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Décryptez l'art de Théodore Géricault en moins d'une heure !
Né dans les affres de la Révolution française, Théodore Géricault brise le carcan de l'art officiel pour proposer une œuvre o la passion emporte tout sur son passage... Préférant l'exaltation des couleurs, la fougue du mouvement et l'exaspération des sentiments à la précision du trait, à la sobriété et à la rationalité néoclassiques, il livre des tableaux tout en contrastes...
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Décryptez l'art de Caspar David Friedrich en moins d'une heure !
« Cet homme a découvert la tragédie du paysage. » C'est en ces termes qu'un sculpteur français décrit l'art de Caspar David Friedrich. À juste titre : dans une Allemagne o le romantisme en est à ses premiers balbutiements, Friedrich compose des paysages chaotiques brouillant les repères visuels du spectateur. Car ce qu'il cherche avant tout, c'est à montrer comment le divin...
63) Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity
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"Winner of the 2012 Robert Lowry Patten Award, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Rice University" Simon Goldhill is professor of Greek literature and culture and fellow and director of Studies in Classics at King's College, University of Cambridge. His many books include Love, Sex, and Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives.
How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant...
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The Inside Passage from Puget Sound to Alaska is winding, turbulent, and deep--an ancient, thousand-mile-long sea route, rich in dangerous whirlpools, eddies, rips, and races. Here flourished the canoe culture of the Northwest Indians, with their fantastic painted masks and complex iconography and their stories of malign submarine gods and monsters. The unhappy British ship Discovery, captained by George Vancouver, came through these open reaches...
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The name "Pico" is known to many Californians, especially in Southern California.
There are streets, canyons, buildings and sites with that name; but most do not know about the persons behind these names. The story about Pio Pico and his large extended family reflects the stories of most leading Californios (Mexicans born in California), who successfully fought for independence from Spain, autonomy from Mexico, and grants of huge ranchos. Pio Pico...
66) The prince
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With a mix of both respectable and immoral advice, The Prince is a frank analysis on political power. Separated into four sections, The Prince is both a guide to obtain power and an explanation on the aspects that affect it. The first section discusses the types of principalities. According to Machiavelli, there are four different types-hereditary, mixed, new and ecclesiastical. While defining each type, Machiavelli also discusses the implications...
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