1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963963503321

Autore

Lipton Eunice <1941->

Titolo

Alias Olympia : a woman's search for Manet's notorious model & her own desire / / Eunice Lipton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, c1992

ISBN

9780801468247

0801468248

9780801468254

0801468256

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 pages)

Disciplina

759.4

B

Soggetti

Artists' models - France - Biography

Women art historians - United States - Biography

Feminist art criticism - United States

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 (p. 176-181).

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- History of an Encounter -- My mama told me ... -- Voilá Victorine -- In America -- The End -- Notes

Sommario/riassunto

Eunice Lipton was a fledging art historian when she first became intrigued by Victorine Meurent, the nineteenth-century model who appeared in Edouard Manet's most famous paintings, only to vanish from history in a haze of degrading hearsay. But had this bold and spirited beauty really descended into prostitution, drunkenness, and early death-or did her life, hidden from history, take a different course altogether? Eunice Lipton's search for the answer combines the suspense of a detective story with the revelatory power of art, peeling off layers of lies to reveal startling truths about Victorine Meurent-and about Lipton herself.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968851703321

Autore

Kronfeldner Maria

Titolo

Darwinian creativity and memetics / / Maria Kronfeldner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham [England], : Acumen Publishing Ltd., 2011

Durham [England] : , : Acumen Publishing Ltd., , 2011

ISBN

1-317-54491-9

0-367-87220-X

1-84465-486-9

1-317-54492-7

1-315-72910-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 165 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Acumen research editions

Disciplina

303.40157682

Soggetti

Social evolution

Creative ability

Memetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Light will be thrown -- Darwinian principles -- The origin of novelty -- Guided variation -- The units of culture -- Memes or minds.

Sommario/riassunto

Maria Kronfeldner critically evaluates two influential approaches to cultural change that explain creativity and diffusion as an evolutionary process by drawing an analogy between the Darwinian approach to creativity and the theory of memes, or memetics. The Darwinian approach to creativity maintains that a process of blind variation and selection creates novelty in culture. Memetics goes further by claiming that we can ignore or even eliminate the human mind as the main causal force in the explanation of creativity and culture. In a penetrating analysis Kronfeldner shows analogical reasoning from evolutionary biology to cultural change lacks the necessary descriptive adequacy, explanatory force and heuristic value to be successful. Indeed she shows that both the Darwinian approach to creativity and memetics are mere reformulations, in Darwinian language, of what has been known already and offer no new explanatory tools. The book



provides an acute philosophical examination of Darwinian creativity and memetics from within the respective evolutionary approaches including debates from genetics, evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, science studies and philosophy.