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Author | : Afzal Ahmed Syed |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2010-03-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780819569875 |
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Afzal Ahmed Syed holds a unique place among contemporary poets of the Urdu language, as an acknowledged master of both the classical and modern Urdu poetic forms. The poems in Rococo and Other Worlds explore the mythology and historical realities of South Asia and the Middle East; their bold imagery creates narratives of voluptuous perfection, which remain inseparable from the political realities that Syed witnessed as a young observer of the violent separation of East Pakistan and emergence of Bangladesh in 1971 and of the Lebanese civil war in 1976. Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s sensitive translations bring this extraordinary work to English readers for the first time.
Author | : Afz̤āl Aḥmad Sayyid |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9789382579182 |
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Afzal Ahmed Syed holds a unique place among contemporary poets of the Urdu language, as a master of both the classical and modern Urdu poetic forms, The poems in Rococo and Other Worlds explore the mythology and historical realities of South Asia and the Middle East; their bold imagery creates narratives of voluptuous perfection, which remain inseparable from the political realities that Syed witnessed as a young observer of the violent separation of East Pakistan and emergence of Bangladesh in 1971 and of the Lebanese civil war in 1976.
Author | : Victoria Charles |
Publisher | : Parkstone International |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2023-12-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1783103906 |
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Deriving from the French word rocaille, in reference to the curved forms of shellfish, and the Italian barocco, the French created the term ‘Rococo’. Appearing at the beginning of the 18th century, it rapidly spread to the whole of Europe. Extravagant and light, Rococo responded perfectly to the spontaneity of the aristocracy of the time. In many aspects, this art was linked to its predecessor, Baroque, and it is thus also referred to as late Baroque style. While artists such as Tiepolo, Boucher and Reynolds carried the style to its apogee, the movement was often condemned for its superficiality. In the second half of the 18th century, Rococo began its decline. At the end of the century, facing the advent of Neoclassicism, it was plunged into obscurity. It had to wait nearly a century before art historians could restore it to the radiance of its golden age, which is rediscovered in this work by Klaus H. Carl and Victoria Charles.
Author | : Germain Bazin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Art, Baroque |
ISBN | : |
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The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were years when the arts of Western civilization reached their most varied and richest expression, when each of the European peoples invented the artistic forms best fitted to its own genius. In "Baroque and Rococo Art", Germain Bazin traces the multiple achievements of those exuberant and paradoxical times -- the wealth of masterpieces in sculpture, painting, architecture, and decoration that reflected the expansive diversity of Baroque and Rococo style. Baroque and Rococo styles and forms extended to and embellished virtually every aspect of European life, and M. Bazin has not overlooked any detail in this remarkable totality: tapestries, furniture, porcelain, pottery, and jewelry -- as well as the masterpieces of the fine arts -- are discussed in the text and shown in hundreds of faithful and luminous reproductions. His meticulously accurate, incisive survey reveals the almost infinite richness of a great period of European art history. -- From publisher's description.
Author | : Musharraf Ali Farooqi |
Publisher | : Random House India |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2012-02-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 8184002696 |
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In late nineteenth century Lucknow, two rival story-tellers, Syed Muhammad Husain Jah and Ahmed Husain Qamar, wrote a fantasy in the Urdu language whose equal had not been heard before, and which has never been rivalled since. It was called Tilism-e Hoshruba. The writers claimed that the tale had been passed down to them from story-tellers going back centuries: it was a part of the beloved oral epic, The Adventures of Amir Hamza which had come to the Indian subcontinent via Persia and had gained in popularity during the reign of Akbar, the Mughal emperor. The Tilism-e-Hoshruba is the subcontinent’s first wholly indigenous Indo-Islamic fantasy epic. It tells the stories of Amir Hamza’s military forces, his grandson and his loyal band of tricksters (masters of wit and disguise) as they go to war with Afrasiyab, the sorcerer who rules the magical land of Hoshruba. Fantasy, the occult, adventure and romance play themselves out in a typically Indian setting as wizards, sorceresses, tricksters and royalty pitch themselves into the battle for Hoshruba. The characters of the epic are marvels of literary creation, and are much more colourful and dashing than those of the Amir Hamza cycle of tales. The Tilism-e Hoshruba runs to twenty four volumes and will be translated into English for the first time ever by Musharraf Ali Farooqi, the acclaimed translator of The Adventures of Amir Hamza. Random House India will publish all the volumes starting with Hoshruba: The Land and the Tilism, i.e. Book 1 of the series.
Author | : G. Aguilar |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2016-01-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230616658 |
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Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and up-to-date work in English to examine the 'new Argentine cinema' phenomenon. Aguilar looks at highly relevant films, including those by Lucrecia Martel and Sergio Rejtman.
Author | : GauvinAlexander Bailey |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1351540378 |
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A groundbreaking approach to Rococo religious d?r and spirituality in Europe and South America, The Spiritual Rococo addresses three basic conundrums that impede our understanding of eighteenth-century aesthetics and culture. Why did the Rococo, ostensibly the least spiritual style in the pre-Modern canon, transform into one of the world?s most important modes for adorning sacred spaces? And why is Rococo still treated as a decadent nemesis of the Enlightenment when the two had fundamental characteristics in common? This book seeks to answer these questions by treating Rococo as a global phenomenon for the first time and by exploring its moral and spiritual dimensions through the lens of populist French religious literature of the day-a body of work the author calls the ?Spiritual Rococo? and which has never been applied directly to the arts. The book traces Rococo?s development from France through Central Europe, Portugal, Brazil, and South America by following a chain of interlocking case studies, whether artistic, literary, or ideological, and it also considers the parallel diffusion of the literature of the Spiritual Rococo in these same regions, placing particular emphasis on unpublished primary sources such as inventories. One of the ultimate goals of this study is to move beyond the clich?f Rococo?s frivolity and acknowledge its essential modernity. Thoroughly interdisciplinary, The Spiritual Rococo not only integrates different art historical fields in novel ways but also interacts with church and social history, literary and post-colonial studies, and anthropology, opening up new horizons in these fields.
Author | : Jennifer D. Milam |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2011-04-18 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0810879522 |
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Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art covers all aspects of Rococo art history through a chronology, an introductory essay, a review of the literature, an extensive bibliography, and over 350 cross-referenced dictionary entries on prominent Rococo painters, sculptors, decorative artists, architects, patrons, theorists, and critics, as well as major centers of artistic production. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Rococo art.
Author | : Vernon Hyde Minor |
Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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"Traditional surveys of the period divide their material strictly by countries and chronological periods. By contrast, Vernon Minor looks at the prevalent themes of Baroque and Rococo artistic production through the lens of the dominant institutions of the day. The ideologies of the Counter-Reformation Church, the court of Louis Quatorze and the mercantile economy of the Calvinist Dutch are implicit in much of the painting, sculpture and architecture of the epoch."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Henry A. Millon |
Publisher | : George Braziller |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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'The Baroque and Rococo' developed relatively late in Austria and Germany due to various political and economic reasons. But this Central European expression was without equal in the integration of all the arts, culminating in a rich synthesis of architecture, sculpture, painting, and stucco decoration.