The arts: general topics

Vincent van Gogh continues to fascinate more than a century after his death in 1890.

North Carolina artist Stephen Shoemaker and writer Janet Pittard have teamed up to present a selection of Shoemaker's paintings and drawings and the stories behind them.

Since World War I, nose art has adorned military aircraft around the world.

In its updated and expanded second edition, this helpful guide offers a wealth of information for people living with HIV and for people caring for HIV-positive loved ones.

Americans began chewing gum long before 1850, scraping resin from spruce trees, removing any bits of bark or insects and chewing the finished product.

Only now can we see Paul Cezanne as the invisible genius at the very inception of modern art.

In 1935, the United States Congress began employing large numbers of American artists through the Works Progress Administration--fiction writers, photographers, poster artists, dramatists, painters, sculptors, muralists, wood carvers, composers and choreographers, as well as journalists, historians and researchers.

English painter John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) communicates his aesthetic vision through his use of color.

This history begins with the earliest brewers in the colony--women--revealing details of the Old Line State's brewing families and their methods.

This book is for art market researchers at all levels.

Building upon anarchist critiques of racism, sexism, ableism and classism, this collection of new essays melds anarchism with animal advocacy in arguing that speciesism is an ideological and social norm rooted in hierarchy and inequality.

Daniel Coston's career in photography began accidentally.

As animal exploitation increases, animal liberation issues are of growing concern, as seen through the rise of veganism, academic disciplines devoted to animal issues, and mainstream critiques of factory farms.

Millions of people experience symptoms of central sensitization (CS) and central sensitivity syndromes (CSS) such as chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and multiple chemical sensitivities.

Of all the elements of a neighborhood, the pattern of streets and their infrastructure is the most enduring.

The sand art bottles of Andrew Clemens (1857-1894) draw reactions of astonishment and disbelief.

In early to mid-19th century America, there were growing debates concerning the social acceptability of alcohol and its consumption.

This work is an accurate, wide-ranging, and entertaining account of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition Era (1920 to 1933).

Christian Heurich (1842-1945) was not only Washington D.

This greatly expanded and revised edition contains more than 1,000 entries, covering everything from common everyday foods to the latest in genetic research--and beyond.

The rotary jail was a very unusual architectural design.

Central to every vampire story is the undead's need for human blood, but equally compelling is the human ingestion of vampire blood, which often creates a bond.

This study explores the relationship between synesthesia--the experience of a sensation in one perceptual domain triggering a sensation in another perceptual domain--and the arts (including painting, photography, music and literature).

This book is a guide to identifying female creators and artistic movements from all parts of Asia, offering a broad spectrum of media and presentation representing a wide variety of milieus, regions, peoples and genres.

The debate surrounding the Christian aspects of C.

The art of sub-Saharan Africa reveals the marvelous achievements of unknown artists over thousands of years.

This is a portfolio of 87 drawings by the Appalachian pencil artist Willard Gayheart dating from the early 1970s to the present.

Much has changed in the world of self-taught art since the millennium.

Women's bodies and their portrayals in the media remain at the center of every debate on women's rights worldwide.

"Täglich geh ich heraus, und such ein Anderes immer,Habe längst sie befragt, alle die Pfade des Lands;Droben die kühlenden Höhn, die Schatten alle besuch ich,Und die Quellen …"Friedrich Hölderlins Worte aus der Dichtung "Menons Klagen um Diotima", die Richard Dünser zu seinem ersten Streichquartett inspiriert haben, lesen sich wie ein poetisches, dichterisches Programm seines gesamten musikschöpferischen Schaffens: sein Streben, mit jedem Werk etwas Anderes, Neues auszudrücken und auch neue kompositorische Pfade zu finden; seine harmonisch-melodischen Wanderungen aus gleichsam ätherischen Höhen in die Schattenreiche der Nacht, des Unbewussten und des Tragischen; seine intuitive musikalische und auch außermusikalische Suche nach Quellen in verschiedenen künstlerischen und geistigen Welten.

The Renaissance was a revolution of ideas, arts and sciences alike, with Italy at its center.

Set against the backdrop of the Atlantic slave trade, this book traces the development, exhibition and final disposition of one of J.

Writers and alcohol have long been associated--for some, the association becomes unmanageable.

In the early 20th century, postcards were one of the most important and popular expressions of holiday sentiment in American culture.

From Seattle's earliest days as a Gold Rush boomtown to its celebration of the future during the 1962 World's Fair, local artists have created public art installations--statuary, reliefs and other sculpture--that have become familiar features of the city's landscape.

This new book, greatly expanded from the 1995 first edition, describes detailed, step-by-step procedures for sculpting, molding and painting original prehistoric animals.

Advertised as "e;a new standard for living,"e; the Lustron Home was introduced in 1948 in response to the urgent need for housing for veterans returning from World War II and their rapidly growing families.

The convergence of rock music, counterculture politics and avant-garde aesthetics in the late 1960s underscored the careers of the Beatles, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, and the Velvet Underground.

Perhaps the most important architect ever to have worked in America, Peter Harrison's renown suffers from the destruction of most of his papers when he died in 1775.

Part food narrative, part investigation, part adventure story, Organic is an eye-opening and entertaining look into the anything goes world behind the organic label.

Entre le théâtre "politique" ouvert sur le monde et le théâtre " d'artistes" guidé par un dessein esthétique, les pratiques contemporaines cherchent leurs voies.

The Armenian folk epic David of Sassoun was performed and transmitted orally for over one thousand years before a variant was discovered and transcribed in 1873.

À la suite du conflit franco-prussien de 1871, Edgar Degas peint une discrète huile sur toile : Le grand rabbin Astruc et le général Mellinet.

In Romans 7:14-25, Paul declares, "e;For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want, is what I do"e; (KJV).

"Was macht ein Meisterwerk aus?

This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art.

In Storycraft, renowned author Walter Wangerin Jr.

Communicology is Vilem Flusser's first thesis on his concepts of technical images and technical imagination.

This book addresses late-Soviet and post-Soviet art in Armenia in the context of turbulent transformations from the late 1980s to 2004.