Our distance from God : studies of the divine and the mundane in western art and music / James D. He...
Our distance from God : studies of the divine and the mundane in western art and music / James D. He...
Our distance from God : studies of the divine and the mundane in western art and music / James D. Herbert.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
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N701.1/23
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Language
English
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Physical content
xii, 198 p., [20] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Contents
Louis XIV's Versailles -- Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung -- Monet's Orangerie -- Spence's Cathedral & Britten's War requiem -- Wilson's 14 stations.
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Publisher
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
c2008.
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Summary
His argument unfolds over five case studies and spans four centuries: the architecture and artworks that glorified Louis XIV at Versailles in the seventeenth century, the interaction of libretto and music in Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, Claude Monet's enormous and resplendent paintings of water lilies mounted at the Orangerie of Paris in...
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Our distance from God : studies of the divine and the mundane in western art and music / James D. Herbert.
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Fletcher Jones Foundation humanities imprint.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N701.1/23
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74VM8Ew5WABO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM8Ew5WABO
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ISBN
9780520252134 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520252136 (cloth : alk. paper)
DDC
701.1
MMS ID
991000182339702626
