Over the course of a thirty-eight-year friendship, painter Beauford Delaney and writer James Baldwin shared their private lives and shaped one another's artistic values.
This book illustrates how texts of German educationist Friedrich Froebel and those of his interpreters were read in England and what consequences these readings had for the education of young children in nursery and infant schools during the nineteenth century.
Utilising new methodological approaches to understanding not only the poor as a social and economic group but also of the internal means of stratification which informed social organisation within local communities, this book looks at the place of the poor within the multi-layered hierarchies of Byzantine society using evidence from archaeology, art, architecture, as well as narrative, theological, and legal texts.
This edited volume will be the first book examining the art history of China's socialist period from the perspective of modernism, modernity, and global interactions.
This book excavates the depths of creative purpose and meaning-making and the extent to which artist autonomy and authenticity in art is a struggle against psychological conditioning, controlling cultural institutions and markets, key to which is representation.
The first part of the yearbook contains ten essays on Futurist art and literature in Italy, France, Russia, Poland, Portugal and the former colony of Goa.
Tracing the lives and works of five women in four case studies, author Marie Meyerding examines the representation of women in the field of photography in South Africa in the second half of the twentieth century.
Today's artists and art lovers who adhere to a traditional view of art are virtually submerged in the tsunami of anti-traditional work and supporting critical spin generated by the contemporary artworld.
This book illustrates how texts of German educationist Friedrich Froebel and those of his interpreters were read in England and what consequences these readings had for the education of young children in nursery and infant schools during the nineteenth century.
Among all the technical movements witnessed in the twentieth century, there is no doubt that the Dadia and Surrealism are particularly highly because of their strangeness and influence.
This book is dedicated to the study of Ancient Egyptian archaeology and gives insight into civil, military and religious architecture of Egypt as well as the information about Egyptian tombs, painting, sculpture and industrial arts.
Perhaps you will agree with me when I say: The purpose of literature is to help a person: understand himself, believe in himself, develop in him the ambition for truth, combat the evil tendencies in human nature, guide him to the good side of them, and arouse in them the side of goodness.
A groundbreaking reassessment that foregrounds Van Gogh's profound engagement with the industrial age while making his work newly relevant for our world today Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is most often portrayed as the consummate painter of nature whose work gained its strength from his direct encounters with the unspoiled landscape.
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.
A thoughtful, engaging, and intimate history of art that offers a critical analysis of the assumptions on which the entire discipline of art history depends.
This book excavates the depths of creative purpose and meaning-making and the extent to which artist autonomy and authenticity in art is a struggle against psychological conditioning, controlling cultural institutions and markets, key to which is representation.
Die Sammlung 'Heinrich Zille: Der Mann und das Werk (Mit Abbildungen)' bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in das Schaffen und Leben Heinrich Zilles, eines herausragenden Zeichners und Fotografen, der vor allem für seine darstellerischen Arbeiten des Berliner Milieus bekannt ist.
Giorgio Vasaris Buch 'Künstler der Renaissance' ist ein Meisterwerk der Kunstgeschichte, das die Werke von einigen der bedeutendsten Künstler der Renaissance, darunter Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci und Raffael, in einem faszinierenden Kontext präsentiert.
In 'The Moon and Sixpence', William Somerset Maugham delves into the life of Charles Strickland, a fictional character inspired by the real-life story of the famous artist Paul Gauguin.
Richard Muther's monumentales Werk "Geschichte der Malerei" besteht aus insgesamt 5 Bänden, die einen umfassenden Überblick über die Entwicklung der Malerei von den frühesten Anfängen bis zur Moderne bieten.
Who were the early ancestors of East European Ashkenazic Jews, how were they related to the biblical Israelites/Judeans, and when and from where did they arrive in Eastern Europe?
