Art History 100

Artistic practices have long been disturbing the relationships between art and space. They have challenged the boundaries of performer/spectator, of public/private, introduced intervention and insta……続きを見る

Migration und Musik haben miteinander zu tun – mehr als dies auf den ersten Blick erscheinen mag. So auch in Salzburg. Der Band Salzburg: Sounds of Migration macht bekannt mit I. der langen Geschich……続きを見る

The book series "Ottomania" researches cultural transfers between the Ottoman Empire and Europe, with the performing arts as its focus. In Ottoman Empire and European Theatre, vol. IV: Seraglios in ……続きを見る

Der gelehrte Förderer der schönen Künste, Johann Adam Graf von Questenberg, machte aus seinem Schloss im mährischen Städtchen Jarmeritz (Jaromerice) ein kulturelles Zentrum Mitteleuropas. In regem A……続きを見る

Zahlreich sind die Verbindungslinien von Venedig über die Alpen nach Salzburg, sowohl in kultureller als auch in wirtschaftlicher Hinsicht. Über die Handelsmagazine Salzburger Kaufleute im Fondaco d……続きを見る

The Norwegian painter Edvard Munch produced some of the most intensely evocative images of modern art. Building upon nineteenth century Symbolism and greatly influencing German Expressionism, master……続きを見る

From the author of the successful 150 Best series comes the debut entry in the forward-thinking Open Concept Houses series, filled with nearly 500 pages of color photosーsure to become the ultimate ……続きを見る

Brasilien: 500 Jahre komplexe und spannende Kulturgeschichte. Fußball, Copacabana, Karneval, Favelas, Amazonas – was steckt hinter den üblichen Bildern? Die Geschichte Brasiliens ist viel umfassende……続きを見る

Der Kunstmarkt ist eine wichtige und besonders dynamische Teilbranche der Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft. Mit diesem Band liegt ein aktuelles und umfassendes Kompendium vor, das die Rahmenbedingungen……続きを見る

Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again. For the world's greatest cultural icon still has secrets to reveal - not the silly secrets that the 'Leonardo loonies……続きを見る

A photographic tour of the Detroit Public Library's rich art and architectural history. For the last century, the Detroit Public Library has ranked as one of the most beautiful buildings in Detroit……続きを見る

This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, one informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medical treatises centered on hysteria, and an orig……続きを見る

The two years before he wrote Crime and Punishment (1866) had been bad ones for Dostoyevsky. His wife and brother had died; the magazine he and his brother had started, Epoch, collapsed under its lo……続きを見る

Art in England fills a void in the scholarship of both English and medieval art by offering the first single volume overview of artistic movements in Medieval and Early Renaissance England. Grounded……続きを見る

The great baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio revolutionized painting by creating a new form of realistic art. His work depicted life directly, without sketches, resulting in a powerful……続きを見る

This pioneering work traces the emergence of the modern and contemporary art of Muslim South Asia in relation to transnational modernism and in light of the region's intellectual, cultural, and poli……続きを見る

Where do we find the worlds very first art? When, and why, did people begin experimenting with different materials, forms and colours? Were our once-cousins, the Neanderthals, also capable of creati……続きを見る

This book theorizes the baroque as neither a time period nor an artistic style but as a collection of bodily practices developed from clashes between governmental discipline and artistic excess, mov……続きを見る

A Finalist for the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Lati……続きを見る

Located in the small kingdom of Commagene at the upper Euphrates, the late Hellenistic monument of Nemrud Dağ (c.50 BC) has been undeservedly neglected by scholars. Qualified as a Greco-Persian hybr……続きを見る

Die Geschichte eines ungeheuren Jahres – der internationale Bestseller jetzt als hochwertiges Taschenbuch! »Ich konnte nicht mehr aufhören zu lesen – Illies' Geschichten sind einfach großartig.« Fer……続きを見る

Was Robert Altmans Film »Prêt-à-Porter« für die Modewelt war, ist Sarah Thorntons Buch für die Welt des riesigen Boom-Marktes der Gegenwartskunst: Nach welchen Regeln funktioniert sie? Wer entscheid……続きを見る

Among the numerous and varied methods which the Popish Church has adopted, to maintain its usurped sway over the minds and bodies of men, none has been more effectual than the erection of the Inquis……続きを見る

French Women Don’t Get Fat meets The Little Book of Hygge in this lively, sophisticated, and practical illustrated home decor and lifestyle guide that shows how to enjoy la belle vieーto live like t……続きを見る

This invaluable collection explores the many faces of murder, and its cultural presences, across the Italian peninsula between 1350 and 1650. These shape the content in different ways: the faces of ……続きを見る

The before-and-after trope in photography has long paired images to represent change: whether affirmatively, as in the results of makeovers, social reforms or medical interventions, or negatively, i……続きを見る

Comic Performativities: Identity, Internet Outrage, and the Aesthetics of Communication studies patterns of criticism and public debate in the relationship between humour, identity, and offense. In ……続きを見る

Exhibiting Craft and Design: Transgressing the White Cube Paradigm, 1930–present investigates the ways that craft and design objects were collected, displayed, and interpreted throughout the second ……続きを見る

What happens when a monumental thing is physically destroyed? Is its "life" as a socially significant, presencing thing at an end? Or might the process of destruction work to enhance its symbolic fo……続きを見る

By the time of his death in 1904, critics, arts reformers, and government officials were near universal in their praise of Art Nouveau designer Emile Gallé (1846–1904), whose works they described as……続きを見る