The Pictorial Art of El Greco: Transmaterialities, Temporalities, and Media investigates El Greco's pictorial art as foundational to the globalising trends manifested in the visual culture of early modernity.
The life-like depiction of the body became a central interest and defining characteristic of the European Early Modern period that coincided with the establishment of which images of the body were to be considered 'decent' and representable, and which disapproved, censored, or prohibited.
This book examines a group of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century figural silks depicting legendary lovers from the Khamsa (Quintet) of epic Persian poetry.
Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy explores how the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) uses food to express and condition the social, political, and cultural values of his time.
Film, like the printed imagery inaugurated during the Renaissance, spread ideas - not least the idea of the power of visual art - across not only geographical and political divides but also strata of class and gender.
Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England traces major concepts including: the creation of the visual effects of accuracy through careful action and training; the development of visual judgment and connoisseurship; the role of an epistolary network in the production of knowledge; balancing readers' expectations with representational conventions; and the effects of collecting on the creation and circulation of knowledge.
Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens argues that the Baroque painter, propagandist, and diplomat, Peter Paul Rubens, was not only aware of rapidly shifting religious and cultural attitudes toward women, but actively engaged in shaping them.
The volume presents a wide-ranging investigation of the ways in which Petrarch's legacy informed the relationship between visual and literary portraits in sixteenth-century Italy.
Der 1903 in München geborene Geschäftsmann, Bankier und Großspekulant Alois Miedl nahm als "Ariseur" des Amsterdamer Kunsthandels Jacques Goudstikker eine zentrale Rolle im NS-Kunstmarkt ein.
Performative methods are playing an increasingly prominent role in research into historical production processes, materials, bodily knowledge and sensory skills, and in forms of education and public engagement in classrooms and museums.
Imaginaries on Matter - Tools, Materials, Origins,promotes an innovative architectural research agenda that connects historical-cultural written research with digitally led material explorations.
Stell dir vor, du hältst ein perfekt gemixtes Getränk in der Hand: Das Glas ist kunstvoll dekoriert, die Farben leuchten im Licht, und schon der erste Schluck entführt dich in eine Welt voller Geschmack und Kreativität.
Emil Sebastian Cerda Demorizi, popolarmente noto come "Emil Cerda" (Ensanche la fe, 6 febbraio 2001, Santo Domingo, Repubblica Dominicana), è uno scrittore poliedrico, psicologo clinico, sessuologo clinico, terapista di coppia, insegnante, filantropo, uomo d'affari e inventore , considerata "La promessa della letteratura dominicana del XXI secolo"; e, per essere stato il creatore di La Marca (genere letterario), velocità marcaésica (modo di correggere la prosa), fraseggio (modo di scrivere fondendo verso, prosa e rima) e di parole, come: pradondor, unmuni, buccadero, carbiño, hosmne, frádaga, japado, clateda e primografo.
Imaginaries on Matter - Tools, Materials, Origins,promotes an innovative architectural research agenda that connects historical-cultural written research with digitally led material explorations.
Viewers in the Middle Ages and Renaissance were encouraged to forge connections between their physical and affective states when they experienced works of art.
This sweeping work, at once a panoramic overview and an ambitious critical reinterpretation of European modernism, provides a bold new perspective on a movement that defined the cultural landscape of the early twentieth century.
Presenting readers with definitions and examples of arts-based educational research, this text identifies tensions, questions, and models in the field and provides guidance for both beginning and more experienced practices.
The Un-Reality Effect in the Cinema of Attractions offers an original rethinking of early European cinema through the lens of its visual and cultural entanglements.
The theoretical framework known as Material Religion has emerged as a vibrant and profoundly influential approach within religious studies over the past two decades.
Ein verschollen geglaubtes Werk wiederentdeckt - der Roman einer vergangenen Epoche von alarmierender AktualitatVivan liebt das Nachtleben, die Kunst und ihre Freiheit.
The Un-Reality Effect in the Cinema of Attractions offers an original rethinking of early European cinema through the lens of its visual and cultural entanglements.
The theoretical framework known as Material Religion has emerged as a vibrant and profoundly influential approach within religious studies over the past two decades.
Still-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy centers on the still-life compositions created by Evaristo Baschenis and Bartolomeo Bettera, two 17th-century painters living and working in the Italian city of Bergamo.
Viewers in the Middle Ages and Renaissance were encouraged to forge connections between their physical and affective states when they experienced works of art.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2011, held in Vancouver, Canada, in November/December 2011.
