Utmost Art

Utmost Art
Author: Mary Ellen Rickey
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2021-11-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813188105

George Herbert has always been regarded as a man of singular piety and a poet of uncommon technical ability. Until recent times, however, he was usually thought to have written prosodically ingenious but conceptually thin verse. Mary Ellen Rickey, through a close examination of Herbert's poetry, reveals the high concentration of ideas in his verse and the richness of his imagery.

Inspiration and Utmost Art: The Poetics of Early Modern English Psalm Translations

Inspiration and Utmost Art: The Poetics of Early Modern English Psalm Translations
Author: Janina Niefer
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2018
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3643908180

This study is concerned with Early Modern English psalm translations. It focusses on the connection between inspiration and formal perfection as it appears in George Wither's "A Preparation to the Psalter", Philip Sidney's "The Defence of Poesy", "The Sidney Psalter" and "The Bay Psalm Book". Taking into account theological, philosophical, and literary contexts of the time, it reveals the struggle to find a suitable language in praise of God as a main concern of Early Modern religious writers, and presents concepts which are highly relevant for the religious poetry of the time. Dissertation. (Series: Religion and Literature / Religion und Literatur, Vol. 5) [Subject: Religious Studies]

Art Culture

Art Culture
Author: John Ruskin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 578
Release: 1873
Genre: Aesthetics
ISBN:

Color in the Age of Impressionism

Color in the Age of Impressionism
Author: Laura Anne Kalba
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 713
Release: 2017-04-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0271079789

This study analyzes the impact of color-making technologies on the visual culture of nineteenth-century France, from the early commercialization of synthetic dyes to the Lumière brothers’ perfection of the autochrome color photography process. Focusing on Impressionist art, Laura Anne Kalba examines the importance of dyes produced in the second half of the nineteenth century to the vision of artists such as Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet. The proliferation of vibrant new colors in France during this time challenged popular understandings of realism, abstraction, and fantasy in the realms of fine art and popular culture. More than simply adding a touch of spectacle to everyday life, Kalba shows, these bright, varied colors came to define the development of a consumer culture increasingly based on the sensual appeal of color. Impressionism—emerging at a time when inexpensively produced color functioned as one of the principal means by and through which people understood modes of visual perception and signification—mirrored and mediated this change, shaping the ways in which people made sense of both modern life and modern art. Demonstrating the central importance of color history and technologies to the study of visuality, Color in the Age of Impressionism adds a dynamic new layer to our understanding of visual and material culture.