Art History 94

At the heart of Michael Leunig's work lies the idea of the holy fool - a character who does not conform to social norms of behaviour because of a peculiar mental disposition or as a deliberate choic……続きを見る

The greatest Flemish painter of the sixteenth century, Pieter Bruegel the Elder produced innovative landscapes and vigorous, witty scenes of peasant life. He exerted a strong influence on painting i……続きを見る

Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The essay……続きを見る

Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disru……続きを見る

Many on the left lament an apathy or amnesia toward recent acts of war. Particularly during the George W. Bush administration's invasion of Iraq, opposition to war seemed to lack the heat and potenc……続きを見る

F. Antsey was a pen name used by English novelist Thomas Guthrie, whose comic novels were very popular in the early 19th century. 続きを見る

In A Saving Science, Eric Ramírez-Weaver explores the significance of early medieval astronomy in the Frankish empire, using as his lens an astronomical masterpiece, the deluxe manuscript of the Han……続きを見る

The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letters and papers never before available, a……続きを見る

Critical Practice is an ambitious work that blurs the boundaries between art history, museum studies, political science and applied ethics. Marstine demonstrates how convergences between institution……続きを見る

In many different parts of the world modern furniture elements have served as material expressions of power in the post-war era. They were often meant to express an international and in some respect……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 d'Edvard Munch avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Parallèlement aux grandes œuvres des écrivains scandinaves, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, la production d'Edvard Munch re……続きを見る

Partez à la découverte du mouvement dada avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! C'est miracle qu'on puisse aujourd'hui voir et lire des œuvres du mouvement dada, en dépit de sa persécution par le régim……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

Partez à la découverte de Caravage avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Michelangelo Merisi ou Merighi dit il Caravaggio est originaire de Caravaggio en Lombardie. On pense aujourd'hui que Caravage e……続きを見る

Partez à la découverte des graffiti avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! La signification profonde des graffiti réside non pas dans les moyens par lesquels ils sont effectués, qui ne diffèrent pas de……続きを見る

Partez à la découverte de Jean-Louis Forain avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Peintre, dessinateur, graveur, témoin de la Belle Époque comme de la Première Guerre mondiale, Jean-Louis Forain a con……続きを見る

Les plus grands spécialistes pour comprendre la sculpture Plus de 400 articles composent la table des matières de ce Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs qui embrasse l’histoire de l’art universel et aborde ……続きを見る

Alastair Fowler presents a fascinating study of title-pages printed in England from the early modern period to the nineteenth century. He examines pictorial title-pages in the context of the History……続きを見る

Critical investigation into the rubric of 'Shakespeare and the visual arts' has generally focused on the influence exerted by the works of Shakespeare on a number of artists, painters, and sculptors……続きを見る

This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglected group of porticoes decorated with painted pergol……続きを見る

The Art of Discovery. The Discovery of Art. The History of Art! Warhol, Michelangelo, and da Vinci. Picasso, Monet, and Rembrandt, Ai WeiWei and Jenny Holzer. What were they thinking when they creat……続きを見る

In the twenty-first century the basic questions of ethics are no longer the abstract terms of ethical theory, but the concrete and burning issues related to the influence of life sciences, the impac……続きを見る

Étude de l'œuvre d'un maître qui a influencé des générations d'artistes. Hokusai fut d’abord un homme d’école, le camarade et l’émule de ces délicats. Puis, son indépendance géniale lui fit abandonn……続きを見る

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Kunst - Kunstgeschichte, Note: 1,7, Universität Karlsruhe (TH) (Kunst- und Baugeschichte), Veranstaltung: Architektur der Erinnerung - Jerusalem, Spra……続きを見る

Over the course of several centuries, Venice fashioned and refined a portrait of itself that responded to and exploited historical circumstance. Never conquered and taking its enduring independence ……続きを見る

Dante's Divine Comedy captivated medieval readers, and each successive era remains spellbound by its sublime portraits of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. In the early 19th century, one of England's gre……続きを見る

Jump back in time with the help of this highly educational book. Here, your child will be learning with pharaohs and going inside pyramids where mummies lay silent. It's a cool book to have because ……続きを見る

Arriving in New York City in the first decade of the twentieth century, six painters-Robert Henri, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Glackens, George Luks, and George Bellows, subsequently known as the Ash……続きを見る