The Pre-Raphaelites and their Keatsian Romanticism: An Analysis of the Renderings of 'The Eve of St Agnes and Isabella'

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Ester Díaz Morillo
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
John Keats ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Literary Movement ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Romantic Poet ◽  
Pre Raphaelites

This research examines the influence of Romantic poet John Keats on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a Victorian artistic and literary movement. The aim of this paper is to prove how Keats became, moreover, a major connecting link between Romanticism and the Victorian era, thus enabling the continued existence of certain Romantic aesthetic features until the beginning of the twentieth century. In that sense, we will explore how this influence took shape and we will analyse Pre-Raphaelite works of art which have as source of inspiration some of Keats’s well-known poems (“Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil” and “The Eve of St. Agnes”). This examination will allow us to perceive the manner in which these artists devised their pictorial style based on Keatsian pictorialism in poetry, with a special emphasis on the significance of medievalism, and the beauty and sensuousness of his verses, and how they were transferred into their canvases.

‘A Victorian community overseas’ transformed: demographic and morphological change in suburban Melbourne, Australia, 1947–1981

Urban History ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-482
Author(s):  
SEAMUS O’HANLON
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Morphological Change ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Building Industry ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Post War ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

ABSTRACTOne of the world's great Victorian-era suburban metropolises, Melbourne, Australia, was transformed by mass immigration and the redevelopment of some of its older suburbs with low-rise flats and apartments in the post-war years. Drawing on a range of sources, including census material, municipal rate and valuation books, immigration and company records, as well as building industry publications, this article charts demographic and morphological change across the Melbourne metropolitan area and in two particular suburbs in the mid- to late twentieth century. In doing so, it both responds to McManus and Ethington's recent call for more histories of suburbs in transition, and seeks to embed the role of immigration and immigrants into Melbourne's urban historiography.

scholarly journals The autograph book of visitors in Podhorce castle in the years 1923–1930

1970 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 236-247
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Paduch
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
School Children ◽  
Works Of Art

Podhorce is one of the greatest aristocratic residences. The owners of the palace were members of the families: Koniecpolscy, Sobiescy, Rzewuscy and Sanguszko. Waclaw Rzewu-ski (1709-1779) created in Podhorce a huge collection of works of art, he founded an armory, an archive and a library. Whereas Leon Rzewuski (1808-1869) gave museum character to the collection gathered in the palace. After visiting the residence the guests signed in the guest book of the palace. Based on the analysis of the guestbook from the years 1923-1930 it can be concluded that the palace was visited by representatives of different social strata. The largest group were the excursions organized by scholarly institutions (school children, scouts, students). The document includes signatures of the representatives of the polish gen-try, distinguished professors, scientists, researchers and senior clerics. The presented book contains about one thousand seven hundred autographs, that had been placed in the book for seven years of its conduct. A significant number of signatures in the document confirms the enormous interest in the Podhorce collection in the twentieth century.  

What do we value? The questions of Rachel Whiteread’s House

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elesa Huibregtse
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
East End ◽  
Post Industrial

On 25 October 1993, British artist Rachel Whiteread revealed her most ambitious sculptural work to date – House. The solidified space of this Victorian-era, terraced home physically existed for a mere 80 days; yet, during this time it became the subject of an intense media interest and heated public debate which reached the United Kingdom’s Houses of Parliament. While House has been discussed in depth within art historical scholarship for almost 30 years, trends in this academic body of work tend to focus on absence and memory in a highly contested public space, as well as thoughts on loss, death, architecture, the art market, politics and gentrification in London’s East End during the latter part of the twentieth century. What is lacking, however, is an examination of House within the larger context of visual culture and what it may, or may not, mean for contemporary viewers. Analysing the historical context of the work’s location through a Marxist lens, reveals the dehumanization which occurred within the East End’s class constructs throughout the nineteenth century, and its effect on housing policies well into the twentieth century. Reading the sculptural work itself, using the methodologies of semiotics, unveils mythologies regarding what is and is not expendable in our western spaces; particularly, the working class, houses and works of art in post-industrial capitalist societies. The ideologies embedded within these mythologies continue to appear in our mass media images to this day, leaving unanswered questions regarding what is truly valued in our societies. Thus, Whiteread’s unique work is an artistic intervention into an image-saturated environment, asking the viewers and readers of cultural texts to consider at what point in time we will seek to change how we treat that which has been arguably undervalued.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Koenraad Claes
Keyword(s):  
Print Media ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Little Magazines ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Aesthetic

In the late Victorian era, as in every period, the realm of the aesthetic was affirmed and kept within bounds by bordering non-artistic phenomena (moral, political, commercial) considered as setting off its limits, and on which it must not encroach. What unites the diverse artists and authors currently grouped under the heading of ‘Aestheticism’ is that they sought to integrate these surroundings into their aesthetic project as well. This led to the development of expansive art projects that are commonly known as ‘Total Works of Art’, influencing even seemingly ephemeral print media such as little magazines. Late-Victorian little magazines in different ways strove towards an integration of form and content and thereby to become periodical Total Works of Art that would not be contaminated by the worldly interests that they purported to defy. However, the dichotomy between art and commerce on which it relies is ultimately untenable.

Ivanov, Viacheslav Ivanovich (1866–1949)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Bird
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Classical Scholar ◽  
Literary Movement ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Aleksandr Blok

Viacheslav Ivanov was a leading theoretician of the symbolist literary movement and a prominent figure in the renaissance of religious thought in Russia at the turn of the twentieth century. A classical scholar by training, and erudite poet by vocation, Ivanov became known as an acolyte of Nietzsche. Later, along with the other ‘younger’ symbolists Aleksandr Blok and Andrei Belyi, Ivanov presented himself as a disciple of Vladimir Solov’ëv’s idealistic metaphysics and theurgic aesthetics. In the 1910s Ivanov achieved a proto-hermeneutic conception of art, which was the basis of his groundbreaking writings on Dostoevskii. After emigrating from the Soviet Union in 1924 Ivanov became a Roman Catholic and achieved some notoriety in Catholic intellectual circles between the wars. His powerful influence is evident in many contemporary and later thinkers in fields ranging from aesthetics and literary theory to philosophy and theology.

The Women Who Wrote

Sweet Mystery ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Ellen M. Peck
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Musical Theater ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press

This chapter introduces some of the female playwrights of the early twentieth century and examines some of the social conditions under which they worked. It argues that many of them represented a major cultural change for women of the period who were leaving the Victorian era behind and forging new paths in the young century. But the press frequently undermined their efforts by presenting them as wives instead of individuals, scrutinizing their physical attractiveness, and implying that playwriting was a hobby on the same level as gardening or homemaking. The chapter then shifts to the challenges of writing for the musical theater and collaborating with other writers. It concludes with examples of Young’s correspondence with the Shuberts and demonstrates her ability to navigate the business side of the theater.

Medicine Reading Literature: the Paradigm of Degeneration

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
Lena Arampatzidou
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
The Body ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
German Physician ◽  
Natural Life

This article is part of a larger project on the interaction between Natural/Life Sciences and Literature, and is a first attempt to scout the area through concentrating onDegeneration, a book that sees Literature through the eyes of Medicine. Max Nordau, the author of the book, was a turn-of-the-twentieth-century German physician who read contemporary movements in Art and Literature as Disease. He was an adversary of pre-modernist and modernist movements such as aestheticism, decadence, impressionism, and so on, and failed to recognize their avant-garde character. The article examines how Nordau reads certain features of literary texts and works of art which he cannot understand as symptoms of the malfunctioning of the nervous system of the painters and writers concerned. Moving from the body of the text to the body of the artist, Nordau reads particular artistic features as signs of bodily disease of the artists, and he does so by opposing the rationalist discourse of Medicine to the figurative language of Literature.

The Transitive Multiverse of Charles Ives's “Concord” Sonata

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-194
Author(s):  
Christopher Bruhn
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
William James ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Piano Sonata ◽  
American Philosophy ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Multiple Levels

The philosophy of William James can be useful in the interpretation of works of art, although James himself never specifically set forth an aesthetic theory. As an example, a Jamesian view of consciousness is enacted on multiple levels in Charles Ives's Piano Sonata No. 2, “Concord, Mass., 1840–60,” and the accompanying Essays before a Sonata. James's metaphor for the working of the human mind—a view widely circulated in Ives's day—as a “stream of thought,” the largely transitory movement of which James likened to a bird's flights and perchings; the value James finds in vagueness; and his treatment of the nature of truth as fundamentally mutable and provisional all find musical expression in the “Concord” Sonata. Additionally, the complex genealogy of the sonata and its connection to related works, notably the Fourth and Universe Symphonies, can be interpreted as reflecting James's cosmological vision of a pluralistic universe or “multiverse.” Reading the sonata through a Jamesian lens provides new insights into the behavior of Ives's music by relating it to turn-of-the-century thinking about the functioning of the human brain as well as early-twentieth-century American philosophy and cosmology.

scholarly journals A Review of Kahlil Gibran’s Major Creative Works (Ulasan Hasil Karya Kreatif Utama Kahlil Gibran)

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-253
Author(s):  
Homam Altabaa ◽  
Waleed Fekry Faris ◽  
Adham Hamawiya
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Literary Movement ◽  
Arabic And English ◽  
Modern Arabic ◽  
Critical Overview

Kahlil Gibran is one of the most important writers of modern Arabic literature and one of the most successful poets of English in the twentieth century. He is undoubtedly a pioneer among Arab poets and novelists writing in English and the most important figure in the Émigré literary movement. His world-wide popularity is due in large part to his universal spiritual message of love and compassion. This study, focusing on both his Arabic and English works, seeks to explore the various contextual aspects that affect all of Gibran’s works since his birth in Mount Lebanon.  It also presents a critical overview of all his works for readers and critics that seek a deeper appreciation and a more comprehensive understanding of this literary genius. The study highlights the spiritual element which serves as the link that unifies his Arabic and English works and propels them to enduring literary and popular success across cultures. Keywords: Kahlil Gibran, Āmigré Literature, Diaspora Writers, Spirituality, Perennialism.            Abstrak Kahlil Gibran merupakan salah seorang penulis yang tersohor dalam kesusasteraan Arab moden dan salah seorang penyair Inggeris yang berjaya pada abad kedua puluh. Kredibiliti beliau tidak diragukan kerana beliau merupakan perintis dalam kalangan penyair dan novelis Arab yang menulis dalam bahasa Inggeris dan tokoh terpenting dalam gerakan sastera Émigré. Sebahagian besar popularitinya di seluruh dunia adalah disebabkan oleh mesej rohani universal cinta dan belas kasihannya. Kajian ini difokuskan kepada kedua-dua karya Arab dan Inggerisnya untuk meneroka pelbagai aspek kontekstual yang mempengaruhi semua karya Gibran sejak kelahirannya di Gunung Lubnan. Kajian ini juga memberikan gambaran keseluruhan yang kritis mengenai semua karya beliau kepada pembaca dan pengkritik yang mencari penghayatan yang lebih mendalam dan pemahaman yang lebih komprehensif tentang kehebatan sastera ini. Kajian ini juga mengenengahkan unsur kerohanian yang berfungsi sebagai penghubung yang menyatukan hasil karya Arab dan Inggerisnya dan mendorong mereka kepada kejayaan sastera dan popular yang berkekalan di seluruh budaya. Kata Kunci: Kahlil Gibran, Sastera Āmigré, Penulis Diaspora, Kerohanian, Perenialisme.

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