David - Art History 1

Gli studi che Davide Stimilli, dopo più di venti anni di appassionata ricerca, ha raccolto in questo volume sono forse il contributo più articolato e originale alla conoscenza di Aby Warburg, una fi……続きを見る

How artists make a living and how money changes art It may not be the worst time in history to get paid to make art, but it certainly is the strangest. The institutions and markets that have been su……続きを見る

« La Petite Fille au ruban bleu est l’un des tableaux les plus connus de Renoir. Son modèle, Irène Cahen d’Anvers, faisait partie de la grande bourgeoisie juive de la fin du XIXᵉ siècle, très influe……続きを見る

As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers……続きを見る

"The Language of Fiction" was the first book of criticism by the novelist David Lodge. In it he established a fresh approach to the appreciation of literature that focuses the reader's attention on ……続きを見る

"Come, let's surf the winds of Luxor. Yes, the demigods from antiquity will envy you and I. Nevertheless, time is propelling forward. It pleases me to share my observations with you, while others di……続きを見る

Morton Feldman is widely regarded as one of America's greatest composers. His music is famously idiosyncratic, but, in many cases, the way he presented it is also unusual because, in the 1950s and 1……続きを見る

1964 es tal vez un año que podría pasar desapercibido, pero al observarlo con detenimiento parece revelarse como la bisagra de un cambio de época. Ese año Marcel Duchamp decide comercializar sus "re……続きを見る

Widely regarded as the leading figure of the German Romantic movement, Caspar David Friedrich produced vast and mysterious landscapes and seascapes that explored the theme of human helplessness agai……続きを見る

"The Korshak Collection is a portrait and biography of a man and his family, who once looked upon the dark skies and saw Immortals, gods hunting in the storm clouds. Stephen Korshak decided to dedic……続きを見る

Through most of Western European history, Jews have been a numerically tiny or entirely absent minority, but across that history Europeans have nonetheless worried a great deal about Judaism. Why sh……続きを見る

The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette. Two-thirds of it is irrevocably lost, since the earliest images known to us are fro……続きを見る

Visions of War provides a historical survey, an anatomy, an interpretation, and a polemic about the ways human beings have created pictures of battle and conflict from the Stone Age to the Gulf War.……続きを見る

Raphael’s Poetics applies strategies of interpretation implicit in antique poetry to the visual art of the Renaissance, concentrating on Raphael’s Roman works and their cultural context. Until recen……続きを見る

Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has been controversial from its beginning in the life of the French Visitationist nun Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690), who established the devotion after a s……続きを見る

Decades after pulling up stakes, three sixty-something Canadians living in three different countries are drawn back to the town in which they spent their formative years and built their lifelong fri……続きを見る

The Fonte Gaia from Renaissance to Modern Times examines the history of Siena's famous public fountain, from its fifteenth-century origins to its eventual replacement by a copy in the nineteenth cen……続きを見る

Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical ……続きを見る

Why modern and contemporary artーand art conservationーcan’t be understood without taking account of the revolutionary impact of plastics Modern and contemporary art wouldn’t exist without the inven……続きを見る

This multi-authored monograph consists of the sections: “Pop Rock, Ethno-Chaos, Battle Drums, and a Requiem: The Sounds of the Ukrainian Revolution”, “The Euromaidan’s Aftermath and the Genre of Ans……続きを見る

When Samuel Beckett’s work first appeared, it was routinely described, by Adorno amongst others, as a clear example of European high culture. However, this judgement ignored an aspect of Beckett’s w……続きを見る

Michel Jeanneret (1940-2019) fut sans conteste l’un des grands critiques de sa génération, l’un des commentateurs les plus inspirants de la littérature et de la culture des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. De……続きを見る

Figura preminente della pittura neoclassica, David fu appassionato assertore degli ideali della Rivoluzione Francese. Arrestato dopo gli avvenimenti del Terrore giacobino, riuscì a scampare alle ese……続きを見る

When the Bloomsbury critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell introduced an aesthetically conservative English public to recent Parisian avant-garde painting, they explained its disconcerting imagery by way ……続きを見る

The concept for this book materialised as a result of some brilliant research by University of Buckingham MA Archaeology students in 2014-15. Each examined a feature of the Stonehenge landscape from……続きを見る

The Stonehenge landscape is one of the most famous prehistoric places in the world, but much about its origins remains a mystery and little attention has been paid to what preceded, and thus may hav……続きを見る

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In the first three decades of the twentieth century, artists, writers, musicians, and architects from both sides of the Atlantic interacted to create a modern style for Brazil. Their works shaped Br……続きを見る

“Stunning and stirring.” ーBoston Globe In The Last of His Kind, renowned adventure writer David Roberts gives readers a spellbinding history of mountain climbing in the twentieth century as told th……続きを見る

¿Qué es un comisario de arte? Una aproximación lúdica y divulgativa a partir de la vida y la obra de algunos de los artistas más destacados del siglo XX. Si como decía Joseph Beuys todo el mundo es ……続きを見る