19 results for '"Fontane"'

'I loathe what I did, but what I loathe even more is your virtue.' Seventeen-year-old Effi Briest is steered by her parents into marriage with an ambitious bureaucrat, twenty years her senior. He...

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The first in-depth look at Staël's political life and writingsGermaine de Staël (1766–1817) is perhaps best known today as a novelist, literary critic, and outspoken and independent thinker. Yet she...

Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) is principally known today as a literary figure--the inventor of the modern essay and the pioneer of autobiographical self-exploration who retired from politics in...

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The first survey of sculptures and installations by sound-art pioneer Bill FontanaSince the 1960s, American composer and media artist Bill Fontana (born 1947) has been using thenatural environment as...

Annunciation House has a 45-year history of welcoming migrants and refugees, providing hospitality to over half a million migrants and refugees since 1978. And it is through the individual human...

Editor, Carlo M. Cipolla. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.

"The fact that most modern and contemporary art is produced with the idea of it ending up in a museum seems so natural to us that we can hardly think about the relationship between museums and...

Nobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the "German problem," World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust,...

"During the Catholic Reformation, patrons, artists, architects, and viewers, especially in Rome, were strongly drawn to visual and spatial distortions or "deformations"--works of art and architecture...

Paintings and graphics, novels and poems are historical sources as well as aesthetic objects. Artists themselves become historians when they interpret the pastby painting a historical scene, for...