Selected Critical Writings

Author : Christine De Pizan
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393970104
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan written by Christine De Pizan and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1997 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains selections from eighteen major works by Christine de Pizan, Europe's first professional woman writer, presented in contemporary translation with annotations, and includes an introduction, and seven critical analyses.

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Critical Writings of George Santayana written by George Santayana and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1968 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Hughes
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307809595
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nothing If Not Critical written by Robert Hughes and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-02-22 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists, good, bad, past and present. As art critic for Time magazine, internationally acclaimed for his study of modern art, The Shock of the New, he is perhaps America’s most widely read and admired writer on art. In this book: nearly a hundred of his finest essays on the subject. For the realism of Thomas Eakins to the Soviet satirists Komar and Melamid, from Watteau to Willem de Kooning to Susan Rothenberg, here is Hughes—astute, vivid and uninhibited—on dozens of famous and not-so-famous artists. He observes that Caravaggio was “one of the hinges of art history; there was art before him and art after him, and they were not the same”; he remarks that Julian Schnabel’s “work is to painting what Stallone’s is to acting”; he calls John Constable’s Wivenhoe Park “almost the last word on Eden-as-Property”; he notes how “distorted traces of [Jackson] Pollock lie like genes in art-world careers that, one might have thought, had nothing to do with his.” He knows how Norman Rockwell made a chicken stand still long enough to be painted, and what Degas said about success (some kinds are indistinguishable from panic). Phrasemaker par excellence, Hughes is at the same time an incisive and profound critic, not only of particular artists, but also of the social context in which art exists and is traded. His fresh perceptions of such figures as Andy Warhol and the French writer Jean Baudrillard are matched in brilliance by his pungent discussions of the art market—its inflated prices and reputations, its damage to the public domain of culture. There is a superb essay on Bernard Berenson, and another on the strange, tangled case of the Mark Rothko estate. And as a finale, Hughes gives us “The SoHoiad,” the mock-epic satire that so amused and annoyed the art world in the mid-1980s. A meteor of a book that enlightens, startles, stimulates and entertains.

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1770890106
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Second Words written by Margaret Atwood and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifty essays in Second Words span the period from 1962 to 1980 and reveal Margaret Atwood's views on feminism, Canadian literature, the creative process, nationalism, sexism, as well as critical commentary on such writers as Erica Jong, E. L. Doctorow, Northrop Frye, Roch Carrier, Marie-Claire Blais, Marge Piercy, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, and many more.

Author : David Herbert Lawrence
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192823649
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Critical Writings written by David Herbert Lawrence and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A critic must be able to feel the impact of a work of art in all its complexity and force. To do so, he must be a man of force and complexity himself...' 'A critic must be emotionally alive in every fibre, intellectually capable and skilful in essential logic, and then morally very honest.' These comments by D. H. Lawrence are as close a description as any of himself as a critic. They come from his essay on fellow novelist John Galsworthy, and there are many other pieces on novels and novelists in this selection. But Lawrence's range of genres extends to poetry and plays andpaintings, and his critical writing encompasses an enormous variety of subjects, from Aeschylus and the Apocalypse to symbolism and syphilis, for his nterests are philosophical , psychological, religious, moral, sociological, historical and cultural as well as literary and artistic. This selectionis a treasure-trove of 'thought adventures' by one of literature's liveliest critical spirits.

Author : F. T. Marinetti
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374706948
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Writings written by F. T. Marinetti and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-07 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Futurist movement was founded and promoted by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, beginning in 1909 with the First Futurist Manifesto, in which he inveighed against the complacency of "cultural necrophiliacs" and sought to annihilate the values of the past, writing that "there is no longer any beauty except the struggle. Any work of art that lacks a sense of aggression can never be a masterpiece." In the years that followed, up until his death in 1944, Marinetti, through both his polemical writings and his political activities, sought to transform society in all its aspects. As Günter Berghaus writes in his introduction, "Futurism sought to bridge the gap between art and life and to bring aesthetic innovation into the real world. Life was to be changed through art, and art was to become a form of life." This volume includes more than seventy of Marinetti's most important writings—many of them translated into English for the first time—offering the reader a representative and still startling selection of texts concerned with Futurist art, literature, politics, and philosophy.

Author : Max Horkheimer
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826400833
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Theory written by Max Horkheimer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays, written in the 1930s and 1940s, represent a first selection in English from the major work of the founder of the famous Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Horkheimer's writings are essential to an understanding of the intellectual background of the New Left and the to much current social-philosophical thought, including the work of Herbert Marcuse. Apart from their historical significance and even from their scholarly eminence, these essays contain an immediate relevance only now becoming fully recognized.

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810105898
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Essays written by Roland Barthes and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume were written during the years that its author's first four books were published in France. They chart the course of Barthe's criticism from the vocabularies of existentialism and Marxism (reflections on the social situation of literature and writer's responsibility before History) to a psychoanalysis of substances (after Bachelard) and a psychoanalytical anthropology (which evidently brought Barthes to his present terms of understanding with Levi-Strauss and Lacan).

Author : Santayana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Critical Writings Vol 2 written by Santayana and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second part of an exceptionally comprehensive selection of the writing of George Santayana (1863-1952).

Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393924041
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ibsen's Selected Plays (Norton Critical Editions) written by Henrik Ibsen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects five plays spanning Ibsen's career, with general introductions, explanatory annotations, criticism, and selections from his correspondence and other writings.