false 163860 0 0 201387 0520231597 9780520231597 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172637296m/201387.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201387.Essays_on_Music 4.05 40 94301 4.14 1653 169 3012580 4.05 40 3 163860 3.98 48 4 281786 081334350X 9780813343501 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173390833m/281786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/281786.The_Nude_The_Cultural_Rhetoric_of_the_Body_in_the_Art_of_Western_Modernity 4.33 3 The Nude explores some of the principal ways that paintings of the nude function in the conflicted terrain of culture and society in Europe and America from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries, as set against questions about human sexuality that emerge around differences of class, gender, age, and race. Author Richard Leppert relates the visual history of how the naked body intersects with the foundational characteristics of what it is to be human, measured against a range of basic emotions (happiness, delight, and desire; fear, anxiety, and abjection) and read in the context of changing social and cultural realities. The bodies comprising the Western nude are variously pleasured or tormented, ecstatic or bored, pleased or horrified. In short, as this volume amply demonstrates, the nude in Western art is a terrain on whose surface is written a summation of Western history: its glory but also its degradation.</Div>]]> 163860 3.98 48 4 1614621 0521448549 9780521448543 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185905393m/1614621.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1614621.Music_and_Image_Domesticity_Ideology_and_Socio_cultural_Formation_in_Eighteenth_Century_England 3.50 2 163860 3.98 48 4 1476822 0520250702 9780520250703 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184009523m/1476822.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1476822.Beyond_the_Soundtrack_Representing_Music_in_Cinema 3.00 2 Beyond the Soundtrack interprets the cinematic representation of music with unprecedented richness. The authors cover a broad range of narrative films, from the "silent" era (not so silent) to the present. Once we think beyond the soundtrack, this volume shows, there is no unheard music in cinema.]]> 163860 3.98 48 4 870180 0520203429 9780520203426 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179063439m/870180.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/870180.The_Sight_of_Sound_Music_Representation_and_the_History_of_the_Body 3.00 1 With the support of 100 illustrations, Leppert addresses music and the production of racism, the hoarding of musical sound in a culture of scarcity, musical consumption and the policing of gender, the domestic piano and misogyny, music and male anxiety, and the social silencing of music. His unexpected yoking of musicology and art history, in particular his original insights into the relationships between music, visual representation, and the history of the body, make exciting reading for scholars, students, and all those interested in society and the arts.]]> 163860 3.98 48 4 5102359 0521327806 9780521327800 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5102359.Music_and_Society_The_Politics_of_Composition_Performance_and_Reception 0.0 0 163860 3.98 48 4 23452 4.00 47 7 3846045 0521360293 9780521360296 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3846045.Music_and_Image_Domesticity_Ideology_and_Socio_cultural_Formation_in_Eighteenth_Century_England 0.0 0 163860 3.98 48 4 1721611 0754626830 9780754626831 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1721611.Sound_Judgment_Selected_Essays 0.0 0 163860 3.98 48 4 5143555 0813315395 9780813315393 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5143555.Art_And_The_Committed_Eye_The_Cultural_Functions_Of_Imagery 0.0 0 Art and the Committed Eye Richard Leppert examines Western European and American art from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. He studies the complex relation between the “look” of images and the variety of social and cultural uses to which they are put and demonstrates that the meaning of any image is significantly determined by its function, which changes over time. In particular, he emphasizes the ways in which visual culture is called on to mediate social differences defined by gender, class, and race.In Part 1, Leppert addresses the nature and task of representation, discussing how meaning accrues to images and what role vision and visuality play in the history of modernity. Here he explains imagery’s power to attract our gaze by triggering desire and focuses on the long history of the use of representation to enact a deception, whether in painting or advertising.Part 2 explores art’s relation to the material world, to the ways in which images mark our various physical and psychic ties to objects. The author analyzes still life paintings whose subject matter is both extraordinarily diverse and deeply paradoxical—from flower bouquets to grotesque formal arrangements of human body parts. Leppert demonstrates that even in “innocent” still lifes, formal design and technical execution are imbued with cultural conflict and social power.Part 3 is devoted to the representation of the human body—as subject to obsessive gazing and as an object of display, spectacle, and transgression. The variety of body representation is enormous: pleased or tortured, gorgeous or monstrous, modest or lascivious, powerful or weak, in the bloom of life or under the anatomist’s knife, clothed or naked. But it is the sexual body, Leppert shows, that has provided the West with its richest, most complex, contradictory, conflicted, and paradoxical accounts of human identity in relation to social ideals.</div>]]> 163860 3.98 48 4