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UNINA9910790340403321 |
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Michiels Alfred <1813-1892.> |
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Hans Memling [[electronic resource] /] / [Alfred Michiels ; translation, Sarah Whorton and Andrew Byrd] |
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New York, : Parkstone Press, c2007 |
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1-283-95414-1 |
1-78042-986-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Painting, Belgian - 15th century - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Foreword; I. Memling's Origins and Beginnings; II. Memling between History andLegend; Popular Traditions; First-hand Information; III. Memling's Old Age and Genius; IV. Memling's Major Works; Works Conserved in Belgium; Works kept outside of Belgium; Memling the Miniaturist; V. Master Memling, betweenInfluences and Authentications; The Students of Memling; The Authentic Works of Memling; Works attributed to Memling; False Attributions; The Lost Paintings; Notes; Index |
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Born in Selingenstadt, Memling (1430/40-1494) left his native Germany to settle in Bruges in 1465, where the death of his supposed teacher, Rogier van der Weyden, left a near absence of competition. Unlike one of his predecessors, Van Eyck, Memling, considered a minor artist for a long time, was not a painter of the court, but of the bourgeoisie. A man recognized and respected by the end of his life for his enormous talent, he amassed one of greatest fortunes in the city.Forgotten during the 17th and the 18th centuries, Memling is nowadays regarded as one of the greatest painters of the United |
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UNINA9910783319903321 |
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Autore |
Retallack Joan |
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The Poethical Wager [[electronic resource]] |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004 |
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1-282-76239-7 |
9786612762390 |
0-520-93523-3 |
1-59734-811-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (293 p.) |
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809.93352042 |
809/.93352042 |
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Feminism and literature |
Literature and morals |
Literature, Modern |
Literature, Modern - History and criticism |
Women in literature |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Essay as Wager; The Poethical Wager; Wager as Essay; Blue Notes on the Know Ledge; Poethics of the Improbable: Rosmarie Waldrop and the Uses of Form; The Experimental Feminine; The Scarlet Aitch: Twenty-Six Notes on the Experimental Feminine; :RE:THINKING:LITERARY:FEMINISM: (three essays onto shaky grounds); The Difficulties of Gertrude Stein, I & II; Four on Cage; Geometries of Attention; Fig. 1, Ground Zero, Fig. 2: John Cage-May 18, 2005; Poethics of a Complex Realism; UNCAGED WORDS: John Cage in Dialogue with Chance; Notes; Bibliography |
Acknowledgments of PermissionsIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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In these highly inventive essays, Joan Retallack, acclaimed poet and essayist, conveys her unique post-utopian vision as she explores the relationship between art and life in today's chaotic world. In the tradition of the essay as complex humanist exploration, she engages |
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ideas from across history: Aristotle's definition of happiness, Epicurus's swerve into unpredictable possibility, Montaigne's essays as an instrument of self-invention, John Cage's redefinition of Silence. Within her unifying rubric of poethics, Retallack gives the reader plenty of surprises with a wonderful range of examples |
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