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.
Soren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature.
The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca artThe most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic made famous through theories about the meanings of its intricate designs, including attempts to read them as a long-lost writing system.
From the acclaimed author of Immigrant, Montana comes a one-of-a-kind novel about memory, politics, a world of lies, and the ways in which truth can be not only stranger than fiction, but a fiction of its own.
From Romanesque to Realism; Pop Art to Pluralism, in this series, Susie Hodge introduces the most important art ideas and concepts that form the foundations of Western art.
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.
Papst Franziskus: "Diese Wirtschaft tötet"Hat Papst Franziskus Recht, wenn er behauptet, dass die jetzige Wirtschaftsordnung ganze Bevölkerungsgruppen ausgrenzt, soziale Ungerechtigkeiten erzeugt und Gewalt hervorbringt?
"e;The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come.
Menschlichkeit und Kunst in Zeiten des UmbruchsTeju Coles neue Essays kreisen um die Frage, wie wir in Zeiten der Dunkelheit unsere Menschlichkeit bewahren und uns für die Menschlichkeit anderer öffnen.
In der Vormoderne wurden, um Krankheiten zu heilen, die Seelen-, die Temperamenten-, die Elementen- und die Lebensalterlehre genutzt, die in der Humoralpathologie zusammenliefen.
La melodía del violín de Lev fascinó a Helena Attlee desde la primera vez que la oyó en un concierto; aquel viejo instrumento italiano que llevaba el nombre de su antiguo propietario ruso atesoraba una rica historia.
Roma ha sido, es y será la ciudad eterna que a todos deslumbra y a todos agota por la cantidad de vestigios arqueológicos, históricos y artísticos que ha acumulado a lo largo de 3000 años.
In den Grundlagen des populären Films analysiert der Kulturkritiker Georg Seeßlen detailreich und hintergründig die stilbildenden Elemente unterschiedlicher Filmgenres und verfolgt ihren Weg durch die Filmgeschichte.
Die Faszination des Genres ist ungebrochen - von den Klassikern des Hollywood-Sandalenfilms, über Ritter und Piratenfilme bis hin zu modernen Abenteurern wie Indiana Jones: Der Abenteurer lebt von Traum und Phantasie, von Eleganz und Stil, und was er erlebt, ist geprägt von seiner Lust an der Welt.
In den Grundlagen des populären Films analysiert der Kulturkritiker Georg Seeßlen detailreich und hintergründig die stilbildenden Elemente unterschiedlicher Filmgenres und verfolgt ihren Weg durch die Filmgeschichte.
Con los conceptos dramaturgia expandida y escena nómada esta obra propone una posibilidad de lectura de la relación arte-política en medio de la cartografía de lo sensible presentada por el filósofo francés Jacques Rancière.
La melodia del violí d'en Lev va fascinar Helena Attlee d'ençà que la va sentir en un concert; aquell vell instrument italià que portava el nom del seu antic propietari rus atresorava una rica història.
*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR*A revelatory insider portrait of one of the world's greatest galleries, and the inspiring story of one guard's quest to find solace and meaning in art.
Hans Uhlmann und die Zeichnung im Raum – Von Drahtskulpturen bis zur Minimal ArtHans Uhlmann (1900–1975) zählt zu den Pionieren der modernen Skulptur, dessen revolutionäre Zeichnungen im Raum die Kunst des 20.
In Egg and Spoon, the artist and illustrator Rose Blake tells the story of a childhood fuelled on art and creativity, infused with travel and steeled by the more quotidian aspects of family life growing up with the artist Peter Blake.
A gorgeously illustrated companion to the fashion documentary of the same name, Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf Goodman is an unforgettable collection of anecdotes, from the hilarious to the poignant, in commemoration of the internationally renowned luxury specialty store's 111th anniversary.
How artists created an aesthetic of "e;positive barbarism"e; in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bombIn Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation of World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb.
The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in social contextFrom the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence.
When the author bought a falling down fortified house on the Staffordshire moorlands, he had no reason to anticipate the astonishing tale that would unfold as it was restored.
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.
