Effigies & Ecstasies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Effigies & Ecstasies write by Timothy Clifford. This book was released on 1998. Effigies & Ecstasies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book accompanies the National Gallery of Scotland's major Festival exhibition in 1998, a joint celebration of the fourth centenaries of the births of the two greatest sculptors of the Italian Baroque era, Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) and Alessandro Algardi (1598-1654). The Baroque is a style renowned for its elaborate combination of materials and its unification of various branches of the arts into a harmonious whole. This book will include detailed information and commentaries by leading authorities on the marble sculptures, bronzes, terracottas, medals and drawings produced by these two great artists in what was a fascinating and highly influential period in European art and design.
Ecstasy and the Demon
Ecstasy and the Demon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecstasy and the Demon write by Susan Manning. This book was released on 2006. Ecstasy and the Demon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mary Wigman, Germany’s premier dancer between the two world wars, envisioned the performer in the thrall of ecstatic and demonic forces. Widely hailed as an innovator of dance modernism, she never acknowledged her complex relationship with National Socialism. In Ecstasy and the Demon, Susan Manning advances a sociological explanation for the collaboration between German modern dancers and National Socialism. She models methods for dance studies that contextualize choreography in relation to changing sociopolitical conditions, bringing dance scholarship into conversation with intellectual trends across the humanities. The introduction to this second edition brings Manning’s groundbreaking work to bear on dance studies today and reconsiders Wigman’s career from the perspective of queer theory and globalization, further illuminating the interplay of dance and politics in the twentieth century. Susan Manning is professor of English, theater, and performance studies at Northwestern University.
Broken Idols of the English Reformation
Broken Idols of the English Reformation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Broken Idols of the English Reformation write by Margaret Aston. This book was released on 2015-11-26. Broken Idols of the English Reformation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why were so many religious images and objects broken and damaged in the course of the Reformation? Margaret Aston's magisterial new book charts the conflicting imperatives of destruction and rebuilding throughout the English Reformation from the desecration of images, rails and screens to bells, organs and stained glass windows. She explores the motivations of those who smashed images of the crucifixion in stained glass windows and who pulled down crosses and defaced symbols of the Trinity. She shows that destruction was part of a methodology of religious revolution designed to change people as well as places and to forge in the long term new generations of new believers. Beyond blanked walls and whited windows were beliefs and minds impregnated by new modes of religious learning. Idol-breaking with its emphasis on the treacheries of images fundamentally transformed not only Anglican ways of worship but also of seeing, hearing and remembering.
The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini
The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini write by Domenico Bernini. This book was released on 2012-01-31. The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A critical translation of the unabridged Italian text of Domenico Bernini's biography of his father, seventeenth-century sculptor, architect, painter, and playwright Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). Includes commentary on the author's data and interpretations, contrasting them with other contemporary primary sources and recent scholarship"--Provided by publisher.
Broken Idols of the English Reformation
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