Some decades ago, Jean-Luc Nancy asked, ‘Has not everything been said on the subject of love? … Could we perhaps be exhausted?’ The question is a pertinent one; why devote yet another book to the subject? Grounding love in the realm of the concrete by querying, where does love happen?, the essays …
William Morris in the Twenty-First Century
Av Phillippa Bennett, Rosie Miles
Häftad, 2010
1856 kr
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William Morris was one of the outstanding writers, artists and political activists of the nineteenth century. This book examines the significance of his legacy and his continuing influence in the twenty-first century. Currently many of Morris’s primary concerns are once again at the forefront of …
Collecting and Appreciating
Henry James and the Transformation of Aesthetics in the Age of Consumption
Häftad, 2010
622 kr
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This book examines the role and the meaning of collecting in the fiction of Henry James. Emerging as a refined consumerist practice at the end of the nineteenth century, collecting not only set new rules for appreciating art, but also helped to shape the aesthetic tenets of major literary movements …
Visuality and Spatiality in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction
Häftad, 2012
1089 kr
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This book offers an interpretative key to Virginia Woolf’s visual and spatial strategies by investigating their nature, role and function. The author examines long-debated theoretical and critical issues with their philosophical implications, as well as Woolf’s commitment to contemporary aesthetic …
"The Germ"
Origins and Progenies of Pre-Raphaelite Interart Aesthetics
Av Paola Spinozzi, Elisa Bizzotto
Häftad, 2012
860 kr
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It was in The Germ (1850), the first British magazine with an aesthetic manifesto, that the interart theories of the Pre-Raphaelites took shape. The thirteen young contributors advocated an ethical approach to art while at the same time acknowledging self-referentiality and meta-discoursivity. They …
Poetics of Sight
Av John Harvey
Häftad, 2015
863 kr
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Ut pictura poesis, Horace said, but through the two millennia in which the sister arts have been compared, little has been said about the nature of sight itself. What we see in our minds eye as we read has not been explored, though by following the visual prompts in texts, one can anatomize the …
Contemplations of the Spiritual in Art
Av Rina Arya
Häftad, 2013
1042 kr
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This essay collection exploring the relationship between spirituality and art is the result of a conference that took place in December 2010 at Liverpool Cathedral. During this two-day event, artists, clergy and academics from different disciplines – including theology and art history – came …
Genteel Mavericks
Professional Women Sculptors in Victorian Britain
Häftad, 2012
688 kr
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Sculpture was no occupation for a lady in Victorian Britain. Yet between 1837 and 1901 the number of professional female sculptors increased sixteen-fold. The four principal women sculptors of that era are the focus of this book. Once known for successful careers marked by commissions from the …
Roger Fry’s ‘Difficult and Uncertain Science’
The Interpretation of Aesthetic Perception
Häftad, 2013
868 kr
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This new study traces the development and evolution of the writings of Roger Fry (1866-1934), a highly influential art critic who introduced modern French painting to Britain in the early twentieth century. Through close analysis of his writings, the author examines the role that emerging …
Performativity in the Gallery
Staging Interactive Encounters
Av Marika Leino, Outi Remes m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
980 kr
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This book coincides with an increase in the programming of live art elements in many galleries and museums. Traditional art history has, however, been wary of live art’s interdisciplinarity and its tendency to encourage increased formal and conceptual risk taking. Time-based performances have …
Immaterial Culture
Literature, Drama and the American Radio Play, 1929–1954
Av Harry Heuser
Häftad, 2013
1125 kr
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Immaterial Culture engages with texts that are now largely unread and dismissed as trivial or dubious: the vast body of plays – thrillers, narrative poetry, comedy sketches, documentaries and adaptations of literature and drama – that aired on American network radio during the medium’s so-called …
Networks of Stone
Sculpture and Society in Archaic and Classical Athens
Häftad, 2015
1267 kr
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Networks of Stone explores the social and creative processes of sculpture production in Athens in the sixth and fifth centuries BC. Using the concept of art worlds, it analyses the contributions and interactions of all those who were in some way part of creating the sculpture set up in the …
Behind the Image
Understanding the Old Testament in Medieval Art
Häftad, 2013
840 kr
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Scenes and characters from the Old Testament appear frequently in Western medieval art, yet the study of their significance is a neglected area of iconography. A common literature for both Jews and Christians, the Hebrew Scriptures had an especially broad appeal for the Church of the Middle Ages. …
Sleeping Beauties in Victorian Britain
Cultural, Literary and Artistic Explorations of a Myth
Häftad, 2014
786 kr
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Artists, scientists and the wider public of the Victorian era all seem to have shared a common interest in the myth of the Briar Rose and its contemporary implications, from the Pre-Raphaelites and late Victorian aesthetes to the fascinated crowds who visited Ellen Sadler, the real-life ‘Sleeping …
Will the Modernist
Shakespeare and the European Historical Avant-Gardes
Av Giovanni Cianci, Caroline M. Patey
Häftad, 2014
964 kr
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Why was the Bard of Avon so frequently on the agenda of avant-garde writers in Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Germany and Ireland? This volume explores the rich and diverse landscape of Shakespearean encounters in the tormented aesthetics of pre- and post-World War I Europe. However manipulated, …
Spatial Perspectives
Essays on Literature and Architecture
Av Terri Mullholland, Nicole Sierra
Häftad, 2015
964 kr
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This interdisciplinary collection explores the dynamic relationship between literature and architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Contributions take the reader on a journey through unexplored byways, from Istanbul to New York to London, from event spaces to domestic interiors …
Paradigm Case
The Cinema of Hitchcock and the Contemporary Visual Arts
Häftad, 2015
963 kr
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With the migration of cinema into the art gallery, artists have been turning, with remarkable regularity and ingenuity, to Alfred Hitchcock-related images, sequences and iconography. The world of Hitchcocks cinema a classical cinema of formal unities and narrative coherence represents more than the …
InHabit
People, Places and Possessions
Av Antony Buxton, Linda Hulin m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
1455 kr
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Central to human life and experience, habitation forms a context for enquiry within many disciplines. This collection brings together perspectives on human habitation in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, social history, material culture, literature, art and design, and architecture. …
Showcase Britain
Britain at the Vienna World Exhibition 1873
Av Christina Baird, J. B. Bullen
Häftad, 2016
661 kr
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Showcase Britain explores the diverse aspects of British participation in the Vienna World Exhibition (Weltausstellung) of 1873. The exhibition covered a vast spectrum of human endeavour and achievement. The British involvement encompassed not only the national submission but also the British …
Colours of the Past in Victorian England
Häftad, 2016
903 kr
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The experience of colour underwent a significant change in the second half of the nineteenth century, as new coal tar-based synthetic dyes were devised for the expanding textile industry. These new, artificial colours were often despised in artistic circles who favoured ancient and more authentic …
Natasha's Dress
Language of Literature, Language of Fashion
Av Paola Colaiacomo, J. Barrie Bullen
Häftad, 2017
863 kr
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This book explores interconnections between high literary modernism and the revolution in dress design of the early twentieth century. During this time, new and «liberated» lifestyles created a bond among figures as diverse as writers and fashion editors, painters and art critics, photographers and …
What is a Woman to Do?
A Reader on Women, Work and Art, c. 1830-1890
Av Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi, Patricia Zakreski
Häftad, 2010
1469 kr
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This anthology contributes to a scholarly understanding of the aesthetics and economics of female artistic labour in the Victorian period. It maps out the evolution of the Woman Question in a number of areas, including the status and suitability of artistic professions for women, their engagement …
