History of art

The Framing of Sacred Space offers the first topical study of canopies as essential spatial and symbolic units in Byzantine-rite churches.

This study argues that intimacy requires an overcoming of shame, and each of these artists, in their own way, uses photography to frame moments that can be shameful to some and intimate others, leaving it to the viewer to navigate this affectively perilous terrain.

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Woven coverlets have appeared in several guises within the history of folk textiles.

Beginning with the first comprehensive account of the discourse of appropriation that dominated the art world in the late 1970s and 1980s, Art After Appropriation suggests a matrix of inflections and refusals around the culture of taking or citation, each chapter loosely correlated with one year of the decade between 1989 and 1999.

Since at least the early sixth century C.

In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers.

Ein Buch das zeigt, wie sehr Frauen die Kunst prägenWie viele Künstlerinnen kennen Sie?

The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities provides a series of exemplary studies conjoining perspectives from Asian, African, and Latin American Studies on subjectivity in the Global South as a central category of social and cultural analysis.

First published in 1980.

This book offers a reassessment of how "e;matter"e; - in the context of art history, criticism, and architecture - pursued a radical definition of "e;multiplicity"e;, against the dominant and hierarchical tendencies underwriting post-fascist Japan.

From the third through the sixth centuries, the binding of Isaac saw a flourish of representation in Christian, Byzantine and Jewish art.

Why did orientalism emerge and how has it evolved?

Fifty Key Texts in Art History is an anthology of critical commentaries selected from the classical period to the late modern.

Wie führte das Wiedererstarken einer autoritären Staatlichkeit zur Entwicklung des 'Kunst-Aktivismus' von Vojna und Pussy Riot?

Thinking about Science, Reflecting on Art: Bringing Aesthetics and Philosophy of Science Together is the first book to systematically examine the relationship between the philosophy of science and aesthetics.

The Architecture of Medieval Churches investigates the impact of affective theology on architecture and artefacts, focusing on the Middle Ages as a period of high achievement of this synthesis.

Unfolding the Unconscious Psyche is a study of the creative arts and depth psychology, and the threads that run between the two.

As India celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of its independence, much praise was lavished on its emergence as a major player on the global stage.

Explores the philosophical import and use of musical notions in crucial moments and authors of the Roman Imperial period.

Seit ihren Anfängen tendiert die archäologische Frühgeschichtsforschung dazu, Sachgüter mit bestimmten, schriftlich überlieferten Ethnien gleichzusetzen.

Where previous accounts of the Renaissance have not fully acknowledged the role that music played in this decisive period of cultural history, Laurenz Lutteken merges historical music analysis with the analysis of the other arts to provide a richer context for the emergence and evolution of creative cultures across civilizations.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Bringing together a fascinatingly diverse yet closely related group of subjects, Where Words and Images Meet asks us to rethink what we know about words and images and how they interact.

Walsingham was medieval England's most important shrine to the Virgin Mary and a popular pilgrimage site.

From faithful apostle and seductress to feminist icon, Mary Magdalene's many complex roles in Christian history have fascinated us for 2000 years.

Formal and informal institutions structure our social interactions by giving rise to normative expectations and patterns of collective behaviour.

Craft Economies provides a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary craft production, situating practices of amateur and professional making within a wider creative economy.

Explores Martial''s radical vision of the relationship between art and reality and his role in formulating modern perceptions of Rome.

Curating Transcultural Spaces asks what a museum which enables the presentation of multiple perspectives might look like.

Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th-21st Centuries) proposes a transhistorical analysis that will serve as a reference work on the evolution of literary and artistic representations of chance and contingency.

Winner of the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies 2016Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2016This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

This is the first interdisciplinary exploration of machine culture in Italian futurism after the First World War.

Explores through keywords how Vasari''s Lives is designed to address a variety of compelling, culturally determined ideas.

A readable guide to the art of looking at art.

The art of Japanese woodblock printing, known as ukiyo-e ("e;pictures of the floating world"e;), reflects the rich history and way of life in Japan hundreds of years ago.

This first comprehensive analysis of the Third Reich's efforts to confiscate, loot, censor and influence art begins with a brief history of the looting of artworks in Western history.

Rather than the customary focus on the activities of individual collectors, The Emergence of the Antique and Curiosity Dealer in Britain 1815-1850: The Commodification of Historical Objects illuminates the less-studied roles played by dealers in the nineteenthcentury antique and curiosity markets.

Through meticulously researched case studies, this book explores the materiality of terracotta sculpture in early modern Europe.

This is an ebook version of a very rare Japanese woodblock print collection.

An Endless Thread serves as a long-overdue celebration of Grant, who has long advocated for the intersection of cultural pride, style, and a maintaining of tradition.

This is the story of one of the world' s most iconic images.

It is astonishing how deeply the figure of Ophelia has been woven into the fabric of Spanish literature and the visual arts - from her first appearance in eighteenth-century translations of Hamlet, through depictions by seminal authors such as Espronceda, Becquer and Lorca, to turn-of-the millennium figurations.

Sculptor and architect Bernini was the virtual creator and greatest exponent of Baroque in 17th century Italy.

More recently a post-modern world has emphasised the aggressive and destructive march of this age of reason.

This interdisciplinary study examines painted portraiture as a defining metaphor of elite self-representation in early modern culture.