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Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism

By: Charles Darwent

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Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism

By: Charles Darwent

An absorbing group biography revealing how exiles from war-torn France brought surrealism to America, sparking the movement that became abstract expressionism. In 1957 the American artist Robert Motherwell made an unexpected claim: "I have only known two painting milieus well … the Parisian Surrealists, with whom I began painting seriously in New York in 1940, and the native movement that has come to be known as 'abstract expressionism,' but which genetically would have been more properly called 'abstract surrealism.'" Motherwell’s bold assertion, that abstract expressionism was neither new nor local, but born of a brief liaison between America and France, verged on the controversial. Surrealists in New York tells the story of this "liaison" and the European exiles who bought Surrealism with them—an artistic exchange between the Old World and the New—centering on taciturn printmaker Stanley William Hayter and the legendary Atelier 17 print studio he founded. Here artists’ experiments literally pushed the boundaries of modern art. It was in Hayter’s studio that Jackson Pollock found the balance of freedom and control that would culminate in his distinctive drip paintings. The impact of Max Ernst, André Masson, Louise Bourgeois and other noted émigrés on the work of Motherwell, Pollock, Mark Rothko, and the American avant-garde has for too long been quietly written out of art history. Drawing on first-hand documents, interviews, and archive materials, Charles Darwent brings to life the events and personalities from this crucial encounter, revealing a fascinating new perspective on the history of the art of the twentieth century.

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Thames & Hudson

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0500778973

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9780500778975

Monstrous Opera

Rameau and the Tragic Tradition

By: Charles Dill

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Monstrous Opera

Rameau and the Tragic Tradition

By: Charles Dill

One of the foremost composers of the French Baroque operatic tradition, Rameau is often cited for his struggle to steer lyric tragedy away from its strict Lullian form, inspired by spoken tragedy, and toward a more expressive musical style. In this fresh exploration of Rameau's compositional aesthetic, Charles Dill depicts a much more complicated figure: one obsessed with tradition, music theory, his own creative instincts, and the public's expectations of his music. Dill examines the ways Rameau mediated among these often competing values and how he interacted with his critics and with the public. The result is a sophisticated rethinking of Rameau as a musical innovator. In his compositions, Rameau tried to highlight music's potential for dramatic meanings. But his listeners, who understood lyric tragedy to be a poetic rather than musical genre, were generally frustrated by these attempts. In fact, some described Rameau's music as monstrous--using an image of deformity to represent the failure of reason and communication. Dill shows how Rameau answered his critics with rational, theoretical arguments about the role of music in lyric tragedy. At the same time, however, the composer sought to placate his audiences by substantially revising his musical texts in later performances, sometimes abandoning his most creative ideas. Monstrous Opera illuminates the complexity of Rameau's vision, revealing not only the tensions within the music but also the conflicting desires that drove the man--himself caricatured by his contemporaries as a monster. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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140086481X

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9781400864812

Acta Historiae Sancti Lazari Ordinis - Proceedings: Sancti Lazari Ordinis Academia Internationalis

By: Charles Savona-Ventura,Michael Ross

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Acta Historiae Sancti Lazari Ordinis - Proceedings: Sancti Lazari Ordinis Academia Internationalis

By: Charles Savona-Ventura,Michael Ross

The publication includes several academic articles presented during the first International meeting of the Sancti Lazari Ordinis Academia Internationalis whose objective is to promote the historical knowledge related to the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, and other Crusader and related orders of chivalry as this relates to the hierarchy, their components, their glorious traditions and ancient history, as well as their relations with the Roman Catholic Church and with other churches that profess the faith of Christ.

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Lulu.com

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1365174409

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9781365174407

Rycroft on Analysis and Creativity

By: Charles Rycroft

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Rycroft on Analysis and Creativity

By: Charles Rycroft

Viewpoints contains challenging essays on Freud, his fellows and critics, and on the contribution of modern figures such as Bruno Bettelheim, Thomas Azasz and Eric Berne. Charles Rycroft also pursues his enduring fascination with the place of memory and imagination in the work of artists and writers , such as Wilkie Collins, Rousseau and Sartre, and finally explores our puzzled conceptions of self hood and self awareness. Fluent, entertaining, imaginative and thought provoking, this collection confirms Rycroft as one of the most humane as well as the most distinguished of British psychoanalysts.

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NYU Press

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0814774288

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9780814774281

Victorian Painting

Essays and Reviews: Volume Two 1849-1860

By: John Charles Olmsted

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Victorian Painting

Essays and Reviews: Volume Two 1849-1860

By: John Charles Olmsted

First published in 1983. This anthology of sixty-nine essays drawn from fourteen different journals was assembled in order to reproduce in convenient form some of the more important articles on British painting published from 1849 to 1860 in Great Britain. Reviews of major exhibitions form a large part of the collection, but essays treating individual artists, discussions of the effect of state patronage of the arts and attempts to assess the uniqueness of the English tradition of painting are also included. This title will be of great interest to students of Art History.

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Routledge

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0429772262

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9780429772269

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Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism

Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism

Monstrous Opera

Monstrous Opera

Acta Historiae Sancti Lazari Ordinis - Proceedings: Sancti Lazari Ordinis Academia Internationalis

Acta Historiae Sancti Lazari Ordinis - Proceedings: Sancti Lazari Ordinis Academia Internationalis

Rycroft on Analysis and Creativity

Rycroft on Analysis and Creativity

Victorian Painting

Victorian Painting

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