[PDF] The Book Of Hours And The Body eBook

Author : Marianne Boruch
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 18,41 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1556593856

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Marianne Boruch's patience "allows her to see what is there with a jeweler's sense of facet and flaw" (Poetry magazine).

Author : Sherry C. M. Lindquist
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 1003822118

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This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncanny - may reveal about both premodern and postmodern terms of embodiment. It takes as its point of departure a selection of fifteenth-century northern European Books of Hours - evocative objects designed at once to inscribe social status, to strengthen religious commitment, to entertain, to stimulate emotions, and to encourage discomfiting self-scrutiny. Studying their kaleidoscopically strange, moving, humorous, disturbing, and imaginative pages not only enables a window into relationships among bodies, images, and things in the past but also in our own internet era, where surprisingly popular memes drawn from such manuscripts constitute a part of our own visual culture. In negotiating theoretical, post-theoretical, and historical concerns, this book aims to contribute to an emerging and much-needed intersectional social history of art. It will be of interest to scholars working in art history, medieval studies, Renaissance/early modern studies, gender studies, the history of the book, posthumanism, aesthetics, and the body.

Author : Donald Culross Peattie
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 30,45 MB
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1595341595

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A Book of Hours contains 24 essays, one for each hour of the day, that seek to bridge the gap between definitive scientific philosophy and the sheer unadulterated beauty that Donald Culross Peattie envisioned within everyday life. The Boston Transcript referred to this collection as “science, in sheer poetry,” and the Chicago Daily Tribune mused that “it leaves one a better man for having read it” and offers “the inevitableness of natural laws and the truth of beauty, if one cares to seek it.”

Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0375711880

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A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. “In the night I brush / my teeth with a razor,” he tells us, in one of the collection’s piercing two-line poems. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement (“Not the storm / but the calm / that slays me”), Kevin Young acknowledges, even celebrates, life’s passages, his loss transformed and tempered in a sequence about the birth of his son: in “Crowning,” he delivers what is surely one of the most powerful birth poems written by a man, describing “her face / full of fire, then groaning your face / out like a flower, blood-bloom,/ crocused into air.” Ending this book of both birth and grief, the gorgeous title sequence brings acceptance, asking “What good/are wishes if they aren’t / used up?” while understanding “How to listen / to what’s gone.” Young’s frank music speaks directly to the reader in these elemental poems, reminding us that the right words can both comfort us and enlarge our understanding of life’s mysteries.

Author : Eamon Duffy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300117141

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PT 3: Catholic books in a Protestant world.

Author : Kurt Barstow
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892363704

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An illustrated treatise on a book of hours created between 1469 and 1473 in Ferrara, Italy.

Author : James H. Marrow
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892362844

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Leading French painters in the late medieval period executed miniatures for lavishly illuminated books of hours. In the mid-fifteenth century, Simon de Varie commissioned such a book. Completed in 1455, it included five priceless works by the most eminent French painter of the time, Jean Fouquet, as well as other striking paintings by two of his contemporaries. In the seventeenth century, Simon de Varie's book was divided into three sections and sold as separate volumes. Two of these volumes are today in the Royal Library in The Hague. The third volume--thought lost until 1984, when it surfaced in a private collection and was subsequently acquired by the Getty Museum--contains the first miniatures by Jean Fouquet to have been discovered in eighty years. This beautiful book will reproduce in color all of the miniatures and historiated initials in the original manuscript, along with selected text pages with secondary decoration. Comparative illustrations also accompany the two essays in the volume. Marrow's text addresses the role of books of hours in late medieval culture; the contents and form of de Varie's Hours; and the relationship of the miniatures by Fouquet to the rest of the artist's oeuvre. In a related essay, Francois Avril discusses the position of Simon de Varie and his family in mid-fifteenth-century France. The publication of The Hours of Simon de Varie adds to the Getty's impressive list of publications on illuminated manuscripts begun in 1990 and including the widely acclaimed facsimile Mira calligraphiae monumenta.

Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 29,49 MB
Release : 1998-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780819564221

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The collection centers on the disorienting experiences of the returning soldier, experiences that reverberate through the "Quatrains for Ishi," a personal address to the sole survivor of an ancient race, and "The Glass Ark," a conversation between male and female paleontologists working in the glass observation room at La Brea Tar Pits.

Author : Gregory Clark
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892367121

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Clark examines the book of hours in the context of medieval culture, the book trade in Paris, and the role of Paris as an international center of illumination. 64 illustrations, 40 in color.