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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 158–180.
Published: 01 May 2021
... small initial “guide letters” used to indicate the capital letter to be supplied to more elaborate explanations of larger spaces left for the illustration, these were paratexts that were designed to be covered up or painted over by an illuminator. Yet in some cases these instructions were never executed...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (4): 433–457.
Published: 01 November 2000
... analyzed could exist encounters no obstacle. Such a presupposition cannot be made with respect to the caprice, a genre of ruin painting developed in the eighteenth century. This genre designates an imaginary arrangement of celebrated ruins and monuments. These representations announce their distance from...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (4): 505–522.
Published: 01 November 2000
... and quotations in La Vie mode d'emp[oi, which form part of the larger system of constraints used by Georges Perec to write the novel, has received a great deal of critical attention. Critics have also addressed the important role played by paintings and descriptions of paintings in Perec's work.2 I concentrate...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 370–377.
Published: 01 December 2020
... attribution in doubt in those days), the king hiding his face from the young musician. Two Vermeers and the Fabritius painting of a chained goldfinch hung among genre paintings in a room with silk paneling on the walls. Our mother told us to stand anywhere in the gallery and the eyes of the young woman...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 79–82.
Published: 01 January 2017
..., from El Greco to Velázquez reciting the r epertoire of histories about those paintings, their context at the height of empire, their meaning in relation to the time of their making if you observe this technical detail h ere, and this visual cue over there. I was, a fter all, in a robotic mode a...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (4): 709–725.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., a seamy seductress, and a swindler. Under the pretext of painting his portrait, Therbusch seduces Diderot into posing nude for her and then engages with him in a game of sexual banter that extends over a sequence of sittings that are repeatedly disrupted by various incidents and repeatedly adjourned...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 January 2007
... and formulate an alternative social vision, Flora Tristan and Paul Gauguin sought to complicate the notions of individual identity, painting visual and verbal portraits of the Self that necessarily reflect collisions and collusions with the peripheral Other and thus render the very question of difference...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 173–189.
Published: 01 May 2024
... Pèlerinage à l’île de Cythère , thus raising the questions: how might the most significant literary achievement of the period have manifested a certain kind of reception of this painting, and how does it also enable us to look upon the painting anew? 2 Proust, I argue, enacts a dialogue with Watteau...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (3-4): 465–484.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., and Zola reveal a consonance of approach and sensibility in terms of color and abstractionism that traverses the boundaries between visual and textual media. The titles of Whistler's paintings tend to subordinate subject matter and privilege the artist's color work, evacuating the referent.3 Mallarme's...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (3-4): 449–463.
Published: 01 May 2011
... too often unhesitatingly identified the fictional painting as a transposition of Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe. 6 It is, indeed, "instantly recognizable" as such, according to a respected Manet specialist.7 But to look at the description of Plein air much more closely is to be struck instead...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 321–335.
Published: 01 September 2021
... from the disordered eating described above, certain food is, in fact, plentiful in the text. This includes recipes, which are numerous in VME . There are many cookbooks as well. And copious meals appear in paintings. In a sense, the colored meals, recipes, cookbooks, and paintings belong to their own...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 190–212.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of the Magdalenian caves and a timeless love story between the narrator—Duras herself—and a Magdalenian man. We know very little of the latter except that he appears to be in communication with the writer. The negative hands, which are never shown in the film, are a type of parietal painting believed to be one...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 257–276.
Published: 01 January 2011
... errer par etat sur la surface du globe. [Le voyageur] est sans morale, ou il est tourmente par une espece d'inquietude naturelle qui Ie promene malgre lui. -Denis Diderot, on the ruin paintings of Hubert Robert, Salon de 1767 Style is a matter to which Baudelaire insistently returns when evoking his...
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (2): 127–153.
Published: 01 March 2005
... Included a now famous excursus on the subject of Hans Holbein's double portrait, The Alnbassadors (1533), and the optical technique of anamorphosis. Hans Holbein's well known painting depicts two French envoys to Henry VIII of England, Georges de Selve and Jean de Dinteville, both young, wealthy...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (1-2): 87–97.
Published: 01 January 2001
..., choosing the iconography and extensively annotating the previously published texts. It is a very complex work, involving writing, reading, rereading and rewriting, and incorporating a subtle combination of texts and images: reproductions of paintings and drawings by Matisse, photographs, manuscripts...
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Romanic Review (2019) 110 (1-4): 223–246.
Published: 01 January 2019
... birth through 1881, barely mentions Abbéma (Ma Double Vie). As befitted artists who expressed themselves chiefly through visual display, the key artifacts through which the two w omen represented their relationship were sculptures, photographs, and paintings.6 A sculpture exists of the two w omen s...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (3): 366–369.
Published: 01 May 2004
... text, titled Aesthetic Meditations, on the beauties of "modern," i.e. Cubist, painting, and then The Cubist Painters proper, a series of essays on nine French Cubist painters of the day, giving pride of place to Picasso and Braque before continuing to Metzinger, Gleizes, Laurencin, Gris, Leger, Picabia...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (1): 101–106.
Published: 01 January 2006
... University 2006 BOOK REVIEWS 101 to find the exact point at which one nlust cease to imitate nature in painting. Painting must not stink (puer) of the Illodel one tnust, nevertheless, sIllell (sentir) nature in it," (p. 1) adds a hunlan figure where none exists in the original quote. In doing so, she...
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Romanic Review (2019) 110 (1-4): 247–264.
Published: 01 January 2019
... Steinheil 2). Once the sexual relationships were over, she frequently maintained a friendship with these men and continued to call on them for favors, including soliciting direct monetary gifts or asking them to purchase her husband s paintings ( Autour de l affaire ; Interrogatoire de Mme Steinheil 5...
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 13–16.
Published: 01 January 2016
... to bend down. And she then proceeded to pick up everything herself. (38) As I read this shortly after learning of Gita s death, I wondered what this remarkable, and quite likely legendary, anecdote meant to her. (The 1859 painting by A lexis-J oseph Pérignon representing this scene is included...
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