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.
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.
A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the 1880s.
Riffling through the wardrobes of years gone by, costume historian Lucy Adlington reveals the rich stories underlying the clothes we wear in this stylish tour of the most important developments in the history of fashion, from ancient times to the present day.
*#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER *Winner, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Nonfiction *Winner, Indigenous Voices Awards *Winner, High Plains Book Awards *Finalist, CBC Canada Reads *A Globe and Mail Book of the Year *An Indigo Book of the Year *A CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of the Year In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, once a high school dropout and now a rising Indigenous scholar, chronicles his life on the streets and how he overcame trauma and addiction to discover the truth about who he is.
Esta obra aborda el proyecto cultural y artístico más ambicioso desarrollado en Medellín por una empresa privada durante el siglo XX: las tres bienales de arte que Coltejer financió y gestionó entre 1968 y 1972.
En nuestra función docente van implícitas responsabilidades colectivas que traspasan los límites físicos del aula y que se proyectan hacia la sociedad donde vive nuestro alumnado.
Si esta tierra es rica en manifestaciones artísticas de todos los periodos, casi con total seguridad uno de los productos estrella es la escultura "barroca", y utilizamos el término barroco, no sin incumbir en error, de elevarnos sobre su enclave de temporalidad, para aludir a un arte cuyas claves sociales se han mantenido desde el siglo XVII hasta la actualidad, más que a unas meras características formales, que ha sabido reinventarse y crear nuevos lenguajes, formales, expresivos, creativos, etc.
Un estudio sobre los nuevos medios que se emplean para eliminar la inseguridad en ámbito urbanoDos son los temores centrales que organizan los miedos que moldean la vida en la ciudad.
El record de Jaume I es pot conèixer a través dels testimonis escrits en la baixa edat mitjana –documents del seu regnat, poesies dels trobadors contemporanis, cròniques coetànies o pòstumes.
Aquesta Història de l'art medieval és un intent per comprendre les manifestacions estètiques d'un mil·leni, aquell que s'ha convingut a anomenar 'edat mitjana', en què es produïren mutacions cabdals al continent europeu.
El record de Jaume I es pot conèixer a través dels testimonis escrits en la baixa edat mitjana –documents del seu regnat, poesies dels trobadors contemporanis, cròniques coetànies o pòstumes.
Fernando les advirtió: «De cien personas que cruzan el río, tan solo diez superan Chiapas, tres llegan al norte, a la frontera, y solo una consigue pasar».
Art deco refers to a striking range of decorative design styles that emerged in the early twentieth century and comes from the influential 1925 Paris International Exhibition of Decorative Arts.
The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture.
The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture.
Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, and Laurie Anderson are just some of the major American artists of the twentieth century.
This book offers a wide-ranging introduction to the way that art was made, valued, and viewed in northern Europe in the age of the Renaissance, from the late fourteenth to the early years of the sixteenth century.
In Making Dystopia, distinguished architectural historian James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural Modernism in the aftermath of the First World War, its protagonists, and its astonishing, almost global acceptance after 1945.
This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures.
This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures.
Barbara Novak is one of America's premier art historians, the author of the seminal books American Painting of the Nineteenth Century and Nature and Culture, the latter of which was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.
From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders.
