A thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first artworks ever made to art's central role in culture today "e;This lively volume is ideal for the precocious high-schooler, the lazy collegian .
As a major member of the New York School, Barnett Newman is celebrated for his radical explorations of color and scale and, as a precursor to the Minimalist movement, for his significant contribution to the development of twentieth-century American art.
How a single haunting image tells a story about violence, mourning, and memoryIn 1865, Clara Barton traveled to the site of the notorious Confederate prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, where she endeavored to name the missing and the dead.
How a single haunting image tells a story about violence, mourning, and memoryIn 1865, Clara Barton traveled to the site of the notorious Confederate prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, where she endeavored to name the missing and the dead.
An easy-to-follow, step-by-step manga drawing instruction book from fan favorite manga artist and painter Camilla d''Errico, featuring 30 lessons on illustrating cute, cool, and quirky characters in the Pop Surrealist style with pencils.
How to Draw a Map is a fascinating meditation on the centuries-old art of map-making, from the first astronomical maps to the sophisticated GPS guides of today.
The Representation of the Struggling Artist in America, 1800-1865 analyzes how American painters, sculptors, and writers, active between 1800 and 1865, depicted their response to a democratic society that failed to adequately support them financially and intellectually.
The stunning, specially commissioned cover illustrations are one of the great joys of the New Naturalist series, lending it a distinctive style which has inspired nature enthusiasts for many decades.
A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russia’s art world Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty.
A brilliant new reading of the Bayeux Tapestry that radically alters our understanding of the events of 1066 and reveals the astonishing story of the survival of early medieval Europe's greatest treasure.
Garcia Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism: The Aesthetics of Anguish examines the variations of surrealism and surrealist theories in the Spanish context, studied through the poetry, drama, and drawings of Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936).
The Surrealist Movement is an international intellectual movement that has led a sustained questioning of the basis of human experience under twentieth- and twenty-first century modernity since its founding in the early 1920s.
Con los conceptos dramaturgia expandida y escena nomada esta obra propone una posibilidad de lectura de la relacion arte-politica en medio de la cartografia de lo sensible presentada por el filosofo frances Jacques Ranciere.
Una voz fundacional de la modernidad latinoamericana: Mario de Andrade, figura clave del modernismo brasileno, dialoga con las vanguardias del continente y renueva la literatura con humor, oralidad y experimentacion.
La presente obra constituye un esfuerzo por analizar y entender desde diversas vertientes -fundamentalmente a partir de la historia cultural- las representaciones religiosas y el discurso iconografico que se asociaban al conjunto arquitectonico del templo del convento de San Agustin, erigido en la ciudad de San Luis Potosi a lo largo de los siglos XVII y XVIII.
Immer wieder wird eine blumige Rhetorik vom Sammeln und Bewahren bemuht, sobald von Museen, ihren Konzepten und ihren Bestanden die Rede ist, obwohl das Museumswesen kaum gesetzliche Regelungen kennt.
La presente obra constituye un esfuerzo por analizar y entender desde diversas vertientes -fundamentalmente a partir de la historia cultural- las representaciones religiosas y el discurso iconografico que se asociaban al conjunto arquitectonico del templo del convento de San Agustin, erigido en la ciudad de San Luis Potosi a lo largo de los siglos XVII y XVIII.
