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1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"With the dramatic rise of Freemasonry in the eighteenth century, art played a fundamental role in its practice, rhetoric, and global dissemination, while Freemasonry, in turn, directly influenced developments in art. This mutually enhancing relationship has only recently begun to receive its due. The vilification of Masons, and their own secretive practices, have hampered critical study and interpretation. As perceptions change, and as masonic archives and institutions begin opening to the public, the time is ripe for a fresh consideration of the interconnections between Freemasonry and the visual arts. This volume offers diverse approaches, and explores the challenges inherent to the subject, through a series of eye-opening case studies that reveal new dimensions of well-known artists such as Francisco de Goya and John Singleton Copley, and important collectors and entrepreneurs, including Arturo Alfonso Schomburg and Baron Taylor. Individual essays take readers to various countries within Europe and to America, Iran, India, and Haiti. The kinds of art analyzed are remarkably wide-ranging-porcelain, architecture, posters, prints, photography, painting, sculpture, metalwork, and more-and offer a clear picture of the international scope of the relationships between Freemasonry and art and their significance for the history of modern social life, politics, and spiritual practices. In examining this topic broadly yet deeply, Freemasonry and the Visual Arts sets a standard for serious study of the subject and suggests new avenues of investigation in this fascinating emerging field"-- Provided by publisher |
| Contents |
Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes; 1 Freemasonry in Eighteenth-Century Portugal and the Architectural Projects of the Marquis of Pombal; The Symbolism of the Baixa; Mardel: Ideology in the Service of Freemasonry; Pombal's Oeiras and Lisbon Palaces: Freemasonic Aesthetics for the Marquis; Notes; 2 The Order of the Pug and Meissen Porcelain; Notes; 3 Goya and Freemasonry; Part 1. The Italian Sojourn: A Masonic Network in Marseille?; Part 2. "Your Brother Paco": Masonic Symbols and Valedictions in Goya's Letters |
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Part 3. Goya's Illness and the Masonic Connection in CadizNotes; 4 Freemasonry's "Living Stones" and the Boston Portraiture of John Singleton Copley; Notes; 5 The Visual Arts of Freemasonry as Practiced "Within the Compass of Good Citizens" by Paul Revere; Notes; 6 Building Codes for Masonic Viewers in Baron Taylor's Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France; Notes; 7 Freemasonry and the Architecture of the Persian Revival, 1843-1933; Lodge Rising Star, Bombay; Lodge Reveil de l'Iran, Tehran; Notes; 8 Solomon's Temple in America; Notes |
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9 Freemasonry and the Art Workers' GuildThe Art Workers' Guild; The Formation of the Arts Lodge No. 2751; The Arts Lodge, 1899-1935; Thomas Stirling Lee's Masonic Jewels; John Cooke's Tracing Boards and Jewels; Cecil Thomas, Henry George Murphy, and Panmure Lodge No. 715; Henry Victor Ashley and Francis Winton Newman's Freemasons' Hall; Notes; 10 Picturing Black Freemasons from Emancipation to the 1990s; Notes; 11 Saint Jean Baptiste, Haitian Vodou, and the Masonic Imaginary; Saint Jean Baptiste; Saint Jean Baptiste in Vodou; Saint Domingue, Haiti, and the Masonic Atlantic; Notes |
| Access |
Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK). WlAbNL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Terms Of Use |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
| Subject |
Freemasonry and the arts.
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Freemasonry and the arts. |
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Freemasonry & secret societies. |
| Added Author |
Wolf, Reva, 1956- editor.
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Luxenberg, Alisa, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Freemasonry and the visual arts from the eighteenth century forward. New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020 9781501337963 (DLC) 2019026045 (OCoLC)1105736697 |
| ISBN |
9781501337970 (electronic book) |
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1501337971 (electronic book) |
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9781501337987 (electronic book) |
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150133798X (electronic book) |
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9781501366925 (electronic book) |
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1501366920 |
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9781501337963 (hardcover) |
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