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Author | : Lee Jackson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2019-06-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300245092 |
An energetic and exhilarating account of the Victorian entertainment industry, its extraordinary success and enduring impact The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century’s growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the free time to pursue leisure activities, their every whim was satisfied by entrepreneurs building new venues for popular amusement. Contrary to their reputation as dour, buttoned-up prudes, the Victorians reveled in these newly created ‘palaces of pleasure’. In this vivid, captivating book, Lee Jackson charts the rise of well-known institutions such as gin palaces, music halls, seaside resorts and football clubs, as well as the more peculiar attractions of the pleasure garden and international exposition, ranging from parachuting monkeys and human zoos to theme park thrill rides. He explores how vibrant mass entertainment came to dominate leisure time and how the attempts of religious groups and secular improvers to curb ‘immorality’ in the pub, variety theater and dance hall faltered in the face of commercial success. The Victorians’ unbounded love of leisure created a nationally significant and influential economic force: the modern entertainment industry.
Author | : Joseph Haslewood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1813 |
Genre | : Italian literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Vincent Katz |
Publisher | : powerHouse Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-05-01 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9781576873670 |
Artist Hunt Slonem creates his magical paintings and sculptures of flora, fauna, saints, and other subjects with inspiration that he draws not only from his sense of spirituality, but also from his environment in a "self-created world" filled with myriad exotic forms, vivid colors, and mystical essences. While the public can imagine an artist at work or at home, rarely does an aficionado or a reader gain access to an artist's lair. That will change with the publication of Pleasure Palaces: The Art and Homes of Hunt Slonem, by Vincent Katz. Here, the reader is invited into not only the artist's studios (past and present) but also his homes in New York and Louisiana. From Slonem's first downtown studio in New York City "where it all began" in 1975 (shown on the book's cover) to his Victorian mansion on the Hudson River in Kingston, New York, as well as his two Louisiana plantations-one on the Bayou Teche in St. Mary Parish, about two hours' drive northwest of New Orleans, and the other in a remote location one hour north of Baton Rouge-the reader will get a unique perspective on how this Neo-Expressionist artist's environments are brought to life by his collections of antique neo-Gothic furniture, Blenko glass, and period frames, not to mention his astonishing collection of tropical birds, which are both his muses and his passion. Multi-talented poet/author/curator/documentarian/editor Vincent Katz, who has written about Slonem numerous times and has previously contributed poetry to Slonem's publications Hunt's Place and Exotica, has written an essay for Pleasure Palaces that not only provides a critical analysis of the artist's work, but also explores his spiritual life and how it influences his art and the extraordinary homes that are his havens. Katz's essay and an interview with the artist bookend lavishly illustrated color sections, with views of Slonem's estates (Albania Plantation, Lakeside Plantation, Cordt's Mansion) and New York City studios (including the private aviary in his West 10th Street studio) interspersed with his oil and watercolor paintings of flora and fauna. At the book's conclusion, an up-to-date chronology of Slonem's solo and group exhibitions (including forthcoming 2007 shows), a bibliography, a list of awards received, and a list of public collections that include his works complete this comprehensive document of Slonem's body of work.
Author | : Giles Henry Rupert Tillotson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Architecture, Rajput |
ISBN | : |
This Book Looks At Ancient Fortress Capital Such As Chittor And Gwalior, Cities Established At The Height Of Rajput Cultural Achievement Such As Udaipur And Bikaner And Provides A Detailed Yet Accessible Examination Of This Spectacular But Little Studied School Of Architecture.
Author | : Jessica Joyce Christie |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0292782616 |
Ancient American palaces still captivate those who stand before them. Even in their fallen and ruined condition, the palaces project such power that, according to the editors of this new collection, it must have been deliberately drawn into their formal designs, spatial layouts, and choice of locations. Such messages separated palaces from other elite architecture and reinforced the power and privilege of those residing in them. Indeed, as Christie and Sarro write, "the relation between political power and architecture is a pervasive and intriguing theme in the Americas." Given the variety of cultures, time periods, and geographical locations examined within, the editors of this book have grouped the articles into four sections. The first looks at palaces in cultures where they have not previously been identified, including the Huaca of Moche Site, the Wari of Peru, and Chaco Canyon in the U.S. Southwest. The second section discusses palaces as "stage sets" that express power, such as those found among the Maya, among the Coast Salish of the Pacific Northwest, and at El Tajín on the Mexican Gulf Coast. The third part of the volume presents cases in which differences in elite residences imply differences in social status, with examples from Pasado de la Amada, the Valley of Oaxaca, Teotihuacan, and the Aztecs. The final section compares architectural strategies between cultures; the models here are Farfán, Peru, under both the Chimú and the Inka, and the separate states of the Maya and the Inka. Such scope, and the quality of the scholarship, make Palaces and Power in the Americas a must-have work on the subject.
Author | : Immanuel Kant |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1991-01-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521398374 |
This edition includes two important texts illustrating Kants's view of history along with notes and a comprehensive bibliography.
Author | : Flavio Conti |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Great structures and residences created for pleasure include the Spanish Steps, Maharanah's Palace of Udaipur, Petrodvorets, Palace of Sanssouci, Chateau of Azay-le-Rideau, Hampton Court Palace, Mirabell Palace, and Casino at Deauville.
Author | : Bindu Manchanda |
Publisher | : Roli Books Private Limited |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9788174363817 |
The book explores the romance of India's forts and palaces - their past glory, wars and warriors, and unparalleled architecture. The book brings alive the magic of those monuments with a rare combination of prose and inimitable photographs. Master builders, dynasties, armories, underground stepwells, concrete labyrinths - they all come to life in the pages of this masterful tome.
Author | : Susan Toby Evans |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Among the most sumptuous buildings of antiquity were royal palaces. As in the Old World, kings and nobles of ancient Mexico and Peru had luxurious administrative quarters in cities, and exquisite pleasure palaces in the countryside. This volume explores the great houses of the ancient New World, from palaces of the Aztecs and Incas, looted by the Spanish conquistadors, to those lost high in the Andes and deep in the jungle. This volume, the first scholarly compendium of elite residences of the high cultures of the New World, presents definitive descriptions and interpretations by leading scholars in the field. Authoritative yet accessible, this extensively illustrated book will serve as an important resource for anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians of art, architecture, and related disciplines.
Author | : Elisheva Carlebach |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2011-04-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674052544 |
Palaces of Time resurrects the seemingly banal calendar as a means to understand early modern Jewish life. Elisheva Carlebach has unearthed a trove of beautifully illustrated calendars, to show how Jewish men and women both adapted to the Christian world and also forged their own meanings through time.