The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France [[electronic resource] ] : between the ancients and the moderns / / Rachel Hammersley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465665603321
• Autore: Hammersley Rachel <1974->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Manchester, : Manchester University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-78170-234-9; 1-84779-304-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Collana: Studies in early modern European history
• Disciplina: 320.44409033
• Soggetti: Republicanism - France - History - 18th century; Republicanism - Great Britain - History - 17th century; Republicanism - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Electronic books.; France Politics and government 18th century; France Foreign relations Great Britain; Great Britain Foreign relations France
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-229) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Real Whigs and Huguenots. From English republicans to British commonwealthmen ; The Huguenot connection -- Bolingbroke and France. Viscount Bolingbroke : an atypical commonwealthman ; Bolingbroke's French associates ; A French commonwealthman : the abbé Mably -- Commonwealthmen, Wilkites and France. The commonwealth tradition and the Wilkite controversies ; The British origins of the chevalier d'Eon's patriotism ; The British origins of the baron d'Holbach's atheism ; The British origins of Jean-Paul Marat's revolutionary radicalism -- English republicans and the French Revolution. Parallel revolutions : seventeenth-century England and eighteenth-century France ; The comte de Mirabeau and the works of John Milton and Catharine Macaulay ; The Cordeliers Club and the democratisation of English republican ideas.
• Sommario/riassunto: *The English Republican Tradition and Eighteenth-Century France* offers the first full account of the role played by seventeenth and ; eighteenth-century English republican ideas in eighteenth-century France.Challenging some of the dominant accounts of the republican tradition, it revises conventional understandings of what republicanism meant in both Britain and France during the eighteenth-century, offering a distinctive trajectory as regards ancient and modern constructions and highlighting variety rather than homogeneity within the tradition. Hammersley thus offers a new and fascinating pers

The collected writings of Michael Snow / / with a foreword by Louise Dompierre

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910154731003321
• Autore: Snow Michael <1929->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1994
• ISBN: 9786610924943; 9781280924941; 1280924942; 9780889206045; 088920604X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): DompierreLouise
• Disciplina: 700/.92
• Soggetti: Photography - Canada
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: At head of title: Michael Snow Project.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword by Louise Dompierre; The Real ""New Jazz,"" 1950; Poem, 1957; Something You Might Try, 1958; Title or Heading, 1961; A Lot of Near Mrs., 1962-63; Around about New York Eye and Ear Control, 1966; Statements/18 Canadian Artists, 1967; First to Last, 1967; Crafts, 1967; On Wavelength, 1968; Abitibi, 1969; Tap, 1969; Ten Questions to Michael Snow, 1969; La Région Centrale, 1969; Converging on La Région Centrale: Michael Snow in Conversation with Charlotte Townsend, 1971; Michael Snow: A Filmography by Max Knowles, 1971; Passage (Dairy), 1971; The Life & Times of Michael Snow, 1971De La, 1972; Information or ; Illusion: An Interview with Michael Snow, 1972; The Camera and the Spectator: Michael Snow in Discussion with John Du Cane, 1973; Boucherville, Montréal, Toronto, London, 1973; Notes for Rameau 's Nephew by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen, 1974; Some Scripts for Rameau 's Nephew by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen, 1974; Tom Gibson's Photographs, 1974; Michael Snow Musics for Piano, Whistling, Microphone and Tape Recorder, 1975; The Artists' Jazz Band Live at the Edge, 1976; A Letter to Alvin Balkind, 1976Crushed Cookies Make Crumbs Liberates Swing. Cuts Its Pulse, 1978; Larry Dubin's Music, 1978; Pierre Theberge: Conversation with Michael Snow, 1978; Cerisy-la-Salle, 1979; Edinburgh, 1979; Statement for 10 Canadian Artists in the 1970s, 1980; So Is This, 1982; Michael Snow and Bruce Elder in Conversation, 1982; On Murray Favro, 1982; (Hand-written) To Write, 1982; On Hollis Frampton, 1984; Music and Me, 1986; An Entrance to Redifice, 1987; The Audience, 1987; Laocoön of the People, 1987; The Last LP, 1987; Trying to Figure It Out, 1987; Statement for an Exhibition, Tokyo, 1988Playing the Radio: A Personal History, 1989; Admission (or, Marcel Duchamp), 1989; Sign Paintings by Robert Hedrick, 1990; Statement for the 8th Biennial of Sydney, Australia, 1990; Statement for an Exhibition, Paris, 1992
• Sommario/riassunto: Writing, for Michael Snow, is as much a form of ""art-making"" as the broad range of visual art activities for which he is renowned, including the ""Walking Woman"" series and the film Wavelength. Conversely, many of the texts included in this anthology are as significant visually as they are at the level of content - they are meant to be looked at as well as read. Situated somewhere between a repository of contemporary thought by one of our leading Canadian artists and a history book as it brings to light some important moments in the cultural life of Canada since the 1950s, these