Melchiorre Cafà

Melchiorre Cafà

Author: Alessandra Anselmi

Publisher: Midsea Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 308

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This publication is the first truly collective attempt to study the work of Melchiorre Cafa'. In a variety of studies, it discusses specific and synoptic issues related to his oeuvre. The book also presents a check-list of works by (or attributed to) the artist; this check-list aims at establishing a critical repertory of his oeuvre.


Giovanni Pietro Campana

Giovanni Pietro Campana

Author: Susanna Sarti

Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 314

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Campana, a businessman from Rome, formed one of the most important private collections of antiquities of the 19th century yet it has been little studied. This thesis examines Campana's private life, his role as patron of the arts, archaeologist and collector and his trial for fraud, ending in exile.


The Work of Art

The Work of Art

Author: Gérard Genette

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780801482724

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What art is--its very nature--is the subject of this book by one of the most distinguished continental theorists writing today. Informed by the aesthetics of Nelson Goodman and referring to a wide range of cultures, contexts, and media, The Work of Art seeks to discover, explain, and define how art exists and how it works. To this end, Gérard Genette explores the distinction between a work of art's immanence--its physical presence--and transcendence--the experience it induces. That experience may go far beyond the object itself.Genette situates art within the broad realm of human practices, extending from the fine arts of music, painting, sculpture, and literature to humbler but no less fertile fields such as haute couture and the culinary arts. His discussion touches on a rich array of examples and is bolstered by an extensive knowledge of the technology involved in producing and disseminating a work of art, regardless of whether that dissemination is by performance, reproduction, printing, or recording. Moving beyond examples, Genette proposes schemata for thinking about the different manifestations of a work of art. He also addresses the question of the artwork's duration and mutability.


Lu Pavone

Lu Pavone

Author: Giuseppe Jovine

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 432

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Questa raccolta di poesie e di racconti popolari anonimi in dialetto molisano tracciano il percorso di due storie che, pur diversificate, si compenetrano e si completano a vicenda: la storia individuale dell' autore e la storia collettiva della società di un paese del Sud. Le immagini di un mondo apparentemente immobile e arcaico si alternano alle vicende di una realtà storica complessa e tormentata, nel cui magma vecchio e nuovo si scontrano e si fondono. This collection of poems and anonymous folktales in the Molisan dialect traces the unfolding of two stories which, although distinct, interweave and complete each other: the author's individual story and the story of a town in the South of Italy. The images of an apparently immobile and archaic world alternate with the events of a complex and tormented historical reality, in whose magma the new and the old clash and fuse.


Francis of Assisi - The Prophet: Early Documents, vol. 3

Francis of Assisi - The Prophet: Early Documents, vol. 3

Author: Regis J. Armstrong

Publisher: New City Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 892

ISBN-13: 1565481143

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The Prophet is the third volume in this extraordinary series of "the writings of Saint Francis and those of the early Franciscan witnesses" and it will "be of estimable value to scholars, students, and lovers of Il Poverello as well...a scholarly achievement done in the service of history, theology and spirituality." (Lawrence Cunningham)


Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

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Publisher:

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 844

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A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.


Marco Polo Was in China

Marco Polo Was in China

Author: Hans Ulrich Vogel

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-11-21

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 9004231935

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In Marco Polo was in China Hans Ulrich Vogel undertakes a thorough study of Yuan currencies, salts and revenues, by comparing Marco Polo manuscripts with Chinese sources and thus offering new evidence for the Venetian’s stay in Khubilai Khan’s empire.