| |
The art of the object reached unparalleled heights in the medieval Islamic world, yet the intellectual dimensions of ceramics, metalwares, and other plastic arts in this milieu have not always been acknowledged. Arts of Allusion reveals the object as a crucial site...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-07-31
PDF, ePub
|
?This Handbook provides the first comprehensive international overview of significant contemporary Indigenous architecture, practice, and discourse, showcasing established and emerging Indigenous authors and practitioners from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-06-26
PDF, ePub
|
'She vividly charts the birth of surrealism . . . a tale rich in absurdity and outlandish characters, from Cocteau and Max Ernst to Dali and Picasso' Sunday TimesIn this entertaining and informative biography, Sue Roe illustrates how surrealism emerged in Paris amidst...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2018-06-21
ePub
|
Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2015, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the relationship between...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-20
ePub
|
Wrap up in style, the Northern way.In Knitting from the North, Hilary Grant - who lives in Orkney, at the very north of Scotland, closer to Norway than London - has translated her most popular patterns from her luxury Scottish knitwear range into 30 colourful...
Editeur :
Kyle Books
Parution :
2018-06-18
ePub
|
Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2015, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the relationship between...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-14
PDF
|
Jake Spicer wants you to learn how to draw. This is his complete course in drawing, suitable for complete beginners as well as experienced artists, and designed to help you fit drawing into your lifestyle. Tried-and-tested exercises, ranging from five-minute sketches to...
Editeur :
Ilex Press
Parution :
2018-06-07
ePub
|
What is a 'symbolic revolution'?What happens when a symbolic revolutions occurs, how can it succeed and prevail and why is it so difficult to understand? Using the exemplary case of Édouard Manet, Pierre Bourdieu began to ponder these questions as early as the 1980s,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-05-18
ePub
|
A wildly entertaining biography of the British fashion designer who set the trends for rock royalty from the Beatles to Mick Jagger to Elton John.Tommy Nutter was a visionary tailor in the bespoke tradition who dressed everybody from Lord Montagu of Beaulieu to Twiggy,...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2018-05-10
ePub
|
Moving Pictures, Still Lives revisits the cinematic and intellectual atmosphere of the late twentieth century. Against the backdrop of the historical fever of the 1980s and 1990s-the rise of the heritage industry, a global museum-building boom, and a cinematic...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-05-04
PDF, ePub
|
The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the role of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-02
ePub
|
The Folly of the Cross is the fourth book in Richard Viladesau's series examining the aesthetics and theology of the cross through Christian history. Previous volumes have brought the story up through the Baroque era. This new book examines the reception of the message...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-05-01
PDF, ePub
|
The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the role of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-27
PDF
|
A visionary scientist, a supreme painter, a man of eccentricity and ambition: Leonardo da Vinci had many lives. Born from a fleeting affair between a country girl and a young notary, Leonardo was never legitimized by his father and received no formal education. While...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-04-27
ePub
|
In this book, Yan Geng examines Mao’s image from the perspective of its producers, focusing on four artists, chosen for both the diverse media they worked in and their diverse backgrounds. The book suggests an alternative perspective on the making of propaganda not only...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-04-17
PDF
|
As famous during his lifetime as after his death, Rembrandt (1606-1669) was oneof the greatest masters of the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century. His portraitsnot only bring us back to that fascinating time, but also represent, above all, ahuman adventure; beneath...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2018-04-11
ePub
|
Zu seinen Lebzeiten wie auch nach seinem Tod war Rembrandt (1606-1669) einer der größten Meister des niederländischen Goldenen Zeitalters des 17. Jahrhunderts. Seine Porträts bringen uns nicht nur in diese faszinierende Zeit zurück, sondern repräsentieren vor allem auch...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2018-04-11
ePub
|
Edvard Munch (1863-1944), a Norwegian painter involved in Expressionism, was so attached to his work that he called his paintings his children, which is rather unsurprising given that they were deeply personal. Indeed, Munch expressed much of his own inner turmoil...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2018-04-11
ePub
|
Camille Pissarro was a pivotal figure of Impressionism, perhaps the world’s most famous art movement. He also tackled different forms of Neoimpressionism, while maintaining very personal characteristics in his art all throughout his life. A key figure in the...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2018-04-11
ePub
|
All throughout his fruitful career, Velázquez painted the powerful just as well as the ordinary Spanish people. His body of work bears the imprint of realism worthy of the greatest Flemish masters of the period, and despite outside influences, he undeniably succeeded in...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2018-04-11
ePub
|