History of art

Self-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham, North Carolina, as its burgeoning tobacco economy put the frontier-like boomtown on the map.

How scribes of the ancient Maya pictured sound and meaning through inventive hieroglyphic writing that pulsed with vitality and witFor two millennia, the ancestral Maya of Mexico and Central America created a rich legacy of image and text.

A groundbreaking study of one of the most important and influential artists of the postwar periodJoseph Beuys (19211986) was one of the most significant artists of the twentieth centuryand one of the most controversial.

Romare Bearden (19111988), one of the most prolific, original, and acclaimed American artists of the twentieth century,richly depictedscenes and figures rooted in the American South and the Black experience.

This beautiful and informative volume illustrates the vitality and importance of North Carolina's contemporary art scene, showcasing the creation, collection, and celebration of art in all its richness and diversity.

This book invites readers into a growing, dynamic conversation among scholars and critics around a vibrant community of artists from an African American South.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Kunst - Kunstgeschichte, Note: 1,3, Universität Stuttgart (Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit untersucht Guernica im Kontext des deutschen und italienischen Luftangriffs auf Guernica im spanischen Bürgerkrieg.

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Art - History of Art, grade: 1,8, , language: English, abstract: This paper examines the cross-cultural impact of Western styles on Chinese porcelain decoration, which not only aimed at a Western clientele but was produced for the local market and commissioners as well.

Crafting Feminism develops a dynamic study of craft and art-making in modern and contemporary feminist writing.

Crafting Feminism develops a dynamic study of craft and art-making in modern and contemporary feminist writing.

One of the most important monuments of Imperial Rome and at the same time one of the most poorly understood, the Column of Marcus Aurelius has long stood in the shadow of the Column of Trajan.

This book is concerned with why (or whether) paintings have value: why they might be worth creating and attending to.

This book is concerned with why (or whether) paintings have value: why they might be worth creating and attending to.

From the acclaimed author of The King's Painter, a vivid life-and-times biography of two unjustly neglected women artists, Angelica Kauffman and Elisabeth Vig e Le Brun.

In this beautifully illustrated study of intellectual and art history, Dorothy Johnson explores the representation of classical myths by renowned French artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, demonstrating the extraordinary influence of the natural sciences and psychology on artistic depiction of myth.

Over the course of several centuries, Venice fashioned and refined a portrait of itself that responded to and exploited historical circumstance.

This beautiful and informative volume illustrates the vitality and importance of North Carolina's contemporary art scene, showcasing the creation, collection, and celebration of art in all its richness and diversity.

This book invites readers into a growing, dynamic conversation among scholars and critics around a vibrant community of artists from an African American South.

Romare Bearden (19111988), one of the most prolific, original, and acclaimed American artists of the twentieth century,richly depictedscenes and figures rooted in the American South and the Black experience.

Self-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham, North Carolina, as its burgeoning tobacco economy put the frontier-like boomtown on the map.

It has long been thought that imperial portrait types were officially commissioned to commemorate specific historical moments and that they were made available to both the mint and the marble workshops in Rome, assuming a close correspondence between portraits on coins and in the round.

It has long been thought that imperial portrait types were officially commissioned to commemorate specific historical moments and that they were made available to both the mint and the marble workshops in Rome, assuming a close correspondence between portraits on coins and in the round.

The Living Death of Antiquity examines the idealization of an antiquity that exhibits, in the words of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 'a noble simplicity and quiet grandeur'.

The Living Death of Antiquity examines the idealization of an antiquity that exhibits, in the words of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 'a noble simplicity and quiet grandeur'.

Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece: Memory, Monuments, Texts uses literature, inscriptions, art, and architecture to explore the relationship of elite Greeks of the Roman imperial period to time.

The story of the color black in art, fashion, and culturefrom the beginning of history to the twenty-first centuryBlackfavorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascistshas always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Kunst - Kunstgeschichte, Note: 1,3, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Unter Einbezug diverser Quellen soll in dieser Arbeit zum einen das Ziel sein, den Historienzyklus Herzog Wilhelms IV.

Essay aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Kunst - Kunstgeschichte, Note: 1,0, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte), Veranstaltung: Paradigmen der Kunstbetrachtung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Fragestellung, wo Kunst beginnt.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Kunst - Kunstgeschichte, Note: 1,0, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte), Veranstaltung: Malerei des Impressionismus: Modernität, Industrialisierung, Wahrnehmungstheorie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit zwei von Edgar Degas' Akt- und Boudoir-Werken und arbeitet die darin bewusst evozierte Intimität heraus.

This is a sweeping and provocative work of aesthetic theory: a trenchant critique of the philosophy of art as it developed from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, combined with a carefully reasoned plea for a new and more flexible approach to art.

This is a sweeping and provocative work of aesthetic theory: a trenchant critique of the philosophy of art as it developed from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, combined with a carefully reasoned plea for a new and more flexible approach to art.

This pioneering work traces the emergence of the modern and contemporary art of Muslim South Asia in relation to transnational modernism and in light of the regions intellectual, cultural, and political developments.

The story of the color black in art, fashion, and culturefrom the beginning of history to the twenty-first centuryBlackfavorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascistshas always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad.

In this beautifully illustrated study of intellectual and art history, Dorothy Johnson explores the representation of classical myths by renowned French artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, demonstrating the extraordinary influence of the natural sciences and psychology on artistic depiction of myth.

One of the most important monuments of Imperial Rome and at the same time one of the most poorly understood, the Column of Marcus Aurelius has long stood in the shadow of the Column of Trajan.

Over the course of several centuries, Venice fashioned and refined a portrait of itself that responded to and exploited historical circumstance.

In this innovative and compelling book Nigel Saul approaches the world of the medieval gentry through the monuments they left behind them.

This book capitalizes on brilliant recent work on sixteenth-century iconoclasm to extend the study of images, both their making and their breaking, into an earlier period and wider discursive territories.

Henri Michaux is widely recognized as a major twentieth-century French poet and painter.

Fuseli's Milton Gallery challenges the antipictorial theories and canons of Romantic period culture.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Kunst - Kunstgeschichte, Note: 2,0, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Universität), Veranstaltung: Kunst und Mediengeschichte, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der dieser Hausarbeit soll die Fragestellung "Yves Saint Laurent.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Kunst - Kunstgeschichte, Note: 1,7, Universität Stuttgart, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die in der Schweiz aufgewachsene Künstlerin Meret Oppenheim lebte von 1913 bis 1985.

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Essay from the year 2022 in the subject Art - History of Art, grade: 1,0, University of Cologne (Institut fur Kunst und Kunsttheorie), course: Kulturelle Praktiken jenseits globaler Vernetzung, language: English, abstract: This paper takes a postcolonial perspective on the existing canon of art history and examines to what extent the low representation of non-European and non-North American arts is a continuity of European colonial times and which steps could contribute to decolonizing the canon.

I Want to Dance with You focuses on five contemporary Mexican women artists-Gina Arizpe, Melissa Garcia, Nuria Montiel, Brenda Anayatzin Ortiz, and Laura Valencia-analyzing their artistic projects since the early 2000s as a response to escalations in the Mexican drug war, feminicide, state-sanctioned violence, and globalization.

The Casa del Menando hoard was found by Professor Amedeo Maiuri in 1930, in the course of the excavation of the Insula of the Menander.

'This is a book that has needed to be written for years.

While engaging with the interconnected concepts of communication and democracy in postwar American and European art criticism, this book provides a historical assessment of how these two related trends pertain to modern and contemporary art theory and practice.

In 1955, Georges Bataille’s Prehistoric Painting: Lascaux; or, The Birth of Art was published.

In 1955, Georges Bataille’s Prehistoric Painting: Lascaux; or, The Birth of Art was published.