Author: Eleonora LouisPublisher:
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Category : Art and music
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Grands spectacles 3
Author: Eleonora LouisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art and music
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Political Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Ed. from Theoriginal Manuscripts and Authentic Editions
Author: Jean-Jacques RousseauPublisher:
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Azael, the Prodigal. Grand operatic spectacle in three acts
Author: Edward FitzballPublisher:
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Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Grand Illusion
Author: Gabriela CruzPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190915056
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A new and groundbreaking historical narrative, Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera explores how technical innovations in Paris transformed the grand opera into a transcendent, dream-like audio-visual spectacle.
Louis le Grand; or, Fontainbleau and Versailles. A comedy à spectacle, in three acts [and in prose]. By J. [i.e. S.]E. H. MS. notes
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Author: Samuel Elliott HOSKINSEmpire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest
Author: Chase F. RobinsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139426915
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
The study of early Islamic historical tradition has flourished with the emergence of an innovative scholarship no longer dependent on more traditional narratival approaches. Chase Robinson's book, first published in 2000, takes full account of the research available and interweaves history and historiography to interpret the political, social and economic transformations in the Mesopotamian region after the Islamic conquests. Using Arabic and Syriac sources to elaborate his argument, the author focuses on the Muslim and Christian élites, demonstrating that the immediate effects of the conquests were in fact modest ones. Significant social change took place only at the end of the seventh century with the imposition of Marwanid rule. Even then, the author argues, social power was diffused in the hands of local élites. This is a sophisticated study in a burgeoning field in Islamic studies.
Poems ...
Author: William WordsworthCatalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Music in the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public Library. Allen A. Brown Collection of MusicPublisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Grand Designs
Author: Lara KriegelPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822390531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
With this richly illustrated history of industrial design reform in nineteenth-century Britain, Lara Kriegel demonstrates that preoccupations with trade, labor, and manufacture lay at the heart of debates about cultural institutions during the Victorian era. Through aesthetic reform, Victorians sought to redress the inferiority of British crafts in comparison to those made on the continent and in the colonies. Declaring a crisis of design and workmanship among the British laboring classes, reformers pioneered schools of design, copyright protections, and spectacular displays of industrial and imperial wares, most notably the Great Exhibition of 1851. Their efforts culminated with the establishment of the South Kensington Museum, predecessor to the Victoria and Albert Museum, which stands today as home to the world’s foremost collection of the decorative and applied arts. Kriegel’s identification of the significant links between markets and museums, and between economics and aesthetics, amounts to a rethinking of Victorian cultural formation. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including museum guidebooks, design manuals, illustrated newspapers, pattern books, and government reports, Kriegel brings to life the many Victorians who claimed a stake in aesthetic reform during the middle years of the nineteenth century. The aspiring artists who attended the Government School of Design, the embattled provincial printers who sought a strengthened industrial copyright, the exhibition-going millions who visited the Crystal Palace, the lower-middle-class consumers who learned new principles of taste in metropolitan museums, and the working men of London who critiqued the city’s art and design collections—all are cast by Kriegel as leading cultural actors of their day. Grand Designs shows how these Victorians vied to upend aesthetic hierarchies in an imperial age and, in the process, to refashion London’s public culture.
Four Centuries of Ballet
Author: Lincoln KirsteinPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486246314
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Traces the development of dance's basic components, choreography, gesture, music, costume, and scenery, and discusses the backgrounds of the most important ballets