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Tongan barkcloth, made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry tree, still features lavishly in Polynesian ceremonies all over the world. Yet despite the attention paid to this textile by anthropo……続きを見る

Souvent l'histoire de la peinture a été le fait de spécialistes, plus occupés à classer et à sélectionner à leur convenance les mouvements, les écoles qu'à s'attacher aux ressentis des artistes. Pas……続きを見る

What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? In the West, in Asia, or in developing nations? If we all need to become "visually literate," w……続きを見る

There is a new form of design practice within the contemporary fashion industry which is active in complex forms of social commentary and critique. While fashion in the modernist era has shown signs……続きを見る

This book is about the historical moment when writers and critics first used the term “realism” to describe representation in literature and painting. While scholarship on realism tends to proceed f……続きを見る

Confabulation is a drawing together through storytelling. Fundamental to our perception, memory, and thought is the way we join fractured experiences to construct a narrative. Confabulations: Storyt……続きを見る

This volume is an interdisciplinary consideration of late medieval art and texts, falling into two parts: first, the iconography and context of the great Doom wall painting over the tower arch at Ho……続きを見る

The Evolution of Taste in American Collecting is a new critical translation of René Brimo’s classic study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century patronage and art collecting in the United States. Ori……続きを見る

The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the biological sciences influence one another, and what we gain in applying scien……続きを見る

Practice-Based Design Research provides a companion to masters and PhD programs in design research through practice. The contributors address a range of models and approaches to practice-based resea……続きを見る

In One and Five Ideas eminent critic, historian, and former member of the Art & Language collective Terry Smith explores the artistic, philosophical, political, and geographical dimensions of Concep……続きを見る

During the early modern period there was a natural correspondence between how artists might benefit from the knowledge of mathematics and how mathematicians might explore, through advances in the st……続きを見る

Wonder has an established link to the history and philosophy of science. However, there is little acknowledgement of the relationship between the visual arts and wonder. This book presents a new per……続きを見る

Information Design provides citizens, business and government with a means of presenting and interacting with complex information. It embraces applications from wayfinding and map reading to forms d……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Paradoxalement, Georges Braque n'est pas un livre sur le peintre, comme le souligne Liliane Meffre, biographe de l'historien de l'art……続きを見る

In traditional semantics, the human body tends to be ignored in the process of constructing meaning. Horst Ruthrof argues, by contrast, that the body is an integral part of this hermeneutic activity……続きを見る

Augmenting recent developments in theories of gender and sexuality, this anthology marks a compelling new phase in queer scholarship. Navigating notions of silence, misunderstanding, pleasure, and e……続きを見る

Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball reveals in this witty and p……続きを見る

In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant statesーthe Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic Em……続きを見る

Clothes are inherently geographical objects, yet few of us consider the social and economic significance of their journey from design to production to consumption. The Geographies of Fashion is the ……続きを見る

Critique has long been a central concept within art practice and theory. Since the emergence of Conceptual Art, artists have been expected by critics, curators, and art school faculty to focus their……続きを見る

Scandinavia is a region associated with modernity: modern design, modern living and a modern welfare state. This new history of modernism in Scandinavia offers a picture of the complex reality that ……続きを見る

Service design is the activity of planning and organizing people, infrastructure, communication and material components of a service in order to improve its quality and the interaction between servi……続きを見る

How do we design for users? How might users best participate in the design process? How can we evaluate the user's experience of designed products and services? These fundamental questions are addre……続きを見る

Partez à la découverte de l'avant-garde avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Fermement opposée à tout statisme, la notion d'avant-garde se veut dynamique et de combat, presque ontologiquement vouée à……続きを見る

Partez à la découverte de l'expressionnisme avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! En France, l'expressionnisme a longtemps été rejeté, comme une calamité germanique et brumeuse. Soulignant l'attractio……続きを見る

Partez à la découverte de la reliure avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! À l'époque du magazine et du livre de poche, abandonnés sitôt que lus, il est difficile de réaliser à quel point, pendant des……続きを見る

Contestation et défense de la tyrannique " loi des complémentaires". Il semble que la question de l’harmonie colorée, pour les théoriciens, les enseignants et les spécialistes des sciences humaines,……続きを見る

The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, ……続きを見る

An entirely new perspective on Churchill and his paintings told in his own words and including material never before published, edited and introduced by David Cannadine. Across almost 50 years, Wins……続きを見る