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This new biographical look at Leonardo da Vinci explores the Renaissance master's groundbreaking portrayal of women which forever changed the way the female form is depicted. Leonardo da Vinci was a……続きを見る

This book examines the increasing intersections of art and parenting from the late 1990s to the early 2010s, when constructions of masculine and feminine identities, as well as the structure of the ……続きを見る

LANGUAGE OF VISION is a timely, courageous book without parallel in its field. It deals with present-day problems of visual expression from a realistic and human point of view, and endeavors to esca……続きを見る

The author, Dr. Franz Landsberger, himself a fugitive from Nazi terror, wrote this book to share with his readers the solace which he found during the years of persecution in the contemplation of a ……続きを見る

This volume explores how India as a geographical space was constructed by the British colonial regime in visual and material terms. It demonstrates the instrumentalisation of cultural artefacts such……続きを見る

Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole shows that the Gothic style in architecture and the decorative arts and the tradition of medievalist research associated with Horace……続きを見る

A Chronology of Medieval British History 1307–1485 is a year-by-year guide to political, military, religious and cultural developments in the states within the British Isles from 1307-1485. The book……続きを見る

Neorealism emerged as a cultural exchange and a field of discourse that served to shift the confines of creativity and revise the terms of artistic expression not only in Italy but worldwide. If neo……続きを見る

This book explores the ways in which Nordic private collectors displayed their collections of Chinese objects in their homes. This leads to a reconsideration of how to define collecting and display ……続きを見る

The Subtlety of the Light is a book that summarizes a number of writings related to philosophical, altruistic, metaphysical and existentialist thoughts. It is approached through poetic forms, essays……続きを見る

The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model “Aryan” society in Norway during World War II Between 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transform……続きを見る

E. D. Cuming's "George Morland: Sixteen Examples in Colour of the Artist's Work" offers a vibrant and scholarly exploration of the life and oeuvre of George Morland, an influential 18th-century Engl……続きを見る

Fair Women was the Victorian equivalent of a ‘blockbuster’ exhibition. Organised by a committee of women, it opened to great fanfare in the Grafton Galleries in London, and was comprised of both his……続きを見る

This is an in-depth study of the intellectual, technical, and artistic encounters between Europe and China in the late eighteenth century, focusing on the purposeful acquisition of information and i……続きを見る

This book examines the art of Cobra, a network of poets and artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam (1948–1951). Although the name stood for the organizers’ home cities, the Cobra artists h……続きを見る

Quoi de mieux qu’une exposition pour célébrer le cinquantenaire du traité de l’Élysée, signé par le général de Gaulle et le chancelier Adenauer le 22 janvier 1963 ?... À PROPOS DE L’ENCYCLOPAEDIA UN……続きを見る

This book presents new research on the histories and legacies of the German Expressionist group Blaue Reiter, the founding force behind modernist abstraction. For the first time Blaue Reiter is subj……続きを見る

The question of how to understand Bruegel’s art has cast the artist in various guises: as a moralizing satirist, comedic humanist, celebrator of vernacular traditions, and proto-ethnographer. Stepha……続きを見る

A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. Written by the famous non……続きを見る

This book follows Chagall’s life through his art and his understanding of the role of the artist as a political being. It takes the reader through the different milieus of the nineteenth and twentie……続きを見る

Dans "Les origines de la Renaissance en Italie", Émile Gebhart explore les mouvements culturels et intellectuels qui ont marqué la transition entre le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance, mettant en lumière……続きを見る

Dans "Louis David, Son Ecole et Son Temps: Souvenirs", E. J. Delécluze offre un panorama fascinant de la vie et de l'influence de Louis David, un peintre emblématique du néoclassicisme français. À t……続きを見る

Dans *L'art russe*, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc explore la richesse et la diversité de l'art en Russie, notamment à travers l'architecture, la peinture et l'artisanat. Sa prose est à la fois érud……続きを見る

European intellectuals of the 1950s dismissed American culture as nothing more than cowboy movies and the A-bomb. In response, American cultural diplomats tried to show that the United States had so……続きを見る

Rethinking the relationship between eighteenth-century Pietist traditions and Enlightenment thought and practice, The Practices of Enlightenment unravels the complex and often neglected religious or……続きを見る

Stephen Eric Bronner revisits the modernist project's groundbreaking innovations, itsexperimental imagination, and its utopian politics. Reading the artistic and intellectual achievements of the mov……続きを見る

Marcel Duchamp is often viewed as an "artist-engineer-scientist," a kind of rationalist who relied heavily on the ideas of the French mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincaré. Yet a complete por……続きを見る

Impressionism captured the world's imagination in the late nineteenth century and remains with us today. Portraying the dynamic effects of modernity, impressionist artists revolutionized the arts an……続きを見る

Hace cien años moría en Estocolmo uno de los artistas más importantes de la literatura nórdica. A su entierro acudieron sesenta de los trescientos mil habitantes que tenía la ciudad en aquella época……続きを見る

An illustrated exploration of Girlfriends (1965/66), one of Sigmar Polke's important early paintings. The artist Sigmar Polke (1941–2010) worked across a broad range of mediaーincluding photography,……続きを見る