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Scented Visions
Author | : Christina Bradstreet |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2022-06-29 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780271092584 |
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Smell loomed large in cultural discourse in the late nineteenth century, thanks to the midcentury fear of miasma, the drive for sanitation reform, and the rise in artificial perfumery. Meanwhile, the science of olfaction remained largely mysterious, prompting an impulse to “see smell” and inspiring some artists to picture scent in order to better know and control it. This book recovers the substantive role of the olfactory in Pre-Raphaelite art and Aestheticism. Christina Bradstreet examines the iconography and symbolism of scent in nineteenth-century art and visual culture. Fragrant imagery in the work of John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Simeon Solomon, George Frederic Watts, Edward Burne-Jones, and others set the trend for the preoccupation with scent that informed swaths of British, European, and American art and design. Bradstreet’s rich analyses of paintings, perfume posters, and other works of visual culture demonstrate how artworks mirrored the “period nose” and intersected with the most clamorous debates of the day, including evolution, civilization, race, urban morality, mental health, faith, and the “woman question.” Beautifully illustrated and grounded in current practices in sensory history, Scented Visions presents both fresh readings of major works of art and a deeper understanding of the cultural history of nineteenth-century scent.
Scented Visions
Author | : Christina Bradstreet |
Publsiher | : Perspectives on Sensory History |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-11 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0271092521 |
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Explores the iconography and symbolism of scent in nineteenth-century art and visual culture, with a particular focus on Pre-Raphaelite art and Aestheticism.
First Book of London Visions
Author | : Laurence Binyon |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : UCAL:$B158282 |
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Souvenir
Author | : Rolf Potts |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2018-03-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781501329425 |
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For as long as people have traveled to distant lands, they have brought home objects to certify the journey. More than mere merchandise, these travel souvenirs take on a personal and cultural meaning that goes beyond the object itself. Drawing on several millennia of examples-from the relic-driven quests of early Christians, to the mass-produced tchotchkes that line the shelves of a Disney gift shop-travel writer Rolf Potts delves into a complicated history that explores issues of authenticity, cultural obligation, market forces, human suffering, and self-presentation. Souvenirs are shown for what they really are: not just objects, but personalized forms of folk storytelling that enable people to make sense of the world and their place in it.' Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. Souvenir features illustrations by Cedar Van Tassel
Visions of Solyma
Author | : John McDowell Leavitt |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HNQLRG |
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A Vision of Other Worlds Revealing the Glory of the Celestial Spheres Etc
Author | : Henry Augustus Squires |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:590935115 |
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The Scent of Buenos Aires
Author | : Hebe Uhart |
Publsiher | : Archipelago |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2019-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781939810359 |
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Longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize From one of Argentina’s greatest contemporary storytellers, this collection gathers twenty-five of her most remarkable and incandescent short stories in English for the first time The Scent of Buenos Aires offers the first book-length English translation of Uhart’s work, drawing together her best vignettes of quotidian life: moments at the zoo, the hair salon, or a cacophonous homeowners association meeting. She writes in unconventional, understated syntax, constructing a delightfully specific perspective on life in South America. These stories are marked by sharp humor and wit: discreet and subtle—yet filled with eccentric and insightful characters. Uhart’s narrators pose endearing questions about their lives and environments—one asks “Bees—do you know how industrious they are?” while another inquires, “Are we perhaps going to hell in a hand basket?” “Uhart’s stories are concise and filled with both dry and conversational wit and flashes of poignant insight . . . slice-of-life writer . . . ” —Thrillist