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With the increasing disappearance of stained glass in medieval churches, the surviving wood carvings on church misericords and bench ends are extremely important in providing an insight into the med……続きを見る

Modern living began with the homes of the 1950s. Casting aside the privations of the Second World War, American architects embraced the must-have mod-cons: they wrapped fitted kitchens around fridge……続きを見る

Richard Strauss (11.Juni1864 bis 8.September1949) gehört zu den bedeutendsten Komponisten der Moderne. Tondichtungen, Lieder, vor allem aber seine Opern gehören zum überzeitlichen musikalischen Erbe……続きを見る

Von Novalis (1772–1801) stammt das zentrale Symbol der Romantik: die blaue Blume, die zum Inbegriff romantischer Sehnsucht geworden ist. Novalis verkörpert für viele einen schwärmerischen jungen Poe……続きを見る

Als Papst UrbanII. am 27.November1095 beim Konzil von Clermont die christliche Ritterschaft zu einem Kriegszug in den Osten aufrief, konnte er nicht wissen, daß er damit eine Massenbewegung in Gang ……続きを見る

Es gibt wohl kaum einen Komponisten, mit dem man in solchem Maße die musikalische Gattung der Liedkomposition verbindet, wie dies bei Franz Schubert der Fall ist. Insgesamt sind mehr als 600 seiner ……続きを見る

Am 8.Juni1810 wird Robert Schumann im sächsischen Zwickau geboren. Wäre er dem Drängen seiner Mutter gefolgt und hätte einen nützlichen Beruf ergriffen – immerhin hatte er sich bereits auf ein Studi……続きを見る

Als 1328 mit KarlIV. der letzte französische König aus dem Hause der Capetinger stirbt, erlischt diese Dynastie im Mannesstamm. Der nächste Verwandte ist Karls Neffe, König EduardIII. von England, e……続きを見る

Seit seinem ersten öffentlichen Konzert in Paris, im März 1824, wurde Franz Liszt als veritables Wunderkind triumphal gefeiert – als neuer Mozart gar, der 1763 als Siebenjähriger in Paris Furore gem……続きを見る

Hailed as a brilliant theoretician, Voldemārs Matvejs (best known by his pen name Vladimir Markov) was a Latvian artist who spearheaded the Union of Youth, a dynamic group championing artistic chang……続きを見る

Making a strong case for a revaluation of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), this collection argues that significant aspects of Lewis's writing, painting, and thinking have not yet received the attention th……続きを見る

This book presents the Persian Baburnama, a key primary source andthe earliest record of Babur’s memoirs. The authoritative translation uses paintings from the original work and draws on contemporar……続きを見る

A collection of 120 paintings by renowned artist Ross Penhall that celebrates the identity and spirit of Vancouver. Also included are paintings of inspirational places across Canada, the US and Euro……続きを見る

Pour apprécier l'icône orthodoxe, il faut comprendre plusieurs éléments à la fois : l'histoire, la théologie, l'objet d'art, les artistes. D'abord, l'histoire : l'iconographie s'est développée à tra……続きを見る

Drawing on the author's personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this book offers an eyewitness perspective on the country's bitter conflict through the lens of architectu……続きを見る

Contemporary art sometimes pretends to have made a clean break with history. In The Perpetual Guest, poet and critic Barry Schwabsky demonstrates that any robust understanding of art's present must ……続きを見る

This book presents a series of essays for edification, discussion, comment and even disagreement. The exposition on the theme of God the Father in iconography returns to the roots of Orthodox iconog……続きを見る

The first comprehensive study on the role of Italian fashion and Italian literature, this book analyzes clothing and fashion as described and represented in literary texts and costume books in the I……続きを見る

New York City was the site of a remarkable cultural and artistic renaissance during the 1950s and '60s. In the first monograph to treat all five major poets of the New York School-John Ashbery, Barb……続きを見る

The sixteenth century was a critical period both for Spain’s formation and for the imperial dominance of her Crown. Spanish monarchs ruled far and wide, spreading agents and culture across Europe an……続きを見る

Analyzing the artistic patronage of famous and lesser known women of Renaissance Mantua, and introducing new patronage paradigms that existed among those women, this study sheds new light the social……続きを見る

Repainting the Walls of Lunda chronicles the publication and dissemination of an anthropology book, Paredes Pintadas da Lunda (Painted Walls of Lunda), which was published in Portuguese in 1953. The……続きを見る

The history of Renaissance France is rich and varied. The Renaissance in France, as elsewhere in Europe, saw glory crowned amidst conflict and squalor. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Fra……続きを見る

This excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism blends expert synthesis of the latest scholarship with completely new research, offering historical coverage as well as in-depth discus……続きを見る

Travel back in time to the era when Carnaby Street led the world, a golden age of youthful innovation and exhilarating pop culture, and a fashion scene that defined a generation. The 1960s was one o……続きを見る

This is a study of the forms and institutions of print - newspapers, books, scholarly editions, publishing, libraries - as they relate to and are changed by emergent digital forms and institutions. ……続きを見る

Thirty years have passed since eminent cultural and literary critic Fredric Jameson wrote his classic work, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, in which he insisted that……続きを見る

Since the mid-1970s, the colloquial term zone has often been associated with the troubled post-war housing estates on the outskirts of large French cities. However, it once referred to a more circum……続きを見る

Founded in 1966 at McMaster University by avant-garde filmmaker John Hofsess and future frat-comedy innovator Ivan Reitman, the McMaster Film Board was a milestone in the development of Canada’s com……続きを見る

Frankreich im späten Mittelalter: Ein 19jähriges Mädchen aus dem einfachen Volk hat Visionen und erhält von seinen «Stimmen» den Auftrag, dem König zur Krönung zu verhelfen und Frankreich von der en……続きを見る