In Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination, Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine how animated films address aesthetic experience within contexts of technological, environmental, and sociocultural change.
Discussing multiple aspects of material culture and domestic consumption, this book tackles the relationship between the trajectories and biographies of people, families, houses and objects and how they intertwine and produce each other.
Equal under the Sky is the first historical study of Georgia O'Keeffe's complex involvement with, and influence on, US feminism from the 1910s to the 1970s.
Out of Eden presents the rigorous investigations and musings of a poet-essayist on the ways in which modern artists have confronted and transfigured the realist tradition of representation.
This is the most comprehensive English-language compilation available on Chinese painters and their works from the late sixth through the mid- fourteenth century.
The first full-length critical analysis of the paintings of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, this book focuses on Smith's role as a modernist in addition to her status as a wellknown Native American artist.
Early Netherlandish Triptychs offers an in-depth examination of the transformative role of triptych altarpieces in fifteenth-century Netherlandish art, analyzing how these works reflect and negotiate the relationship between artist, donor, sacred subject, and their original physical settings.
Early Netherlandish Triptychs offers an in-depth examination of the transformative role of triptych altarpieces in fifteenth-century Netherlandish art, analyzing how these works reflect and negotiate the relationship between artist, donor, sacred subject, and their original physical settings.
A brilliant look at the writers, artists, scientists, movie directors, and scholarsranging from Bertolt Brecht to Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Mann, and Fritz Langwho fled Hitlers Germany and how they changed the very fabric of American culture.
Es incuestionable la importancia que tuvo el estudio del artista en la literatura decimonónica como lugar en el que los autores podían disentir y articular opiniones diferentes de aquellas marcadas como "normales" por las reglas socioculturales de su época.
This is the most comprehensive English-language compilation available on Chinese painters and their works from the late sixth through the mid- fourteenth century.
Commonly known as the "e;Arnolfini Wedding"e; or "e;Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride,"e; Jan van Eyck's double portrait, painted in 1434, is probably the most widely recognized panel painting of the fifteenth century.
This richly illustrated work provides a new and deeper perspective on the interaction of visual representation and classical culture from the fifth century B.
This edited volume addresses the circulation of works of art, images, and ideas between the Iberian and Italian world and the subsequent responses this motion generated.
