John Singer Sargent and the Art of Allusion

2016 Allusions

Author : Bruce Redford
Release : 2016
Genre : Allusions
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Download or read book John Singer Sargent and the Art of Allusion written by Bruce Redford. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing, interdisciplinary exploration of the brilliant visual quotations in the work of the celebrated grand-manner portraitist The work of portraitist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) has come to epitomize the glamour and anxiety of his age. In this innovative study, Bruce Redford reveals the web of visual quotations and references that informed Sargent's most ambitious paintings. Throughout his career, Sargent was recognized and rewarded as a "Young Master" whose bravura portraits inspired comparison with the likes of Vel zquez, Van Dyck, and Reynolds. At the same time, his paintings responded to the stylistic experiments and cultural preoccupations of a world on the cusp of modernity. Sargent achieved this complex synthesis through a pictorial language composed of witty acts of allusion. John Singer Sargent and the Art of Allusion offers the first sustained inquiry into the painter's practice of quotation--one that created a complex visual code. Through comparative analysis among thematic groupings of portraits and analogous literary texts, Redford shows how Sargent devised and transmitted that code. The result is an enhanced awareness of Sargent's daring gamesmanship, his place in the history of portraiture, and the dynamics of allusion in both art and literature.

Allusive and Elusive: Allusion and the Elihu Speeches of Job 32–37

2022-02-14 Religion

Author : Cooper Smith
Release : 2022-02-14
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 147/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Allusive and Elusive: Allusion and the Elihu Speeches of Job 32–37 written by Cooper Smith. This book was released on 2022-02-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume defines allusion then identifies the 23 likely allusions in the Elihu speeches (Job 32–37) to Job 1–31. The allusiveness of the unit is a compositional feature that explains the varied evaluations of Elihu throughout interpretive history.

Zuleika Dobson

2014-05-10 Fiction

Author : Max Beerbohm
Release : 2014-05-10
Genre : Fiction
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Download or read book Zuleika Dobson written by Max Beerbohm. This book was released on 2014-05-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story, is the only novel by English essayist Max Beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford published in 1911. It includes the famous line "Death cancels all engagements" and presents a corrosive view of Edwardian Oxford. The all-male campus of Oxford—Beerbohm’s alma mater—is a place where aesthetics holds sway above all else, and where witty intellectuals reign. Things haven’t changed for its privileged student body for years . . . until the beguiling music-hall prestidigitator Zuleika Dobson shows up. The book’s marvelous prose dances along the line between reality and the absurd as students and dons alike fall at Zuleika’s feet, and she cuts a wide swath across the campus—until she encounters one young aristocrat for whom she is astonished to find she has feelings. As Zuleika, and her creator, zero in on their targets, the book takes some surprising and dark twists on its way to a truly startling ending—an ending so striking that readers will understand why Virginia Woolf said that “Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect.” In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Zuleika Dobson 59th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

Modern Painters, Old Masters

2017 Art

Author : Elizabeth Prettejohn
Release : 2017
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 753/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Modern Painters, Old Masters written by Elizabeth Prettejohn. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le revers de la jaquette indique : "With the rise of museums in the 19th century, including the formation in 1824 of the National gallery in London, the art of the past became visible and accessible (in Victorian England) as never before. Inspired by the work of Sandro Botticelli, Jan van Eyck, Diego Velazquez, and others, British artists transformed contemporary art through a creative process that emphasized imitation and emulation. Elizabeth Prettejohn analyzes the ways in which the Old Masters were interpreted by artists, as well as critics, curators, and scholars, and argues that Victorian artists were, paradoxically, at their most original when they imitated the Old Masters most faithfully. Covering Victorian art from the Pre-Raphaelites through to the early modernists, she vividly traces the ways in wich artist such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, and William Orpen engaged with the art of the past to produce some of the greatest art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."

John Singer Sargent & Chicago's Gilded Age

2018-01-01 Art

Author : Annelise K. Madsen
Release : 2018-01-01
Genre : Art
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Download or read book John Singer Sargent & Chicago's Gilded Age written by Annelise K. Madsen. This book was released on 2018-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An examination of how the work of the American painter John Singer Sargent was displayed, collected, and influential in the civic and cultural development of Chicago, Illinois during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"--

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