see also Outline of literature Articles related to literature include AlphanumericTOC align center nobreak numbers references externallinks top A Accent poetry Accent Accentual verse Accentual syllabic verse Aestheticism Aesthetic movement Allegory Alliteration Allusion Ambiguity Anecdote Antagonist literature Antagonist Apostrophe figure of speech Apostrophe Assonance Authorial intentionality Author s purpose Autobiography B Ballad Biography Blank verse Breve Broadside music Broadside Burlesque C Fictional character Character Characterization Chronological order Climax narrative Climax Comedy Conceit Concrete poem Conflict narrative Conflict Connotation Context literary Context Contrast literary Contrast Consonance Couplet D Dead metaphor Detail Denouement Description Dialect Dialogue Diary Didactic literature Diphthong Doggerel Drama Dramatic monologue Dramatic poetry E Elegy Elision Emblematic poem English studies Epic poetry Epic Epigram Epitaph Epithalamium Essay Eulogy Exaggeration Excerpt Existentialism Plot dump Exposition Expressionism Extended metaphor Eye rhyme F Fable Fantasy Farce Feminine ending Fiction Flash prose Literal and figurative language Figurative language Flashback literary technique Flashback Folklore Folk tale Foot poetry Foot Foreshadowing Frame story Free verse G Genre H Haiku Half rhyme Hero Hero heroine Hubris Humour Hyperbole I Ictus Idiom Idyll Imagism Imagist Implicit metaphor Incomplete metamorphosis Internal rhyme Inciting moment Invocation Irony L Legend Light verse Limerick poetry Limerick Literature Litotes Lyric poetry Lyric M Macaronic verse Main character Masculine ending Masculine rhyme Memoir Shapeshifting Metamorphosis Metaphor Metaphysical poet Meter poetry Meter Metonymy Minor character Mock heroic Morality Moral mythology myth N Narrative poem Narrator Naturalism literature Naturalism Non fiction Novel O Octet poetry Octet Ode Onomatopoeia Oral history Oral tradition Oxymoron P Parable Parody Pastoral Pathetic fallacy ... more details
for the Northern Irish politician Henry Peirson Harland File Henry Harland.jpg thumb right 200px Henry Harland Henry Harland March 1, 1861 December 20, 1905 was an United States American novel ist and Editing editor . Harland was born in New York City and attended City College of New York City College but pretended to be Russian born. His literary career falls into two distinct sections. During the first of these, writing under the pseudonym Sidney Luska , he produced a series of highly sensational novels, written with little regard to literary quality. But in 1890 Harland moved to London and fell under the influence of the Aestheticism Aesthetic movement . He began writing under his own name and, in 1894, became the founding editor of The Yellow Book . The first novels of this new period, Mademoiselle Miss 1893 , Grey Roses 1895 , and Comedies and Errors 1898 , were praised by critics but had little general popularity. He finally achieved a wide readership with The Cardinal s Snuff box 1900 , which was followed by The Lady Paramount 1901 and My Friend Prospero 1903 . Harland died at Sanremo , Italy , after a prolonged illness. References The Oxford Companion to American Literature . 6th Edition. Edited by James D. Hart, revised by Phillip W. Leininger. New York & Oxford Oxford University Press, 1996. p. 271. ISBN 0195065484. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Foote, Stephanie. Ethnic Plotting Henry Harland and the Jewish Writer. American Literature . March 2003 75 1 119 140. External links Wikisource1911Enc Harland, Henry gutenberg author id Henry Harland name Henry Harland http www.idyllspress.com our authors henry harland Brief biography of Henry Harland Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata Persondata NAME Harland, Henry ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luska, Sidney pseudonym SHORT DESCRIPTION Novelist, editor DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1861 PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1905 PLACE OF DEATH Sanremo , Italy D ... more details
Notes on Camp is a well known essay by Susan Sontag organized around fifty eight numbered theses. It was published in 1964 and was the author s first contribution to the Partisan Review . The essay created a literary sensation and brought Sontag her first brush with intellectual notoriety. It was published in 1966 in book form in Sontag s debut collection of essays, Against Interpretation ISBN 0312280866 . The essay codified and mainstreamed the cultural connotations of the word Camp style camp , and identified camp s evolution as a distinct aesthetic phenomenon. Sontag says there is a peculiar relation of Camp taste with homosexuality . Homosexuals, through aesthetics, and Jews, through ethics, have shaped the modern sensibility, according to Sontag. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. Quotations Indeed the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural of artifice and exaggeration. And Camp is esoteric something of a private code, a badge of identity even, among small urban cliques. 9. Camp taste draws on a mostly unacknowledged truth of taste the most refined form of sexual attractiveness as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure consists in going against the grain of one s sex. What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. 10. Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It s not a lamp, but a lamp not a woman, but a woman. To perceive Camp in objects and persons is to understand Being as Playing a Role. It is the farthest extension, in sensibility, of the metaphor of life as theater. 18. One must distinguish between na ve and deliberate Camp. Pure Camp is always na ve. Camp which knows itself to be Camp camping is usually less satisfying. 41. The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to the serious. One ... more details
Infobox artist bgcolour 6495ED name Thomas Dewing image Thomas Wilmer Dewing Summer ca. 1890.jpg imagesize 250px caption Summer 1890 , Smithsonian American Art Museum birth name birth date Birth date 1851 5 4 birth place Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts death date death date and age 1938 11 5 1851 5 4 death place New York City nationality United States American field Painting training Acad mie Julian , Paris movement Tonalism works patrons influenced by influenced awards Thomas Wilmer Dewing May 4, 1851 &ndash November 5, 1938 was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century. He was born in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts . He studied at the Acad mie Julian in Paris , and later settled into a studio in New York City . He married Maria Oakey Dewing , an accomplished painter with extensive formal art training and familial links with the art world. File Brooklyn Museum Lady in Gold Thomas Wilmer Dewing overall.jpg thumb left Lady in Gold 1912 Brooklyn Museum He is best known for his tonalism tonalist paintings, a genre of American art that was rooted in English Aestheticism . Dewing s preferred vehicle of artistic expression is the female figure situated in a moody and dreamlike surrounding. Often seated playing instruments, writing letters, or simply communicating with one another, Dewing s sensitively portrayed figures have a detachment from the viewer that keeps the spectator a remote witness to the scene rather than a participant. Tonalism as a style resisted the dogma of Modern art modernism and abstraction in art, although the political success of modernism eventually succeeded in branding tonalism as an outdated mode of artistic expression in popular culture. Now that the dogma of Modernism itself is under question, a fresh assessment of tonalism is underway, free of political sway. Dewing was a member of the Ten American Painters , a group of American Impressionist s who seceded from the Society of American Artists in 1897. He spent his summer ... more details
Multiple issues wikify February 2012 BLP sources August 2007 notability July 2010 Du an Ota evi , born in 1940 in Belgrade , Kingdom of Yugoslavia , is an artist. ref http www.mondo.rs s111389 Zabava Kultura Pojedinac bez pamcenja vesela nacija.html ref He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade in 1966. At first he was associated with New Figuration in Belgrade, turned to Pop Art and produced sculptural objects. He currently lives in Belgrade. Historians e.g. Marina Marti say that he appeared when the Yugoslav model of socialist society was created, when socialism with human face , Citation needed date July 2010 the self management system and non alignment were conceived, when the country opened to the West and western models of life style and values became accessible to everyone, although not seen by everyone as seductive traps, when our art scene was marked by socialist aestheticism the institutionally, i.e. officially, supported modernist discourse sensibility of the still vital Parisian Internationalism. Since his first encounters with the public in the former Atelje 212, then in the Youth Cultural Club Du an Ota evi has shown interest in everyday objects refracted through the optics of omnipresent irony, based on false sentimentality, the dominance of kitsch, political manipulations, consumer fevers ... He was named our most authentic pop artist. He was one of our first artists who used quotations in a postmodernist fashion in his ever more complex reasoning and stratified realizations the quotations were taken from myths and legends, history and art history, from philosophy, film and literature. However, he also created his own, personal myths in the moments when the whole nation began to live in with the surrogates of unbearable or unrecognizable reality. His civic disobedience, although poignant, serious, full of criticism and refusal to accept that Man can be treated as an ignorant, unintelligent and impotent being, has always d ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Heaven Sent Type studio Artist Boyd Rice br Douglas P. br John Murphy musician John Murphy Cover Scorpion Wind Cover.jpg Released 1996 Recorded Genre Length Label New European Recordings NER Producer Reviews Last album This album Next album Heaven Sent is a collaboration between Boyd Rice , Douglas P. of Death In June and John Murphy musician John Murphy of Associates duo The Associates , recording under the name Scorpion Wind, released in 1996 on New European Recordings NER . The album consists of Boyd Rice s spoken word lyrics on subjects ranging from Social Darwinism to alcohol with backing music in various styles, including lounge music lounge and neofolk music neofolk . Track listing Love Love Love Equilibrium About Social Darwinism and the need for the strong to rule the weak. Preserve Thy Loneliness About aestheticism and elitism . In Vino Veritas About drinking alcohol as civilization falls. Paradise Of Perfection About man s inability or unwillingness to confront the downward trend of history. Roasted Cadaver A song from the perspective of an eternal being Death personification Death ? the sun? sapping the life out of a dead man. A reflection on man s mortality and the eternal nature of the forces surrounding us. The Cruelty Of The Heavens A hymn to the deity Abraxas . There Is No More Sleep A fatalistic call to endure until the inevitable armageddon . Some Colossus A reflection on the endurance of man s greatest creations the Colossus of Rhodes for instance as compared to the transient nature of man himself and the actions of inferior men. The Path Of The Cross Comparing the Fascist symbolism Iron Cross which Boyd Rice uses as a symbol for strength and war to the Christian wooden crucifix cross Never Claims that a lie can never destroy truth or beauty, but instead degrades those who, by lying deserve to be degraded Message... An answering machine message about a credit card bill. External links http www.b ... more details
Infobox writer for more information see Template Infobox writer doc image Annenkov.jpg caption birth date birth date 1813 7 1 birth place Moscow , Russia death date death date and age 1887 3 20 1813 7 1 death place Dresden , Germany Pavel Vasilyevich Annenkov lang ru July 1, 1813 March 20, 1887 was a significant Russia n literary critic and memoirist. Biography Annenkov was born into a wealthy landowning family in Moscow. He attended the philological faculty of St Petersburg University. In the late 1830s he met Vissarion Belinsky , Alexander Herzen , Mikhail Bakunin and Ivan Turgenev , with whom he became life long friends. In the 1840s he went abroad and formed a close relationship with Nikolai Gogol . ref name Handbook Handbook of Russian Literature, Victor Terras, Yale University Press, 1990. ref His letters from Europe appeared in the journal Otechestvennye Zapiski Notes of the Fatherland . A second series of letters from Paris were published in Sovremennik The Contemporary in 1847 48. ref name Handbook He edited the first major scholarly edition of Pushkin s works in 1855. ref name Russian Criticism Russian Literary Criticism, a Short History, Robert H. Stacy, Syracuse University Press, NY, 1974 ref His critical articles were published in various popular journals throughout the 1850s and 1860s. He was an important proponent of aestheticism along with his friend and fellow critic Alexander Druzhinin and with Vasily Botkin . ref name Handbook He is best known now for his memoirs The Extraordinary Decade 1880 , the title of which has become attached to the Russian literary generation coming up in the 1830s and 1840s. ref name Russian Criticism During the 1880 Pushkin celebrations, he was given an honorary doctorate from Moscow University. He died in Dresden in 1887. ref name Handbook Notes English Translations The Extraordinary Decade Literary Memoirs , University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1968. References Reflist Persondata Metada ... more details
infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name The New Republic title orig translator image image caption author William Hurrell Mallock illustrator cover artist country United Kingdom language English language English series genre satire publisher Chatto and Windus release date 1877 english release date media type pages isbn preceded by followed by The New Republic or Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House by English author William Hurrell Mallock 1849 1923 is a novel first published by Chatto and Windus of London in 1877 . The work had its genesis as a serialization. In June December 1876 after Mallock had secured his Bachelor of Arts degree at Oxford in 1874, the same year as Oscar Wilde it appeared as a series of sketches in Belgravia magazine Belgravia magazine. Plot introduction The novel is a satire consisting almost entirely of dialogue and mocking most of the important figures then at Oxford University , with regards to aestheticism and Hellenism neoclassicism Hellenism . Characters The famous people Mallock depicts are as follows, together with the names of the characters that represent them. Matthew Arnold Mr. Luke Thomas Carlyle Donald Gordon William Kingdom Clifford Mr. Saunders Violet Fane Mrs. Sinclair W. M. Hardinge Robert Leslie Thomas Huxley Mr. Storks Benjamin Jowett Dr. Jenkinson William Hurrell Mallock W. H. Mallock Otho Laurence Walter Pater Mr. Rose John Ruskin Mr. Herbert John Tyndall Mr. Stockton Literary significance and criticism The book became a best seller in its time and retains much of its humour and satirical bite today. As author David Daiches wrote in 1951, If we can read through The New Republic without at one point or another being made to feel a little foolish, we are wise indeed. Walter Pater is of particular interest because Mallock s apparent homophobia against him expressed first in the more extensive treatment given the Mr. Rose character in the initial serialization hel ... more details
File Aichenvald 1923.jpg thumb A 1923 edition of Aykhenvald s Silhouettes of Russian Writers Yuly Isayevich Aykhenvald , or Eichenwald lang ru 24 January 1872 17 December 1928 was a Russians Russian Jewish literary critic who developed a native brand of Aestheticism and went down in history as a Russian version of Walter Pater Vladimir Nabokov s assessment . ref http books.google.com books?spell 1&as brr 0&q 22Russian version of Walter Pater &btnG Search Books Russian version of Walter Pater Google Book Search bot generated title at books.google.com ref Life Aykhenvald was born in Balta, Ukraine Balta into a rabbi s family and attended the Odessa University New Russia University in Odessa , where he developed a lasting interest in Schopenhauer s ideas. After moving to Moscow in 1895, he employed a number of pen names, including Yu. Ald lang ru . and B. Kamenetsky lang ru . . Aykhenvald followed Schopenhauer in that art is irrational and that the essence of it can be reached only by dint of Intuition knowledge intuition . He panned most Russian literary critics for applying social and utilitarian criteria to literature and for producing political journalism in the guise of artistic criticism. Following the Russian Revolution 1917 Russian Revolution , Aykhenvald was briefly arrested and then, in 1922, exiled to Germany where he involved himself in several high profile migr publications. His life was cut short by a tram accident in Berlin . Family Natalia Shvedova 1916 2009 , his daughter, a lexicographer Alexander Aikhenvald 1899 1941 , his son, an economist Yury Aikhenvald 1928 1993 , his grandson, a dissident Alexandra Aikhenvald born 1957 , his great granddaughter, a linguist Books In his best known book Silhouettes of Russian Writers 1909 Aykhenvald offers a series of memorable impressionism impressionistic sketches of major Russian authors and their works. His argument that Ivan Turgenev was a second r ... more details
Other persons Donald Evans Donald Evans July 24, 1884 May 26, 1921 was an American poet, publisher, music critic and journalist. Biography Born in Philadelphia , he worked in newspapers from 1904 to 1915. Evans was educated at Haverford College . He married Leah Winslow in 1907, and later divorced her. A second marriage, to Esther Porter, began in 1918. Evans enlisted to fight in World War I in May 1917. He served as a sergeant ref The Boookman a Review of Books and Life . Volume XLVII March, 1918 August, 1918. Page 643. ref . Associated with the avant garde scene of Greenwich Village , his works relate a strong sense of irony as well as his own personal bohemianism , coupled with the deep influence of 1890s aestheticism. Somewhat comparable to fellow bohemian poet Maxwell Bodenheim , many stories about his bohemian lifestyle circulated. Evans single handedly founded and managed the Claire Marie press, intending to publish New Books for Exotic Tastes . He stated its goals as thus, Claire Marie believes there are in America seven hundred civilized people only. Claire Marie publishes books for civilized people only. Claire Marie s aim, it follows from the premises, is not even secondarily commercial. ref Souhami, Diana introduction . Three Lives & Tender Buttons . Page XIII. Signet Classic, 2003. ref Evans was an early admirer of Gertrude Stein. He first published her Tender Buttons in 1914 ref MacGann, Jerome John. Black Riders The Visible Language of Modernism . Page 19. Princeton University Press, 1993. ref . His works include 1914 s Sonnets from the Patagonian , 1916 s Two Deaths in the Bronx and 1919 s Ironica . It is suspected that Evans death in 1921 was a suicide ref Zaturenska, Marya & Horace Gregory. A History of American Poetry, 1900 1940 . Page 255. Brace and Harcourt, 1946. ref . Bibliography Discords 1912 http www.archive.org details discords00evaniala Sonnets from the Patagonian 1914 http www.archive.org details sonnetsfrom00evenrich Two Deaths in the B ... more details
Image Rosamundmariottwatson.jpg right thumbnail Rosamund Marriott Watson Rosamund Marriott Watson 1860 &ndash 1911 was a Victorian literature Victorian poet and critic who wrote under the pseudonym of Graham R. Tomson . Her poems, which presaged modernism , are informed by aestheticism and occasionally avant garde sensibilities. Watson s personal life was fraught with scandal, she left first husband George Armytage and wed the artist Arthur Graham Tomson. She later left him for H.B. Marriott Watson, a journalist, in both of these early marriages she lost custody of her children. She remained with Watson for the reminder of her life, though they were never officially married, causing much speculation as to the existence of a possible illicit lesbian affair. Several of her poems were published in the Yellow Book . Her volumes of poetry included Tares 1884 , A Summer Night 1891 and After Sunset 1903 . A novel, An Island Rose , was published in 1900. Watson also wrote prolifically on gardening, and her essays on the subject were published in the Heart of a Garden 1906 . She wrote several columns on interior design and fashion, some of which were collected in the Art of the House 1897 before forsaking her writing career for a brief bout with religious fanaticism which resulted in her death at the age of 51. Her collected poems were published in 1912 with an introduction by H.B. Marriott Watson . A biography of Watson, entitled Graham R. , was published in 2005. Bibliography Tares a Book of Verses 1884 http books.google.com books?id HagMAAAAYAAJ&printsec frontcover The Bird Bride a Volume of Ballads and Sonnets 1889 http www.archive.org details birdbridevolumeo00watsuoft A Summer Night and Other Poems 1891 Vespertilia and Other Verses 1895 The Art of the House 1897 Old Books, Fresh Flowers 1899 An Island Rose 1900 The Patchwork Quilt 1900 After Sunset 1903 http www.archive.org details aftersunset00watsuoft The Heart of a Garden 1906 http books.google.com books?id 9D4AAAAA ... more details
Cleanup date January 2010 National character studies refers to a set of cultural anthropology anthropological studies conducted during and directly after World War II that arose from and ultimately ended the Culture and Personality School within psychological anthropology . National Character Studies arose from a variety of approaches with Culture and Personality, including the Configurationalist Approach of Edward Sapir and Ruth Benedict , the Basic Personality Structure developed by Ralph Linton and Abram Kardiner, and the Modal Personality Approach of Cora DuBois . These approaches disagreed with each other on the exact relationship between personality and culture. The Configurationalist and Basic Approaches both treated personalities within a culture as relatively homogeneous, while Cora DuBois argued that there are no common personality traits found in every single member of a society. Major Works on National Character include Ruth Benedict s The Chrysanthemum and the Sword on Japanese national character. Because researchers could not enter Japan at the time, Benedict conducted her research as fieldwork at a distance through literate, film, and Japanese expatriots mostly concentration camp victims in the United States. Although her work can be criticized for returning to the armchair anthropology of the earliest anthropologists such as Edward Tylor , other scholars of Japan have verified the symbolic importance of aestheticism and militarism for national identity which is not necessarily to say individual personality . Margaret Mead s And Keep Your Powder Dry An Anthropologist Looks at America 1942 Geoffrey Gorer s The People of Great Russia A Psychological Study 1949 This last monograph led to the demise of National Character Studies and Culture and Personality as a whole due to its poor reception. In it, Gorer argues that the personality of the Russians, so distasteful to their enemies and his sponsor, the Americans, resulting from their practice of swaddling ... more details
The Dome published in London at 7 Cecil Court by the Unicorn Press and subtitled consecutively A Quarterly Containing Examples of All the Arts and An Illustrated Monthly Magazine and Review was a literary periodical associated with the Nineties scene, edited by Ernest J. Oldmeadow. It ran for three years, from March 1897 to July 1900. It is usually considered to be the last more or less successful attempt to deliver a valuable literary magazine with a considerable circulation, yet working from an Aestheticism Aestheticist rationale. Even more than its more predecessors The Yellow Book and The Savoy periodical The Savoy which mostly focussed on literature , The Dome dealt with both visual and verbal art, and it also covered music and theatre. It was known for its in depth studies of painters which rose above the level of mere appreciations, and often championed promising talents such as Edward Elgar . Notable contributors Laurence Binyon a story The Paralytic No. 4, 1898 Lucas Cranach the Elder Lucas Cranach woodcuts The Annunciation , A Saxon Prince on Horseback No. 2, 1897 Gordon Craig Campbell Dodgson ref Campbell Dodgson was later keeper of the British Museum print room ref Albert D rer an engraving St. Hubert No. 2, 1897 Image Love alone will stay by Elgar song 1897.jpg right 300px thumb Edward Elgar a piano solo Minuet No. 2, 1897 a song Love alone will stay No. 4, 1898 Roger Fry Hiroshige a colour print The Wave No. 4, 1898 Hokusai a print Fuji through Rain No. 4, 1898 Laurence Housman stories The Troubling of the Waters No. 2, 1897 Little Saint Michael No. 4, 1898 Liza Lehmann a song Aus Mirza Schaffy No. 2, 1897 Will G. Mein Alice Meynell G. B. Piranesi drawings and etchings No. 4, 1898 D. G. Rossetti a painting The Sea Spell No. 2, 1897 Martin Schongauer William Strang Arthur Symons Francis Thompson Ethel Rolt Wheeler William Butler Yeats a poem The Desire of Man and of Woman No. 2, 1897 Bibliography Darcy, Cornelius P. The Dome in British Literary Magazine ... more details
Refimprove date September 2007 Infobox book name On the Marble Cliffs title orig Auf den Marmorklippen translator Stuart Hood image File J nger, Ernst Auf den Marmorklippen,1939.jpg 250px image caption Auf den Marmorklippen , 1939 author Ernst J nger country Germany language German language German genre Speculative fiction publisher Hanseat. Verlag, Hamburg pub date 1939 english pub date 1947 media type Print Hardcover pages 106 isbn 3 608 93485 5 oclc 255948132 preceded by Afrikanische Spiele African games followed by Heliopolis novel Heliopolis On the Marble Cliffs Auf den Marmorklippen is a novella by Ernst J nger published in 1939 describing the upheaval and ruin of a serene agricultural society. The peaceful and traditional people, located on the shores of a large bay, are surrounded by the rough pastoral folk in the surrounding hills, who feel increasing pressure from the unscupulous and lowly followers of the dreaded head forester. The narrator and protagonist lives on the marble cliffs as a botanist with his brother Otho, his son Erio from a past relationship and Erio s grandmother Lampusa. The idyllic life is threatened by the erosion of values and traditions, losing its inner power. The head forester uses this opportunity to establish a new order based on dictatorial rule, large numbers of mindless followers and the use of violence, torture and murder. The tale may readily be understood as a parable on national socialism but remarkably was not censored in Nazi Germany , perhaps due to J nger s significant repute in right wing circles. Its sharp disapproval of violent masses, as well as its prediction of death camp s, was noted and helped J nger s rehabilitation after the Second World War although he had not gone into exile like most anti Nazi authors. J nger himself, however, refused the notion that the book was a statement of resistance, describing it rather as a shoe that fits various feet . The work is typical for J nger s Aestheticism that responds to ... more details
Ref improve section date February 2009 Raoul Lachenal 1885 1956 was a French potter. The son of Edmond Lachenal , Raoul Lachenal worked in his father s studio until 1911, when he established a new workshop at Boulogne Billancourt Boulogne sur Seine . While some of Raoul Lachenal s Art Nouveau ceramics resemble pieces by his father, he also produced distinctive stoneware that can hold its own against works by master glaze artists like Ernest Chaplet and Albert Dammouse. At his best, Lachenal can rightly be compared to these titans of the French art pottery renaissance. Lachenal first exhibited his Art Nouveau stoneware at Paris salons in 1904. Period photographs show pieces with organic body forms, looping handles, and incised decoration similar to Edmond Lachenal s work from around 1900. Given the fact that father and son shared an atelier, the question of authorship is murky on several levels, notably those of direct influence and possible collaboration. Nonetheless, the son s stoneware is distinguished by its sophisticated use of conventionalized motifs and layering of high temperature glazes. His whiplash handle vase is a masterpiece of body design and glaze effects, with the handles deftly composed around the piece s lip and shoulder breathing new vitality into an overused Art Nouveau leitmotif . What really brings this piece to life, though, is its thickly applied high temperature glaze, whose palette of purple hues is as varied as the subtle shifts in depth across the body s surface. Similarly, Lachenal s treatment of the peacock feather refreshes a motif that harks back to the English Aestheticism Aesthetic Movement of the 1870s. Thanks to unexpected juxtapositions of matte and glossy areas, the vertically arranged feathers border on abstraction and yield a complex figure and ground relationship between the motif and the surrounding space. Such optical complexity challenges the viewer s perception of familiar imagery. Then again, Lachenal s trumpet neck vase ... more details
File Robert Burns Montreal.JPG thumb Burns memorial, Montreal George Anderson Lawson 1832 1904 was a Victorian era sculptor who was associated with the New Sculpture movement. Lawson was born in Edinburgh. He studied in Glasgow, and settled in London in 1866. His reputation was established through the creation of statues of distinguished citizens. His first major work was the statue of the Duke of Wellington at the top of Wellington s Column in the centre of Liverpool at the end of William Brown Street . He also created the relief sculpture depicting Wellington s major victory at Waterloo. The monument was completed towards the end of 1865 when George Lawson s relief panel of the final battle at Waterloo was fixed in place on the pedestal . ref Cavanagh, Terry, Public Sculpture of Liverpool , Liverpool Liverpool University Press, 1996. ref He later created the memorial to Robert Burns in Ayr , inaugurated in 1892. Other versions were circulated to Dublin, Melbourne, Montreal and elsewhere. Other memorials include those to James Arthur Glasgow , Joseph Pease railway pioneer Joseph Pease Darlington , John Vaughan Middlesbrough John Vaughan Middlesbrough and John Biggs Leicester . In New Zealand he commemorated William Sefton Moorhouse in Christchurch. He is also remembered for his classical friezes, especially reliefs for Glasgow City Chambers , George Square, and panels for the Municipal Buildings, Bath. The art critic Marion Spielmann described his work as strong, manly and artistic . ref Elizabeth Prettejohn , After the Pre Raphaelites Art and Aestheticism in Victorian England , Manchester University Press, 1999, p.243 ref Gallery gallery File WilliamSeftonMoorhouseStatue gobeirne.jpg Statue of William Sefton Moorhouse File Wellingtons Column Closeup.jpg Wellington s column, Liverpool File Wellington Column Liverpool 2.jpg relief on Wellington s column File Burns lighter.jpg Burns statue in Halifax, Nova Scotia gallery References reflist External links http glasgow ... more details
Clayton Valli 1951 2003 was a prominent deaf linguist and American Sign Language ASL poet whose work helped further to legitimize ASL and introduce people to the richness of American Sign Language literature . Born in Massachusetts , Valli attended the Austine School for the Deaf in Vermont. ref name deafpeople.com http www.deafpeople.com history history info valli.html Clayton L. Valli ref He earned an A.A.S. in Photography from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and a B.A. from the University of Nevada, Reno in Social Psychology . ref name handspeak http www.handspeak.com byte v index.php?byte valli Clayton Valli, ASL Poetry ref In 1985, he received his M.A. in Linguistics from Gallaudet University . ref name handspeak His Ph.D. in Linguistics and ASL Poetics from the Union Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, which he received in 1993 made him the first person ever to achieve a doctorate in ASL poetry . ref name deafpeople.com He was also the first individual to identify the features of ASL poetry as a literary genre in its own right. As a poet, Valli created original works in ASL that he performed to appreciative audiences around the country. His poems make sophisticated use of handshape, movement, use of space, repetition, and facial expression. Influenced by canonical American poets like Robert Frost , as well as Deaf poets such as Bernard Bragg, Valli often chose nature imagery to convey subtle insights into Deaf experience. His brief Hands which makes use of the 5 handshape throughout is a celebration of the power of sign language to describe anything in the universe. Dandelion uses simple nature imagery to convey the persistence of ASL despite oralists best efforts to weed it out. He gave workshops and presentations across the country that raised awareness and appreciation for the movement, meter, and rhythm in ASL poetry. His own poetic works, which have drawn international recognition for their aestheticism and contribution to literary scholarship, a ... more details
Orphan date December 2010 The Bouzingo were a group of eccentric poets, novelists, and artists in France during the 1830s that practiced an extreme form of romanticism whose influence helped determine the course of culture in the 20th century including such movements as Bohemianism , Parnassian ism, Symbolism arts Symbolism , Decadence , Aestheticism , Dadaism , Surrealism , the Lost Generation the Beat Generation , Hippies , Punk rock , etc. Legacy The stories the Bouzingo wrote about themselves were full of intentional exaggerations. The stories were meant to frighten the bourgeoisie . They believed the Bourgeois would be offended by the idea of poets and artists acting like barbarians and primitives. This was the aim of the Bouzingo and for a time they spawned major controversies. The actual truth is now nearly impossible to find out. These artists were not well documented with any kind of journalistic objectivity during their prime. The legends of the Bouzingo are captured most notably by Gautier in Les Jeunes France 1833 but also to a lesser extent in Henry Murger s La Vie de Boh me 1849 . Truth or myth? These are a few of the most famous exaggerations invented by the Bouzingo They hosted parties where clothes were banned and wine was drunk from human skulls. They played instruments that they did not know how to play on street corners. Nerval was said to have walked a pet lobster on a leash because it does not bark and knows the secrets of the sea . Miscellaneous Members of the Bouzingo became highly influential in the Avant Garde Movements of the Late 19th Century and on into the 20th Century. Andr Breton mentioned the influence of Nerval in the first Surrealist Manifesto. He also included Petrus Borel and Xavier Forneret in his influential Anthology of Black Humor . Andr Breton wrote, To be even fairer, we could probably have taken over the word SUPERNATURALISM employed by G rard de Nerval in his dedication to the Filles de feu... It appears, in fact, that ... more details
Refimprove date February 2010 The Order of Chaeronea was a secret society for the cultivation of a homosexual moral, ethical, cultural and spiritual ethos. It was founded by George Cecil Ives in 1897 , as a result of his realisation that homosexuals would not be accepted openly in society and must therefore have a means of underground communication. ref Cook, http www.cambridge.org uk catalogue catalogue.asp?isbn 0521822076 London and the Culture of Homosexuality 1885 1914 , Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp.137 40 ref The society is named after the location of the Battle of Chaeronea 338 BC battle where the Sacred Band of Thebes was finally annihilated in 338 BC. File 7189 Piraeus Arch. Museum, Athens Stele for Panchares Photo by Giovanni Dall Orto, Nov 14 2009.jpg thumb right 200px Funerary relief for Athenian footman Pancahres, likely fell at the battle of Chaeronea. Nature of the organization Unreferenced section date October 2010 In the 1860s, a German lawyer named Karl Heinrich Ulrichs may have been the first modern European to publicly declare his homosexuality. Ulrichs wrote dozens of books and pamphlets that made a crucial argument The preference for same sex love is hereditary therefore it should not be a crime. He introduced the word Uranian as a synonym for homosexual relations, and even demanded that homosexuals be granted the right to marry. Slightly less radical thinkers in Germany, Austria and France began to argue that sex between men was a psychological disturbance to be treated by physicians, rather than a crime to be punished by the courts. As a result, by 1876 psychological had become a term that Wilde and his peers used to describe anything pertaining to gay sex. At the same time, McKenna writes, aestheticism seemed to spring to life, fully formed, towards the end of the 1870s. It was a heady mix of art, idealism and politics, which sought to propagate a new gospel of Beauty. And in 1893, shortly after meeting Wilde, George Ives, a friend of ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Image PercivalPollard.jpg right thumbnail Percival Pollard Joseph Percival Pollard January 29, 1869 December 17, 1911 was an United States American literary critic, novelist and short story writer. Biography Born in Greifswald , Pomerania to English and German parents, he was later educated at Eastbourne College in Sussex, England . His family emigrated to the United States in 1885. After a youthful period in Iowa , he spent much of his life moving back and forth between London , Paris and New York . His best known work was Their Day in Court , a 1909 book of literary and cultural commentary. His works reflect his dislike for Naturalism literature naturalism , and disdain for the commercial tastes of the masses, promoting instead aestheticism and literary Impressionism literature impressionism . A good friend of both Ambrose Bierce and H.L. Mencken , Mencken wrote of him warmly in the first series of his work Prejudices , comparing Pollard favorably to contemporary and fellow American aesthete James Huneker . Pollard was also noted as an early advocate of James Branch Cabell and the initial works of Robert W. Chambers . Other works include Dreams of To day 1907 , a book of decadent weird tales in the vein of Robert W. Chambers Chambers the King in Yellow , the critical study Masks and Minstrels of New Germany 1911 , the novels The Imitator 1901 and Lingo Dan 1903 , as well as a play written in collaboration with Leo Ditrichstein, The Ambitious Mrs. Alcott , which opened and closed after 24 performances on Broadway theatre Broadway in 1907. Pollard, aged 42, died unexpectedly from brain neuritis in 1911 in Baltimore , cutting short a promising career. H.L. Mencken Mencken and Ambrose Bierce Bierce attended his funeral. His cremated remains were sent back to Iowa . A 1947 Ph.D. dissertation, Percival Pollard Precursor of the Twenties , by George Nicholas Kummer of New York University , has remained in unpublished typescript form. Bibliography ... more details
File Edward Clifford.jpg thumb right 200px Edward Clifford in 1896 File Edward Clifford 1844 1907 Tito Melema , pencil, watercolour and bodycolour, with gum arabic .jpg thumb right 150px Tito Melema , pencil, watercolour and bodycolour, with gum arabic painting by Edward Clifford File Portrait of Father Damien , attributed to Edward Clifford.jpg thumb right 150px Portrait of Father Damien , by Edward Clifford , graphite on paper, 1868, Honolulu Museum of Art Edward Clifford 1844 1907 was an England English artist and author born in Bristol . He is best known for his portraits in Watercolor painting watercolor , and was associated with the Aestheticism Aesthetic Movement in late 19th century England. He was also a member of the Church Army , which evangelized for the Church of England . Clifford visited India and Kashmir to learn about methods of controlling leprosy. He returned to England and then traveled to Honolulu and visited the leper colony in Kalaupapa, Hawaii in 1868, where he met Father Damien . After returning to England, Clifford made watercolor painting s from portrait sketches made in Hawaii and eventually published an account of the journey. ref Severson, 2002 ref ref Rooks, 2008 ref The Bishop Museum Honolulu , the Harvard Art Museums Harvard University Portrait Collection , the Honolulu Museum of Art , the National Portrait Gallery London , and the National Portrait Gallery United States are among the public collections holding work by Edward Clifford. ref http www.askart.com askart artist.aspx?artist 11023166 AskArt.com ref ref http siris artinventories.si.edu ipac20 ipac.jsp?session 1297EU1773982.70494&profile ariall&uri link 3100006 260132 3100001 3100002&aspect Browse&menu search&ri 2&source siartinventories&term Clifford 2C Edward 2C ca. 1884 1907 2C painter.&index AUTHOR focus Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catolog ref Artists with similar names There are two other artists with similar names Edward Charles Clifford 1858 1910 w ... more details
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