Author: Oscar WildePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A Letter to a Noble Lord
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
Irish-British statesman, economist, and philosopher, Edmund Burke wrote this letter when he got stripped of his pension in 1796. He responded by supporting his ideas on government economy and showing how his and other allowances were not conflicting with these ideas. Burke attacked the French Revolution and mentioned how its views endangered the very people after his pension, probably because he was hostile to precisely these ideas. This letter was praised a century and a half after being written as the most significant piece of invective in the English language.
Author: James Beattie
Author: Rodney Mundy
Author: Hollow Icons
Author: Albert BoimePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
An examination of the relationships between sculptural production and the ideologies of those who commissioned it. The author argues that aesthetics counted for less in this production than the particular political and social orientation of the patron working closely with the sculptor.
Author: Sir Richard Francis BurtonVaudechamp in New Orleans
Author: William Keyse RudolphPublisher: Historic New Orleans
ISBN: 9780917860515
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
"During the 1830s, Jean-Joseph Vaudechamp (1790-1864) spent his winters in Louisiana, establishing himself as the region's leading portrait painter. He was, quite simply, the best-educated artist yet to have worked in New Orleans. Author William Keyse Rudolph traces the life and work of the French portraitist. A star pupil of French master Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, Jean-Joseph Vaudechamp enjoyed a promising apprenticeship in Paris but a competitive marketplace threatened to deny him the full measure of his artistic inheritance. In the winter of 183-32, he left home to test his fortunes in New Orleans, a thriving city whose boundaries and population were expanding. Vaudechamps' sitters, the majority of them French Creoles, were making a clear statement of cultural identity and allegiance by choosing a French artist. His works helped revitalize the Creole community. Vaudechamp in New Orleans is the most thorough examination to date of the career of this remarkable artist. Richly illustrated and compellingly narrated, Vaudechamp in New Orleans marks another winning entry in The Historic New Orleans Collection's Louisiana Biography Series, which is funded by the Laussat Society."--from Amazon.
After the Revolution
Author: David O'BrienPublisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 0271023058
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"The many color illustrations in After the Revolution enable the reader to follow O'Brien's informative analysis of the mixing of fact and fiction in such famed paintings as The Battlefield of Eylau. This book will be of interest to art historians, students of political and military history, and all those fascinated by Napoleon."--BOOK JACKET.
Art in the American South
Author: Randolph DelehantyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780807121009
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Featuring 250 full-color reproductions, a selection of works from the Ogden Collection of Southern Art--one of the world's finest--traces the evolution of southern art and culture and the region's artistic trends and movements. UP.
