1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451496403321

Autore

Bullen J. B.

Titolo

Continental crosscurrents : British criticism and European art 1810-1910 / / J.B. Bullen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2005

ISBN

1-280-75656-X

0-19-154190-7

1-4237-7078-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

709.409034

Soggetti

Art, European - 19th century

Art, European - 20th century

Art criticism - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Art criticism - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Continental Crosscurrents" is a series of case studies reflecting British attitudes to continental art during the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. It stresses the way in which the British went to the continent in their search for origins or their pursuit of sources of purity and originality. This cult of the primitive took many forms; it involved a reassessment of medieval German and Italian art and offered new ways of interpreting Venetian painting; it opened up new readings of architectural history and the 'discovery' of the Romanesque; it generated a debate about the value of returning to religious subjects in art and it raised the question of the relationship between modern art and Byzantine art in the early twentieth century. J. B. Bullen's original study presents some exciting findings. Few critics have noticed how much in advance of his time was Coleridge's passion for medieval art; Ruskin's debt in the "Stones of Venice" to Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris" has hardly been noted, and Browning's involvement with the debate on the morality of Christian art is explored more extensively



than previously.; Three chapters are devoted to the role of British criticism in identifying the Romanesque style in architecture and differentiating it from the Gothic. They trace the concept as it arose in criticism at the beginning of the nineteenth century; its employment in the remarkable buildings of Edmund Sharpe and Sara Losh and the way in which it reached a climax in Waterhouse's enigmatic choice of Romanesque for the Natural History Museum in London. The collection concludes with two continental episodes from the history of modernism. One is the explosive British reaction to the primitivism of Gauguin; the other involves the identifying of one of the characters in D. H. Lawrence's novel "Women in Love". Curious evidence suggests that

the malevolent figure of Loerke was based on a German sculptor whom Lawrence met in Italy before the First World War.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154925203321

Autore

Petersmann Ernst-Ulrich

Titolo

Multilevel constitutionalism for multilevel governance of public goods : methodology problems in international law / / Ernst Ulrich Petersmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Portland, Oregon, USA : , : Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , 2016

ISBN

1-5099-0913-3

1-5099-0906-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (415 pages)

Disciplina

342/.042

Soggetti

Constitutional law

International and municipal law - Political aspects

International law and human rights

International organization

Law and globalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : from democratic and republican to cosmopolitan constitutionalism in multilevel governance of public goods -- Human



rights, "constitutional" treaty interpretation and judicial protection of individual rights in multilevel governance of public goods -- Constituting, limiting, regulating and justifying multilevel governance through multilevel "republican constitutionalism" -- Civilizing and constitutionalizing "disconnected" UN, WTO and EU governance require "cosmopolitan constitutionalism" : legal methodology challenges.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first legal monograph analysing multilevel governance of global 'aggregate public goods' (PGs) from the perspective of democractic, republican and cosmopolitan constitutionalism by using historical, legal, political and economic methods. It explains the need for a 'new philosophy of international law' in order to protect human rights and PGs more effectively and more legitimately. 'Constitutional approaches' are justified by the universal recognition of human rights and by the need to protect 'human rights', 'rule of law', 'democracy' and other 'principles of justice' that are used in national, regional and UN legal systems as indeterminate legal concepts. The study describes and criticizes the legal methodology problems of 'disconnected' governance in UN, GATT and WTO institutions as well as in certain areas of the external relations of the EU (like transatlantic free trade agreements). Based on 40 years of practical experiences of the author in German, European, UN, GATT and WTO governance institutions and of simultaneous academic teaching, this study develops five propositions for constituting, limiting, regulating and justifying multilevel governance for the benefit of citizens and their constitutional rights as 'constituent powers', 'democratic principals' and main 'republican actors', who must hold multilevel governance institutions and their limited 'constituted powers' legally, democratically and judicially more accountable