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Author |
: Anne Leonard |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 2021-10-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000461503 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000461505 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Arabesque without End by : Anne Leonard
Featuring multidisciplinary research by an international team of leading scholars, this volume addresses the contested aspects of arabesque while exploring its penchant for crossing artistic and cultural boundaries to create new forms. Enthusiastically imported from its Near Eastern sources by European artists, the freely flowing line known as arabesque is a recognizable motif across the arts of painting, music, dance, and literature. From the German Romantics to the Art Nouveau artists, and from Debussy’s compositions to the serpentine choreographies of Loïe Fuller, the chapters in this volume bring together cross-disciplinary perspectives to understand the arabesque across both art historical and musicological discourses.
Author |
: Taylor & Francis Group |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2021-11-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0367859491 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780367859497 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Arabesque Without End by : Taylor & Francis Group
Featuring multidisciplinary research by an international team of leading scholars, this volume addresses the contested aspects of arabesque while exploring its penchant for crossing artistic and cultural boundaries to create new forms. Enthusiastically imported from its Near Eastern sources by European artists, the freely flowing line known as arabesque is a recognizable motif across the arts of painting, music, dance, and literature. From the German Romantics to the Art Nouveau artists, and from Debussy's compositions to the serpentine choreographies of Loïe Fuller, the chapters in this volume bring together cross-disciplinary perspectives to understand the arabesque across both art historical and musicological discourses.
Author |
: Patricia Hampl |
Publisher |
: HMH |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 2007-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780547350837 |
ISBN-13 |
: 054735083X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Blue Arabesque by : Patricia Hampl
These meditations inspired by a Matisse painting are “a paean to the act of seeing, celebrating our capacity to be transformed by the truths art holds.” —The New York Times Book Review Named a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Favorite Nonfiction of the Year Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a Moroccan screen behind her. In Blue Arabesque, Hampl explores the allure of this lounging woman, immersed in leisure, so at odds with the rush of the modern era. Hampl’s meditation takes us to the Cote d’Azur and to North Africa, from cloister to harem, pondering figures as diverse as Eugene Delacroix, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Katherine Mansfield. Returning always to Matisse’s portraits of languid women, she discovers they were not decorative indulgences but something much more. Moving with the life force that Matisse sought in his work, Blue Arabesque is Hampl’s dazzling and critically acclaimed tour de force.
Author |
: Anton Shammas |
Publisher |
: New York Review of Books |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2023-01-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781681376929 |
ISBN-13 |
: 168137692X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Arabesques by : Anton Shammas
A luminous, inventive, and deeply personal exploration of living in the liminal space between Jewish and Arab, ancient and modern, by a gifted Palestinian writer. Chosen by The New York Times as one of the best books of 1988, Arabesques is a luminous novel that engages with history and politics not as propaganda but as literature. That engagement begins with the language in which the book is written: Anton Shammas, from a Palestinian Christian family and raised in Israel, wrote in Hebrew, as no Arab novelist had before. The choice was provocative to both Arab and Jewish readers. Arabesques is divided into two sections: “The Tale” and “The Teller.” “The Tale” tells of several generations of family life in a rural village, of the interplay of past and present, of how memory intersects with history in a part of the world where different people have both lived together and struggled against each other for centuries. “The Teller” is about the writer’s voyage out of that world to Paris and the United States, as he comes into his vocation as a writer, and raises questions about the authority of the storyteller and the nature of the self. Shammas’s tour de force is both a personal and a political narrative—a reinvention of the novel as a way of envisioning and responding to historical and cultural legacies and conflicts.
Author |
: Aprilynne Pike |
Publisher |
: Imaginary Properties LLC |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2016-11-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781941855034 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1941855032 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Arabesque by : Aprilynne Pike
Author |
: Stephen Groves |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2023-12-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000985917 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000985911 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sound of the English Picturesque by : Stephen Groves
Revealing the connections between the veneration of national landscape and eighteenth- century English vocal music, this study restores English music’s relationship with the picturesque. In the eighteenth century, the emerging taste for the picturesque was central to British aesthetics, as poets and painters gained popularity by glorifying the local landscape in works concurrent with the emergence of native countryside tourism. Yet English music was seldom discussed as a medium for conveying national scenic beauty. Stephen Groves explores this gap, and shows how secular song, the glee, and national theatre music expressed a uniquely English engagement with landscape. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Groves addresses the apparent ‘silence’ of the English picturesque. The book draws on analysis of the visualisations present in the texts of English vocal music, and their musical treatment, to demonstrate how local composers incorporated celebrations of landscape into their works. The final chapter shows that the English picturesque was a crucial influence on Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Seasons. Suitable for anyone with an interest in eighteenth- century music, aesthetics, and the natural environment, this book will appeal to a wide range of specialists and non- specialists alike.
Author |
: Vincenzo Borghetti |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 2024-05-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781040021064 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1040021069 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Media of Secular Music in the Medieval and Early Modern Period (1100–1650) by : Vincenzo Borghetti
This book brings a new perspective to secular music sources from the Middle Ages and early modernity by viewing them as media communication tools, whose particular features shape the meaning of their contents. Ranging from the eleventh to seventeenth centuries, and across countries and genres, the chapters offer innovative insights into the historical relationship between music and its presentation in a wide variety of media. The lens of media enables contributors to expand music history beyond notated music manuscripts and instruments to include images, furniture, luxury items, and other objects, and to address uniquely visual and material aspects of music sources in books and literature. Drawing together an international group of contributors, the volume pays close attention to the medial and material dimensions of musical sources, considering them as multifaceted objects that not only contain but also determine the nature of the music they transmit. Transforming our understanding of musical media, this volume will be of interest to scholars of musicology, art history, and medieval and early modern cultures.
Author |
: Chriscinda Henry |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 411 |
Release |
: 2023-05-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000875331 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000875334 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Music and Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy by : Chriscinda Henry
The chapters in this volume explore the relationship between music and art in Italy across the long sixteenth century, considering an era when music-making was both a subject of Italian painting and a central metaphor in treatises on the arts. Beginning in the fifteenth century, transformations emerge in the depiction of music within visual arts, the conceptualization of music in ethics and poetics, and in the practice of musical harmony. This book brings together contributors from across musicology and art history to consider the trajectories of these changes and the connections between them, both in theory and in the practices of everyday life. In sixteen chapters, the contributors blend iconographic analysis with a wider range of approaches, investigate the discourse surrounding the arts, and draw on both social art history and the material turn in Renaissance studies. They address not only paintings and sculpture, but also a wide range of visual media and domestic objects, from instruments to tableware, to reveal a rich, varied, and sometimes tumultuous exchange among musical and visual arts and ideas. Enriching our understanding of the subtle intersections between visual, material, and musical arts across the long Renaissance, this book offers new insights for scholars of music, art, and cultural history. Chapter 15 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author |
: James Cook |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2024-04-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781040012703 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1040012701 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis History as Fantasy in Music, Sound, Image, and Media by : James Cook
Exploring how music is used to portray the past in a variety of media, this book probes the relationship between history and fantasy in the imagination of the musical past. The volume brings together essays from multidisciplinary perspectives, addressing the use of music to convey a sense of the past in a wide range of multimedia contexts, including television, documentaries, opera, musical theatre, contemporary and historical film, videogames, and virtual reality. With a focus on early music and medievalism, the contributors theorise the role of music and sound in constructing ideas of the past. In three interrelated sections, the chapters problematise notions of historical authenticity on the stage and screen; theorise the future of musical histories in immersive and virtual media; and explore sound’s role in more fantastical appropriations of history in television and videogames. Together, they pose provocative questions regarding our perceptions of ‘early’ music and the sensory experience of distant history. Offering new ways to understand the past at the crossroads of musical and visual culture, this collection is relevant to researchers across music, media, and historical and cultural studies.
Author |
: Leah R. Clark |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 745 |
Release |
: 2023-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781009276207 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1009276204 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Courtly Mediators by : Leah R. Clark
In Courtly Mediators, Leah R. Clark investigates the exchange of a range of materials and objects, including metalware, ceramic drug jars, Chinese porcelain, and aromatics, across the early modern Italian, Mamluk, and Ottoman courts. She provides a new narrative that places Aragonese Naples at the center of an international courtly culture, where cosmopolitanism and the transcultural flourished, and in which artists, ambassadors, and luxury goods actively participated. By articulating how and why transcultural objects were exchanged, displayed, copied, and framed, she provides a new methodological framework that transforms our understanding of the Italian Renaissance court. Clark's volume provides a multi-sensorial, innovative reading of Italian Renaissance art. It demonstrates that the early modern culture of collecting was more than a humanistic enterprise associated with the European roots of the Renaissance. Rather, it was sustained by interactions with global material cultures from the Islamic world and beyond.