The World of the Salons

The World of the Salons
Author: Antoine Lilti
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199772347

The World of the Salons is a revisionist study of the French salon of the eighteenth century, arguing that it was a place governed by social hierarchy, not equality, connected to the world of the Court, and not the fount of the Enlightenment as has traditionally been believed.

French Salons

French Salons
Author: Steven D. Kale
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2006-01-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801883866

Challenging many of the conclusions of recent historiography, including the depiction of salonnières as influential power brokers, French Salons offers an original, penetrating, and engaging analysis of elite culture and society in France before, during, and after the Revolution.

High Styles

High Styles
Author:
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 116
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 0595318754

Beauty Salon

Beauty Salon
Author: Mario Bellatin
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2021-10-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1646050754

Mario Bellatin’s complex dreamscape, offered here in a brand-new translation, presents a timely allegorical portrait of the body and society in decay, victim to inscrutable pandemic. In a large, unnamed city, a strange, highly infectious disease begins to spread, afflicting its victims with an excruciating descent toward death, particularly unsparing in its assault of those on society's margins. Spurned by their loved ones and denied treatment by hospitals, the sick are left to die on the streets until a beauty salon owner, whose previous caretaking experience extended only to the exotic fish tanks scattered among his workstations, opens his doors as a refuge. In the ramshackle Morgue, victim to persecution and violence, he accompanies his male guests as they suffer through the lifeless anticipation of certain death, eventually leaving the wistful narrator in complete, ill-fated isolation.

American Salons

American Salons
Author: Robert Morse Crunden
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 518
Release: 1993
Genre: Arts
ISBN: 0195065697

From New Orleans jazz to Hollywood films, American culture had barely begun its new role on the world stage as the 20th century opened. But in informal gatherings--known as salons--American artists and writers spread the ideas of European Modernism. This work provides a sweeping account of the American encounter with European Modernism up until World War I. 16 pages of plates.

Empire of Salons

Empire of Salons
Author: Helen Pfeifer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2024-09-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691224943

A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governance Historians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth century to the bureaucracy or the sultan’s court. In Empire of Salons, Helen Pfeifer points instead to a critical but overlooked factor: gentlemanly salons. Pfeifer demonstrates that salons—exclusive assemblies in which elite men displayed their knowledge and status—contributed as much as any formal institution to the empire’s political stability. These key laboratories of Ottoman culture, society, and politics helped men to build relationships and exchange ideas across the far-flung Ottoman lands. Pfeifer shows that salons played a central role in Syria and Egypt’s integration into the empire after the conquest of 1516–17. Pfeifer anchors her narrative in the life and network of the star scholar of sixteenth-century Damascus, Badr al-Din al-Ghazzi (d. 1577), and she reveals that Arab elites were more influential within the empire than previously recognized. Their local knowledge and scholarly expertise competed with, and occasionally even outshone, that of the most powerful officials from Istanbul. Ultimately, Ottoman culture of the era was forged collaboratively, by Arab and Turkophone actors alike. Drawing on a range of Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources, Empire of Salons illustrates the extent to which magnificent gatherings of Ottoman gentlemen contributed to the culture and governance of empire.

The Age of Conversation

The Age of Conversation
Author: Benedetta Craveri
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2006-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781590172148

Now in paperback, an award-winning look at French salons and the women who presided over them In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, between the reign of Louis XIII and the Revolution, French aristocratic society developed an art of living based on a refined code of good manners. Conversation, which began as a way of passing time, eventually became the central ritual of social life. In the salons, freed from the rigidity of court life, it was women who dictated the rules and presided over exchanges among socialites, writers, theologians, and statesmen. They contributed decisively to the development of the modern French language, new literary forms, and debates over philosophical and scientific ideas. With a cast of characters both famous and unknown, ranging from the Marquise de Rambouillet to Madame de Sta‘l, and including figures like Ninon de Lenclos, the Marquise de Sevigne, and Madame de Lafayette, as well as Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Diderot, and Voltaire, Benedetta Craveri traces the history of this worldly society that carried the art of sociability to its supreme perfection–and ultimately helped bring on the Revolution that swept it all away.

The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe

The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe
Author: James Van Horn Melton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2001-09-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521469692

James Melton examines the rise of the public in 18th-century Europe. A work of comparative synthesis focusing on England, France and the German-speaking territories, this a reassessment of what Habermas termed the bourgeois public sphere.

Lies Salon Owners Believe

Lies Salon Owners Believe
Author: Dan Lok
Publisher: Advantage Media Group
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781599322704

Foreword by Jay Conrad Levinson, The Father Of Guerilla Marketing, 21 million copies sold worldwide - Have you lost the passion, the drive and the fire you once had for your business? - Are you tired of riding the financial roller coaster, where sometimes your appointment book is overflowing with a waiting list and sometimes it's empty as a desert? - Are you hitting the "glass ceiling" of success that virtually every salon or spa owner hits - where income peaks, plateaus, and eventually goes down? - Is your salon/spa business sucking the life out of you? Physically draining and preventing you from having a normal life, such as family get-togethers, time with your friends, your children's sports day, dance performances, and so on. - Are you sick and tired of wasting money on advertising that doesn't get you new clients? - Are you looking to expand to a bigger space or add another location but you are afraid to make the move? - Are you sick of struggling, taking all the risks and putting in "sweat equity" that you're about ready to throw in the towel and get a "regular job" with regular work schedule and regular pay? - Do you want to continue running your salon/spa and have a great "lifestyle" with plenty of money to pay your bills, your mortgage, your car loan and to build a nest egg of cash while having the freedom to work less and when you want? If you answered "YES " to one or more (maybe all) of these questions, then Lies Salon Owners Believe is the book for you. In this book, Dan Lok and DJ Richoux shatter the seven lies that are holding your business back. Next, they reveal the truth behind why most salon businesses don't work - and what to do about it. They also share with you strategies and techniques you can utilize to increase your odds of success. Now is the time to take control of your destiny and to take action. Use the strategies in this book to achieve the life you've always wanted. Now is the first time that you have a chance to stop hoping for a better life and start creating it.

Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages

Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages
Author: Samer M. Ali
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2010-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0268074976

Arabic literary salons emerged in ninth-century Iraq and, by the tenth, were flourishing in Baghdad and other urban centers. In an age before broadcast media and classroom education, salons were the primary source of entertainment and escape for middle- and upper-rank members of society, serving also as a space and means for educating the young. Although salons relied on a culture of oral performance from memory, scholars of Arabic literature have focused almost exclusively on the written dimensions of the tradition. That emphasis, argues Samer Ali, has neglected the interplay of oral and written, as well as of religious and secular knowledge in salon society, and the surprising ways in which these seemingly discrete categories blurred in the lived experience of participants. Looking at the period from 500 to 1250, and using methods from European medieval studies, folklore, and cultural anthropology, Ali interprets Arabic manuscripts in order to answer fundamental questions about literary salons as a social institution. He identifies salons not only as sites for socializing and educating, but as loci for performing literature and oral history; for creating and transmitting cultural identity; and for continually reinterpreting the past. A fascinating recovery of a key element of humanistic culture, Ali’s work will encourage a recasting of our understanding of verbal art, cultural memory, and daily life in medieval Arab culture.