MG - Art History 1

In late sixteenth-century Bologna, Annibale Carracci reinvigorated painting through a renewed study of nature in vivid depictions of a bean-eater and butchers, and moving religious images. In Rome, ……続きを見る

Offering a new view of nineteenth-century American landscape painting, this book focuses on the praxis of open-air painting and its distinctive role in generating and invigorating a new conceptualiz……続きを見る

Israeli art from the turn of the millennium is the work of movers: artists who have relocated from one country to another, more by choice than by force, and who have thus beheld and refabricated an ……続きを見る

What is the position of art in contemporary culture, where it is threatened by an ever-greater diversity of media, discourses, practices, genres and forms? Contemporary Art and Other Obstructions se……続きを見る

This is the first book that offers a comprehensive account of video art after the Cultural Revolution in China with a special emphasis on the way it progressed together with phenomenal socio-economi……続きを見る

This Book, is a collection of short stories about Russia. Book contains many collections of short stories by the popular and influential Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary m……続きを見る

For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the N……続きを見る

Der legendäre Autor Tork Josef Poettschke alias Christopher Doemges wurde im Jahr des Herrn anno 1980 in der westdeutschen Westfalenmetropoly Dortmund geboren. Seit Besuch des Gymnasiums lebt und ar……続きを見る

EDITORIAL: Das E-Magazin, POETTSCHKES POST, ist im dritten Jahr seines Erscheinens zur Institution aufgestiegen, hat sich etabliert. Themen sind, wie stets, das (internationale) Leben, Gott & seine ……続きを見る

In the last years of the nineteenth century, the Tunisian city of Qayrawān suddenly found itself covered in murals. Concentrated on and around the city’s Great Mosque, these monumental artworks were……続きを見る

An illuminating exploration of the meaning of abstract art by acclaimed art historian Kirk Varnedoe "What is abstract art good for? What's the useーfor us as individuals, or for any societyーof pict……続きを見る

Constructivist and sculptor Naum Gabo’s personal account of his development as an artist A leading exponent of the modern art movement known as Constructivism, Russian-born Naum Gabo was one of the ……続きを見る

This book focuses on the cultural and intellectual activities of Kurdish migrant women through artistic and aesthetic forms of production in Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden and the UK. Using in-dep……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

In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic process itself. In this volume, Kim Grant analyzes thi……続きを見る

Depicting the Creation of Woman presented a special problem for Renaissance artists. The medieval iconography of Eve rising half-formed from Adam's side was hardly compatible with their commitment t……続きを見る

Artificial bodies constructed in human likeness, from uncanny automatons to mechanical dolls, have long played a complex and subtle role in human identity and culture. This book takes a range of the……続きを見る

A born storyteller, Troy Cassar-Daley has at last turned his talent to sharing his own inspiring life. ‘Troy’s achievements are many, and perhaps the finest may be his ability to make us listen to h……続きを見る

This book contains papers that reflect the wide-ranging interests of the Dutch archaeologist Maurits van Loonーprehistory, art history, and ancient history. It is a mine of useful information and sy……続きを見る

The history of modern art is often told through aesthetic breakthroughs that sync well with cultural and political change. From Courbet to Picasso, from Malevich to Warhol, it is accepted that art t……続きを見る

Book One. Rae Wilder has issues. Heavenly animals swarm the earth, and humankind is near the very edge of eradication. Followed by an attractive pixie who claims she resembles him, demonkind, Rae th……続きを見る

This book offers a compelling study of contemporary developments in European migration studies and the representation of migration in the arts and cultural institutions. It introduces scholars and s……続きを見る

Premio Nacional de Ensayo 2007 La diosa Fortuna ha sido concebida tradicionalmente como una personificación de aquellos elementos de la vida humana que no podemos manejar, sino que están en manos de……続きを見る

Pop art has traditionally been the most visible visual art within popular culture because its main transgression is easy to understand: the infiltration of the “low” into the “high”. The same cannot……続きを見る

Erziehung und Angst – eine Geschichte der elterlichen Verunsicherung Wie viel Nähe braucht ein Kind? Darf ich mein Baby beruhigen, wenn es weint, oder muss es lernen, sich selbst zu beruhigen? Und w……続きを見る

In Still Moving noted artists, filmmakers, art historians, and film scholars explore the boundary between cinema and photography. The interconnectedness of the two media has emerged as a critical co……続きを見る

Nominated for the 2016 Art in Literature: Mary Lynn Kotz Award, Library of Virginia Owing to digitization, globalization and mass culture, what is deemed 'desirable' and 'of the moment' in art has i……続きを見る