A Civil Society
A Civil Society

Author: James Smith Allen

Publisher:

Published: 2022-05

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9781496227782

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A Civil Society explores the struggle to initiate women as full participants in the masonic brotherhood that shared in the rise of France's civil society and its "civic morality" on behalf of women's rights. As a vital component of the third sector during France's modernization, freemasonry empowered women in complex social networks, contributing to a more liberal republic, a more open society, and a more engaged public culture. James Smith Allen shows that although women initially met with stiff resistance, their induction into the brotherhood was a significant step in the development of French civil society and its "civic morality," including the promotion of women's rights in the late nineteenth century. Pulling together the many gendered facets of masonry, Allen draws from periodicals, memoirs, and archival material to account for the rise of women within the masonic brotherhood in the context of rapid historical change. Thanks to women's social networks and their attendant social capital, masonry came to play a leading role in French civil society and the rethinking of gender relations in the public sphere.

Monet in the '90s
Monet in the '90s

Author: Paul Hayes Tucker

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0300049137

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Monografie over de impressionistische schilder Claude Monet (1840-1926).

Local/global
Local/global

Author: Deborah Cherry

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780754631972

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Local/Global: Women Artists in the Nineteenth Century is the first book to investigate women artists working in disparate parts of the world. This pioneering collection addresses issues at the heart of feminist and post-colonial studies: the nature of difference, discrepant modernities and cross-cultural encounters. Written in a lively and accessible style, this lavishly illustrated volume offers fresh perspectives on women, art and identity. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of women artists and the art of the nineteenth century.

In the Mind's Eye
In the Mind's Eye

Author: Alexandra K. Wettlaufer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-08

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9004489851

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This comparative, interdisciplinary study investigates the relationship between literature and the visual arts in France and Britain from 1750-1900. Through a close examination of the prose writings of Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin, read against the background of contemporary philosophy, aesthetics and theories of language, In the Mind’s Eye proposes a new interpretation of the influence and rivalries underlying the development of art criticism as a genre during this period. The visual impulse – the desire to transcend the limitations of language and make the reader see – is located within the historical traditions of ekphrasis, enargeia and the paragone, while in each chapter, the individual author’s theories of the mind, memory and imagination provide a critical framework for his stylistic experiments. In the Mind’s Eye presents an in-depth analysis of the cultural, theoretical and aesthetic implications of artistic border crossings, and by contextualizing the movement toward visual/verbal hybridity in the fiction and criticism of Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin, brings new perspectives to nineteenth-century studies in art and literature.

Introducing Social Networks
Introducing Social Networks

Author: Alain Degenne

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1999-06-09

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1847876846

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This first-rate introduction to the study of social networks combines a hands-on manual with an up-to-date review of the latest research and techniques. The authors provide a thorough grounding in the application of the methods of social network analysis. They offer an understanding of the theory of social structures in which social network analysis is grounded, a summary of the concepts needed for dealing with more advanced techniques, and guides for using the primary computer software packages for social network analysis.

Art in France, 1900-1940
Art in France, 1900-1940

Author: Christopher Green

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780300099089

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This study sets developments within the frameworks both of their unstable social, political and intellectual world and of the official and independent institutions of art.

Cézanne and the End of Impressionism
Cézanne and the End of Impressionism

Author: Richard Shiff

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2014-12-15

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 022623777X

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Drawing on a broad foundation in the history of nineteenth-century French art, Richard Shiff offers an innovative interpretation of Cézanne's painting. He shows how Cézanne's style met the emerging criteria of a "technique of originality" and how it satisfied critics sympathetic to symbolism as well as to impressionism. Expanding his study of the interaction of Cézanne and his critics, Shiff considers the problem of modern art in general. He locates the core of modernism in a dialectic of making (technique) and finding (originality). Ultimately, Shiff provides not only clarifying accounts of impressionism and symbolism but of a modern classicism as well.