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A wonderfully frank look at a life lived within beauty and without regret. McCarthy’s sense of artistry, transmitted over a sixty-year painting career, celebrates multiple beauties of everyday life. 続きを見る

Jackson Pollock (Cody, Wyoming, 1912 – New York, 1956) Pollock fut le représentant le plus important et le plus influent de l’expressionnisme abstrait. Il avait étudié auprès du régionaliste Thomas ……続きを見る

A clear and concise survey of some of the most significant writers on photography who have played a major part in defining and influencing our understanding of the medium. It provides a succinct ove……続きを見る

The only book of its kind to cover both the Achaemenid period and the thousand years following Alexander's conquest, The Persians explores the period from the seventh century BC, to the seventh cent……続きを見る

Si, selon l’expression connue, vous êtes ce que vous mangez, alors Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) fut le peintre parfait de l’âme humaine. Cet artiste était un dessinateur de talent. Dans cet ouvra……続きを見る

First published in 1979. How do the elements of swearing and perjury work in Shakespeare's plays? What effect did Shakespeare intend when he wrote them? How did they contribute to the delineation of……続きを見る

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (Crète, 1541 – Tolède, 1614) «Le Grec » était un peintre d'icônes qui émigra à Venise en 1567. Là, il commença à mêler ses influences byzantines avec celles des m……続きを見る

A fascinating look at the history of painting and sculpture in France by American journalist and literary critic W. C. Brownell. 続きを見る

Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance art, and the links between Renaissance art and contemporary art and th……続きを見る

Art Is Not What You Think It Is utilizes original research to present a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has been largely missi……続きを見る

Architecture as Experience investigates the perception and appropriation of places across intervals of time and culture. The particular concern of the volume is to bring together fresh empirical res……続きを見る

This book examines the functions of sculpture during the Preclassic period in Mesoamerica and its significance in statements of social identity. Julia Guernsey situates the origins and evolution of ……続きを見る

The seventh in a series chronicling the remarkable history of The Times newspaper and the media mogul who bought and reshaped it in the early 1980s. This volume looks at the history of one of Britai……続きを見る

From its beginnings in the seventeenth century, the Baroque embraced the whole of Catholic Europe and infiltrated Protestant England, Orthodox Russia and even Muslim Turkey. Architecture, paintings,……続きを見る

Frustrated by the lack of a concise compilation of research into the pigments used by medieval artists for painting various works of art, Britni Patterson decided to create one as a reference for al……続きを見る

60 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 5 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: "Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 27 June 1574) was ……続きを見る

In this compact yet comprehensive history of ancient Greece, Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century B.C. Focusing on the development of the G……続きを見る

From Giotto to David Hockney, this invaluable A-Z reference guide introduces some of the most celebrated artists in history. 100 Great Artists showcases the masterworks of one hundred painters who r……続きを見る

46 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 1 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: "Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 27 June 1574) was ……続きを見る

In this interdisciplinary anthology, essays study the relationship between the imagination and images both material and mental. Through case studies on a diverse array of topics including photograph……続きを見る

Peter Mason takes a bold, multidisciplinary approach in this account of the idea of the colossal in culture. He gathers instances of the colossal throughout historyーincluding the obelisks of Egypt,……続きを見る

Stephen Bann examines the arguments for the centrality of French modernist painting. He begins by focusing particularly on the notion of the modernist break, as it has been interpreted with regard t……続きを見る

Challenging prevailing theories regarding the birth of the subject, Catherine M. Soussloff argues that the modern subject did not emerge from psychoanalysis or existential philosophy but rather in t……続きを見る

"By 1966, the composer Virgil Thomson would write, "Truth is, there is no avant-garde today." How did the avant garde dissolve, and why? In this thought-provoking work, Stuart D. Hobbs traces the av……続きを見る

Until now, the notion of a cross-cultural dialogue has not figured in the analysis of harem paintings, largely because the Western fantasy of the harem has been seen as the archetype for Western app……続きを見る

A History of Art for Beginners and Students ( Sculpture ) by Clara Erskine Clement. This edition contains 131 Illustrations, interactive table of contents, and beautifully formatted. CHAPTERS INCLUD……続きを見る

Teaching Art History The fun Way ~ It's a Scream is a handbook for teaching art history using games, food, music, and clothing as memory aids and interest catchers. Chronologically, from pre-histori……続きを見る

Eric Cameron is a major contemporary Canadian artist. Born in 1935 in Leicester, England, he arrived in Canada in the 1970s and has taught at the University of Guelph, the Nova Scotia College of Art……続きを見る

By the late twentieth century, idyllic depictions of eighteenth-century manorial landscapes had become artistic expressions of dislocation. Western agricultural paradigms had shifted, as had the rel……続きを見る

Posted to Canada examines, for the first time, the immense body of work created by George Dartnell, a British army surgeon stationed in Canada from 1835 to 1844. Dartnell, an accomplished and popula……続きを見る