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Dieses Buch widmet sich einer bisher in der Minnesangforschung nur wenig behandelten Gattung: dem dialogischen Lied. Während die Minnekanzone die Stimme des Sängers als Minnendem privilegiert und die besungene Dame darin zum Schweigen verdammt, präsentiert das...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-07-08
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This book explores the social history of contemporary Italian art with a focus on its relation to theories of national identity, cultural inheritance, and baroque historiography. Its scope encompasses Fascism’s involvement in the visual arts in the first half of the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-07-08
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In 1938 Action Comics #1 introduced the world to Superman.In a matter of years, the skies of our imaginations were filled with mutants, aliens and vigilantes. Batman, Wonder Woman and the X-Men - in less than a century they've gone from not existing at all to being...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-07-07
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Cézannes glücklichste Zeit war seine frühe Jugend in der Provence, wo er zusammen mit Zola und einem anderen Freund in der Natur umherstreifte. Ermutigt durch Renoir, stellte er 1874 und 1877 zusammen mit den Impressionisten aus. Doch die ablehnende Haltung, mit der man...
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Parkstone International
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2011-07-01
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Egon Schiele (1890-1918) ist einer der wichtigsten expressionistischen Künstler. Er wurde von Klimt und der Wiener Sezession beeinflusst und brach bereits in jungen Jahren mit der traditionellen österreichischen Kunst. Seine vielen Akte und Selbstporträts bleiben dem...
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Parkstone International
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2011-07-01
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Hieronymus Bosch, der um 1450 im niederländischen 's-Hertogenbosch geboren wurde, gehört zu den Künstlern, deren Werke den Kunsthistorikern bis heute Rätsel aufgeben. Bosch lebte in einer Zeit, die vom Aufkommen der Devotio Moderna und dem bürgerlichen Humanismus im 15....
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Parkstone International
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2011-07-01
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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) war zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts nicht nur einer der einflussreichsten Künstler, sondern gründete zudem die Bewegung der Wiener Secession. Mithilfe dieser Bewegung übte er Kritik an der traditionellen Kunst, die sich durch ihren Widerstand...
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Parkstone International
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2011-07-01
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Since his death 100 years ago, Cézanne has become the most famous painter of the nineteenth century. He was born in Aix-en-Provence in 1839 and the happiest period of his life was his early youth in Provence, in company with Emile Zolá, another Italian. Following Zolá’s...
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Parkstone International
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2011-07-01
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“I am not interested in myself as a subject for painting, but in others, particularly women…”Beautiful, sensuous and above all erotic, Gustav Klimt’s paintings speak of a world of opulence and leisure, which seems aeons away from the harsh, post-modern environment we...
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Parkstone International
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2011-07-01
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Born in 1887, Georgia O’Keeffe was one of the key figures who participated in the emancipation of modern art from its conventional forms and subjects. At a time when women were above all wives and mothers, Georgia O’Keeffe defied tradition when she became first the...
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Parkstone International
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2011-07-01
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Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is one of the great Expressionist painters. He was influenced by Klimt and the Viennese Secession, and at a very early age broke with the traditions of official Austrian art. His many nudes and self-portraits remain true to the neurotic image of...
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Parkstone International
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2011-07-01
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Whistler’s work can be divided into four periods. The first was a research period in which the artist was influenced by the Realism of Gustave Courbet and by Japanese art. Whistler then discovered his own originality in the Nocturnes and the Cremorne Gardens series,...
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Parkstone International
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2011-07-01
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Cézanne transformed a teacup into something alive, raising still-life to the point that it ceased to be inanimate. Wassily Kandinsky said about the French artist: “He painted these things as human beings because he was endowed with the gift of ...
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Parkstone International
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2011-07-01
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Paul Gauguin was first a sailor, then a successful stockbroker in Paris. In 1874 he began to paint at weekends as a Sunday painter. Nine years later, after a stock-market crash, he felt confident of his ability to earn a living for his family by painting and he resigned...
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Parkstone International
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2011-07-01
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The art of the Ukiyo-e reflected the artistic expression of an isolated civilisation which, when it became accessible to the West, significantly influenced a number of European artists.The three masters of Ukiyo-e, Hokusai, Utamaro and Hiroshige, ......
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Parkstone International
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2011-07-01
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Encounter one of history’s greatest civilisations through miniatures. In Persian Miniatures, the story of the magnificent Persian Empire is told by way of a small but vibrant artistic tradition. The colourful images, which are, in fact, elaborate ...
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Parkstone International
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2011-07-01
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Mary was born in Pittsburgh. Her father was a banker of liberal educational ideas and the entire family appears to have been sympathetic to French culture.Mary was no more than five or six years old when she first saw Paris, and she was still in ......
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Parkstone International
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2011-07-01
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Behind Frida Kahlo’s portraits, lies the story of both her life and work. It is precisely this combination that draws the reader in. Frida’s work is a record of her life, and rarely can we learn so much about an artist from what she records inside ...
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Parkstone International
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2011-07-01
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Ornans, Courbet’s birthplace, is near the beautiful valley of the Doubs River, and it was here as a boy, and later as a man, that he absorbed the love of landscape.
He was by nature a revolutionary, a man born to oppose existing order and to assert ...
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Parkstone International
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2011-07-01
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Pierre Bonnard was the leader of a group of Post-Impressionist painters who called themselves the Nabis, from the Hebrew word meaning “prophet”. Bonnard, Vuillard, Roussel and Denis, the most distinguished of the Nabis, revolutionised decorative ...
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Parkstone International
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2011-07-01
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