History of art

Franklin Furnace is a renowned New York-based arts organization whose mission is to preserve, document and present works of avant-garde art by emerging artists - particularly those whose works may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect or politically unpopular content.

The twelve days of Christmas follow from December 25 until January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany, the traditional date when the Magi arrived to present gifts to infant Jesus.

First published in 1971.

The contexts for the works of eleventh and twelfth-century historians are here brought to the fore.

Presents a new approach to heritage formation in Asia, conveying the power of the material remains of the past.

Presenting key examples and case studies of how design has responded to the pandemic, Design and Covid-19 offers lessons and approaches to design for future resilience.

For Claude Monet the designation 'impressionist' always remained a source of pride.

Modernism in architecture and urban design has failed the American city.

This practical text examines the various styles of music and features specific suggestions for each piece of service music, hymn, and song with the aim of assisting music leaders to enrich meaningful worship.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Köpfe von den Südmetopen des Parthenon" verfügbar.

Using five case studies of contemporary art, this book uses ideas of systems and dispersion to understand identity and experience in late capitalism.

Originally published in 1963 and edited by an authority on Wyndham Lewis (whom he also knew personally) this volume made available for the first time over 500 letters of Wyndham Lewis, who for half a century was a dynamic force among English artists and intellectuals.

A stunning new edition of the Canadian classic with never-before-seen paintingsFirst published in 1977 to commemorate the centenary of the birth of a Canadian painter whose brief, brilliant life, and untimely death in a mysterious canoe accident, gained him mythic status in his homeland, Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm quickly attained legendary status in its own right.

En "Una filosofía del arte de masas", Carroll elabora un modelo conceptual, descriptivo y no valorativo del arte de masas, a partir del análisis de las posturas de resistencia filosófica representadas por Greenberg, MacDonald o Adorno, y de las minoritarias celebraciones de Benjamin o MacLuhan.

Die ehemalige Benediktinerabtei und barocke Schlossanlage Corvey eröffnet Räume der europäischen Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, die durch ihre Atmosphäre und sinnlichen Eindrücke für Kinder, Jugendliche und Erwachsene ein zumeist unvergessliches Erlebnis darstellen.

Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies upon cities, and this is especially the case in the modern Turkish Republic.

Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy is an interdisciplinary historical re-reading of a series of representative texts that complicate our current understanding of the portrayal of masculinity in the Italian fascist era.

British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime excavates British late modernism's relationship to war in terms of chronophobia: a joint fear of the past and future.

Changes in the routines of domestic life were among the most striking social phenomena of the period between the two World Wars, when the home came into focus as a problem to be solved: re-imagined, streamlined, electrified, and generally cleaned up.

The near-absence of religion from contemporary discourse on art is one of the most fundamental issues in postmodernism.

Since at least the early sixth century C.

This book examines women''s art writing in the nineteenth century, challenging the idea of art history as a masculine intellectual field.

Written by one of the foremost scholars of African art and featuring 129 color images, Postcolonial Modernism chronicles the emergence of artistic modernism in Nigeria in the heady years surrounding political independence in 1960, before the outbreak of civil war in 1967.

Interdisciplinary collection of essays on fine art painting as it relates to the First World War and commemoration of the conflict Although photography and moving pictures achieved ubiquity during the First World War as technological means of recording history, the far more traditional medium of paint-ing played a vital role in the visual culture of combatant nations.

This book explores ideologies, conflicts and ideas that underpinned art historical writing in Ukraine in the 20th century.

Race-ing Art History is the first comprehensive anthology to place issues of racial representation squarely on the canvas.

Taking a multidisciplinary approach to the complex cultural exchanges that took place between Britain and America from 1750 to 1900, The Materials of Exchange examines material, visual, and print culture alongside literature within a transatlantic context.

Galenson combines social scientific methods with qualitative analysis to produce a new interpretation of modern art.

A probing and holistic meditation on the key question: Why do we continue to make art, and thus beauty, out of war?

This volume explores a basic question in the historiography of art: the extent to which iconology was a homogenous research method in its own immutable right.

Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (1950-53), this book shows the dynamic role art, specifically sculpture, played in constructing both Italian and American culture after World War II (WWII).

What does it mean to look?

The essays in VISUAL RHETORIC AND THE ELOQUENCE OF DESIGN foreground the rhetorical functions of design artifacts.

Violence and Power in Ancient Egypt examines the use of Egyptian pictures of violence prior to the New Kingdom.

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.

This collection of essays seeks to challenge the notion of the supremacy of the brain as the key organ of the Enlightenment, by focusing on the workings of the bowels and viscera that so obsessed writers and thinkers during the long eighteenth-century.

This book is an exploration of how art-specifically paintings in the European manner-can be mobilized to make knowledge claims about the past.

Women have consistently been left out of the official writing of Lebanese history, and nowhere is this more obvious than in writing on the Lebanese Civil War.

Performance Art: Education and Practice is an introduction to performance art through activities and practice prompts that are framed by seminal moments in the history of the medium as well as the current theoretical discussions surrounding performance.

Fascinated by them, unable to ignore them, and imaginatively stimulated by them, Charles Dickens was an acute and unsentimental reporter on the dogs he kept and encountered during a time when they were a burgeoning part of the nineteenth-century urban and domestic scene.

From Style Rookie to Style Bubble, personal style blogs exploded onto the scene in the mid-2000s giving voice to young and stylish writers who had their own unique take on the seasonal fashion cycle and how to curate an individual style within the shifting swirl of trends.

The fin de siecle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism.

Today's many popular aesthetic pleasures have a very long history.

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Kingsley-Smith demonstrates how Cupid played a crucial role in the struggle to categorise and control desire in early modern England.

Leiji Matsumoto is one of Japan's most influential myth creators.

In 2013 Georg Baselitz declared that 'women don't paint very well'.