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The problem of the comical is one of the most interesting issues in aesthetics. Its significance extends well beyond the sphere of aesthetic studies and has at tracted the attention of the scholars ……続きを見る

This book sets out to correct received accounts of the emergence of art history as a masculine field. It investigates the importance of female writers from Anna Jameson, Elizabeth Eastlake and Georg……続きを見る

The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, to women’s independence, and the establishment of significant infrastruct……続きを見る

This bold, globe-spanning survey is the first book to thoroughly explore the radical, long-standing interdependence between art and homosexuality. It draws examples from the full range of the Wester……続きを見る

Women artists of the Harlem Renaissance dealt with issues that were unique to both their gender and their race. They experienced racial prejudice, which limited their ability to obtain training and ……続きを見る

Nineteenth century France was a period of rapid modernisation and expansion. Édouard Manet, the quintessential painter of modern life, was a man of his times and his paintings were powerful, often s……続きを見る

In this dazzling collection of over 200 photos of pregnant women taken from art libraries, childbirth manuals, maternity ads, contemporary art, and personal albums, the authors explore the paradox b……続きを見る

This is a remarkable study of how Western culture has represented blindness, especially in that most visual of arts, painting. Moshe Barasch draws upon not only the span of art history from antiquit……続きを見る

Authoritative and up-to-date, this key single-volume work is a thematic exploration of ancient Egyptian civilization and culture as it was expressed down the centuries.Including topics rarely covere……続きを見る

In 2014 zijn de Rechtvaardige Rechters reeds 80 jaar spoorloos verdwenen. Toch is dit paneel van het Lam Gods nog lang niet vergeten. Veel mensen zijn gefascineerd door het mysterie. Enkele maanden ……続きを見る

In 1999 start Chris Noppe een onderzoek naar het paneel de Rechtvaardige Rechters, gestolen uit het Lam Gods in de Sint-Baafs van Gent. Het spoor leidt naar de crypte van Laken en het graf van konin……続きを見る

Deborah Solomon’s definitive biography of Joseph Cornell, one of America’s most moving and unusual twentieth-century artists, now reissued twenty years later with updated and extensively revised tex……続きを見る

Rhetoric was fundamental to education and to cultural aspiration in the Greek and Roman worlds. It was one of the key aspects of antiquity that slipped under the line between the ancient world and C……続きを見る

Beyond Grief explores high-style funerary sculptures and their functions during the turn of the twentieth century. Many scholars have overlooked these monuments, viewing them as mere oddities, a par……続きを見る

What was Hellenistic art, and what were its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? This textbook introduces students to these questions and offers a series of answers to them. Its twelve chapters……続きを見る

In this wide-ranging exploration of the creation and use of Buddhist art in Andhra Pradesh, India, Catherine Becker examines how material remains and visual experiences shape and reveal essential hu……続きを見る

Drawing from 167 examples of decorative needleworkーprimarily samplers and quilts from 114 collections across the United Statesーmade by individual women aged forty years and over between 1820 and 1……続きを見る

Die aktuellen Interventionen westlicher Mächte in Drittweltländern haben vieles gemeinsam mit den unzähligen Gewaltkonflikten an der Peripherie seit der Eroberung Amerikas im 16. Jahrhundert. Wie ih……続きを見る

The first global history of architecture to give equal attention to Western and non-Western structures and built landscapes, Architecture since 1400 is unprecedented in its range, approach, and insi……続きを見る

Joint winner of the 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Non-Fiction This landmark biography by Darleen Bungey, the author of the celebrated biography of Arthur Boyd, graphically depicts the fo……続きを見る

Tout à la fois influencé par les maîtres de l’Antiquité, le génie de Michel-Ange et la sculpture baroque, Auguste Rodin est l’un des artistes les plus reconnus de l’histoire. Bien qu’il soit considé……続きを見る

Ilya Répine (1844 Chuguyev –1930 Kuokkala) Ilya Répine était le plus doué du groupe que l'on appelait en Russie «Les Ambulants ». Dès l'âge de douze ans, il entre à l'atelier d'Ivan Bounakov pour ap……続きを見る

Germain Hilaire Edgar Degas (Paris, 1834 – 1917) Dans le cercle des impressionnistes, c'est de Renoir que Degas fut le plus proche : tous deux préférèrent comme motif de leur peinture le Paris vivan……続きを見る

Michel-Ange (Michelangelo Buonarroti) (Caprese, 1475 – Rome, 1564) Michel-Ange, comme Léonard de Vinci, avait plusieurs cordes à son arc et était à la fois sculpteur, architecte, peintre et poète. I……続きを見る

Entre courbes et contre-courbes, Mucha créa, à la fin du XIXe siècle, une égérie nouvelle qui devait hanter les rues de Paris. Au fil des représentations de Sarah Bernhard, cette muse voluptueuse de……続きを見る

Valentin Serov (Saint Pétersbourg 1865 – Moscou 1911) Parmi les «jeunes Ambulants » qui rejoignirent le Monde de l’Art, le portraitiste le plus brillant fut sans conteste Valentin Serov. Comme beauc……続きを見る

Le Caravage (Michelangelo Merisi) (Caravaggio, 1571 – Porto Ercole, 1610) Après avoir séjourné à Milan durant son apprentissage, Michelangelo Merisi arriva à Rome en 1592. Là, il commença à peindre ……続きを見る

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) a longtemps été considéré comme l’un des plus grands artistes européens. Ses peintures suscitèrent de nombreuses imitations et hommages, dont des romans à succès, des ……続きを見る

Hieronymus Bosch (S’Hertogenbosch, 1450 – 1516) Né au milieu du XVe siècle, Jérôme Bosch fait l'expérience d'un monde pris dans les luttes religieuses, où les valeurs médiévales traditionnelles comm……続きを見る

Mondialement célèbre pour ses nus sensuels, aux formes généreuses, Pierre Paul Rubens (1577-1640), était un artiste dont la préoccupation première était la sensualité. Ce maître baroque, célébrera t……続きを見る