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The ArtsNovember 2009Portraiture and social identity in eighteenth-century Rome
by Sabrina Eliasson
Portraiture and Social Identity in Eighteenth-Century Rome sheds new light on the relationship between portraiture, social affirmation and the myth of Antiquity as it was experienced and elaborated in eighteenth-century Rome. Drawing upon a wealth of unpublished documents and previously unexamined literary texts, it offers new insights and readings into how the experience of the City in terms of abstract or concrete appropriation affected the ways of portraying native or visiting elite sitters. The Grand Tour portrait, usually discussed as a purely British phenomenon, is here put in its original context of production and compared to the portraits of the Romans themselves. Portraiture and social identity in eighteenth-century Rome will become essential reading for anyone with a particular interest in eighteenth-century art and its social use. ;
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Picture books, activity books & early learning materialJuan O’Gorman. Un autorretrato pintándose (Juan O'Gorman. An selfportrait paiting itself)
by Juan O'Gorman, Manuel Marín
Who is it that is painted? Who is it that sees what is painted? They can be the artist and his portrait, the viewer and the person portrayed.
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July 2007Adorno-Portraits
Erinnerungen von Zeitgenossen
by Stefan Müller-Doohm
Viele seiner Freunde und Wegbegleiter haben das Schulkind, den Studenten und späteren Professor, den Institutsdirektor und Musikliebhaber in schriftlichen Erinnerungsportraits festgehalten, die für diese Sammlung geschrieben wurden. Die Autorinnen und Autoren, die durchaus verschiedenen Generationen angehören, haben jeweils aus ihrer Erfahrungsperspektive Portraits von Adorno entworfen, Charakterisierungen von Aspekten seiner Person versucht, eigenwillige Reflexionen seines Werks und seiner Wirkung angestellt.
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Biography & True StoriesThey Called us Girls
Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men
by Kathleen Courtenay Stone
In mid-twentieth-century America, women faced a paradox. Thanks to their efforts, World War II production had been robust, and in the peace that followed, more women worked outside the home than ever before, even dominating some professions. Yet the culture, from politicians to corporations to television shows, portrayed the ideal woman as a housewife. Many women happily assumed that role, but a small segment bucked the tide-women who wanted to use their talents differently, in jobs that had always been reserved for men. In They Called Us Girls: Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men, author Kathleen Stone meets seven of these unconventional women. In insightful, personalized portraits that span a half-century, Kathleen weaves stories of female ambition, uncovering the families, teachers, mentors, and historical events that led to unexpected paths. What inspired these women, and what can they teach women and girls today?
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2023Spectral Dickens
The uncanny forms of novelistic characterization
by Alexander Bove
Drawing on the recent ontological turn in critical theory, Spectral Dickens explores an aspect of literary character that is neither real nor fictional, but spectral. This work thus provides an in-depth study of the inimitable characters populating Dickens' illustrated novels using three hauntological concepts: the Freudian uncanny, Derridean spectrality, and the Lacanian real. Thus, while the current discourse on character studies, which revolves around values like realism, depth, and lifelikeness, tends to see characters as mimetic of persons, this book invents new critical concepts to account for non-mimetic forms of characterization. These spectral forms bring to light the important influence of developments in nineteenth-century visual culture, such as the lithography and caricature of Daumier and J.J. Grandville. The spectrality of novelistic characters developed here paves the way for a new understanding of fictional characters in general.
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December 2014Portrait of Summer
by Wang Meng
This is a collection of 20 short stories and 11 mini-novels by Wang Meng. Characterized by its life-based artistry, many of the short stories contain profound connotations with a tendency towards the supernatural, while the mini novels feature obscure Buddhist allegorical words for people to reflect on. These works were written over a period of half a century, so the book constitutes a unique collection.
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January 1993Das künstlerische Portrait in der Gesellschaft
Das Bildnis und seine Geschichte in Italien von 1300 bis heute
by Castelnuovo, Enrico / Italienisch Kempter, Martina
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January 1987
Literarische Portraits
Von Grimmelshausen bis Brecht
by Herausgegeben von Hinderer, Walter
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The ArtsOctober 2022The art of the observer
by David MacDougall, Faye Ginsburg, Paul Henley, Andrew Irving, Sarah Pink
