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Pages: 244
Authors: Douglas Robillard
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Kent State University Press

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Melville's allusions to works of art embellish his poems and novels. In this study, his use of the art analogy as a literary technique is traced, along with the
Savage Eye
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Christopher Sten
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Kent State University Press

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He explains when and where in Melville's wanderings throughout America, Europe, and the Near East he saw these works, then describes how Melville made use of th
The Art of Art History
Language: en
Pages: 600
Authors: Donald Preziosi
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Oxford History of Art (Paperba

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This anthology is a guide to understanding art history through critical reading of the field's most innovative and influential texts, focusing on the past two c
The Lure of the Object
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Stephen W. Melville
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Clark Art Institute

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This volume examines the force of art history's attraction to particular objects and the corresponding rhythms of attachment and detachment that animate the dis
Melville & Turner
Language: en
Pages: 643
Authors: Robert K. Wallace
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher:

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In this ambitious interdisciplinary work, Robert K. Wallace explores the stylistic and aesthetic affinities of English landscape painter J. M. W. Turner (1775-1