"Before becoming a poet, Charles Baudelaire was an art critic; and he made his literary début with the Salon de 1845. Its failure to find a receptive audience led him to write the groundbreaking Salon de 1846 with its pivotal chapter on colour, in which Baudelaire challenged fun…
Simple songs or airs, in which a male poetic voice either seduces or excoriates a female object, were an influential vocal genre of the French Baroque era. In this comprehensive and interdisciplinary study, Catherine Gordon-Seifert analyzes the style of airs, which was based on …
Janina Struk has traced and studied thousands of soldiers' images, and 'Private Pictures' follows this unacknowledged genre of photography from the origins of popular photography at the time of the Boer War to the digital age.
Janina Struk has traced and studied thousands of soldiers' images, and 'Private Pictures' follows this unacknowledged genre of photography from the origins of popular photography at the time of the Boer War to the digital age.
Snapshots taken by American soldiers of Iraqi prisoners stripped naked, humiliated and tortured shocked the world in 2004 and more have followed from the conflict in Afghanistan, but whether the public have been horrified by the soldiers' conduct or the fact they have taken pict…
Lectures on the theory of pure motives
by Murre, Jacob P., Nagel, Jan, Peters, Chris A.
