Inside/outside : Michelangelo Pistoletto's mirror paintings -- Campo urbano : a late summer festival -- Vitalità del negativo : the exhibition as palimpsest. "This book is about 1960's Italian art and its troubled but also resourceful relation to the history and politics of the…
"This book is about 1960's Italian art and its troubled but also resourceful relation to the history and politics of the first part of the century and the aftermath of World War II.
"This book is about 1960's Italian art and its troubled but also resourceful relation to the history and politics of the first part of the century and the aftermath of World War II.
European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, and sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet between 1500 and 1700 one region upended all of these conventions in travel writing, scienc…
European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet, as Christopher Heuer explains, between 1500 and 1700, one region upended all of these conventi…
European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet, as Christopher Heuer explains, between 1500 and 1700, one region upended all of these conventi…
European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet, as Christopher Heuer explains, between 1500 and 1700, one region upended all of these conventi…
Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History tells a new story about the cultural imagination of the West wherein cheerfulness ? a momentary uptick in emotional energy, a temporary lightening of spirit ? functions as a crucial theme in literary, philosophical, and artistic crea…
"This book offers the first study of a form of emotion that has inflected both the social life and the literary history of the European/American cultural tradition since the Renaissance. It explores the changing fortunes and shapes of cheerfulness and gaiety in cultural texts ra…
Introduction: A contagion, a power -- Early modern cheerfulness. Body, heaven, home : cheerful places -- Among the cheerful : the emotional life of charity -- Medicine, manners, and reading for the kidneys -- Shakespeare, or the politics of cheer -- Montaigne, or the cheerful se…
"This book offers the first study of a form of emotion that has inflected both the social life and the literary history of the European/American cultural tradition since the Renaissance. It explores the changing fortunes and shapes of cheerfulness and gaiety in cultural texts ra…
"This book offers the first study of a form of emotion that has inflected both the social life and the literary history of the European/American cultural tradition since the Renaissance. It explores the changing fortunes and shapes of cheerfulness and gaiety in cultural texts ra…
An examination of how modern art was impacted by the concept of prehistory and the prehistoric <p/>Prehistory is an invention of the late nineteenth century. In that moment of technological progress and acceleration of production and circulation, three major Western narratives a…