Research Catalog

Title

The symbolism of vanitas in the arts, literature, and music : comparative and historical studies / edited by Liana DeGirolami Cheney.

Publication

Lewiston, N.Y., USA : E. Mellen Press, c1992.

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Additional Authors

Cheney, Liana.

Description

416 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Symbolism in art
• Fetishism in art
• Arts

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-416).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Music and the Danse macabre : a survey / Alma Espinoza -- Some perspectives on the transformations of the dance of death in art / Alicia Faxon -- Vampires, death, and marriage : Strindberg's The dance of death I and The dance of death II, 1900-1901 / Patricia Scott -- The Danse macabre as the crucial moment in story and film versions of Death in Venice / Roger Wiehe -- Skulls and skeletons in Roman art / Faya Causey -- Dutch vanitas paintings : the skull / Liana De Girolami Cheney -- A skeleton as harbinger of death in an early work by John Trumbull / Patricia Mullan Burham -- The skull and skeleton in the self-portraits of James Ensor / Patricia Scott -- "Death and love" : memento mori in Margaret Drabble's The realms of gold / Pamela S. Bromberg -- The reappearance of the skull in recent contemporary art / Alicia Faxon -- Mirrors in early Netherlandish painting / Barbara Worrell -- The two faces of the mirror in The edible woman and Lady Oracle / Pamela S. Bromberg -- The magic mirror in Holman Hunt's The Lady of Shalott : its development and meaning / Alicia Faxon -- Speech, gesture, and women's hair in the Gospel of Luke and First Corinthians / Veda Cobb-Stevens -- The fantastic hairstyles of Henry Fuseli : fashion or fetish? / Kathleen Russo -- Locks, tresses, and manes in Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian paintings / Liana De Girolami Cheney.

ISBN

0889463999

LCCN

^^^89013788^

OCLC

• 20823968
• SCSB-12386803

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library