1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450702703321

Autore

MacPhee Graham <1968->

Titolo

The architecture of the visible / / Graham MacPhee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2002

ISBN

1-4725-4585-0

1-281-29856-5

9786611298562

1-84714-458-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Technologies

Disciplina

306.46

Soggetti

Philosophy, Modern

Technology - Philosophy

Vision

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. Visions of Modernity -- 2. The Disappearance of the World -- 3. Technics of Vision -- 4. Urban Optics -- Afterword: Recognizing Modernity -- Notes -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Visual technology saturates everyday life. Theories of the visual--now key to debates across cultural studies, social theory, art history, literary studies and philosophy--have interpreted this new condition as the beginning of a dystopian future, of cultural decline, social disempowerment and political passivity. Intellectuals--from Baudelaire to Debord, Benjamin, Virilio, Jameson, Baudrillard and Derrida--have explored how technology not only reinvents the visual, but also changes the nature of culture itself. The heartland of all such cultural analysis has been the city, from Baudelaire's flaneur to Benjamin's arcades.The Architecture of the Visible presents a wide-ranging critical reassessment of contemporary approaches to visual culture through an analysis of pivotal technological innovation from the telescope, through photography to film. Drawing on the examples of Paris and New York--two key world cities for over two centuries--Graham MacPhee analyzes how visual technology is revolutionizing the landscape of modern thought, politics and culture



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780079103321

Autore

Morrison Simon Alexander <1964->

Titolo

Russian opera and the symbolist movement [[electronic resource] /] / Simon Morrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002

ISBN

0-520-92726-5

1-59734-881-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Collana

California studies in 20th-century music ; ; 2

Disciplina

782.1/092/247

Soggetti

Opera - Russia (Federation) - 20th century

Symbolism (Literary movement) - Russia (Federation) - History - 20th century

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chaikovsky and decadence -- Rimsky-Korsakov and religious syncretism -- Scriabin and theurgy -- Prokofiev and mimesis.

Sommario/riassunto

An aesthetic, historical, and theoretical study of four scores, Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement is a groundbreaking and imaginative treatment of the important yet neglected topic of Russian opera in the Silver Age. Spanning the gap between the supernatural Russian music of the nineteenth century and the compositions of Prokofiev and Stravinsky, this exceptionally insightful and well-researched book explores how Russian symbolist poets interpreted opera and prompted operatic innovation. Simon Morrison shows how these works, though stylistically and technically different, reveal the extent to which the operatic representation of the miraculous can be translated into its enactment.Morrison treats these largely unstudied pieces by canonical composers: Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, Rimsky-Korsakov's Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, Scriabin's unfinished Mysterium, and Prokofiev's Fiery Angel. The chapters, revisionist studies of these composers and scores, address separate aspects of Symbolist poetics, discussing such topics as literary and musical decadence, pagan-Christian syncretism, theurgy, and life creation, or the portrayal of art in life. The appendix offers the first complete English-language translation of Scriabin's



libretto for the Preparatory Act.Providing valuable insight into both the Symbolist enterprise and Russian musicology, this book casts new light on opera's evolving, ambiguous place in fin de siècle culture.

3.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003112129707536

Autore

Paruta, Filippo <1550?-1629>

Titolo

Philippi Parvtae ... et Leonardi Avgvstini ... Sicilia nvmismatica / nunc primum additis Hvberti Goltzi aliorumque Siciliae descritpione, & in nvmismata singula explicationibus ... studio et industria Sigeberti Havercampi ... Accedunt insuper suis locis dispositae; integrae Georgii Gvaltheri Siciliae & adjacentium insvlarvm atque Brvttiorvm tabvlae antiqvae, una cum ejusdem Georgii Gvaltheri animadversionibus ... Divisa in tres partes. Pars prima ['-tertia]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lugduni Batavorum : excudit Petrus vander Aa, 1723

Edizione

[Editio plane nova, prioribus immensum præstans, & tabularum numero, & sculpturae artificio, & dispositionis ratione, nitidior ac emendatior: dditis in fine chronologia & indicibus locupletissimis.]

Descrizione fisica

3 v. : ill., ritr., tav.; fol.

Altri autori (Persone)

Agostini, Leonardo <sec. XVII>

Gualtieri, Giorgio>

Haverkamp, Syvert <1684-1742>

Goltz, Hubert <1526-1583>

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Microfilm

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Front. in rosso e nero, con incisione.

Iniziali, finali xilografici.

Incisioni calcografiche.

Testo su due colonne.

I v.1 e 2 hanno paginazione continua. Il v. 3 è composto di sole tavole.

3 v. in 1

Riproduzione in microfiche dell'originale conservato presso la Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Nota di contenuto

Vol. 1. Quae complectitur commentarior in numismata urbium Siciliae a



Panormo usque Tyndarum -- Vol. 2. Quae prosequitur commentarios in numismata reliquiarum Siciliae urbium, ut & regum &c. atque itidem habet tabulas numismatum a tabula I usque ad XXXII *** inclusive -- Vol. 3. Quae omnes reliquas tabulas XXXIII usque ad CCXXXIII sive ad finem usque, exhibet.