Goya and the Impossible Revolution
Author: Gwyn A. Williams
Publisher: Lane, Allen
Published: 1976-01-01
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780713909067
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The Art of Frenzy
Author: Jane Kromm
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1441143300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Art of Frenzy presents a masterful analysis of public madness from the Renaissance to the Industrial Age. Frenzy--the most flagrant and political form of madness--is the madness of warrior-heroes, kings, scolds, and the possessed. Its representation incorporates a range of traditional characters and figures, from Hercules and Orlando to Medea and Britannia. Understood as abusive power and belligerence out of control, and described in terms drawn equally from definitions of tyranny and liberty, frenzy has always been articulated with a significant degree of political meaning. Integrating art history with cultural studies, political history, and the history of medicine, Jane Kromm draws on a wide range of mediums and contexts--from asylum sculpture to political broadsheets, medical texts, the imagery of revolution, caricature and medical illustrations--to clarify the importance of this interpretative pattern.
How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? (Abridged Edition)
Author: Neil Davidson
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2017-03-27
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1608467325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn abridged edition of the insightful work praised as “an impressive contribution both to the history of ideas and to political philosophy” (Alasdair MacIntyre, author of After Virtue). Once of central importance to left historians and activists alike, recently the concept of the “bourgeois revolution” has come in for sustained criticism from both Marxists and conservatives. In this abridged edition of his magisterial How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? Neil Davidson expertly distills his theoretical and historical insights about the nature of revolutions, making them accessible for general readers. Through extensive research and comprehensive analysis, Davidson demonstrates that what’s at stake is far from a stale issue for the history books—understanding that these struggles of the past offer far reaching lessons for today’s radicals.
A Social History of Modern Art, Volume 2
Author: Albert Boime
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 748
ISBN-13: 9780226063355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this second volume, Albert Boime continues his work on the social history of Western art in the Modern epoch. This volume offers a major critique and revisionist interpretation of Western European culture, history, and society from Napoleon's seizure of power to 1815. Boime argues that Napoleon manipulated the production of images, as well as information generally, in order to maintain his political hegemony. He examines the works of French painters such as Jacques-Louis David and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, to illustrate how the art of the time helped to further the emperor's propagandistic goals. He also explores the work of contemporaneous English genre painters, Spain's Francisco de Goya, the German Romantics Philipp Otto Runge and Caspar David Friedrich, and the emergence of a national Italian art. Heavily illustrated, this volume is an invaluable social history of modern art during the Napoleonic era. Stimulating and informative, this volume will become a valuable resource for faculty and undergraduates.—R. W. Liscombe, Choice
From Romanticism to Surrealism
Author: Robert Havard
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780389208105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book offers an in-depth, critical appreciation of seven major Spanish poets. Emphasis is on the modern period, with five of the poets being twentieth-century poets. It is argued that the roots of modern poetry are to be found in Romanticism's anguished search for meaning. The seven Spanish poets include Becquer, Rosalia de Castro, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, Garcia Lorca and Rafael Alberti.
The Private Life of a Masterpiece
Author: Monica Bohm-Duchen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780520233782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis companion volume to a BBC series of the same name delves into eight famous pieces of art.
Napoleon
Author: David Nicholls
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1999-12-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1576074579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis illustrated A–Z encyclopedia provides easy access to information about the emperor Napoleon. Over 300 entries cover significant events, people, and other topics such as the principal Napoleonic campaigns, all the major battles including Waterloo and Austerlitz, Napoleon's most important generals and marshals, Josephine de Beauharnais, and the Napoleonic Code. Napoleon also includes primary source documents, a handy chronology of key events, a bibliography, and an index.
Civilians and War in Europe, 1618-1815
Author: Erica Charters
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1846317118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCivilians and War in Europe 1618–1815 is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at the role of civilians in early modern warfare, from the Thirty Years War to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Drawing on works by scholars in art, literature, history, and political theory, the contributors to this volume explore the continuities and transformations in warfare over the course of two hundred years, examining topics central to civilian and war dynamics, including incarceration, cultures of plunder, billeting, and wartime atrocities, in addition to the larger legal practices and philosophical underpinnings of warfare and its aftermath. Showcasing the complex ways civilians were involved in war—not just as anguished sufferers, but as individuals who fought back, who profited, and who negotiated for their own needs—Civilians and War in Europe probes what it meant to be a civilian in countries deeply involved in conflict.
The Four Horsemen
Author: Richard Stites
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-04
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 0199978085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Four Horsemen narrates the history of revolution in Spain, Naples, Greece, and Russia in the 1820s, connecting the social movements and activities on the ground, in the inimitable voice of a renowned historian.
The Inventions of History
Author: Stephen Bann
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780719032974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays concentrates on the structures and connections which have made it possible, over the last two centuries, for an integrated regime of historical representation to emerge. It also touches upon the debate about the contemporary uses of history - whether it is a matter of new versus traditional approaches to the school curriculum, or of the need to historicize museums, houses and gardens and so avoid the blandness of an uninformed display.
