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Just as there is a fundamental difference in the use of the words “naked” and “nude”, the unclothed body can evoke a feeling of delight or shame, serving as a symbol of contradictory concepts – beauty and indecency. This book is devoted to ...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
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2014
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Manet is one of the most famous artists from the second half of the nineteenth century linked to the impressionists, although he was not really one of them. He had great influence on French painting partly because of the choice he made for his ...
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Parkstone International
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2014
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The self-appointed “leader” of the artists’ group Die Brücke (Bridge), founded in Dresden in 1905, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a key figure in the early development of German Expressionism. His first works show the influence of Impressionism, ...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
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2014
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Goya is perhaps the most approachable of painters. His art, like his life, is an open book. He concealed nothing from his contemporaries, and offered his art to them with the same frankness. The entrance to his world is not barricaded with ...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
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2014
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Dürer is the greatest of German artists and most representative of the German mind. He, like Leonardo, was a man of striking physical attractiveness, great charm of manner and conversation, and mental accomplishment, being well grounded in the ...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
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2014
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Hieronymus Bosch was painting frightening, yet vaguely likable monsters long before computer games were ever invented, often including a touch of humour. His works are assertive statements about the mental illness that befalls any man who abandons ...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2014
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Edvard Munch, born in 1863, was Norway's most popular artist. His brooding and anguished paintings, based on personal grief and obsessions, were instrumental in the development of Expressionism. During his childhood, the death of his parents, his ...
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Parkstone International
Parution :
2014
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Claude Gellée, calledClaude Lorrain was neither a great man nor a lofty spirit like Poussin. His genius cannot, however, be denied and he was, like Poussin, a profoundly original inventor within the limitations of a classical ideal. He too spent ......
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Parkstone International
Parution :
2014
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Pieter Brueghel was the first important member of a family of artists who were active for four generations. Firstly a drawer before becoming a painter later, he painted religious themes, such as Babel Tower, with very bright colours. Influenced by ...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2014
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After staying in Milan for his apprenticeship, Michelangelo da Caravaggio arrived in Rome in 1592. There he started to paint with both realism and psychological analysis of the sitters. Caravaggio was as temperamental in his painting as in his wild ...
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Parkstone International
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2014
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Silence and the Silenced: Interdisciplinary Perspectives comprises a collection of essays from North American and European scholars who examine the various ways in which the theme of silence is developed in literary narratives as well as in such visual media as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-12-19
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Scenes and characters from the Old Testament appear frequently in Western medieval art, yet the study of their significance is a neglected area of iconography. A common literature for both Jews and Christians, the Hebrew Scriptures had an especially broad appeal for the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-19
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Diese Arbeit diskutiert die religiösen und bildästhetischen Funktionen und Vorstellungen, die Hugo van der Goes beim Akt des Malens beschäftigten. Im Spiegel seiner Zeit und eines seiner Aufträge, des monumentalen Triptychons für den Leiter der Medici-Filiale in Brügge,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-19
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Western Art and the Wider World explores the evolving relationship between theWestern canon of art, as it has developed since the Renaissance, and the art and culture of the Islamic world, the Far East, Australasia, Africa and the Americas. Explores the origins,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-12-16
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Dieser Band versammelt die Beiträge einer interdisziplinären und internationalen Winterschule, die vom 20. bis 24. Februar 2012 im Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald stattfand. Renommierte Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus den Bereichen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Anders als die Wort-Sprache ist die Bild-Sprache ein eher konservatives Medium. Dem Linguistic Turn, der das Denken als Form der Sprache erklärte, stellt sich ein Iconic Turn zur Seite, der unser Bild der Welt an Formen des Sehens bindet. Diese sind nicht allein...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Your website is the face that your creative endeavours show to the world, and you owe it to yourself to make it the most inviting and user-friendly site on the web. With The Creative Person's Website Builder, you'll learn how to create a site from scratch, or...
Editeur :
Ilex Press
Parution :
2013-12-02
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In 2008 the youtube video documenting the emotional reunion between two men and Christian the Lion became a worldwide sensation. Key themes of the essays in Captured: the Animal within Culture are encapsulated in Christian's story: the implications of the physical and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-11-20
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Diese Arbeit verfolgt das Ziel, die spezifischen Probleme des internationalen Kulturgüterschutzes aufzuzeigen und Lösungsansätze für diese Probleme zu erarbeiten. Die aktuell bestehenden internationalen Regelungen und völkerrechtlichen Verträge werden dargestellt....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-19
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Im Laufe seiner Karriere als Hofmaler Philipps IV. malte Velázquez eine bemerkenswerte Anzahl von Narrenbildnissen, die durch ihre unkonventionellen Sujets und technische Brillanz hervorragen. In der Studie wird diese Werkgruppe erstmals in ihrem einstigen Bezugssystem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-15
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