Art History 52

Psychoanalysis and the Artistic Endeavor offers an intriguing window onto the creative thinking of several well-known and highly creative individuals. Internationally renowned writers, painters, cho……続きを見る

Kazimir Malevich’s painting Black Square is one of the twentieth century's emblematic paintings, the visual manifestation of a new period in world artistic culture at its inception. None of Malevich……続きを見る

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Experience the creative explosion that transformed American artーin the words of the artists, writers, and critics who were there In the quarter century after the end of World War II, a new generati……続きを見る

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Reconsidering the status and meaning of Bauhaus objects in relation to the multiple re-tellings of the school’s history, this volume positions art objects of the Bauhaus within the theoretical, arti……続きを見る

Collected here are the original publications from one of the most important exhibitions in the history of American art -- the 1913 Armory Show. Opening on February 17, 1913, in New York and travelin……続きを見る

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics Art has always been part of history. But we often think of it as outside history. When we look at a painting by Raphael, Rembrandt or Rubens it sp……続きを見る

While the first half of the 20th century in architecture was, to a large extent, characterized by innovations in aesthetics (accompanied by succinct and polemical manifestoes), the post-war decades ……続きを見る

The Pussy Riot protest, and the subsequent heavy handed treatment of the protestors, grabbed the headlines, but this was not an isolated instance of art being noticeably critical of the regime. As t……続きを見る

The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world. On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuw……続きを見る

The Dutch are 'the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of all their neighbours'. So wrote the English ambassador to the Dutch Republic, Sir William Temple, in 1673. Maarten Prak offers ……続きを見る

First published in 1998. The Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography compares the uses of iconographic themes from mythology, the Bible and other sacred texts, literature, and popular culture in wor……続きを見る

The recording industry has been a major focus of interest for cultural commentators throughout the twenty-first century. As the first major content industry to have its production and distribution p……続きを見る

Some of the loveliest works of Archaic art were the Athenian koraiーsculptures of beautiful young women presenting offerings to the goddess Athena that stood on the Acropolis. Sculpted in the sixth ……続きを見る

How did the average American learn about art in the mid-nineteenth century? With public art museums still in their infancy, and few cities and towns large enough to support art galleries or print sh……続きを見る

Around 1542, descendants of the Aztec rulers of Mexico created accounts of the pre-Hispanic history of the city of Tetzcoco, Mexico, one of the imperial capitals of the Aztec Empire. Painted in icon……続きを見る

Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination explores the role of art in conceiving and reconfiguring the political, ethical and social landscape of our time. Understanding art as a vital form ……続きを見る

As we approach the bicentennial, in 2017, of the birth of Henry David Thoreau, there is considerable debate and confusion as to what he may, or may not have, contributed to American life and culture……続きを見る

The ancient landscape of North Asia gave rise to a mythic narrative of birth, death, and transformation that reflected the hardship of life for ancient nomadic hunters and herders. Of the central pr……続きを見る

In 1428, a devastating fire destroyed a schoolhouse in the northern Italian city of Forlì, leaving only a woodcut of the Madonna and Child that had been tacked to the classroom wall. The people of F……続きを見る

This book examines the appetite for Egyptian and Egyptian-looking artwork in Italy during the century following Rome's annexation of Aegyptus as a province. In the early imperial period, Roman inter……続きを見る

Wassily Kandinsky was an influential Russian painter and art theorist, now celebrated as one of the pioneers of pure abstraction in modern painting. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world……続きを見る

Seit die alten Griechen die ersten Kouroi schufen, inspirierten Kinder einige der größten Künstler der Welt. Ob Porträts von ihren eigenen Kindern, Freunden oder Familienmitgliedern, oder als nostal……続きを見る

La collection populaire de parkstone sur les « cinq plus beaux/belles…» offre aux jeunes lecteurs un cours miniature d’histoire de l’art, associant des puzzles interactifs représentant les chefs-d’œ……続きを見る

Seit die alten Griechen die ersten Kouroi schufen, inspirierten Kinder einige der größten Künstler der Welt. Ob Porträts von ihren eigenen Kindern, Freunden oder Familienmitgliedern, oder als nostal……続きを見る

La collection populaire de parkstone sur les « cinq plus beaux/belles…» offre aux jeunes lecteurs un cours miniature d’histoire de l’art, associant des puzzles interactifs représentant les chefs-d’œ……続きを見る

La collection populaire de parkstone sur les « cinq plus beaux/belles…» offre aux jeunes lecteurs un cours miniature d’histoire de l’art, associant des puzzles interactifs représentant les chefs-d’œ……続きを見る

Seit die alten Griechen die ersten Kouroi schufen, inspirierten Kinder einige der größten Künstler der Welt. Ob Porträts von ihren eigenen Kindern, Freunden oder Familienmitgliedern, oder als nostal……続きを見る

Seit die alten Griechen die ersten Kouroi schufen, inspirierten Kinder einige der größten Künstler der Welt. Ob Porträts von ihren eigenen Kindern, Freunden oder Familienmitgliedern, oder als nostal……続きを見る