wired - Art History 1

The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England. Life……続きを見る

The Broken Leaf invites you to explore the beauty and gospel images found in Japanese art and culture. Through ten short meditations, discover for yourself just how God might be revealing his story ……続きを見る

In 'Virginia Woolf: A Conversation with Walter Sickert, the Renowned English Painter', Virginia Woolf delves into a deep dialogue with renowned English painter Walter Sickert, exploring the intersec……続きを見る

'Modern Painting (Illustrated Edition)' serves as a vibrant anthology that spans the evolution and diversity of modern art, encapsulated through a literary lens. This collection brings together a wi……続きを見る

Witness to Phenomenon articulates a fresh examination of the German Group Zero-Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Günter Uecker-and other new tendency artists, who rejected painting and introduced new art ……続きを見る

The Manueline: Portuguese Art during the Great Discoveries reveals the splendours of an era that brought Portugal into the Modern Age.Against the backdrop of fruitful maritime exploration, King Manu……続きを見る

If you wanted to enjoy yourself back in 1968, and were so inclined, you might possibly think about going to Art College, perhaps in London, and spending your summer holidays wandering around the gre……続きを見る

Golden Deer Classics proudly presents the Orientalism compilation which regroups major orientalist works (both paintings and writings). Orientalism is a term used by scholars in art history, literar……続きを見る

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Novels Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Ho……続きを見る

Dieses Open-Access-Buch beleuchtet das Serienphänomen „Game of Thrones“ aus unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven: Die rechtswissenschaftliche trifft auf die sprach-, musik-, literatur- ……続きを見る

Anthology of Epic Poems, is a collection of epic poems collected for you with a Active table of contents, to make reading more enjoyable. This collection includes: -The Iliad and The Odyssey by Home……続きを見る

Herbert Read was a maverick character in the cultural life of the twentieth century. A radical leader of the avant garde in the 1930s, and an anarchist revolutionary during the war years, by the tim……続きを見る

The drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, trailblazing Abstract Expressionist, appear to be the polar opposite of Thomas Hart Benton's highly figurative Americana. Yet the two men had a close and highl……続きを見る

A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social di……続きを見る

Kultur kurios: neue Einblicke in die deutsche Seele von Bestsellerautor Ernst Horst. Deutschland 1953: In Würzburg verlangt ein Regierungsschulrat, dass Medizinstudenten Anatomie nur am männlichen K……続きを見る

Since the mid-1980s, Arthur C. Danto has been increasingly concerned with the implications of the demise of modernism. Out of the wake of modernist art, Danto discerns the emergence of a radically p……続きを見る

The Total Work of Art provides a broad survey that incorporates many canonical artists into a single narrative. With particular attention to the influence of the Total Work of Art on modern theatre ……続きを見る

As archaeologists recover the lost treasures of Alexandria, the modern world is marveling at the latter-day glory of ancient Egypt and the Greeks who ruled it from the ascension of Ptolemy I in 306 ……続きを見る

Wo Gegensätze aufeinandertreffen Von Ravenna und Rimini über Apulien und die Straße von Otranto nach Albanien; von Dubrovnik über Split nach Rijeka, das einst Fiume hieß; nach Triest, Abbazia und Ve……続きを見る

The study of Ruskin’s work and influence is now a feature of several critical disciplines. New Approaches to Ruskin, first published in 1981, reflects this, gathering some of the most distinguished ……続きを見る

In late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists. Magnified fly-eyes drawn with the aid of microscopes, apparitions cast on laboratory ……続きを見る

So macht Alte Geschichte Spaß: Wie viel Griechenland steckt in uns? In seinem neuen Buch rechnet Karl-Wilhelm Weeber ab – und zwar ganz im Sinne der Griechen. Denn sie waren es, die uns die Demokrat……続きを見る

Décryptez l'art de William Turner en moins d'une heure ! Considéré à juste titre comme le plus grand paysagiste anglais, William Turner magnifie la lumière comme nul autre avant lui. Rehaussant ses ……続きを見る

Décryptez l'art de William Blake en moins d'une heure ! Dans les soubresauts révolutionnaires qui agitent l’Europe à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, William Blake crée un art sans précédent. Unique, l’univ……続きを見る

This unique, richly illustrated book confronts the elusive questions: how, and why, do we look at art? Beginning with an enigmatic fragment of yellow jasper - all that is left of the face of an Egyp……続きを見る

Writing, for Michael Snow, is as much a form of “art-making” as the broad range of visual art activities for which he is renowned, including the “Walking Woman” series and the film Wavelength. Conve……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 Dignity of Every Human Being” studies the vibrant New Brunswick artistic community which challenged “the tyranny of the Group of Seven” with socially-engaged realism in the 1930s and 40s. Using……続きを見る

Inscriptions convey meaning not just by their contents but also by other means, such as choice of script, location, scale, spatial organisation, letterform, legibility and clarity. The essays in thi……続きを見る

This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in co……続きを見る