2012, ISBN: 9781178557930

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Knopf Publishing Group, October 2012. Hardcover. New. From one of Britain's most respected and acclaimed art historians, art critic of 'The''Guardian'--the galvanizi… More...

Knopf Publishing Group, October 2012. Hardcover. New. From one of Britain's most respected and acclaimed art historians, art critic of 'The''Guardian'--the galvanizing story of a sixteenth-century clash of titans, the two greatest minds of the Renaissance, working side by side in the same room in a fierce competition: the master Leonardo da Vinci, commissioned by the Florentine Republic to paint a narrative fresco depicting a famous military victory on a wall of the newly built Great Council Hall in the Palazzo Vecchio, and his implacable young rival, the thirty-year-old Michelangelo. <BR> We see Leonardo, having just completed 'The Last Supper, ' and being celebrated by all of Florence for his miraculous portrait of the wife of a textile manufacturer. That painting--the 'Mona Lisa'--being called the most lifelike anyone had ever seen yet, more divine than human, was captivating the entire Florentine Republic. <BR>And Michelangelo, completing a commissioned statue of David, the first colossus of the Renaissance, the archetype hero for the Republic epitomizing the triumph of the weak over the strong, helping to reshape the public identity of the city of Florence and conquer its heart. <BR>In 'The Lost Battles,' published in England to great acclaim ('Superb'--'The Observer; ''Beguilingly written'--'The Guardian'), ''Jonathan Jones brilliantly sets the scene of the time--the politics; the world of art and artisans; and the shifting, agitated cultural landscape. <BR>We see Florence, a city freed from the oppressive reach of the Medicis, lurching from one crisis to another, trying to protect its liberty in an Italy descending into chaos, with the new head of the Republic in search of a metaphor that will make clear the glory that is Florence, and seeing in the commissioned paintings the expression of his vision. <BR>Jones reconstructs the paintings that Leonardo and Michelangelo undertook--Leonardo's 'Battle of Anghiari,' a nightmare seen in the eyes of the warrior (it became the first modern depiction of the disenchantment of war) and Michelangelo's 'Battle of Cascina,' a call to arms and the first great transfiguration of the erotic into art. Jones writes about the competition; how it unfolded and became the defining moment in the transformation of 'craftsman' to 'artist'; why the Florentine government began to fall out of love with one artist in favor of the other; and how--and why--in a competition that had no formal prize to clearly resolve the outcome, the battle became one for the hearts and minds of the Florentine Republic, with Michelangelo setting out to prove that his work, not Leonardo's, embodied the future of art. Finally, we see how the result of the competition went on to shape a generation of narrative paintings, beginning with those of Raphael. <BR> A riveting exploration into one of history's most resonant exchanges of ideas, a rich, fascinating book that gives us a whole new understanding of an age and those at its center. The galvanizing story of the defining moment of the Renaissance: the two greatest artists of their time, commissioned by different people, but working in the same room. Their competition would give rise to the new idea of artistic 'genius.' Written by one of Britain's most acclaimed art historians, art critic of 'The Guardian.', Knopf Publishing Group, [iv], 247, [1] pp. Tall 8vo. Bound in replica of 'the most decorative binding in English ownership which can be ascribed to Le Gascon with any appearance of probability.' Includes frontispiece and five engraved plates by Swan Electric Engraving Co. A collection of articles on various literary, political, social, and historical topics, including: On the Binding of This Volume; London - After Forty Years; A Study in Despair; Comet-Lore; Concerning Some Portraits of Emma, Lady Hamilton; Marlborough and Wellington; Three Seeresses (1880-1900, 1424-1431); 'The Bluidy Advocate Mackenzie'; Sister Beatrice: A Miracle Play. in Three Acts; Shelley's Views on Art; A French Governess; Tolstoy and Turgenieff; The Queen's Chronicler; Aunt Maisie's Indiscretion; The Salon in England; Postponed; 'The Garden of Love.' A Painting by Rubens, in the Prado; Sir Harry Parkes in China; Impressions and Opinions. The Anglo-Saxon Review was edited by Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill (mother to future Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill) published from June 1899 to September 1901, each volume bound in fine decoratively gilt-tooled leather.Keywords: ANGLO SAXON REVIEW DECORATIVE BINDING Former library copy, only a few marks. 2 inch chip from spine head, cloth splitting along joints, edges rubbed. Internally sound and clean. London: John Lane / Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., 1900. Ex-Library. Good/No Jacket., John Lane / Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., 1900, Austin. 1985. University Of Texas Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good In Slightly Worn Dustjacket With A Few Small Pieces Missing & That Has Some Very Slight Water-Staining Along The Top & Bottom Inside Edge. Translated from the Spanish by Frances Horning Barraclough. 200 pages. hardcover. ISBN: 0292796013. inventory # 14106. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Named Jose Maria Arguedas’ best novel by fellow writer Mario Vargas Llosa, YAWAR FIESTA dramatically portrays the clash of cultures in the small highland town of Puquio, Peru, where Arguedas himself lived in early childhood and adolescence. The incidents described in YAWAR FIESTA take place in the 1930s, soon after Peru’s national government issued an edict forbidding the traditional Indian-style bullfight, in which crowds of Indians, armed with only poncl~ and sticks of dynamite, enter a makeshift bullring to fight a wild bull. In one way or another most of the landowners and other town aristocrats, the members of Puquio’s four Indian communities, the citizens of mixed blood, and even some of the townspeople who have emigrated to the city wish openly or secretly to perpetuate the traditional contest, but their basic agreement does not preclude conflict. That conflict illustrates with unusual clarity the social, cultural, and racial characteristics of the various classes and groups in Puquio. Far from being fictionalized sociology, however, the novel glows with luminous descriptions of its ruggedly majestic highland setting and vivid portraits of the peoples who inhabit it. This first English-language translation of Yawar Fiesta is published with Puquio: A Culture in Process of Change, Arguedas’ essay describing the Indian communities of Puquio as they existed some eighteen years after the time of his novel. Readers of this essay and the fictional work may therefore perceive the same society from Arguedas’ viewpoints as anthropologist and as creative artist. The essay also reflects its author’s musicological interests and expertise, as it includes the lyrics and some of the music from Indian religious chants and a secular love theme. Texas Pan American Series.CONTENTS: Translator’s Note; Preliminary Note; The Novel and the Proble; YAWAR FIESTA - i. Indian Town; 2. The Dispossession; 3. Wakawak’ras, Trumpets of the Earth; 4. K’ayau; 5. The Edict; 6. The Authority; 7. The Highlanders; 8. Misitu; 9. The Day Before; 10. The Auki; 11. Yawar Fiesta; Puquio: A Culture in Process of Change; Glossary. José Maria Arguedas was an ethnologist, a poet, a folk musicologist, and the major Indianist novelist of our time. He was born in 1911 in Andahuaylas in rural Peru and, like Emesto, was raised by Indian servants whom he deeply loved. He earned his doctorate in anthropology at the University of San Marcos in Lima, where he was head of the Anthropology Department at the time of his death. While Arguedas’ poetry was published in Quechua, he invented a language for his novels in which he used native syntax with Spanish vocabulary. This makes translation into other languages extremely difficult. Frances Horning Barraclough has proven herself more than equal to this task, however, in her accomplished translations of both YAWAR FIESTA and DEEP RIVERS, also published by the University of Texas Press and presented the Columbia University Translation Center Award in 1978. Barraclough teaches Spanish at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, and has spent almost twenty years living and working in Chile and other parts of Latin America. Translated from Yawar Fiesta, (c) Editorial Losada, S.A., Buenos Aires, 1941 Puquio: A Culture in Process of Change translated from Puquio, una cultura en proceso de cambio, published in Estudios sobre la cultura actual del Peru, (c) Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, 1964. . ISBN: 0292796013., New York. 1961. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good In Dustjacket. 364 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Robert Hallock. Photo courtesy Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology. ISBN: inventory # 17749. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The heroic and tragic story of Indian resistance to the white man is told here for the first time in terms of the individuals who sparked it. The life stories of nine outstanding leaders represent different tribal back- grounds, different times and places, different aspects of leadership. Together they make a Composite portrait of the character of the chief, the man whose strength or cunning or statesmanship put him at the head of his clan, and who valued resistance to the invader more highly than life itself. These were not the ‘good Indians’ who came to terms with the whites, nor were they the mere troublemakers and crude savages. They were the patriots of their people, fighting a lost cause. The narrative begins with the gentle, vise, almost legendary Hiawatha and his attempts to unite the Iroquois just before the coming of the white mane It Continues with King Philip and his war with the New England settlers; Pope and the Pueblo revolt against the Spaniards in the Southwest; Pontiac, who led the most powerful Indian coalition in history; ail Tecumseh, who dreamed nobly of a great Indian federation living at peace with the newcomers. Going on to the nineteenth century, when the new nation pushed westward, it gives us Osceola leading the Seminoles against ruthless mistreatment in the South; Black Hawk and his Sauk and Foxes holding out vainly at the Mississippi; Crazy H6rse, the Sioux hero of the plains, and his empty victory over Custer; and finally Chief Joseph and the forlorn last stand of the Nez Percés in the Northwest. Objectively and with great vividness, the author gives a remarkable panorama ‘of Indian life; he brings the reader a new concept of Indian character and of a neglected part of our heritage. Lovers of authentic Americana, and all who relish a dramatic narrative, will find this book absorbing and rewarding. There are eight pages of illustrations, and each chapter has a map showing locations of tribes and important battles., Nabu Press, 2011-08-26. Paperback. Good., Nabu Press, 2011-08-26<

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