Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde, Hardback - Alyce Mahon

DescriptionHow the notorious author of The 120 Days of Sodom inspired the surrealists and other avant-garde artists, writers, and filmmakersThe wri...

An authoritative re-definition of the social, cultural and visual history of the emergence of the "avant-garde" in Paris and LondonPublisher: Yale ...

This study boldly argues for Acker's revolutionary significance. It situates her within a historical avant-garde and examines how she took moments ...

Reducere. DescriptionNeil Schaeffer presents here a wholly original, compellingly human portrait of the "divine Marquis, " the enigmatic legend whose name is...

Reducere. The story of French impresario, dandy and anarchist F lix F n on's extraordinary influence on early modernism"It would not be a commonplace portrai...

This collection categorizes aesthetic avant-garde art as art that seeks to politically transform society and argues that such art is essential for ...

Loosely based on one of the most notorious crimes of the seventeenth century, The Marquise de Gange by The Marquis de Sade is a neglected classic. ...

DescriptionSatirizing Modernism examines 20th-century novels that satirize avant-garde artists and authors while also using experimental techniques...

John Beck and Ryan Bishop explore the 1960s interdisciplinary art and technology collaborations between American avant-garde artists and the milita...

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This Very Short Introduction aims to disentangle the 'real' Marquis de Sade from his mythical and demonic reputation of the past two hundred years....

Traces the Nazarene "art of the concept" from its Romantic inception to its academic transformation in the 1830s. Arguing that the Nazarenes, despi...

Reducere. An early work by the Marquis de Sade "Justine, Or, The Misfortunes of Virtue" was originally written during a two week period in 1787 while the aut...

Philosophy of the Boudoir follows three aristocrats as they indoctrinate the fifteen-year-old Eugénie de Mistival in 'the principles of the most ou...

In Senghor's Shadow is a unique study of modern art in postindependence Senegal. Elizabeth Harney examines the art that flourished during the admin...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Sarah E. JamesIllustration(s): 103 colour illustrations, 10 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 296Pub...

This book looks at the largely neglected colour films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901-99) that can teach us about cinema's distinctive...

DescriptionJustine, aged twelve sets off to make her way in France. The book follows her until age 26, in her quest for virtue. She is presented wi...

DescriptionExperience the glamor and excitement of the Jazz Age, through the lives of the women who defined it It was a time of unimagined new free...

Reducere. Set against the impending riptide of the French Revolution and composed while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille, Aline and Valcour embodies the m...

Reducere. Set against the impending riptide of the French Revolution and composed while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille, Aline and Valcour embodies the m...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

During the 1968 Prague Spring and the Soviet-led invasion and occupation that followed, Czechoslovakia's Army Film studio was responsible for some ...

Originally headed by Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus counted among its members artists and architects such as Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kand...

An amazing sequence of imaginatively bizarre sexual adventures punctuated by philosophical and theological digression. Mlle. De Maupin, Lolita, Can...

Reducere. DescriptionThe 120 Days of Sodom, also known as the School of Libertinism, is described by the author as the most impure tale that has ever been to...

DescriptionThe name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is most foul in human c...

Based on meticulous research in the archives of some of the most prominent Italian avant-garde writers, Poetry on Stage examines the literary and i...

This collection offers the first in-depth study of the radio medium's significance as a site of artistic experimentation for the literary neo-avant...

A comprehensive examination of the origins of Vancouver photo-conceptualism. The book employs discourse analysis, feminist critique and settler-col...

The first in-depth study of diverse and radical innovation in Arab musicPublisher: Wesleyan University PressIllustration(s): 19 music examples, 2 f...

Explore the influence of Impressionism on Russian painters at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century. In the late 19th century, numerou...

DescriptionFor over a hundred years, the idea of the "avant-garde" has been perhaps the most important and influential force in modern culture, rul...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Simon (Saint Louis Art Museum, USA) KellyIllustration(s): 8 colour & 64 bw illusNumber of pages: 272...

Reducere. The Marquis de Sade, vilified by respectable society from his own time through ours, apotheosized by Apollinaire as "the freest spirit that has yet...

This is the first new translation in over forty years of Sade's novel Justine. It is also the first ever critical edition, based on the original 17...

In this book, the interaction between high-end molecular gastronomy and architecture is explained in an illuminating and entertaining way.