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The Spirit of Venice is a history of the first great economic and naval power of the modern Western world, from its struggle to ascendancy, through the arc of its glory - when its trading empire reached as far afield as China, Syria and West Africa - to the beginning of...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-05-03
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What happened to the insolence of the 18th-century libertines or to the carefree excesses of the Belle Époque and its legalized brothels? They have merely been inhibited and buried by the nowadays political correctness and the aggressive one-eyed ...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2012-05-01
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Men’s fashion, particularly the trends involving undergarments, was once reserved for the elite; today it has become democratised, clear proof of social progress.The aestheticism of the body so highly valued by the Greeks seems to have regained a ...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2012-05-01
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The prolific master J. M. W. Turner was born in Covent Garden in 1775 and has left over 19,000 artworks that have eventually given to the fog of London its Turnerian savour. Turner was one of the most important Romantic when it came to landscapes, ...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2012-05-01
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As well as being one of the leading figures in the American Pop Art movement, Andy Warhol was a painter, printmaker, occasional sculptor and filmmaker whose work carried on the tradition of Dadaism which questioned the very validity of art itself. ...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2012-05-01
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It took a mid-twentieth century art show in Milan to rediscover this Italian artist, emblematic of the Baroque period, who lived during the second half of the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries. Michelangelo Merisi was born to a family of ...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2012-05-01
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Edward Hopper, born in Nyack in 1882, remains one of the most important American painters. After studying to be an illustrator, he entered the famous New York School of Art, where he studied under the direction of Robert Henri, whose influence on ...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2012-05-01
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“Studying nature with passion, and all the independence proper to his character, he could not fail to combine precision with liberty, and truth with beauty. It is in this final emancipation, this perfect mastery of modelling, of illumination, and ...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2012-05-01
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“Studying nature with passion, and all the independence proper to his character, he could not fail to combine precision with liberty, and truth with beauty. It is in this final emancipation, this perfect mastery of modelling, of illumination, and ...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2012-05-01
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An emblematic figure of the early 20th century, Paul Klee participated in the expansive Avant-Garde movements in Germany and Switzerland. From the vibrant Blaue Reiter movement to Surrealism at the end of the 1930s and throughout his teaching years ...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2012-05-01
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“I was aware of Diego Rivera, the Mexican muralist, long before I encountered the many other “Diego Riveras” that roamed the world between the beginning of the twentieth century and the late 1950s. […] While his easel paintings and drawings ...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2012-05-01
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A comprehensive, authoritative account of the development Greek Art through the 1st millennium BC. An invaluable resource for scholars dealing with the art, material culture and history of the post-classical world Includes voices from such diverse fields as art...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-04-25
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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BMX bikes are iconic. There’s something about them that appeals to kids, adults and cyclists. And, of course,BMX is now an Olympic sport.Rad Rides is the most in-depth exploration of the world ofBMX bikes through their riders and the culture that surrounds them. The...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2012-04-23
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Émile Verhaeren (1855–1916), art critic, poet and homme de lettres, was a man whose vision transcended his native Belgium. With close ties to Mallarmé in France and Rilke in Germany, Verhaeren, a peripatetic student of the arts, readily traveled to Paris, Berlin,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-04-18
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This book explores interaction and competition between painting and literature in France, from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth, offering new readings of works by key figures including Paul Gauguin, Stéphane Mallarmé, Pablo Picasso and André Gide....
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-12
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Employing political philosophy to argue the need for social and public art projects to be a part of the everyday lives of Americans, Boros creates a new synthesis of philosophical ideas to support the political value of public art.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-04-09
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This book examines how sustainability has the potential to transform both the fashion system and the innovators who work within it.Sustainability is arguably the defining theme of the twenty-first century. The issues in fashion are broad-ranging and include labour...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2012-04-09
Collection :
Renaissance Art
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Das Arbeiten in Kollektiven ist in der Gegenwartskunst zur Selbstverständlichkeit geworden. Werke und Projekte sind häufig Ergebnis von Verhandlungen und dem Zusammenspiel zahlreicher Akteure. Die Kunstgeschichte ist weiterhin dominiert vom Einzelkünstler und seinem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-05
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The Art of Understanding Art reveals to students and other readers new and meaningful ways of developing personal ideas and opinions about art and how to express them with confidence. Offers an inquiry—unique among introductory art texts—into the learning process of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-04-04
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Semiotics is the theory of signs, and reading signs is a part of everyday life: from road signs that point to a destination, to smoke that warns of fire, to the symbols buried within art and literature. Semiotic theory can, however, appear mysterious and impenetrable....
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2012-03-26
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