Commonly known as the "e;Arnolfini Wedding"e; or "e;Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride,"e; Jan van Eyck's double portrait, painted in 1434, is probably the most widely recognized panel painting of the fifteenth century.
Le musee d'Orsay a Paris, du 16 septembre 2002 au 5 janvier 2003, puis le Metropolitan Museum a New York (24 fevrier-8 juin 2003), ont accueilli une exposition consacree a l'influence de la peinture espagnole sur la peinture francaise du romantisme a la fin du XIXe siecle.
Russian writer Maxim Gorky takes us to the beginning of the twentieth century to tell us the story of a child who lived as an orphan, moving from one home to another and from one job to another.
The first major work to examine Joseph Cornell's relationship to American modernismJoseph Cornell (1903-1972) is best known for his exquisite and alluring box constructions, in which he transformed found objects-such as celestial charts, glass ice cubes, and feathers-into enchanted worlds that blur the boundaries between fantasy and the commonplace.
A richly illustrated history of textiles in the Mughal EmpireIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a vast array of textiles circulated throughout the Mughal Empire.
Annette Schemmel provides a highly illuminating case study of the major actors, discourses and paradigm that shaped the history of visual arts in Cameroon during the second part of the 20th century.
El arte contemporáneo global y su uso creativo de la tradición, del pasado y del patrimonio, suponen un combate al legado eurocentrista establecido por el arte moderno.
Frente al agotamiento del entusiasmo por el arte contemporaneo que si habia en los anos 2000, este ensayo busca una respuesta en relecturas de artistas rosarinos que en los anos 50 tramaron un lugar imaginario, con espiritu localista y retrospectivo.
El Arte de Retorno se define como la retroalimentación artística entre América Latina, las Islas Canarias y España durante el periodo colonial y el siglo XIX.
Este libro tiene un doble objetivo: analizar el proceso de configuración de la realidad a partir de su percepción y estudiar ese proceso en la época en la que se redefine el sentido histórico de lo figurativo; a saber, la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y la primera del XX.
Todo museo comercia con el pasado y la memoria, y en esa conservación y reunión de objetos -siempre se ha dicho- descansa su ficción fundadora: uno al lado del otro y todos juntos, cada objeto cuenta de por sí una historia, pero asiste, a su vez, al significado colectivo de una historia mayor.
En el dilatado paisaje artístico argentino de los años 2000, múltiples producciones evocan un cúmulo de recuerdos, desechos, resabios, dones y herencias con los que convivimos todos los días.
In this companion volume to the successful Images of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East (AUC Press, 1998), historian and ethnomusicologist Sherifa Zuhur has once again commissioned and edited authoritative essays from noteworthy scholars from around the globe that explore the visual and performing arts in the Middle East.
Publicada por primera vez en 1983, esta obra fundamental delineó nuevos paradigmas para el estudio del arte y permitió pensar la contingencia de algunos de sus conceptos.
"e;El Premio de Ensayo Critico invitaba a pensar problemas que recorrieran el arte argentino durante los ultimos anos, tambien sobre un corpus de obras o exhibiciones realizadas por artistas argentinos en los ultimos quince anos; estas eran unas proposiciones abiertas que no podria haber emprendido sin meditar antes sobre otras variables que exceden al arte e implican algo mas grande.
This book aims to provide comprehensive empirical and theoretical studies of expanding fandom communities in East Asia through the commodification of Japanese, Korean and Chinese popular cultures in the digital era.
Art Hats in Renaissance City is an anthology of the personal reflections and aspirations of four generations in the new ecostructure in Singapore, from those who help formulate policies to that of the individual artists, who have helped develop and build an exciting arts and cultural scene from scratch and into a viable economic model.
Situated at the crossroads of the foreign and the vernacular, Quito-the capital of Ecuador, with its world-famous yet understudied built environment-stands as a testament to architectural in-betweenness.
Reflecting on the relationship between artists and their audiences, this book examines how artists have presented themselves publicly through interviews and sought to establish a critical voice for themselves.
This book, within the vision of the study on the image history, clearly manifests the development of Chinese image science and technology of over 2000 years based on compendium, while having briefly sorted out expositions by scientists since ancient times in China, demonstrates the spiritual course, ideas of thinking and forms of life and reveales profound humane ideas, basis of sentiments and styles of the spirit featured by Chinese image culture.
The book distinctive is listed in points (i) it focuses on Eastern European art covering the historical avant-garde to the post-war and contemporary periods of; (ii) it looks at some key artists in the countries that have not been given so much attention within this content i.
This book is a systematic investigation of Korean cultural wave in South Asia, discovering and analysing the dynamics of fandom, mechanism of media industry and growing phenomena of Korean culture in this part of the world.
This edited book demonstrates a new multidimensional comprehension of the relationship between war, the military and civil society by exploring the global rise of paramilitary culture.
This book analyzes multiple aspects of the Chinese livestreaming e-commerce industry, including its development and evolution, macro environment, market landscape, platforms, streamer structure trends, influencers, production, and explosive marketing methods, MCN operations, risk assessment and policy management.
This edited collection brings together essays that share in a critical attention to visual culture as a means of representing, contributing to and/or intervening with discursive struggles and territorial conflicts currently taking place at and across the outward-facing and internal borders of the People's Republic of China.
This book is a systematic investigation of Korean cultural wave in South Asia, discovering and analysing the dynamics of fandom, mechanism of media industry and growing phenomena of Korean culture in this part of the world.
Based on fieldwork, archival research, and interviews, this book critically examines the building of modern Chinese discourse on a unified yet diverse Chinese nation on various sites of knowledge production.
This book provides a chronological record of the development of Chinese thoughts on public finance over its 4,000 years of history, ranging from the Xia Dynasty to the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.
Las diez entrevistas que conforman este libro son una magnífica lección de periodismo: de cómo hacerlo, de las responsabilidades que entraña, de sus dificultades, sus alcances y sus recompensas.
