New perspectives on early globalisms from objects and imagesTales Things Tell offers new perspectives on histories of connectivity between Africa, Asia, and Europe in the period before the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century.
Although previous scholarship has acknowledged the importance of the visual arts to the Brontes, relatively little attention has been paid to the influence of music, theatre, and material culture on the siblings' lives and literature.
Today's artworld experts accept virtually anything as "e;art"e;--from all-black paintings and facsimiles of supermarket cartons to dead animals preserved in formaldehyde.
The aim of this book is to engender Mexican folk art and locate women at its centre by studying the processes of creation, distribution, and consumption, as well as examining iconographic aspects, and elements of class and ethnicity, from the perspective of gender.
Como los grandes pintores, nosotros también queríamos hacer un gran libro, que por motivos de espacio y edición se ha convertido en tres, y sumando los granitos de arena de los treinta autores que lo componen, hemos creado un gran castillo de treinta y siete plantas/capítulos, con tres sedes, que nos cuentan una bonita historia barroca que se extiende desde finales del siglo XVI hasta ayer, cuando cualquier imagen, ya sea naturalista, barroca, clásico-barroca, preciosista, de Olot, de repoblación, popular, neo-barroca, neo-barroca gay, realista, hiperrealista, hipernaturalista, post Miñarro, post Zafra, post Buiza, post Duarte, post Suso de Marcos o 3D, fue compartida en una red social —alguno a lo mejor hasta se hizo un selfie con ella—, las queremos a todas.
From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Stone Yard Devotional'Savage: think Atwood in the outback'PAULA HAWKINS'An unforgettable reading experience'LIANE MORIARTY'Ferocious .
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.
Extrait : "Des trois arts du dessin, que la voix unanime des nations a salués par excellence du nom de beaux-arts, la peinture est le dernier, historiquement et par les dates.
A new departure in Penguin Classics: a book containing one of the greatest of all Renaissance woodcut sequences - Holbein's bravura danse macabreOne of Holbein's first great triumphs, The Dance of Death is an incomparable sequence of tiny woodcuts showing the folly of human greed and pride, with each image packed with drama, wit and horror as a skeleton mocks and terrifies everyone from the emperor to a ploughman.
A major new TV series - MASTERS OF THE AIR How America's bomber boys and girls in England won their war, and how their English allies responded to them.
This delightful 1974 classic is replete with new images, updates on favorite artists, and a thoughtful afterword by the author that reflects on what was at the heart of the '60s counterculture.
Nicht nur als radikalster Gegenentwurf zur bürgerlichen Kultur, sondern auch als ein Hauptmerkmal expressionistischer Ästhetik an sich kann die Thematisierung von psychischen Extremzuständen und 'Geisteskrankheit' angesehen werden.
Die technologische Entwicklung der letzten Jahre bedingt eine tiefgreifende Veränderung der Wahrnehmungsverhältnisse, womit die Anforderungen an die Kompetenz der visuellen Wahrnehmungsfähigkeiten enorm gestiegen sind.
Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo.
