Rethinking Boucher
Rethinking Boucher

Author: Melissa Lee Hyde

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780892368259

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"Unequivocally a modern, Francois Boucher (1703-70) defined the French artistic avant-garde throughout his career. Yet the triumph of modernist aesthetics - with its focus on the self-critical, the autonomous, and the intellectually challenging - has long discouraged art historians and other viewers from taking Boucher's playful and alluring works seriously. Rethinking Boucher revisits the cultural meanings and reception of his diverse oeuvre, inviting us to revise the interpretive cliches by which we have sought to tame this artist and his epoch."--BOOK JACKET.

Stranded
Stranded

Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans

Publisher: Dedalus European Classics

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13:

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Jacques' waking reveries and daydreams are balanced by a succession of dreams and nightmares that explore the seemingly irrational, often grotesque, world of unconscious desire, producing a series of images that challenges anything to be found in the fantasies of 'Against Nature', or the Satanic obsessions of 'La-Bas'."

Cynicism and Postmodernity
Cynicism and Postmodernity

Author: Timothy Bewes

Publisher: Verso

Published: 1997-05-17

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781859841969

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In this original and provocative book, Timothy Bewes descends into the modern cynical consciousness with a critical assessment of the preoccupations of contemporary society.