10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FIGURATION»
Discover the use of
figuration in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
figuration and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Fra Angelico: Dissemblance and
Figuration
In the work of Fra Angelico, an alternate strain of Renaissance painting emerges to challenge rather than reinforce verisimilitude.
Georges Didi-Huberman, Angelico (fra),
1995
2
Figuration/abstraction: Strategies for Public Sculpture in ...
This book offers a number of alternative readings, and demonstrates strategic uses of figuration and abstraction across East and West.
3
Myths of Venice: The
Figuration of a State
This visualization of political ideals, and its reciprocal effect on the civic imagination, is the larger theme of the book. Time period: early modern period, esp. 13th-16th centuries.
4
Across Meridians: History and
Figuration in Karen Tei ...
In Across Meridians, Jinqi Ling offers readers the most critically engaged examination to date of Yamashita's literary corpus.
5
T. S. Eliot: The Modernist in History
Gender,. Voice,. and. Figuration. in. Eliot's. Early. Poetry. CAROL CHRIST It is a
striking fact that three of the principal modernist poets - Elliot, Pound, and
Williams - each wrote a poem entitled "Portrait of a Lady" within a few years of
1910.
6
The muddied mirror: materiality and
figuration in Titian's ...
"Extends formalism to facture and situates the materiality of Titian's later works within the late sixteenth-century interest in embodiment and violence rather than within the Renaissance ideals of classicizing beauty and perfection"- ...
Jodi Cranston, Titian,
2010
7
Against the Closet: Identity, Political Longing, and Black ...
DIVAliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman argues that from the mid-nineteenth century through the twentieth, black writers used depictions of transgressive sexuality to express African Americans' longings for individual and collective freedom./div
Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman,
2012
8
The Rhetorical
Figuration of Intimate Abuse and the ...
ABSTRACT This dissertation elucidates the relationship between the rhetorical
figuration of intimate abuse, the configuration of publics, and political agency.
Using psychoanalytic rhetorical criticism, this project analyzes four figures of
intimate ...
Megan Kathleen Foley,
2008
9
Contemporary Indian sculpture: an algebra of
figuration
This book discusses the development of contemporary Indian sculpture in relation both to the development of mainstream world sculpture and also to the influence that traditional Indian artistic ideas are having on it, past and present.
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The World Disfigured: Problems of
Figuration in English ...
shares with the pun this self-reflexive quality of being a figure that exposes its
own making and reflects on the conditions of likeness and comparison, proximity
and proper distance that underlie poetic figuration. In this way the poem's ...
Kirsten Isobel Tranter,
2008
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FIGURATION»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
figuration is used in the context of the following news items.
Jessica Silverman Gallery now represents Nicole Wermers
Her collages represent shapes at the border between abstraction and figuration, like Untitled (2009), for which she juxtaposed images of wire ... «AMA, Jul 15»
Museum & Gallery Listings for July 10-16
... thereby founding what came to be known as Bay Area Figuration. Elmer Bischoff (1916 - 1991) was one of the leaders of the movement. «New York Times, Jul 15»
Cantor Arts Center New Exhibitions Celebrate Major Acquisitions of …
... to grand landscape studies, to the development and maturation of Diebenkorn's signature style, a rich blending of figuration and abstraction. «ArtfixDaily, Jul 15»
David Aronson, 91; leading Boston Expressionist artist
Figuration was key for Mr. Aronson and other Boston Expressionists, who shrugged off trendy abstraction to wrestle with moral, spiritual, and ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
Somme museum explores legacy of pioneering Great War plastic …
Face à Face: Regards sur la dé(re)figuration considers how the techniques developed to reconstruct faces shattered by battlefield wounds in ... «Centenary News, Jul 15»
JS Bach: Partitas; English Suite review – a rewarding and highly …
... in August), Buchbinder emphasises bass figuration and an excess of baroque ornament takes a while to get used to on a modern Steinway. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Talent Abounds at Competition Gala
It's a work long on poetic figuration and perfumed tunes, a somewhat unorthodox competition choice, but appealing. William Lu, first place ... «Vancouver Sun, Jul 15»
Mary Heilmann and David Reed Join Forces at the Hamburger …
Both artists have been important to an idea of New York painting since the 1970s — one that operates between figuration and abstraction and ... «BLOUIN ARTINFO, Jul 15»
Any colour you want, as long as it's black
Having found a convincing way to thread his art between abstraction and figuration, and having learnt again how to use colour in targeted ... «The Sunday Times, Jul 15»
Review: Elmer Bischoff, 'Figurative Paintings'
... turned away from abstraction and back to representational painting, founding a movement that came to be known as Bay Area Figuration. «New York Times, Jul 15»