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A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600. The Renaissance was a cultural movement, a time of re-awakening when classical knowledge was rediscovered, leading to……続きを見る

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Aufbruch in die Moderne. 1922 ist ein Jahr von unglaublicher schöpferischer Energie: ein Wunderjahr der modernen Literatur. Eine Fülle literarischer Werke erscheint, die den Gang der Weltliteratur v……続きを見る

What goes into creating art? How can we learn to "read" paintings? What are the key elements of composition? An art ebook like no other, How Art Works uses practical graphics to demonstrate the tech……続きを見る

This book explains and illustrates as many varieties of Ming ceramics as possible. The text is based primarily on information obtained from Chinese sources and the occasional notes made by Europeans……続きを見る

An examination of how modern art was impacted by the concept of prehistory and the prehistoric Prehistory is an invention of the late nineteenth century. In that moment of technological progress and……続きを見る

Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) Don't Miss a Moment with Anne Shirley in this Anne of Green Gables Bundle This bundle includes: • Anne of Green Gables • Anne of Avonlea • Anne of the Island……続きを見る

The Impact of a PhD on Design Practice assesses the value and impact of design PhDs for design practitioners, exploring in detail and through perspectives from a range of international designers how……続きを見る

The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors annually now walk the paved streets which re-emerged, ……続きを見る

The first definitive monograph of color photographs by American street photographer Vivian Maier. Photographer Vivian Maier’s allure endures even though many details of her life continue to remain a……続きを見る

The #metoo movement has forced many fans to consider what they should do when they learn that a beloved artist has acted immorally. One natural thought is that fans ought to give up the artworks of ……続きを見る

Albrecht Dürer is probably the most famous German artist of the Renaissance, if not of all time. His works are world-famous and he was a master in numerous artistic disciplines such as woodcut, copp……続きを見る

Eugène Delacroix was highly influential in the 19th-century Romanticism art movement and is considered by many art historians to be the most important of the Romantic painters. Delacroix is often at……続きを見る

ARTE ESPAÑOL PARA EXTRANJEROS ofrece, en esta nueva edición, una síntesis actualizada de la historia del arte español destinada a los universitarios extranjeros estudiosos de la cultura española y, ……続きを見る

Bei seinen Zeitgenossen vor allem als Mäzen und Sammler bekannt, nimmt Caillebotte heute seinen rechtmäßigen Platz im Pantheon der Künstler ein – als Maler, der in seinen bahnbrechenden Werken in ei……続きを見る

The first book of its kind, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing engages broadly with the often too neglected yet significant questions of gesture in visual culture. In our turbulent medias……続きを見る

Art history encompasses the study of the history and development of painting, sculpture and the other visual arts. In this Very Short Introduction, Dana Arnold presents an introduction to the issues……続きを見る

Celebrate the epic journey of the LEGO® minifigure! Enter the world of minifigures with this fully updated edition. The first minifigure was created in 1978, and today the entire minifigure populati……続きを見る

In Courtly Mediators, Leah R. Clark investigates the exchange of a range of materials and objects, including metalware, ceramic drug jars, Chinese porcelain, and aromatics, across the early modern I……続きを見る

Human beings engage works of the arts in many different ways: they sing songs while working, they kiss icons, they create and dedicate memorials. Yet almost all philosophers of art of the modern per……続きを見る

Through a thematic overview of court culture that connects the cultural with the political, confessional, spatial, material and performative, this volume introduces the dynamics of power and culture……続きを見る

There is evidence that ever since early prehistory, textiles have always had more than simply a utilitarian function. Textiles express who we are - our gender, age, family affiliation, occupation, r……続きを見る

For the first time, a scholar reveals the meaning of the marginal images on the Bayeux Tapestry, unlocking a completely new meaning of the work. The story of the Norman Conquest and the Battle of Ha……続きを見る

服裝改變我們對世界的看法，也改變世界看待我們的方式。〜吳爾芙 《紐約客》雜誌年度最佳書籍 《魅力》雜誌 二○二二年第一季年度好書 《哈潑時尚》雜誌 二○二二最佳年度新書 本書不僅是一部人類服裝的社會史、深刻……続きを見る

At the crossroads of art and science, Beautiful Brain presents Nobel Laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s contributions to neuroscience through his groundbreaking artistic brain imagery. Santiago Ramón……続きを見る

A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art. The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More peopl……続きを見る

Epic verse and pulsating paintings merge to shed light on time travel, black holes, gravitational waves and the birth of the universe. Nearly two decades in the making, The Warped Side of Our Univer……続きを見る

Este libro no es una historia del arte al uso. Tampoco es un recorrido por las grandes obras del arte universal que habitualmente aparecen en los manuales escolares. Ni un recetario para distinguir ……続きを見る

Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical ……続きを見る

In this new edition of A Short History of the Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein offers a panoramic view of the medieval world from Iceland to China and from Sweden to West Africa. Yet the book never……続きを見る