Nocturne
Subtitle: a journey in search of moonlight
By: James Attlee
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780226030968
Subjects: In art; Moonlight in art; In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Syzigy. A three-dog night by the river ; A barefoot Galileo ; Absorbed by its shadows ; Earthshine ; Eostre and a paschal moon ; A white horse and mammoth bones ; Fear of the dark ; Darkness and the desert: an Islamic moon ; Mussolini, the Madonna and moonlight ; Extollagers in the valley of vision: memory, moonlight and Samuel Palmer ; Dark adaption and the eye of the beholder ; The path of totality ; Adrift on the Lapetus ocean ; August beach moon, Normandy ; Immaculate conceptions and transparent moons ; Let's murder the moonlight! Futurists and the moon ; The agency of the night; title: Tsukimi. Beyond the gateless gate: September Kyoto moon ; Cats' eyes and a McDonald's moon; title: Vesuvio. The alarming mountain: Naples, Vesuvius and the moon; title: Lunada. From Vegas to Vega: American moon ; The moon and the standing people; title: Mondschein. Raking the shadows: a romantic moon; title: Thamesis. Through midnight streets: the Thames and a London moon ; Moonset ; Blue moon on Stonewall Hill.