Search Results - "Fine Arts"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the fine arts by Paley, Morton D.

Table of Contents: “…Initiation -- Italy -- What Coleridge saw -- Allston redux -- Coleridge on the fine arts -- The principles common to the fine arts.…”
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"With éclat" the Boston Athenæum and the origin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / by Hirayama, Hina, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The fine arts at the Boston Athenaeum, 1807-1870 -- Toward 1870: the Perkins brothers, the Athenaeum Gallery, and changing taste in Boston -- The founding vision for the Museum, 1870 -- 1870-1876: the Athenaeum and the Museum -- After 1876: changing directions -- Epilogue -- Appendix: the incorporators of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1870.…”
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Claude Monet, free thinker : radical republicanism, Darwin's science, and the evolution of impressionist aesthetics / by Call, Michael J.

“…American university studies. Fine arts ;…”
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The Sanitary Arts : Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns by Cleere, Eileen

Table of Contents: “…Foul matter: Edwin Chadwick; John Ruskin, and mid-Victorian Aesthesis -- Dirty pictures: John Ruskin, Modern Painters, and Victorian Sanitation of Fine Art -- The Sanitary narrative: Victorian reform fiction and the putresence of the picturesque -- Victorian dust traps -- The surgical arts: aesthesia and anaesthesia in late-Victorian medical fiction -- Aesthetic anachronisms: Mary Ward's The Mating of Lydia and the persistent plot of sanitary fiction -- Intensive culture: John Ruskin, Sarah Grand, and the aesthetics of eugenics -- On methods, materials, and meaning.…”
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The Sanitary Arts : Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns by Cleere, Eileen

Table of Contents: “…Foul matter: Edwin Chadwick; John Ruskin, and mid-Victorian Aesthesis -- Dirty pictures: John Ruskin, Modern Painters, and Victorian Sanitation of Fine Art -- The Sanitary narrative: Victorian reform fiction and the putresence of the picturesque -- Victorian dust traps -- The surgical arts: aesthesia and anaesthesia in late-Victorian medical fiction -- Aesthetic anachronisms: Mary Ward's The Mating of Lydia and the persistent plot of sanitary fiction -- Intensive culture: John Ruskin, Sarah Grand, and the aesthetics of eugenics -- On methods, materials, and meaning.…”
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On murder by De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859

Table of Contents: “…On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth -- On murder considered as one of the fine arts -- The avenger -- Second paper on murder considered as one of the fine arts -- Postscript [to On murder considered as one of the fine arts].…”
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Collecting Mexico museums, monuments, and the creation of national identity / by Garrigan, Shelley E.

Table of Contents: “…Fine art and demand : debating the Mexican national canon (1876-1910) -- Our archaeology : science, citizenry, patrimony, and the museum -- The hidden lives of historical monuments : commerce, fashion, and memorial -- Collections at the World's Fair : rereading Mexico in Paris, 1889 -- Collecting numbers : statistics and the constructive force of deficiency.…”
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Acting in the night Macbeth and the places of the Civil War / by Nemerov, Alexander

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Necessary Luxuries : Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815 / by Erlin, Matt

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Necessary Luxuries : Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815 / by Erlin, Matt

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