Kategoria BISAC: Art >> European

Anton Romako s painting of Admiral Tegetthoff in the Naval Battle of Lissa is now celebrated as a visionary work, and is part of the canon of European art of the 19th century. This richly illustrated book traces the history of the picture and places it in the historical, military, and artistic context of its age.

Admiral Tegetthoff in the Naval Battle of Lissa now seems amazingly modern, but although today we can appreciate it as a masterpiece, it was almost universally rejected and mocked when it was first shown at the Kunstlerhaus in Vienna in the summer of 1882.
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"Bodily Desire, Desired Bodies "examines the diverse ways that literary works and paintings can be read as screens onto which new images of masculinity and femininity are cast. Esther Bauer focuses on German and Austrian writers and artists from the 1910s and 1920s specifically authors Franz Kafka, Vicki Baum, and Thomas Mann, and painters Otto Dix, Christian Schad, and Egon Schiele who gave spectacular expression to shifting trends in male and female social roles and the organization of physical desire and the sexual body.

Bauer s comparative approach reveals the ways in which artists...

The nineteenth century began with reverence for nature and ended with the apotheosis of art. In this wide-ranging excursion through the literature, visual arts, and natural sciences of the era from Wordsworth to Wilde, Carl Woodring traces shifting ideas and attitudes concerning nature, art, and the relations between the two.

The veneration of nature as aesthetic model and ethical norm was gradually eroded not least by the study of biology, which revealed organic nature to be wasteful and murderous. Darwin's work verified the growing perception of nature as amoral by stressing the...

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If you have read David Copperfield you can use this opportunity to recall it, and if you haven't, the combination of the illustrations with chapter excerpts provides a great introduction to the power of Dickens' writing, the characters and the most important themes and developments, since Phiz co-operared with the author in what and how should be selected: this anthology is indeed a realization of what Dickens himself thought as crucial for a possible overview and presentation of his favorite novel.

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