Ähnlichkeit ist ein zentrales, doch theoretisch oft marginalisiertes ästhetisch-epistemologisches Paradigma, das Literatur-, Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften aktuell vermehrt in den Blick nehmen.
Laura Malosetti Costa se ocupa aquí del retrato como soporte de la memoria afectiva y la idealización o deformación caricaturesca de ciertos personajes públicos a lo largo del tiempo, en su doble dimensión de arte y documento.
The emergence of a master artist alongside his first major collection, created during a golden age of art in the nations capitalRenowned for his innovative work with silkscreen printing, Lou Stovalls works are part of numerous collections, including the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Phillips Collection.
Frederic Church (1826–1900), the most celebrated painter in the United States during the mid-19th century, created monumental landscapes of North and South America, the Arctic, and the Middle East.
This revelatory study of Georges Seurat (1859–1891) explores the artist’s profound interest in theories of visual perception and analyzes how they influenced his celebrated seascape, urban, and suburban scenes.
Piet Mondrian pioneered the de Stijl movement—Dutch for “The Style”—that emerged in the early 20th century and which served as an important transition from a focus on Symbolism and Realism to a new and growing focus on abstraction.
This devotional featuring inspirational oil paintings by artist Jenny Highsmith invites readers to look up, breathe deep, and feel the peace and presence of God.
An illuminating look at a fundamental yet understudied aspect of Italian Renaissance paintingThe Italian Renaissance picture is renowned for its depiction of the human figure, from the dramatic foreshortening of the body to create depth to the subtle blending of tones and colors to achieve greater naturalism.
Though his father had faced bankruptcy, James Clarke Hook (1819-1907) nevertheless managed to paint himself into country-gentlemanhood, becoming famous for his landscapes of British coastal scenes and his ability to evoke not just the sights but also the sounds and even the smell of the sea.
Además de una selección de más de cien imágenes que recorren las exhibiciones de la artista, la edición comisionó la escritura de tres ensayos inéditos a prestigiosos críticos e historiadores.
The emergence of a master artist alongside his first major collection, created during a golden age of art in the nations capitalRenowned for his innovative work with silkscreen printing, Lou Stovalls works are part of numerous collections, including the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Phillips Collection.
The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun (1755'Ai1842) exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie Antoinette.
Eugène Delacroix was highly influential in the 19th-century Romanticism art movement and is considered by many art historians to be the most important of the Romantic painters.
El objetivo de este libro es reflexionar sobre cómo se manifestó artísticamente el muralismo en Bogotá, y en qué condiciones fueron producidas las imágenes que dan cuenta de él.
En este vívido y cautivador viaje a través de los colores de la paleta de un artista, Victoria Finlay nos lleva a una apasionante aventura alrededor del mundo y a través de los tiempos, iluminando cómo los colores que elegimos valorar han determinado la historia de la propia cultura.
First published in 1917, On Collecting Japanese-Prints is meant to assist the amateur who has started a collection for the first time, or the person who, while not actually a collector, is sufficiently interested to read about the subject, yet finds the more exhaustive and advanced works thereon somewhat beyond them.
