Art History 61

Des poteries sumériennes antiques aux verres teintés de Tiffany, les arts décoratifs constituent une part importante de la vie des hommes depuis des générations. Alors que les beaux-arts demeurent d……続きを見る

From the early Renaissance through Baroque and Romanticism to Cubism, Surrealism, and Pop, these canonical works of Western Art span eight centuries and a vast range of subjects. Here are the sacred……続きを見る

Décryptez l’art de Paul Klee en moins d’une heure ! Membre actif du Bauhaus, Paul Klee marque profondément le début du XXe siècle en prenant part à l’avènement de l'art abstrait. Avec plus de 9 000 ……続きを見る

Décryptez l'oeuvre de Giorgione en moins d'une heure de lecture ! Maître de Titien, qui sera fortement influencé par son professeur, Giorgione est aujourd'hui moins connu que son élève, mais sa prod……続きを見る

Décryptez l’art de Piero Della Francesca en moins d’une heure ! Acteur majeur du Quattrocento italien, Piero Della Francesca est un artiste aux multiples talents. Peintre érudit et passionné de géom……続きを見る

On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is……続きを見る

In the west coast port city of Gothenburg, Sweden, the architect Gunnar Asplund built a modest extension to an old courthouse on the main square (1934–36). Judged today to be one of the finest works……続きを見る

Focusing on a turbulent time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, The Power and the Glorification considers how, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the papacy employed the visual arts……続きを見る

The Index of American Design was one of the most significant undertakings of the Federal Art Projectーthe visual arts arm of the Works Progress Administration. Part of President Franklin D. Roosevel……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

Connu pour la subtilité de ses toiles pointillistes, Georges Seurat (1859-1891) était un peintre unifiant l’art et la science, qui obtenait des résultats exceptionnels. Il pouvait prendre des années……続きを見る

An impressively learned and beautifully illustrated review of medieval ideas about Paradise Did Adam and Eve need to eat in Eden in order to live? If so, did human beings urinate and defecate in par……続きを見る

Décryptez l’art de John William Waterhouse en moins d’une heure ! Célèbre de son vivant, John William Waterhouse disparaît ensuite dans le flot des peintres victoriens de la fin du XIXe siècle et so……続きを見る

**Décryptez l'**art de Bramante en moins d'une heure! Peintre de formation, Bramante est dès ses débuts fascinépar la représentation de l'espace. S'installant à Milan à la fin des années1470, il se ……続きを見る

Décryptez l’art de Jacob Jordaens en moins d’une heure ! Longtemps dénigré et considéré comme un peintre populaire, Jacob Jordaens est aujourd’hui reconnu comme l’un des plus grands peintres flamand……続きを見る

Award-winning lecturer Kenneth R. Bartlett applies his decades of experience teaching the Italian Renaissance to this beautifully illustrated overview. In his introductory Note to the Reader, Bartle……続きを見る

Carol Hoorn Fraser, MFA, RCA (1930-1991) was a beautiful and unique American-born artist, who received a humanistic art education at the University of Minnesota, took first prizes in shows at the Wa……続きを見る

American Civil War–era art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that have become fundamental to our modern periodization of……続きを見る

Unfolding the Unconscious Psyche is a study of the creative arts and depth psychology, and the threads that run between the two. Edward Applebaum begins with works of art, in media including paintin……続きを見る

This book explores the relationship between the ongoing urbanization in China and the production of contemporary Chinese art since the beginning of the twenty-first century. Wang provides a detailed……続きを見る

Once the US was the only country in the world to offer a doctorate for studio artists, however the PhD in fine art disappeared after pressures established the MFA as the terminal degree for visual a……続きを見る

In a world filled with great museums and great paintings, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is the reigning queen. Her portrait rules over a carefully designed salon, one that was made especially for he……続きを見る

Have we completely missed the point of the modern western revolution in the arts? Hugh Moss thinks so, and here he presents a refreshingly original and thought-provoking new approach to understandin……続きを見る

In Rage and Denials, philosopher and architectural historian Branko Mitrović examines in detail the historiography of art and architecture in the twentieth century, with a focus on the debate betwee……続きを見る

Amateur Craft provides an illuminating and historically-grounded account of amateur craft in the modern era, from 19th century Sunday painters and amateur carpenters to present day railway modellers……続きを見る

Carol Hoorn Fraser, MFA, RCA (1930-1991) was a beautiful and unique American-born artist, who received a humanistic art education at the University of Minnesota, took first prizes in shows at the Wa……続きを見る

In this highly illustrated survey, art historian and critic James Hall brilliantly maps the history of self-portraiture, from the earliest myths of Narcissus to the prolific self-image-making of con……続きを見る

Sufism has become a lush spiritual experience in the everyday lives of millions the world over. For centuries, Sufism has evolved to form an integral path through the essence of life. Especially for……続きを見る

An enthralling guide to the largely unrecognised treasures of England's remarkable Parish Churches, 'the supreme treasury of English vernacular art and memory'. Our parish churches constitute a livi……続きを見る

War as Spectacle examines the display of armed conflict in classical antiquity and its impact in the modern world. The contributors address the following questions: how and why was war conceptualize……続きを見る