Narrow your search

Library

ARB (1)

KBR (1)

LUCA School of Arts (1)

Odisee (1)

Thomas More Kempen (1)

Thomas More Mechelen (1)

UCLouvain (1)

UCLL (1)

UGent (1)

VIVES (1)


Resource type

book (3)


Language

English (2)

French (1)


Year
From To Submit

2011 (3)

Listing 1 - 3 of 3
Sort by

Book
Modernist America : art, music, movies, and the globalization of American culture
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9780300115048 Year: 2011 Publisher: New Haven London Yale University Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Modernist America : art, music, movies, and the globalization of American culture
Author:
ISBN: 1283057913 9786613057914 0300171730 Year: 2011 Publisher: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

America's global cultural impact is largely seen as one-sided, with critics claiming that it has undermined other countries' languages and traditions. But contrary to popular belief, the cultural relationship between the United States and the world has been reciprocal, says Richard Pells. The United States not only plays a large role in shaping international entertainment and tastes, it is also a consumer of foreign intellectual and artistic influences.Pells reveals how the American artists, novelists, composers, jazz musicians, and filmmakers who were part of the Modernist movement were greatly influenced by outside ideas and techniques. People across the globe found familiarities in American entertainment, resulting in a universal culture that has dominated the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and fulfilled the aim of the Modernist movement-to make the modern world seem more intelligible.Modernist America brilliantly explains why George Gershwin's music, Cole Porter's lyrics, Jackson Pollock's paintings, Bob Fosse's choreography, Marlon Brando's acting, and Orson Welles's storytelling were so influential, and why these and other artists and entertainers simultaneously represent both an American and a modern global culture.


Book
Paris-New York et retour : voyage dans les arts et les images : journal 2007-2008
Author:
ISSN: 19580630 ISBN: 9782081252486 2081252481 Year: 2011 Volume: 1010 Publisher: Paris: Flammarion,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Ce livre est le journal d'un voyage entre New York, la capitale des images modernes et contemporaines, et Paris, celle des arts de la " Vieille Europe ". Ces univers complémentaires et opposés permettent de s'interroger sur la perte d'aura des oeuvres d'art, que la révolution numérique mène aujourd'hui à son tenue. Enquête historique dans le temps court des États-Unis et de son industrie de l'entertainment, pèlerinage aussi dans le temps long de la France et de l'Europe des arts visuels, de l'Antiquité gréco-romaine à nos jours, cette exploration érudite devient au fil des pages l'itinéraire d'une conversion esthétique, à laquelle le lecteur est lui aussi convié. Il lui faudra pour cela redécouvrir le sens de l'otium, en d'autres termes la vie contemplative. Car seule la beauté a rendu et peut encore rendre l'homme à lui-même, en l'invitant à se libérer du vampirisme d'images-mirages, d'images-idoles, qui ne laissent sur leur passage, comme un vol de sauterelles, qu'un désert globalisé et privé de feuillage.

Listing 1 - 3 of 3
Sort by