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This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movemen……続きを見る

When he died at the age of thirty-seven, Vincent van Gogh left a legacy of over two thousand artworks, for which he is now justly famous. But van Gogh was also a prodigious writer of lettersーmore t……続きを見る

The ‘Divine’ sculptor, painter, architect, poet and engineer, Michelangelo Buonarroti exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art, producing masterpieces that rank among the ……続きを見る

An anthology of writings on exhibition practice from artists, critics, curators and art historians plus artist-curators. It addresses the contradictions posed by museum and gallery sited exhibitions……続きを見る

Dialect work is one of the actor's most challenging tasks. Need to know a Russian accent? Playing a German countess or a Midwestern farmhand? These and more accents – from Yiddish to French Canadian……続きを見る

“A fascinating tale of discovery and mystery.” ーThe Minneapolis Star Tribune In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved fro……続きを見る

Losing Your Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism looks at the subject of beheading in art as a trope of the destruction of the mind. This book discusses both psychoanaly……続きを見る

As we approach the bicentennial, in 2017, of the birth of Henry David Thoreau, there is considerable debate and confusion as to what he may, or may not have, contributed to American life and culture……続きを見る

This book examines the appetite for Egyptian and Egyptian-looking artwork in Italy during the century following Rome's annexation of Aegyptus as a province. In the early imperial period, Roman inter……続きを見る

While the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches an……続きを見る

Extrait : "Il est très difficile de dégager une réalité historique du milieu des légendes qui avaient cours en Grèce sur les origines de la sculpture. Quand les Grecs ont commencé à s'inquiéter de l……続きを見る

Joseph Mallord William Turner (Londres, 1775 – 1851) A 15 ans, Turner exposait déjà une Vue de Lambeth. Il acquit très tôt la réputation d'un aquarelliste extrêmement habile. Disciple de Girtin et d……続きを見る

In this book, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the intersection of art, risk and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife and the striking ways that ancient Ife artworks inform s……続きを見る

This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in co……続きを見る

Mahler's Voices brings together a close reading of the renowned composer's music with wide-ranging cultural and historical interpretation, unique in being a study not of Mahler's works as such but o……続きを見る

In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially American ab……続きを見る

Italy's Lost Greece is the untold story of the modern engagement with the ancient Greek settlements of South Italy--an area known since antiquity as Magna Graecia. This "Greater Greece," at once Gre……続きを見る

Barbara Novak is one of America's premier art historians, the author of the seminal books American Painting of the Nineteenth Century and Nature and Culture, the latter of which was named one of the……続きを見る

Décryptez l’art de Georges Seurat en moins d’une heure ! Mal connu du public, Georges Seurat est pourtant une figure centrale de la peinture française de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle : il parvie……続きを見る

Décryptez l'art de Jacques-Louis David en moins d'une heure ! Représentant majeur du néoclassicisme français, Jacques-Louis David inscrit son art au cœur de l’histoire, mêlant subtilement à ses suje……続きを見る

Décryptez l’art d'Antoine Watteau en moins d’une heure ! Légèreté, frivolité, insouciance... Watteau, mieux que quiconque, a été capable de traduire dans ses toiles vibrantes la nouvelle ambiance de……続きを見る

Décryptez l'art de Théodore Géricault en moins d'une heure ! Né dans les affres de la Révolution française, Théodore Géricault brise le carcan de l'art officiel pour proposer une œuvre où la passion……続きを見る

An insightful look at representations of women’s bodies and female authority. This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic a……続きを見る

List of Illustrations xiii The Life I The Style 19 Contents The Drawings 40 Appraisal and Evaluation 64 Bibliography 79 Notes 82 Index 90 Illustrations vii The French seventeenth century remains at ……続きを見る

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Kunst - Kunstgeschichte, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die im vorliegenden Band reproduzierten Modestiche sind in den Jahren zwischen 1867 und 1878 in dem f……続きを見る

Only a few years ago, if you needed an appraisal of The revolution in the personal property appraisals gems and jewelry for any reason, you asked your local field (of which jewelry is a part) is a l……続きを見る

A powerful introduction to modernism and the creative arts it inspired. How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist eraーwhich began……続きを見る

The Far Shore (1976), made under the direction of celebrated visual artist and experimental filmmaker Joyce Wieland, is one of Canada's most innovative contributions to cinema. The film borrows elem……続きを見る

The author of this enthralling book aims to present a well-illustrated and documented alternative history of the Western World through graphic accounts of looting and art theft from the time of Sarg……続きを見る

This book investigates the founding and building of cities in the ancient Near East. The creation of new cities was imagined as an ideological project or a divine intervention in the political narra……続きを見る