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Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, 1736-1783 / by Messerschmidt, Franz Xaver,1736?-1783.(CARDINAL)172282; Krapf, Michael.(CARDINAL)136738; Bückling, Maraike.(CARDINAL)181780; Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.(CARDINAL)221098;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-306) and index.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Messerschmidt, Franz Xaver, 1736?-1783; Physiognomy in art; Facial expression in art; Portrait sculpture;
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Ein Versuch über die Gesichter Houdons : Thomas W. Gaehtgens zum 24. Juni 2000 / by Sauerländer, Willibald.(CARDINAL)187438; Houdon, Jean Antoine,1741-1828.(CARDINAL)138478; Gaehtgens, Thomas W.,1940-(CARDINAL)175894;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-68).
Subjects: Houdon, Jean Antoine, 1741-1828; Physiognomy in art.; Sculpture, French;
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Public faces and private identities in seventeenth century Holland : portraiture and the production of community / by Adams, Ann Jensen.(CARDINAL)199937;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-374) and index.The cultural power of portraits: the market, interpersonal experience and subjectivity -- Portraits of the individual: physiognomy, demeanor, and the representation of character -- Family portraits: the private sphere and the social order -- History portrait: comprehending self through historical narrative -- Civic guard portraits: personal friendships and the public sphere -- Portraits and the production of identity: transitional objects and potential spaces.
Subjects: Portrait painting, Dutch; Identity (Psychology) in art.; Art and society;
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Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement : picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840 / by Kriz, Kay Dian,1945-author.(CARDINAL)855719; Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art,issuing body.(CARDINAL)146218; Yale University Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)332061;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-273) and index."This book asks new questions about paintings and prints associated with the British West Indies between 1700 and 1840, when the trade in sugar and slaves was the most active and profitable. In a wide-ranging study of scientific illustrations, scenes of daily life, caricatures, and landscape imagery, Dian Kriz analyses the visual culture of refinement that accompanied the brutal process in which African slaves transformed 'rude' sugar cane into pure white crystals. These works variously imagine Britain's Caribbean colonies as curious, frightening, deadly, pleasurable and even funny for viewers on both sides of the Atlantic."--Jacket
Subjects: Art.; Art, British; Art, British; Black people in art.; Slavery in art.; Social classes in art.;
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A brief retrospect of the eighteenth century. Part first; in two volumes: containing a sketch of the revolutions and improvements in science, arts, and literature during that period. / by Miller, Samuel,1769-1850.(CARDINAL)154611;
Vol. 1: Mechanical Philosophy. -- Chemical Philosophy. -- Natural History. -- Medicine. -- Geography. -- Mathematics. -- Navigation. -- Agriculture. -- Mechanical Arts. -- Fine Arts. -- Physiognomy.Vol. 2: Philosophy of the Human Mind. -- Classic Literature. -- Oriental Literature. -- Modern Languages. -- Philosophy of Language. -- History. -- Biography. -- Romance and Novels. -- Poetry. -- Literary Journals. -- Political Journals. -- Literary and Scientific Associations. -- Encyclopedias, &c. -- Education. -- Nations Lately Become Literary.
Subjects: Science; Literature, Modern; Art, Modern; Eighteenth century.; Old State Library Collection.;
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Character : the history of a cultural obsession / by Garber, Marjorie B.,author.(CARDINAL)523044;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An investigation into the concept of character, an enduring human obsession in literature, psychology, politics, and everyday life"--
Subjects: Character;
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Envisioning emotional epistemological information [videorecording] / by Byrne, David,1952-(CARDINAL)290319; Spencer-Fields, Danielle,1965-(CARDINAL)595440; Pace/MacGill.(CARDINAL)290318;
Exegesis -- Architectures of comparison -- The end of reason -- Sea of possibilities -- Self-exemplification -- Physiognomies -- Appendix A -- Appendix B: Art vs. nature. Mapping the unmappable. Universal language. Mistakes. Glossary.DVD player required. DVD is double-sided: one side is in NTSC format (U.S.) and the other side is in PAL format. All music is in stereo.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Video recordings.; Byrne, David, 1952-; Artists' books; Communication; Perception;
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The face of Clara Morgan [sound recording] / by Baker, J. A.author.; Rubenstein, Deidre,narrator.;
Read by Deidre Rubenstein.What happens when the past and the present collide? Dominic Rose, a bachelor, and teacher, has an antiquated hobby. He studies physiognomy, the art of judging somebody's character by their facial features and expressions. Living in a cottage at the edge of the woods with his frail, bedridden mother, he has spent decades pining after Clara, the love of his life, who vanished while staying with her grandparents. When Kate Winston and her family moved to North Yorkshire, it sets in motion a chain of events that will alter the lives of those involved forever. Kate's son, Alexander, makes friends with Dane, a local boy who has a reputation for being difficult. Soon Alexander is being led astray. Then they turn their attentions to their fragile teacher Dominic. The boys are going to learn that actions have consequences.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Fiction.; Suspense / Thriller.;
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On ugliness / by Eco, Umberto,author.(CARDINAL)139063;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-446) and indexes.I. Ugliness in the classical world -- 1. A world dominated by beauty? -- 2. The Greek world and horror -- II. Passion, death, martyrdom -- 1. The "pancalistic" view of the universe -- 2. The suffering of Christ -- 3. Martyrs, hermits, penitents -- 4. The triumph of death -- III. The apocalypse, hell, and the devil -- 1. A universe of horrors -- 2. Hell -- 3. The metamorphoses of the devil -- IV. Monsters and portents -- 1. Prodigies and monsters -- 2. An aesthetic of the immeasurable -- 3. The moralization of monsters -- 4. The Mirabilia -- 5. The fate of monsters -- V. The ugly, the comic, and the obscene -- 1. Priapus -- 2. Satires on the peasantry and carnival festivities -- 3. Renaissance and liberation -- 4. Caricature -- VI. The ugliness of woman from antiquity to the baroque period -- 1. The anti-female tradition -- 2. Mannerism and the baroque -- VII. The devil in the modern world -- 1. From rebellious Satan to poor Mephistopheles -- 2. The demonstration of the enemy -- VIII. Witchcraft, satanism, sadism -- 1. Witches -- 2. Satanism, sadism, and the taste for cruelty -- IX. Physica curiosa -- 1. Lunar births and disembowelled corpses -- 2. Physiognomy -- X. Romanticism and the redemption of ugliness -- 1. The philosophies of ugliness -- 2. The ugly and the damned -- 3. The ugly and the unhappy -- 4. The unhappy and the ill -- XI. The uncanny -- XII. Iron towers and ivory towers -- 1. Industrial ugliness -- 2. Decadentism and the licentiousness and the ugly -- XIII. The avant-garde and the triumph of ugliness -- XIV. The ugliness of others, kitsch, and camp -- 1. The ugliness of others -- 2. Kitsch -- 3. Camp -- XV. Ugliness today.In a companion volume to his "History of Beauty," the renowned philosopher and cultural critic analyzes our attraction to the gruesome, horrific, and repellent in visual culture and the arts, drawing on abundant examples of painting and sculpture, ranging from antiquity to the works of Bosch, Goya, and others.
Subjects: Aesthetics; Art; Ugliness in art.; Ugliness;
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Witchcraft, magic & alchemy / by Grillot de Givry,1870-1929.(CARDINAL)311839; Locke, J. Courtenay(John Courtenay),1880-(CARDINAL)311838;
Book I: Sorcerers. The world of shadows as rival of the world of light ; Sacerdotal representations of the dark world ; Diabolic manifestations in the religious life ; The sorcerer as priest of the demoniacal church ; The preparation for the sabbath ; The sabbath ; The evocation of demons ; The book of the sorcerers ; Pacts with demons ; Some concrete notions about demons furnished by old authors ; Involuntary demoniacs ; Possession by demons ; Necromancy, or The evocation of the dead ; Spells ; Philtres and death-spells ; The punishment of sorcerers -- Book II: Magicians. The Jewish and Christina cabbalists ; Astrology and the macrocosm ; Astrology and the microcosm ; Metoposcopy, or the science of the frontal lines ; Physiognomy ; Cheiromancy ; Cartomancy and the Tarot ; The divinatory arts ; Rhabdomancy, or The art of using and divining-rod ; The mystery of sleep and clairvoyance ; Curative virtues of the invisible forces ; Talismans -- Book III: Alchemists. The secret doctrine ; The alchemic material and the operations of the work ; The laboratory of the alchemists and of the puffers.
Subjects: Occultism.; Witchcraft.; Magic.; Alchemy.;
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