Since the time of the ancient Greeks, philosophers have pondered the nature and purpose of the arts, but artists have gone on making them and audiences enjoying them regardless of these musings.
A new and 50% enlarged, entertaining, but fundamentally serious selection of the most rewarding places to visit the most visited and beloved country in the world.
This personal and well-informed selection and description of the most interesting towns and individual buildings and archaeological sites in Turkey is the definitive guidebook for the discerning traveler.
A new examination of the history of ceramic art, spanning ancient to modern times, emphasizing its traditions, materials, and methods of makingConcise but comprehensive, Ceramic Art brings together the voices of art historians, conservators, and artists to tell the history of making art from fired clay.
In der von eiserner Staatsraison und beinahe militärischer Staatsdisziplin geprägten preußischen Geschichte hat Deborah Hertz das deutsch-jüdische Salonleben als eine einzigartige kulturelle Ausnahmesituation wiederentdeckt.
Why human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon-and why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselvesIn The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noe explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature.
Unlike traditional textbooks, which leave students without a clear understanding of the different tenses and moods, the Collins College Outline for Spanish Grammar is organized conceptually, explaining in detail subjunctive and imperative moods, passive voice, negatives, idioms, and the rules of accentuation.
Jürgen Kaumkötter zeigt, welche große Bedeutung das als "Selbstbildnis mit Judenpass" bekannt gewordene Werk von Felix Nussbaum für die Holocaust-Kunst hat.
A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval worldWhile the term "e;intersectionality"e; was coined in 1989, the existence of marginalized identities extends back over millennia.
Ein schlichtes Holzkreuz schmückt Farinets Grab in Saillon, das am Rande des Kirchenbezirks liegt, wie es sich gehört für einen, der seine individuelle Freiheit höher schätzte als Staat und Gesetz.
This new edition of Coomaraswamy's classic book, considered his most important work on the philosophy of art, includes all of the revisions Coomaraswamy had wanted to add to the original edition.
How leading American artists reflected on the fate of humanity in the nuclear era through monumental sculptureIn the wake of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945, artists in the United States began to question what it meant to create a work of art in a world where humanity could be rendered extinct by its own hand.
The first time she made a pizza from scratch, art historian Nancy Heller made the observation that led her to write this entertaining guide to contemporary art.
The untold story of Michelangelo's final decades-and his transformation into one of the greatest architects of the Italian RenaissanceAs he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were past.
A richly illustrated celebration of the paintings of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama From the moment of their unveiling at the National Portrait Gallery in early 2018, the portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama have become two of the most beloved artworks of our time.
How the urban spectator became the archetypal modern viewer and a central subject in late nineteenth-century French artGawkers explores how artists and writers in late nineteenth-century Paris represented the seductions, horrors, and banalities of street life through the eyes of curious viewers known as badauds.
From the celebrated cultural historian and bestselling author, a provocative history of the evolution of our ideas about art since the early nineteenth centuryIn this witty, provocative, and learned book, acclaimed cultural historian and writer Jacques Barzun traces our changing attitudes to the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that we are living in a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance.
A meditation on how environmental change and the passage of time transform the meaning of site-specific artIn the decades after World War II, artists and designers of the land art movement used the natural landscape to create monumental site-specific artworks.
From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like?
In the late nineteenth century, Scandinavian urban dwellers developed a passion for a new, utterly modern sort of visual spectacle: objects and effigies brought to life in astonishingly detailed, realistic scenes.
The first comprehensive account of how and why architects learned to communicate through colorArchitectural drawings of the Italian Renaissance were largely devoid of color, but from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth, polychromy in architectural representation grew and flourished.
In Roman Eyes, Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the construction of subjectivity in the Roman Empire.
Why modern and contemporary artand art conservationcan't be understood without taking account of the revolutionary impact of plasticsModern and contemporary art wouldn't exist without the invention of plastics.
A powerful portrait of the greatest humanitarian emergency of our time, from the director of Human FlowIn the course of making Human Flow, his epic feature documentary about the global refugee crisis, the artist Ai Weiwei and his collaborators interviewed more than 600 refugees, aid workers, politicians, activists, doctors, and local authorities in twenty-three countries around the world.
The classic book on the art and history of weaving-now expanded and in full colorWritten by one of the twentieth century's leading textile artists, this splendidly illustrated book is a luminous meditation on the art of weaving, its history, its tools and techniques, and its implications for modern design.
Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius.
A bold reorientation of art history that bridges the divide between fine art and material culture through an examination of objects and their usesArt history is often viewed through cultural or national lenses that define some works as fine art while relegating others to the category of craft.
A major new biography of legendary art collector and philanthropist Isabella Stewart GardnerIsabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) assembled an extraordinary collection of art from diverse cultures and eras-and built a Venetian-style palazzo in Boston to share these exquisite treasures with the world.
An illuminating look at a fundamental yet understudied aspect of Italian Renaissance paintingThe Italian Renaissance picture is renowned for its depiction of the human figure, from the dramatic foreshortening of the body to create depth to the subtle blending of tones and colors to achieve greater naturalism.
Los ensayos aquí reunidos analizan los cruces entre textos literarios e imágenes artísticas a la luz de las modalidades de los intercambios entre el continente americano y Europa, desde el siglo XVII hasta la actualidad.
Esta obra reflexiona acerca de prácticas acontecidas en la escena artística contemporánea que comparten derivas poéticas tanto dentro de la institución arte como en espacios laterales.
El retrato del «matrimonio Arnolfini», que Jan van Eyck pintó en 1434, es uno de los cuadros más fascinantes de la historia del arte: admirado a lo largo de los siglos, objeto de innumerables estudios, esconde sin embargo un secreto, un significado oculto que se hurta aún hoy incluso a la mirada más atenta.
Desde su misma fundación en 1943, el Teatro de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile ha producido afiches como forma de publicitar sus distintas representaciones escénicas.
A través de esta propuesta editorial digital interactiva denominada "El nacimiento del Universo Kuna",el autor,la Editorial Universidad Nacional de Colombia,la Universidad Nacional de Colombia,la Facultad de Artes y la Escuela de Diseño Industrial esperan contribuir a recuperar y mantener vivos los valores expresivos de las molas (es decir,los artefactos comunicativos de los indígenas kunas de Colombia y Panamá), asícomo los valores estéticos y simbólicos que representan la identidad cultural de este pueblo originario de América y el invaluable patrimonio iconográfico que significan.
A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly from the Sanskrit.
This compelling novel takes the reader into the tumultuous period of the Renaissance and the origins of Leonardo da Vinci, the bastard child of a notary.
La efigie de una joven indígena –que aparece tanto en monedas como en grabados, pinturas y otras producciones visuales desde el siglo XV hasta nuestros días– condensa dos sentidos políticos y culturales muy diferentes.
A spectacularly illustrated history of an enigmatic surgical diagramThe Wound Mana medical diagram depicting a figure fantastically pierced by weapons and ravaged by injuries and diseaseswas reproduced widely across the medieval and early modern globe.
