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A symbol of modernity, the Viennese Secession was defined by the rebellion of twenty artists who were against the conservative Vienna Künstlerhaus' oppressive influence over the city, the epoch, and the whole Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Influenced by Art Nouveau, this...
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Parkstone International
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2014-05-01
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Gothic art finds its roots in the powerful architecture of the cathedrals of northern France. It is a medieval art movement that evolved throughout Europe over more than 200 years.
Leaving curved Roman forms behind, the architects started using flying buttresses and...
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Parkstone International
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2014-05-01
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In art history, the term ‘Romanesque art’ distinguishes the period between the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 12th century. This era showed a great diversity of regional schools each with their own unique style.In architecture as well as in sculpture,...
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Parkstone International
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2014-05-01
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Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, E.L. Kirchner, Paul Klee, Franz Marc as well as the Austrians Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele were among the generation of highly individual artists who contributed to the vivid and often controversial new movement in...
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Parkstone International
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2014-05-01
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In Victorian England, with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelites, close to William Morris’ Arts and Crafts movement, yearned for a return to bygone values. Wishing to revive the pure and noble forms of the Italian Renaissance, the major...
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Parkstone International
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2014-05-01
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Romanticism was a reaction against the Neoclassicism that invaded the 19th century, and marked a veritable intellectual rupture. Found in the writings of Victor Hugo and Lord Byron, amongst others, its ideas are expressed in painting by Eugène Delacroix, Caspar David...
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Parkstone International
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2014-05-01
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Art Deco style was established on the ashes of a disappeared world, the one from before the First World War, and on the foundation stone of a world yet to become, opened to the most undisclosed promises. Forgetting herself in the whirl of Jazz Age and the euphoria of...
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Parkstone International
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2014-05-01
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Both madcap cookbook and manifesto on Futurism, Marinetti's exuberant and entertaining book has been described as one of 'the best artistic jokes of the century'No other cultural force except the early twentieth-century avant-garde movement Futurism has produced a...
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Penguin
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2014-05-01
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This survey asks a seemingly simple question: Is there an affinity between the emergence of modern art and various Avant-Garde movements such as Russian Suprematism and Polish or Hungarian Constructivism around about the turn of the last century and the process of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-29
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Bereits zeitgenössische Kritiker stehen irritiert vor der Breite des Werks des Schriftstellers und Journalisten Hermann Bahr (1863–1934) und monieren vor allem dessen Heterogenität. Verwirrung stiftet seine Praxis, ständig neue künstlerische Stile und kulturelle...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-01
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This book consists of essays on the Vienna School’s impact on Central European art history, Walter Benjamin’s move from transhistoricism to historical relativism, Jacob Burckhardt’s legacy and its metamorphoses, two competing conceptions of the social history of art,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-01
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Drawing on his own experiences and inspirations - from staging his first exhibition in his tiny Zurich kitchen in 1986 to encounters and conversations with artists, exhibition makers and thinkers alive and dead - Hans Ulrich Obrist's Ways of Curating looks to inspire...
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Penguin
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2014-03-27
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This book describes in detail the materials and techniques used by medieval iconographers. It offers information about the natural sources, the raw materials, the tools and the technologies involved in preparing them. The book allows entry into the secretive world of...
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Springer
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2014-03-25
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SpringerBriefs in Materials
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Henri Matisse by Alastair Sooke - an essential guide to one of the 20th century's greatest artists'One January morning in 1941, only a fortnight or so after his seventy-first birthday, the bearded and bespectacled French artistHenri Matisse was lying in a hospital bed...
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Penguin
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2014-03-24
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014The artist Harriet Burden, furious at the lack of attention paid her by the New York art world, conducts an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts in a series of exhibitions. Their success seems to prove her...
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Sceptre
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2014-03-13
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Have you ever wondered, "How can I inherently do good while looking good?" Wear No Evil has the answer, and is the timely handbook for navigating both fashion and ethics. It is the style guide with sustainability built in that we've all been waiting for. As a consumer,...
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Running Press Adult
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2014-03-11
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Born in 1860 in a small Czech town, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was an artist on the forefront of Art Nouveau, the modernist movement that swept Paris in the 1910s, marking a return to the simplicity of natural forms, and changing the world of art and design forever. In...
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Parkstone International
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2014-03-10
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Russian countryside is some of the world’s most lovely, from the celebrated explosions of wild flowers that fill its forests in the spring, to the icy winter tundra that defeated the advances of Napoleon and Hitler, and provided the backdrop for the drama of many of...
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Parkstone International
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2014-03-10
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Alfons Mucha ist der ungekrönte König der Jugendstil-Illustration. Für viele Menschen sind Muchas überirdisch schöne, von floralen Ornamentgeflechten umgegebene Frauen, die erste Assoziation mit der beliebten Kunstrichtung der Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert. Muchas Kunst,...
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Parkstone International
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2014-03-10
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Die russischen Landschaften gehören zu den schönsten der Welt, mit den berühmten Wildblumenteppichen in den Wäldern im Frühling und der eisigen Wintertundra, die das Vordringen Napoleons und Hitlers vereitelte, bilden sie die Kulisse für so viele bekannte Szenen der...
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Parkstone International
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2014-03-10
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