The Arts: art forms

Der Künstler, Bildhauer und Maler Thomas Schönauer kreiert außergewöhnliche Edelstahl-Skulpturen, die er »Cultivator« nennt, als ideale Form zur Verbindung von Raum und Fläche, also 3D und 2D, so dass ein kohärentes Ganzes für den öffentlichen und privaten Raum entsteht.

Coneixem la música de Carles Santos, el pianista transgressor, l'artista integral.

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.

Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1921 description and catalog of pre-dynastic, prehistoric artifacts from Egypt.

In these stories, characters defy the limits of physics to escape the all too human pain of love and loss.

Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture and society in turmoil.

This book is an expert guide to producing beautiful lifelike drawings of birds in their natural habitat.

"e;It is rare to find a book on art that presents complex aesthetic principles in clear readable form.

Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the "e;tangible phase"e; of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores.

The importance of play and fun to people's lives cannot be stressed enough in today's cultural climate of high stress, high stakes, and competition.

The story of how the motion-picture device was developed, and its role in Victorian society and early cinema.

This is a critical edition, or ';edition critique,' of Victor Hugo's play Hernani.

A world-class colorist of international standing in modern glass, Stephen Rolfe Powell creates his work in a quiet outpost of rural Kentucky.

This comprehensive study of the Danish film company demonstrates how it became one of the most important innovators of the silent era.

From finches to flamingos, this practical guide introduces the fundamentals of drawing birds.

In the 1950s and 60s, Martin Heidegger turned to sculpture to rethink the relationship between bodies and space and the role of art in our lives.

Contemporary Performance and Political Economy examines haunting concepts, relations, and artworks that demand our attention.

The information coming about contemporary Indian literature remains scarce and timid due to the weak translation movement from it into our Arabic language, despite the closeness of this literature to the Eastern Arab spirituality, as what unites us with the culture of the Indian subcontinent is greater than Western literature due to the convergence of social and political conditions, lifestyle and historical depth.

Hungry for a new drawing challenge?

Mindful, achievable and satisfying, this book gives readers a unique way to interact with the natural world around them, whether that's drawing cut flowers in a vase, or wild flowers in their front garden.

The recent uproar over NSA dataveillance can obscure the fact that surveillance has been part of our lives for decades.

This study examines the waves of graffiti that occur before, during, and after a conflict-important tools of political resistance that make protest visible and material.

With near-mythical forests of birch and pine, the Nordic and Baltic countries boast a rich tradition of religious wood carving that is in many ways emblematic of their cultures.

Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present.

Flexible in approach and full of colorful examples, this textbook provides a basic introduction to what art is and can be in the lives of people who do not necessarily think of themselves as "e;artists.

The historical roots, key practitioners, and artistic, theoretical, and technological trends in the incorporation of new media into the performing arts.

Lukas Moodysson is one of the most accomplished and unconventional filmmakers of his generation in Sweden.

Morris Graves is a major American painter with roots in the Pacific Northwest.

Baskets made of baleen, the fibrous substance found in the mouths of plankton-eating whalesa malleable and durable material that once had commercial uses equivalent to those of plastics todaywere first created by Alaska Natives in the early years of the twentieth century.

Offering an incisive rejoinder to traditional histories of modernism and postmodernism, this original book examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium of the human body.

The human desire to adorn the body is universal and timeless.

This book presents an authoritative and detailed survey of the art of woodworking in the ancient Roman world.

The late 1870s and early 1880s were watershed years in the history of French painting.

A fascinating look at one of the most experimental, volatile, and influential decades, Film, Fashion, and the 1960s, examines the numerous ways in which film and fashion intersected and affected identity expression during the era.

Flinders Petrie undertook excavation and survey of ancient Egyptian towns in the Faiyum oasis, south-west of Cairo, in 1888–90.

A vivid account of Dutch seventeenth-century art and material culture against the backdrop of the geopolitics of the early modern worldThe seventeenth century witnessed a great flourishing of Dutch trade and culture.

This book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media - one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded.

Since the mid-1980s, US audiences have watched the majority of movies they see on a video platform, be it VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, Video On Demand, or streaming media.

Communicating God's Word in a Complex World reaches out to the growing number of missionaries, pastors, Bible translators and teachers, mission and theological educators and students dealing with communicating the gospel.

We expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it.

This is the first book of its kind to examine the development of the confessional subject in video art and demonstrate how it can provide a vital platform for navigating the politics of self, subjectivity, and resistance in society.

Offering historical and theoretical positions from a variety of art historians, artists, curators, and writers, this groundbreaking collection is the first substantive sourcebook on abstraction in moving-image media.

Memory Work demonstrates the evolution of the pioneering minimalist sculptor Anne Truitt.

How does the constant presence of music in modern life-on iPods, in shops and elevators, on television-affect the way we listen?

David Gentleman has been drawing London all his adult life, and for the past year has spent his days focused on looking afresh at the city.

An der Ikone vom Unverbrennbaren Dornbusch lassen sich allgemeine Beobachtungen zur Ikonenmalerei ablesen.

In her authoritative new book, Maite Conde introduces readers to the crucial early years of Brazilian cinema.