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Shearman John K.G. |
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Only Connect : Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance / / John K.G. Shearman |
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Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2019] |
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0-691-25272-6 |
0-691-25271-8 |
0-691-65683-5 |
0-691-20077-7 |
0-691-09972-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (329 pages) |
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Princeton Legacy Library ; ; 5579 |
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Audiences - Psychology |
Art, Renaissance - Italy |
Art, Italian |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. A MORE ENGAGED SPECTATOR -- II. A SHARED SPACE -- III. PORTRAITS AND POETS -- IV. DOMES -- V. HISTORY, AND ENERGY -- VI. IMITATION, AND THE SLOW FUSE -- SOURCES OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INDEX |
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John Shearman makes the plea for a more engaged reading of art works of the Italian Renaissance, one that will recognize the presuppositions of Renaissance artists about their viewers. His book is the first attempt to construct a history of those Renaissance paintings and sculptures that are by design completed outside themselves in or by the spectator, that embrace the spectator into their narrative plot or aesthetic functioning, and that reposition the spectator imaginatively or in time and space. He takes the lead from texts and artists of the period, for these artists reveal themselves as spectators. Among modern historiographical techniques, Reception Theory is closest to the author's method, but Shearman's concern is mostly with anterior |
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relationships with the viewer--that is, relationships conceived and constructed as part of the work's design, making, and positioning. Shearman proposes unconventional ways in which works of art may be distinguished one from another, and in which spectators may be distinguished, too, and enlarges the accepted field of artistic invention. Furthermore, His argument reflects on the Renaissance itself. What is created in this period tends to be regarded as conventional, or inherent in the nature of painting and sculpture: he maintains that this is a careless, disengaged view that has overlooked the process of discovery by immensely inventive and visually intelllectual artists. John Shearman is William Door Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University. Among his works are Mannerism (Hardmondsworth/Penguin), Raphael's Cartoons in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen and the Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel (Phaidon), The Early Italian Paintings in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen (Cambridge). and Funzione e Illusione (il Saggiatore).The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1988Bollingen Series XXXV: 37Originally Publsihed in 1992The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. |
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UNINA9911020378203321 |
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Corlett Richard |
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Tropical rain forests : an ecological and biogeographical comparison / / Richard T. Corlett and Richard B. Primack |
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Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Blackwell, c2011 |
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9786613407931 |
9781283407939 |
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9781444392272 |
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9781444392296 |
1444392298 |
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[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (338 p.) |
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PrimackRichard B. <1950-> |
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Rain forests |
Rain forest ecology |
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Rev. ed. of : Tropical rain forests : an ecological and biogeographical comparison / Richard Primack & Richard Corlett. c2005. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Tropical RainForests; Contents; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Many Tropical Rain Forests; What are tropical rain forests?; Where are the tropical rain forests?; Rain forest environments; Rain forest histories; Origins of the similarities and differences among rain forests; Many rain forests; Conclusions; Chapter 2 Plants: Building Blocks of the Rain Forest; Plant distributions; Rain forest structure; How many plant species?; Widespread plant families; Neotropical rain forests; Asian rain forests |
Rain forests in New Guinea and AustraliaAfrican rain forests; Madagascan rain forests; Conclusions and future research directions; Chapter 3 Primate Communities: A Key to Understanding Biogeography and Ecology; What are primates?; Old World versus New World primates; Primate diets; Primate communities; Primate equivalents in Australia and New Guinea; Conclusions and future research directions; Chapter 4 Carnivores and Plant-eaters; Carnivores; Herbivores of the forest floor; |
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Conclusions and future research directions; Chapter 5 Birds: Linkages in the Rain Forest Community; Biogeography |
Little, brown, insect-eating birdsForest frugivores; Fruit size and body size; Flower visitors; Ground-dwellers; Woodpeckers; Birds of prey; Scavengers; Night birds; Migration; Comparison of bird communities across continents; Conclusions and future research directions; Chapter 6 Fruit Bats and Gliding Animals in the Forest Canopy; Fruit- and nectar-feeding bats; Flying behavior; Foraging behavior; Bats as pollinators and seed dispersal agents; Gliding vertebrates; Conclusions and future research directions; Chapter 7 Insects: Diverse, Abundant, and Ecologically Important; Butterflies; Ants |
TermitesBees; Conclusions and future research directions; Chapter 8 Island Rain Forests; Pacific islands; Evolution on islands; Indian Ocean islands; Atlantic islands; Caribbean islands; Natural disasters; Human impacts; Conclusions and future research directions; Chapter 9 The Future of Tropical Rain Forests; Different forests, different threats; The major threats; The forces behind the threats; Global climate change; Saving the many rain forests; Conclusions and future research directions; References; Index |
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The first edition of Tropical Rain Forests: an Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison exploded the myth of 'the rain forest' as a single, uniform entity. In reality, the major tropical rain forest regions, in tropical America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Madagascar, and New Guinea, have as many differences as similarities, as a result of their isolation from each other during the evolution of their floras and faunas. This new edition reinforces this message with new examples from recent and on-going research. After an introduction to the environments and geological histories of the maj |
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