Please Touch
Author: Janine A. Mileaf
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1584659343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the notion of tactility in dada and surrealism
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Consuming the Past
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-07
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0429840640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2003 Consuming the Past covers pilgrimages to popular festivals, from modern spectacles to advertising, from the work of avant-garde painters to the novels of Emile Zola, and explores the complexity of the fin-de-siècle French fascination with the Middle Ages. The authors map the cultural history of the period from the end of the Franco-Prussian war to the 1905 separation of Church and State illuminating the powerful appeal that the medieval past held for a society undergoing the rapid changes of industrialisation.
Stranded
Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
Publisher: Dedalus European Classics
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJacques' 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'."
Paul Klee and the Decorative in Modern Art
Author: Jenny Anger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-02-12
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780521822503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the goals of Modernism was the presentation of the essence of art, or pure form. Encouraged by theorists, modern artists found pure form in ornament which, though promising, was sullied by connotations of materiality, domesticity, and femininity. Jenny Anger demonstrates that the decorative significantly informed Paul Klee's art. She compares his work to that of another major modernist, Henri Matisse, to confirm the critical role of the decorative in Modernism. Anger also explores the relevance of the decorative for contemporary and, especially, women artists.
En Route
Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
Publisher:
Published: 1897
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCynicism and Postmodernity
Author: Timothy Bewes
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1997-05-17
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781859841969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this original and provocative book, Timothy Bewes descends into the modern cynical consciousness with a critical assessment of the preoccupations of contemporary society.
Prince Or Chauffeur?
Author: Lawrence Perry
Publisher:
Published: 1911
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRethinking Boucher
Author: Melissa Lee Hyde
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780892368259
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
The Vatard Sisters
Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781907650536
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Vatard Sisters brought Huysmans to the notice of the public and revealed him as a man who could paint word-pictures which put earlier practitioners like Gautier and Edmond de Goncourt in the shade...The novel is a story of two working-class sisters, but the main protagonist is Paris, suburban Paris, the Paris of railway stations, cheap restaurants and caf (c)-concerts...and the passages that describe the music-halls and crowds of the Avenue de Maine and the Boulevard Saint Michel, or the railway yard seen from the back window of the sisters' bedroom, have a visual immediacy...a kind of energy, a force of personality, which are utterly unusual in Huysmans' work..." ]Anita Brookner in The Genius of the Future
The Senses of Touch
Author: Mark Paterson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-06-07
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 1000190153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTouch is the first sense to develop in the womb, yet often it is overlooked. The Senses of Touch examines the role of touching and feeling as part of the fabric of everyday, embodied experience. How can we think about touch? Problems of touch and tactility run as a continuous thread in philosophy, psychology, medical writing and representations in art, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Picking through some of these threads, the book 'feels' its way towards writing and thinking about touch as both sensory and affective experience. Taking a broadly phenomenological framework that traces tactility from Aristotle through the Enlightenment to the present day, the book examines the role of touch across a range of experiences including aesthetics, digital design, visual impairment and touch therapies. The Senses of Touch thereby demonstrates the varieties of sensory experience, and explores the diverse range of our 'senses' of touch.
