La Horda
Author: Vicente Blasco Ibez
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-10-09
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781539417385
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The Pope's Body
Author: Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000-07
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780226034379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn contrast to the role traditionally fulfilled by secular rulers, the pope has been perceived as an individual person existing in a body subject to decay and death, yet at the same time a corporeal representation of Christ and the Church, eternity and salvation. Using an array of evidence from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, Agostino Paravicini- Bagliani addresses this paradox. He studies the rituals, metaphors, and images of the pope's body as they developed over time and shows how they resulted in the expectation that the pope's body be simultaneously physical and metaphorical. Also included is a particular emphasis on the thirteenth century when, during the pontificate of Boniface VIII (1294-1303), the papal court became the focus of medicine and the natural sciences as physicians devised ways to protect the pope's health and prolong his life. Masterfully translated from the Italian, this engaging history of the pope's body provides a new perspective for readers to understand the papacy, both historically and in our own time.
The Dead Command
Author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Publisher:
Published: 1919
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImmersion in the Visual Arts and Media
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-10-27
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9004308237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume brings together contributions by distinguished experts from different disciplinary fields for a multidimensional view on immersion in the visual arts and media. In the current media debate, immersion has frequently been linked to the advent of digital technology and its capacity to provide vivid sensations of being placed in or surrounded by an artificial space. The idea of ‘liquidity’ contained in this promise to plunge into another world informs wide areas of contemporary cultural imagination, referring to a myriad of phenomena that relate to experiences of uncertainty and instability, of complexity and change. Considering the fact, however, that the idea of ‘liquid’ spaces appeared long before the digital creation of augmented or virtual environments, the contributors to this volume trace its reemerging throughout the history of the visual arts and media. By focusing on selected works of painting and architecture, photography and cinema, video installation and media art, they explore the variability of immersive experiences according to the different media environments and interfaces that constitute the actual sites of historically shifting relations between media and users. Contributors are: Matthias Bauer, Jörg von Brincken, Robin Curtis, Burcu Dogramaci, Thomas Elsaesser, Ole W. Fischer, Gundolf S. Freyermuth, Ursula Frohne, Henry Keazor, Matthias Krüger, Katja Kwastek, Fabienne Liptay, Karl Prümm, Martin Warnke.
The Shadow of the Cathedral
Author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published:
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 1465534628
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrench Opera at the Fin de Siècle
Author: Steven Huebner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-02-02
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780199719921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book-length study of the rich operatic repertory written and performed in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Steven Huebner gives an accessible and colorful account of such operatic favorites as Manon and Werther by Massenet, Louise by Charpentier, and lesser-known gems such as Chabrier's Le Roi malgré lui and Chausson's Le Roi Arthus.
The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930
Author: Susan Rutherford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-08-10
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 052185167X
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Opera Acts
Author: Karen Henson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-01-15
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1107004268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOpera Acts explores a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and challenges the idea that this was a period of decline for the opera singer. In detailed case studies of four figures - the late Verdi baritone Victor Maurel; Bizet's first Carmen, Célestine Galli-Marié; Massenet's muse of the 1880s and 1890s, Sibyl Sanderson; and the early Wagner star Jean de Reszke - Karen Henson argues that singers in the late nineteenth century continued to be important, but in ways that were not conventionally 'vocal'. Instead they enjoyed a freedom and creativity based on their ability to express text, act and communicate physically, and exploit the era's media. By these and other means, singers played a crucial role in the creation of opera up to the end of the nineteenth century.
Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair
Author: Annegret Fauser
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1580461859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1889 Exposition universelle in Paris is famous as a turning point in the history of French music, and modern music generally. This book explores the ways in which music was used, exhibited, listened to, and written about during the Exposition universelle. It also reveals the sociopolitical uses of music in France during the 19th century.
Visuality/Materiality
Author: Divya P. Tolia-Kelly
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-02-11
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1317001125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo of the key theoretical shifts over the past two decades of critical work have been the 'visual turn' and the 'material turn'. This book argues that these hitherto distinct fields should be understood as in continual dialogue and co-constitution and focuses on reconceptualising the visual as an embodied, material, and often politically-charged realm. This edited volume elaborates this conceptual argument through a series of contemporary case studies, drawn from the disciplines of Architecture, Sociology, Media Studies, Geography and Cultural Studies. The case studies included are paired around four themes: consumption, translation, practice and ethics. As well as exploring the bringing together of visuality and materiality studies, the contributors raise questions of social identity and social critique, and also focus on the ethics of material visualities.
