Art Crossing Borders

Art Crossing Borders
Author: Jan Dirk Baetens
Publisher: Studies in the History of Coll
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2019
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9789004291980

Art Crossing Bordersoffers a thought-provoking analysis of the internationalisation of the art market during the long nineteenth century. Twelve experts, dealing with a wide variety of geographical, temporal, and commercial contexts, explore how the gradual integration of art markets structurally depended on the simultaneous rise of nationalist modes of thinking, in unexpected and ambiguous ways. By presenting a radically international research perspective Art Crossing Bordersoffers a crucial contribution to the field of art market studies.

Roberte Ce Soir

Roberte Ce Soir
Author: Pierre Klossowski
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781564783097

Together these two novels comprise the most fascinating, obsessive, and erotic works of contemporary Frech fiction. Like the works of Georges Bataille, and those of the Marquis de Sade before him, Klossowski's fiction explores the connections between the mind and the body through a lens of sexuality. Both of these novels feature Octave, an elderly cleric; his striking young wife Roberte; and their nephew, Antoine in a series of sexual situations. But Klossowski's books are about theology as well, and this merging of the sexual with the religious makes this book one of the most painstakingly baroque and intellectual novels of our time.

Léonard Bourdon

Léonard Bourdon
Author: Michael J. Sydenham
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0889205884

Lonard Bourdon: The Career of a Revolutionary, 1754-1807 illustrates the ways in which one individual was affected by and influenced the long and turbulent course of the French Revolution. It also rescues an active, intelligent and interesting man from a prolonged period of scholarly neglect and redeems his reputation from being perceived as a particularly cruel revolutionary terrorist. Sydenham follows Bourdon’s political career from the final days of the old monarchy through Bourdon’s active participation in the Revolution. Bourdon was always aware that political development must be accompanied by educational change, and his lifelong interest in education is an integral part of his story. Bourdon left remarkably few personal papers. During the painstaking exploration for details of his life, several critical as well as unfamiliar events of the period have been illuminated, suggesting that similar misrepresentations of many other relatively unknown French revolutionaries have distorted current understanding of this period, crucial to the growth and development of modern democracy.

The Big 'L'

The Big 'L'
Author: National Defense University Press
Publisher:
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: