Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime - 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 Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime write by Stanley Plumly. This book was released on 2018-08-21. Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A sweeping look at the lives and work of two important English Romantic painters, from a Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning author. Renowned poet Stanley Plumly, who has been praised for his “obsessive, intricate, intimate and brilliant” (Washington Post) nonfiction, explores immortality in art through the work of two impressive landscape artists: John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. How is it that this disparate pair will come to be regarded as Britain’s supreme landscape painters, precursors to Impressionism and Modernism? How did each painter’s life influence his work? Almost exact contemporaries, both legendary artists experience a life-changing tragedy—for Constable it is the long illness and death of his wife; for Turner, the death of his singular parent and supporter, his father. Their work will take on new power thereafter: Constable, his Hampstead cloud studies; Turner, his Venetian watercolors and oils. Seeking the transcendent aesthetic awe of the sublime and reeling from their personal anguish, these talented painters portrayed the terrible beauty of the natural world from an intimate, close-up perspective. Plumly studies the paintings against the pull of the artists’ lives, probing how each finds the sublime in different, though inherently connected, worlds. At once a meditation on the difficulties in achieving truly immortal works of art and an exploration of the relationship between artist and artwork, Elegy Landscapes takes a wide-angle look at the philosophy of the sublime.
Landscape and Literature
Landscape and Literature - 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 Landscape and Literature write by Stephen Siddall. This book was released on 2009-05-21. Landscape and Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Landscape and Literature introduces students to the exploration of different ways in which landscape has been represented in literature. It focuses on key aspects of this topic such as the importance of pastoral, contrasts between city and country, eighteenth-century developments from neo-classical to picturesque and Romantic ideas of the sublime, regional novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and varied styles of twentieth-century poetry from the Georgian poets to Heaney and Hughes. Poems and prose extracts from writers such as Marvell, Wordsworth, George Eliot, Hardy, Lawrence and Seamus Heaney are included.
Appalachian Elegy
Appalachian Elegy - 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 Appalachian Elegy write by Bell Hooks. This book was released on 2012-08-16. Appalachian Elegy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of poems centered around life in Appalachia addresses topics ranging from the marginalization of the region's people to the environmental degradation it has endured throughout history.
The Elegiac Cityscape
The Elegiac Cityscape - 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 Elegiac Cityscape write by Tara S. Welch. This book was released on 2005. The Elegiac Cityscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Roman elegiac poet Propertius was one such author. This final published collection, issued in 16 BCE, has been traditionally read as an abandonment by Propertius of his earlier flippant love poems for a more mature engagement with Roman public life or else a comical send-up of imperial policies as embodied in Rome's public buildings. The Elegiac Cityscape explores Propertius' Rome and the various ways his poetry about the city illuminates the dynamic relationship between one individual and his environment. The relationship between poet and city is complicated at every turn by the presence in the background of the emperor Augustus, whose sustained artistic patronage of Roman monuments brought about the most pervasive transformation that the city had yet seen. Combining the approaches of archaeology and literary criticism, Tara S. Welch examines how Propertius' poems on Roman places scrutinize the monumentalization of various ideological positions in Rome, as they poke and prod Rome's monuments to see what further meanings they might admit. The result is a poetic book rife with different perspectives on the eternal city, perspectives that often call into question any sleepy or complacent adherence to Rome's traditional values. Book jacket.
Interior Landscapes
Interior Landscapes - 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 Interior Landscapes write by Jerome Malitz. This book was released on 2002-04-30. Interior Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text covers all aspects of designing, constructing and maintaining interior landscapes. It demonstrates how to realise designs for a variety of interiors, in styles from naturalistic to abstract.
