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Bravura
Author | : Nicola Suthor |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021-02-02 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780691213439 |
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The first major history of the bravura movement in European painting The painterly style known as bravura emerged in sixteenth-century Venice and spread throughout Europe during the seventeenth century. While earlier artistic movements presented a polished image of the artist by downplaying the creative process, bravura celebrated a painter’s distinct materials, virtuosic execution, and theatrical showmanship. This resulted in the further development of innovative techniques and a popular understanding of the artist as a weapon-wielding acrobat, impetuous wunderkind, and daring rebel. In Bravura, Nicola Suthor offers the first in-depth consideration of bravura as an artistic and cultural phenomenon. Through history, etymology, and in-depth analysis of works by such important painters as Franҫois Boucher, Caravaggio, Francisco Goya, Frans Hals, Peter Paul Rubens, Tintoretto, and Diego Velázquez, Suthor explores the key elements defining bravura’s richness and power. Suthor delves into how bravura’s unique and groundbreaking methods—visible brushstrokes, sharp chiaroscuro, severe foreshortening of the body, and other forms of visual emphasis—cause viewers to feel intensely the artist’s touch. Examining bravura’s etymological history, she traces the term’s associations with courage, boldness, spontaneity, imperiousness, and arrogance, as well as its links to fencing, swordsmanship, henchmen, mercenaries, and street thugs. Suthor discusses the personality cult of the transgressive, self-taught, antisocial genius, and the ways in which bravura artists, through their stunning displays of skill, sought applause and admiration. Filled with captivating images by painters testing the traditional boundaries of aesthetic excellence, Bravura raises important questions about artistic performance and what it means to create art.
The Great Bravura
Author | : Jill Dearman |
Publsiher | : She Writes Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2015-11-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781631529900 |
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Since adolescence, Bravura and salt of the earth Susie have been partners in magic and best friends, as well as occasional bedmates. But when the two performers hire the mysterious and alluring Lena as a third banana to jazz up the act, Bravura falls madly in love. Lena believes in magic—and not just the rabbit-out-of-a hat kind. She encourages Bravura to believe in her own supernatural powers, and when Susie balks, conflict ensues. Things really go south during the classic “Disappearing Box” act, when Susie disappears for real. With her pal presumed dead, and Bravura the prime suspect, the magician must act quickly to find Susie—hopefully alive! To prove her innocence, Bravura must uncover the holes in her own story—even if it means incriminating herself, and her precious Lena, in the process.
Bravura
Author | : Alex C. Ewing |
Publsiher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2009-09-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780813042039 |
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To many people, Lucia Chase (1897-1986) was the American Ballet Theatre, and her reign as the queen of American ballet lasted for more than four decades. It was Chase who brought Nureyev, Bujones, Kirkland, and eventually Baryshnikov to ABT. Under her leadership, the company worked with such legends as Agnes de Mille, Anthony Tudor, Jerome Robbins, and Twyla Tharp. Her drive, ambition, tenacity, and money kept the doors open even during the lean years. A dancer when the company made its debut in 1940, she was artistic director for an unprecedented thirty-five years, from 1945 to 1980. Over the course of her career, she received numerous honors and awards, including the U.S. Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Combining unique personal insights as Chase's son along with experience garnered from his own professional dance and administrative career, Alex Ewing offers the definitive story of one of the true pioneers in the world of American ballet.
Bravura
Author | : Alex C. Ewing |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : UOM:39015084107476 |
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"To many people, Lucia Chase was the American Ballet Theatre, and her reign as the queen of American ballet lasted for more than four decades. It was Chase who brought Nureyev, Bujones, Kirkland, and eventually Baryshnikov to ABT. Under her leadership, the company worked with such legends as Agnes de Mille, Anthony Tudor, Jerome Robbins, and Twyla Tharp. Her drive, ambition, tenacity, and money kept the doors open even during the lean years. A dancer when the company made its debut in 1940, she was artistic director for an unprecedented thirty-five years, from 1945 to 1980. Combining unique personal insights as Chase's son along with experience garnered from his own professional dance and administrative career, Alex Ewing offers the definitive story of one of the true pioneers in the world of American ballet."--From publisher's description.
Sankie s Literary Bravura
Author | : Sankie Maimo |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UCAL:B3739451 |
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Valse Di Bravura
Author | : Luigi Venzano |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UOM:39015096652576 |
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A Dictionary of Musical Terms
Author | : Theodore Baker |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044072440605 |
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The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases
Author | : Charles August Maude Fennell |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 850 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : ZBZH:ZBZ-00098901 |
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