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Creative Urban Atmospheres explores the potential for urban planners, researchers, and artists to intervene in the atmosphere of spectacle dominating current neoliberal urbanism strategies through s……続きを見る

A celebrity in his own day, who gave lectures dressed as Napoleon or seated on the back of an elephant, Ramón Gómez de la Serna is the most representative writer of the interwar Spanish avant-garde.……続きを見る

This book offers, for the first time in aesthetics, a comprehensive account of aestheticism of the 19th century as a philosophical theory of its own right. Taking philosophical and art-historical vi……続きを見る

Baroque novels focus on the psychology of love, while love in the context of nature is the subject of the pastoral genre. Introducing animals to such texts proves unexpectedly challenging. The inclu……続きを見る

Dieser Sammelband lotet die facettenreiche Praxis des Imitats, Zitats, Plagiats sowie der Herstellung von ‚Originalen‘ in Literatur und Kultur der Frühen Neuzeit aus. Die versammelten Fallstudien be……続きを見る

Aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, un riche débat se concentre autour de l’image du corps. Ainsi, la réception du discours anatomique dans l’art et les échanges entre l’Italie et l’Espagne concourent à la r……続きを見る

Parlamente, als Orte einer demokratisch verfassten Legislative, stehen heute mehr denn je im Fokus politischer Prozesse. Jenseits tagespolitischer Aktivitäten der Parlamente bilden die Bauten dieser……続きを見る

« Ce livre est le fruit d’un projet ambitieux visant à replacer l’émergence du portrait européen dans le contexte large d’une évolution où parmi d’autres facteurs les rites funéraires et les masques……続きを見る

Dans ce tome, nous découvrons François, le fils. Poussé par sa famille, il va apprendre le métier d’artiste. De Michel-Ange au Titien, de Rome à Fontainebleau en passant par Venise, rien ne semble p……続きを見る

Comment est née la division du temps en jours, en semaines, en mois et en années ? Comment a évolué le calendrier? Ce livre présente l’histoire du calendrier depuis son origine jusqu’aux différentes……続きを見る

Media and Participation looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist vers……続きを見る

In "The Private Memoirs of Madame du Hausset" Book II, Nicole du Hausset offers an in-depth historical account of the court of Louis XV in mid-18th century France. This intimate memoir provides valu……続きを見る

Born just fourteen months apart, one in London and the other in rural Suffolk, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable went on to change the face of British art. The two men have routinely been seen as pol……続きを見る

This book contains fifteen essays that synthesize the documentary and archaeological evidence for the development of early medieval Durham and asses its archaeological potential. It systematically e……続きを見る

The mechanical philosophy first emerged as a leading player on the intellectual scene in the early modern periodーseeking to explain all natural phenomena through the physics of matter and motionーa……続きを見る

A beautifully illustrated tour of the visual culture of medieval falconry in Europe and beyond. Medieval falconry was not just about hunting; the practice also signified sovereignty, power, and dipl……続きを見る

This beautiful book contains fascinating text and over 170 unique photographs of one of the most interesting but least well known cultures in the Indonesian Archipelago. The traditional art of Maluk……続きを見る

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea working in myriad genres across media, ranging from oral narratives and traditiona……続きを見る

Quand l’Homme arriva-t-il pour la première fois en Sardaigne? Quelles traces de son passage a-t-il laissé? À quoi servaient les Domus de Janas et pourquoi les appellent-on ainsi? Que sont les menhir……続きを見る

This volume focuses on Jewish American identity within the context of Pop art in New York City during the sixties to reveal the multivalent identities and selves often ignored in Pop scholarship. Me……続きを見る

In 1857 the French poet Charles Baudelaire, who was fascinated by lesbianism, created a scandal with Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil]. This collection was originally entitled "The Lesbians" a……続きを見る

In this elegantly written and beautifully illustrated book, Nico Israel reveals how spirals are at the heart of the most significant literature and visual art of the twentieth century. Juxtaposing t……続きを見る

This book analyzes how contemporary visual art can visualize environmental crisis. It draws on Karen Barad’s method of “agential realism,” which understands disparate factors as working together and……続きを見る

China and Africa have long shared a history of allegiance and contact points through global political forces from the time of colonialism and the Cold War. With China’s rise as the new superpower, i……続きを見る

The Porous Museum examines questions of museum practice, aesthetics and politics through a focused study of The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest. The museum has functioned succes……続きを見る

Dans "Théorie du geste dans l'art de la peinture", Jacques-Nicolas Paillot de Montabert explore l'importance du geste dans la représentation artistique, défendant l'idée que le mouvement et l'expres……続きを見る

First published in 1952. An invaluable introduction to Shakespeare, this book places Shakespeare's work and criticism against the background of Elizabethan life in its historical, social, political,……続きを見る

Der überarbeitete und erweiterte BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors präsentiert 304 öffentlich zugängliche Privatsammlungen zeitgenössischer Kunst – große wie kleine, bekannte wie noch unentdec……続きを見る

Der überarbeitete und erweiterte BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors präsentiert fast 300 öffentlich zugängliche Privatsammlungen zeitgenössischer Kunst – große wie kleine, bekannte wie noch une……続きを見る

The revised and extended BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors presents 304 private collections of contemporary art accessible to the publicーfeaturing large and small, famous and the relatively u……続きを見る