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  • Music's Monisms

    Disarticulating Modernism

    Daniel Albright investigates musical phenomena through the lens of monism, the philosophical belief that things that appear to be two are actually one.Daniel Albright was one of the preeminent scholars of musical and literary modernism, leaving behind a rich body of work before his untimely passing. In Music's Monisms, he shows how musical and literary phenomena alike can be fruitfully ... Read more

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  • Putting Modernism Together

    Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872–1927

    Series series Hopkins Studies in Modernism
    A powerful introduction to modernism and the creative arts it inspired.How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist era—which began roughly in 1872 with the Franco-Prussian War, climaxed with the Great War, and ended with a third catastrophe, the Great Depression—there was a special belligerence to this question. It was a cultural ... Read more

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  • Panaesthetics

    On the Unity and Diversity of the Arts

    Series series Anthony Hecht Lectures in Humanities
    While comparative literature is a well-recognized field of study, the notion of comparative arts remains unfamiliar to many. In this fascinating book, Daniel Albright addresses the fundamental question of comparative arts: Are there many different arts, or is there one art which takes different forms? He considers various artistic media, especially literature, music, and painting, to discover ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner, Britten

    Great Shakespeareans: Volume XI

    Series series Great Shakespeareans
    Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner and Britten to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution ... Read more

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  • Mondrian

    Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), who can be assigned to the school of classical modernism, was born in Amersfort, Netherlands. After studying in Amsterdam, he started his artist´s career in the impressionist style as a figure and landscape painter. His works from these years showed the influence of Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) and of Fauvism, a French school from the beginning of the 20th century. When ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art is a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and value of art, including in its scope literature, painting, sculpture, music, dance, architecture, movies, conceptual art and performance art. This second edition incorporates significant new research on topics including pictorial depiction, musical expression, conceptual art, Hegel, ... Read more

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  • Art Beyond Representation

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    Lautrec studied with two of the most admired academic painters of the day, Léon Bonnat and Fernand Cormon. Lautrec’s time in the studios of Bonnat and Cormon had the advantage of introducing him to the nude as a subject. At that time life-drawing of the nude was the basis of all academic art training in nineteenth-century Paris. While still a student, Lautrec began to explore Parisian nightlife, ... Read more

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