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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162719503321

Autore

Walker Andrew <1926-2012, >

Titolo

Commonwealth : a new look / / by Andrew Walker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Pergamon Press Ltd., , 1978

©1978

ISBN

1-4831-5698-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (141 p.)

Collana

Pergamon international library of science, technology, engineering, and social studies The Commonwealth

Disciplina

909/.09/712410827

Soggetti

Commonwealth countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; The Commonwealth: A New Look; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE. What Is The Commonwealth?; CHAPTER TWO. ""A Candour Unknown Elsewhere""; CHAPTER THREE. Life At The Hub; CHAPTER FOURE. Economic And Technical Co-operation; CHAPTER FIVE. Accent On Youth; CHAPTER SIX. Willingly To School; CHAPTER SEVEN. Legal And Medical; CHAPTER EIGHT. A Family Of Parliaments; CHAPTER NINE. A Privileged Minority?; CHAPTER SIX. Willingly To School; CHAPTER SEVEN. Legal And Medical; CHAPTER EIGHT. A Family Of Parliaments; CHAPTER NINE. A Privileged Minority?

APPENDIX TWO: The Commonwealth Declaration of PrinciplesAPPENDIX THREE: Sources of Information; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The Commonwealth: A New Look outlines the vast amount of cooperative endeavors carried out under the Commonwealth umbrella. This book begins by introducing misconceptions held about the Commonwealth and a brief account of its evolution from the British Empire. The conferences of Commonwealth leaders from the 19th century until 1975 are also described. This compilation discusses the Commonwealth cooperation programs in education, youth, law, health services, and science. A background of the work of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association is likewise deliberated. The last chapter of this text



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820561503321

Autore

Van Gastel Joris

Titolo

Il Marmo Spirante : sculpture and experience in seventeenth-century Rome / / Joris van Gastel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : Akademie Verlag, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

3-05-006262-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Collana

Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus ; ; Band 12

Classificazione

LN 63109

Disciplina

730.945

730.945632

Soggetti

Marble sculpture

Sculpture, Baroque

Sculpture, Italian

Italy Rome

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

Front Matter -- Sculpture through Poetry -- Likeness and Recognition: The Portrait Bust -- Plurality or the Bust as Construct -- Moving Sculpture Moving the Beholder -- Touch and Sculpted Flesh -- Franchezza or the Sculptor's Traces -- Bernini's Metamorphosis -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Back Matter

Sommario/riassunto

The sculptors of the Roman Baroque, including masters such as Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Alessandro Algardi, and Giuliano Finelli, managed to achieve an unprecedented vivaciousness in their works. And yet, the apparent life of these sculptures is persistently obscured by their materiality. Soft, undulating flesh, dramatic movements, and fluttering draperies are captured in hard and lifeless marble. Thus, sculpture challenges the beholder, is cause for confusion or frustration. Taking the manner in which the beholder's engagement with sculpture is played out in contemporary poetry and other sources as a point of departure and also introducing ideas from modern-day psychology, this study explores the various ways contemporary viewers dealt with sculpture's double character. As a result, a new light is shed on some of the unquestionable masterpieces of European art. Die Bildhauer des



römischen Barock, darunter Meister wie Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Alessandro Algardi und Giuliano Finelli, erreichten eine beispiellose Lebendigkeit ihrer Werke. Dem augenscheinlichen Leben widerspricht jedoch beharrlich die harte Materialität dieser Skulpturen. Weiches, bewegtes Fleisch, dramatische Bewegungen und flatternde Stoffe sind in hartem, leblosem Marmor gefangen. So fordert die Skulptur den Betrachter heraus und sorgt für Verwirrung oder auch Enttäuschung. Anhand zeitgenössischer Poesie und anderer Quellen,welche die Interaktion zwischen Betrachter und Skulptur reflektieren, untersucht diese Studie, wie Zeitgenossen mit diesem Doppelcharakter der Skulptur umgingen. Dabei werden auch Ansätze der modernen Psychologie miteinbezogen. Das Ergebnis ist ein neuer Zugang zu einigen der höchstgeschätzten Meisterwerke europäischer Kunst.