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According to Vasari, the young Michelangelo often borrowed drawings of past masters, which he copied, returning his imitations to the owners and keeping originals. Half a millennium later, Andy Warhol made a game of "forging" the Mona Lisa, questioning the entire...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-01-03
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THE UTOPIAN GLOBALISTS “Crossing continents, historical periods and cultural genres, Jonathan Harris skilfully traces the evolution of utopian ideals from early modernism to the spectacularised and biennialised (or banalised as some would say) contemporary art world of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-01-02
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Who is «German»? What defines «Germanness»? These questions about national identity have continued to confound both Germans and foreign observers in light of Germany’s complex history: its changing borders between 1871 and 1989 make even a geographic definition of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-17
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The application of feminist thought to the study of Italian culture is generating some of the most innovative work in the field today. This volume presents a range of essays which focus on the construction of gender in Italian literature as well as essays in feminist...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-12-14
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An innovative history and critical account mapping the ways artists and their works have engaged with, and offered commentary on, modern spectacle in both capitalist and socialist modernism over the past ninety years.Focuses on artists whose work expresses the concept...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-12-07
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Italian Renaissance ‘plaquettes’ are often stored and displayed as a homogeneous category or genre in museum collections due to their apparently uniform small relief format. This has resulted in a scholarly literature that has concentrated largely on connoisseurship and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-07
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An engaging account of today’s contemporary art world that features original articles by leading international art historians, critics, curators, and artists, introducing varied perspectives on the most important debates and discussions happening around the world. ...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-12-06
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Richly illustrated, and featuring detailed descriptions of works by pivotal figures in the Italian Renaissance, this enlightening volume traces the development of art and architecture throughout the Italian peninsula in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-12-06
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Exzentrischer Ideenreichtum und eigenwillige Originalität zeichnen den Lecceser Barock aus, der sich auf der salentinischen Halbinsel Italiens um Lecce im 16. Jahrhundert etabliert hat. Ist das Außergewöhnliche dieser Stilrichtung zwar längst erkannt, so ist sie in der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-03
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Aus «irdisch Zwei mach göttlich einfältig Eins» ist Bildsprache der sich wie eine Kinderzeichnung perspektivisch verdichtenden Ikone, die sich als gemaltes Gebet in die orthodoxe Liturgie einbettet. Gottesdienst und Ikone erweisen sich mit der Polyphonie der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-11-28
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Burgen gelten gemeinhin als Symbole der Macht – aber hält diese Annahme einer wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung stand? Im Rahmen einer Tagung in Oberfell an der Mosel im November 2011 wurde diese Frage thematisiert. Eine Vielzahl von Vorträgen aus verschiedenen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-11-27
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Markus Klinko and Indrani -- the hottest team in celebrity and fashion photography -- have produced album covers for BeyoncéMariah Carey, and David Bowie, and shot everyone from Lady Gaga to Kate Winslet, Jay-Z, Lindsay Lohan, and Naomi Campbell. As former stars of the...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
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2012-11-13
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Their Bohemian lifestyle and intertwined love affairs shockingly broke 19th Century class barriers and bent the rules that governed the roles of the sexes. They became defined by love triangles, played out against the austere moral climate of Victorian England; they...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2012-11-08
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Winner of the Cannes Lions Bronze Award for Design 2013! In today's caffeine-charged, jet-fuelled, celebrity-a-minute world, who actually has the time to learn a thing or two? C'mon, let's face it, life's too bloody short. What you need is instant knowledge. Told in...
Editeur :
Quercus
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2012-11-08
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Getting the right cut for the right fabric is the key to good design. One of the most challenging aspects of a fashion designer’s training is learning how to crate patterns that utilize the characteristics of fabrics. With an ever expanding range available, an...
Editeur :
Wiley
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2012-11-07
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In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The thirty-three-year-old Michelangelo had very little experience of the physically and technically taxing art of fresco; and, at twelve thousand square feet, the ceiling...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-10-31
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Das Immermann-Jahrbuch stellt sich die Aufgabe, Leben und Werk von Carl Leberecht Immermann durch neue Untersuchungen zu erforschen und die Position des Autors in der Übergangszeit zwischen Romantik und Realismus zu bestimmen. Daß das Jahrbuch auch ein Forum für...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-10-26
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Through detailed in-depth exegeses of Proust’s literary texts (A la Recherche du temps perdu, Jean Santeuil, and Contre Sainte-Beuve), Judaism in Marcel Proust: Anti-Semitism, Philo-Semitism, and Judaic Perspectives in Art explains anti-Semitism and philo-Semitism as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-10-22
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This collection of essays on Francis Bacon (1909-1992) pays tribute to the legacy, influence and power of his art. The volume widens the relevance of Bacon in the twenty-first century and looks at new ways of thinking about or reframing him. The contributors consider...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-10-15
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The latest in this successful series, this book features around 150 of the most important buildings in the history of world architecture – from the pyramids and Parthenon to some of the most significant works by recent architects.The buildings are organized by type –...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
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2012-10-12
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