Pierrot And His World

Author : Marika Takanishi Knowles
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526174073
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pierrot and his world written by Marika Takanishi Knowles and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pierrot, a theatrical stock character known by his distinctive costume of loose white tunic and trousers, is a ubiquitous figure in French art and culture. This richly illustrated book offers an account of Pierrot’s recurrence in painting, printmaking, photography and film, tracing this distinctive type from the art of Antoine Watteau to the cinema of Occupied France. As a visual type, Pierrot thrives at the intersection of theatrical and marketplace practices. From Watteau’s Pierrot (c. 1720) and Édouard Manet’s The Old Musician (1862) to Nadar and Adrien Tournachon’s Pierrot the Photographer (1855) and the landmark film Children of Paradise (1945), Pierrot has given artists a medium through which to explore the marketplace as a form for both social life and creative practice. Simultaneously a human figure and a theatrical mask, Pierrot elicits artistic reflection on the representation of personality in the marketplace.

Author : Stella Callaghan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pierrot of the World written by Stella Callaghan and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Grégory Pierrot
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820354929
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture written by Grégory Pierrot and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the Ta-Nehisi Coates-authored Black Panther comic book series (2016); recent films Django Unchained (2012) and The Birth of a Nation (2016); Nate Parker's cinematic imagining of the Nat Turner rebellion; and screen adaptations of Marvel's Luke Cage (2016) and Black Panther (2018); violent black redeemers have rarely been so present in mainstream Western culture. Grégory Pierrot argues, however, that the black avenger has always been with us: the trope has fired the news and imaginations of the United States and the larger Atlantic World for three centuries. The black avenger channeled fresh anxieties about slave uprisings and racial belonging occasioned by European colonization in the Americas. Even as he is portrayed as a heathen and a barbarian, his values-honor, loyalty, love-reflect his ties to the West. Yet being racially different, he cannot belong, and his qualities in turn make him an anomaly among black people. The black avenger is thus a liminal figure defining racial borders. Where his body lies, lies the color line. Regularly throughout the modern era and to this day, variations on the trope have contributed to defining race in the Atlantic World and thwarting the constitution of a black polity. Pierrot's The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture studies this cultural history, examining a multicultural and cross-historical network of print material including fiction, drama, poetry, news, and historical writing as well as visual culture. It tracks the black avenger trope from its inception in the seventeenth century to the U.S. occupation of Haiti in 1915. Pierrot argues that this Western archetype plays an essential role in helping exclusive, hostile understandings of racial belonging become normalized in the collective consciousness of Atlantic nations. His study follows important articulations of the figure and how it has shifted based on historical and cultural contexts.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World's Work written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barrett Harper Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1452 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Short Biographies of the World written by Barrett Harper Clark and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Douglas Clayton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773564411
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pierrot in Petrograd written by Douglas Clayton and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994-01-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Clayton examines the tradition of commedia dell'arte as the Russian modernists inherited it, from its origins in Italian street theatre through its various transformations: in Italy (Gozzi and Goldini's plays); in France (the development of Pierrot and the restructuring of the plot); and in Germany (Tieck's and Hoffmann's metatheatre). He also analyses crucial texts by Gozzi, Lothar, Benavente, and Schnitzler that came to play a central role in the Russian theatre. Tracing the history of commedia dell'arte on the Russian stage, he demonstrates that the introduction of the tradition was theory-driven and discusses several milestone productions in the pre- and post-revolutionary period. Clayton examines the impact of commedia dell'arte, russified as the new theatrical genre of balagan, on both popular and lesser-known Russian playwrights, and, in conclusion, explores the significance of the commedia dell'arte as a theoretical underpinning for Sergei Eisenstein's theories of theatre and film.

Author : Tomie dePaola
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152749897
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sing, Pierrot, Sing written by Tomie dePaola and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1987-09-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ago and without fail, three characters brought delight to audiences: the pantalooned Pierrot; Columbine, ever saucy and adroit; and Harlequin her lover, full of good natured drolleries and amusing tricks. From the legacy left by French pantomime and the Italian commedia dell'arte, this original story in pictures has been fashioned, with a special kind of ending to transcend time. The words, as in all mime, are in the eyes of the listener.

Author : Frank Crane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current Opinion written by Frank Crane and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Platten
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781387672
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction written by David Platten and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Tournier is a writer who explores complex philosophical questions in the guise of concrete, imagistic narratives. This comprehensive study privileges the notion of literary reference, by which the world of text is understood or experienced in metaphorical relation to the world outside of it. Metaphor, in the context of Tournier’s fiction, shows how the fantastic merges with the real to provide new perspectives on many diverse aspects of the modern world: the Crusoe myth, Nazism, the value to society of art and religion, and the nature of education. This book elucidates an aesthetic of Tournier’s fiction that encompasses the writer’s stated ambition to ‘go beyond literature’.

Author : Marcel Perrot
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664108092
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Essay on Colour and Nature written by Marcel Perrot and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My essay on Colour and Nature, is where i explain the nature of our world, and i explain the world as a posteriori, and where in some respects the God is a priori for knowing. As well, i explain the nature of colour, and where i have worked on the thesis that all knowledge is derived through colour, and that all colour is derived through experience. Furthermore, i promote Buddha as the way, and as he proves the way for human nature and the following of hope, and as well, Jesus is a subject of my book, and where i explain more about his execution on the cross, and as i said, Pontius Pilate and the Jewish were not to blame about his execution, and it was the atoms which were to blame.