Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds

Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds
Author: Michael Yonan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2019-02-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1501335502

While the connected, international character of today's art world is well known, the eighteenth century too had a global art world. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds is the first book to attempt a map of the global art world of the eighteenth century. Fourteen essays from a distinguished group of scholars explore both cross-cultural connections and local specificities of art production and consumption in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The result is an account of a series of interconnected and asymmetrical art worlds that were well developed in the eighteenth century. Capturing the full material diversity of eighteenth-century art, this book considers painting and sculpture alongside far more numerous prints and decorative objects. Analyzing the role of place in the history of eighteenth-century art, it bridges the disciplines of art history and cultural geography, and draws attention away from any one place as a privileged art-historical site, while highlighting places such as Manila, Beijing, Mexico City, and London as significant points on globalized map of the eighteenth-century art world. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds combines a broad global perspective on the history of art with careful attention to how global artistic concerns intersect with local ones, offering a framework for future studies in global art history.

Top 10 New Orleans

Top 10 New Orleans
Author: DK Publishing
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0756688515

DK Eyewitness Top 10 New Orleans will lead you straight to the best attractions this vibrant city has to offer. Whether you're looking for great live music spots and lively clubs, the most interesting architecture, the best places to celebrate Mardi Gras, or the tastiest Cajun cuisine, this guide is the perfect companion. Rely on dozens of Top 10 lists for all budgets, including the Top 10 jazz clubs, gay and lesbian venues, restaurants, children's activities, performing arts venues, shops and hotels, and the ever-useful Top 10 things to avoid. Effortlessly explore every corner of New Orleans using the many maps included within the guide. DK Eyewitness Top 10 New Orleans is also packed with beautiful illustrations of the city's attractions, and includes detailed sections on the Garden District and Uptown, the Warehouse, Arts and Central Business District, the Lower and Upper French Quarters, and more, providing insider knowledge every visitor wants and needs.

Directory of Museums

Directory of Museums
Author: Kenneth Hudson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 864
Release: 1975-06-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1349014885

Legacies of Orientalism and Slavery in European Intellectual and Literary History

Legacies of Orientalism and Slavery in European Intellectual and Literary History
Author: John Docker
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2024-09-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 103640837X

This book is an exercise in ethical criticism. It draws on and works with ideas and suggestions from two of its notable exponents, Wayne C. Booth and Martha C. Nussbaum, who propose that we regard cultural texts as “friends” with whom we can enjoy productive conversations that address contemporary challenges and developments, such as coercive control in gender relations, imperial and colonial thinking, and the centuries-long history of slavery. Throughout, attention is drawn to female agency in figures from Joan of Arc, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Rebecca in Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe through to Princess Diana. The book begins by looking closely at The Thousand and One Nights in terms of its wayward narratology, its displays of female power, and its significance for arguments over the relationship between the Enlightenment and the conceptual underpinnings of the Holocaust. Montesquieu in Persian Letters and Voltaire in Zadig destabilise any certainty that the Enlightenment was straightforward or easily definable. After evoking a slavery thread in chapters on Jane Austen’s Persuasion and Mansfield Park, Patricia Rozema’s film Mansfield Park, and Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John, the book concludes with a radical re-reading of Middlemarch.

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Total Pages: 772
Release: 1956
Genre: Art
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