by Debra D. Andrist (2016)
"Hominids have always been obsessed with representing their own bodies. The first "selfies" were prehistoric negative hand images and human stick figures, followed by stone and ceramic representations of the human figure. Thousands of years later, moving via historic art and literature to contemporary social media, the contemporary term "selfie" was self-generated. The Body, Subject & Subjected illuminates some "selfies." This collection of critical essays about the fixation on the human self addresses a multi-faceted geographic set of cultures - the Iberian Peninsula to pre-Columbian America and Hispanic America - analyzing such representations from medical, literal and metaphorical perspectives over centuries. Chapter contributions address the representation of the body itself as subject, in both visual and textual manners, and illuminate attempts at control of the environment, of perception, of behavior and of actions, by artists and authors. Other chapters address the body as subjected to circumstance, representing the body as affected by factors such as illness, injury, treatment and death. These myriad effects on the body are interpreted through the brushes of painters and the pens of authors for social and/or personal control purposes. The essays reveal critics' insights when "selfies" are examined through a focused "lens" over a breadth of cultures"--
Nicholas Fox Weber
His tales translated into 17 languages, Babar the elephant fled the jungle and entered Western civilization in 1931 in a book by the de Brunhoffs. Here, for the first time, is a fascinating look at the story behind Babar and his creators.
Linda Hutcheon
Working through the issue of representation, in art forms from fiction to photography, the author sets out postmodernism's political challenge to the dominant ideologies of the western world.
Mireille Blanchet-Douspis
L'influence de l'histoire contemporaine dans l'¿uvre de Marguerite Yourcenar propose de montrer que, loin d'e tre seulement un e crivain classique qui s'inte resse a l'histoire du passe , Marguerite Yourcenar ne cesse d'e voquer l'histoire contemporaine et en subit nettement l'influence. La confrontation avec les historiens re ve le que Le Labyrinthe du monde refle te avec fide lite les e ve nements politiques, les re alite s sociales et les mentalite s du XIXe me et du de but du XXe me sie cles. Dans la repre sentation des sie cles passe s se profilent tre s fre quemment les pre occupations que vivent les contempora.
Russell Sturgis, music by Henry Edward Krehbiel
Descriptive, critical and comparative notes on 1,000 works on painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, illustration and music. Classed, with author and subject index. – – A.L.A.Catalog 1904