How a once-forgotten Dutch painter inspired generations of artists, writers, and filmmakersJohannes Vermeer (16321675) is one of the most beloved painters in the world.
The aim of this book is to engender Mexican folk art and locate women at its centre by studying the processes of creation, distribution, and consumption, as well as examining iconographic aspects, and elements of class and ethnicity, from the perspective of gender.
Winner of the Textbook & Academic Authors Association's Textbook Excellence "e;Texty"e; AwardMake your Art Appreciation course as inspiring as the rich world of art that it covers.
It is astonishing how deeply the figure of Ophelia has been woven into the fabric of Spanish literature and the visual arts - from her first appearance in eighteenth-century translations of Hamlet, through depictions by seminal authors such as Espronceda, Becquer and Lorca, to turn-of-the millennium figurations.
Descubre Granada como nunca la habias sentido: una ciudad donde la historia y la leyenda se entrelazan en cada rincon, donde los ecos de sultanes, poetas y heroes resuenan entre palacios, plazas y callejuelas.
Luis de Morales, known as El Divino because of his intensely religious subject matter, is the most significant and recognisable Spanish painter of the mid-sixteenth century, the high point of the Spanish and Portuguese counter-reformations.
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR'A beautifully written, literary tour-de-force' John Ironmonger, author of Not Forgetting the Whale'A wonderfully written story of art, but also of obsession, friendship and love - I absolutely adored this novel' Jillian CantorThe Mona Lisa has hung in the Louvre for over two-hundred years.
An exquisitely illustrated collection of historical guides to creating pigments from flowers and plantsFlowering currant, ivy, Portuguese laurel, and woad might all have grown in a medieval garden, but it would have taken special expertise to extract and create rich blue and purple pigments from them.
It is astonishing how deeply the figure of Ophelia has been woven into the fabric of Spanish literature and the visual arts - from her first appearance in eighteenth-century translations of Hamlet, through depictions by seminal authors such as Espronceda, Becquer and Lorca, to turn-of-the millennium figurations.
In this book, Claudio Strinaty takes us on a fascinating journey to discover important places and times in the history of art, from the wonders of the ancient world to the dawn of the Enlightenment.
Die vorliegende Studie unternimmt erstmals eine systematische Rekonstruktion von Aby Warburgs Theorie des Bildgedachtnisses - eines zentralen, jedoch fragmentarisch gebliebenen Konzepts seiner kunstwissenschaftlichen Epistemologie, die Warburg allein in den Bildertafeln explizierte.
An exquisitely illustrated collection of historical guides to creating pigments from flowers and plantsFlowering currant, ivy, Portuguese laurel, and woad might all have grown in a medieval garden, but it would have taken special expertise to extract and create rich blue and purple pigments from them.
A richly illustrated look at three visionary artists who charted new directions for photography in midcentury AmericaMinor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan carved out a new role for photographers and their art in the decades after World War Two.
This book is a collection of fourteen essays on the Dialogues on Painting, published by the Florentine-born Spanish painter and art theorist Vicente Carducho (1568-1638) in 1633.
Luis de Morales, known as El Divino because of his intensely religious subject matter, is the most significant and recognisable Spanish painter of the mid-sixteenth century, the high point of the Spanish and Portuguese counter-reformations.
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2026**SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO NON-FICTION BOOK AWARD 2025**SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025**A BBC RADIO 4 AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEK*Connect with Britain s extraordinary heritage and be awakened to the beauty all around you with this Sunday Times bestselling journey to Craftland by award-winning historian and broadcaster James Fox.
This book is an entertaining, informative and enchanting introduction to its subject - just as those medieval banes of the farmyard, the Fox and the Vixen, were enchanting in escapades from fables and funny tales, from beastly epic poems and bestiaries, and from medieval material culture (in Danish wall-paintings and Dutch manuscript illustrations and statues, stained-glass and Italian mosaics).
This book is an entertaining, informative and enchanting introduction to its subject - just as those medieval banes of the farmyard, the Fox and the Vixen, were enchanting in escapades from fables and funny tales, from beastly epic poems and bestiaries, and from medieval material culture (in Danish wall-paintings and Dutch manuscript illustrations and statues, stained-glass and Italian mosaics).
Romare Bearden (19111988), one of the most prolific, original, and acclaimed American artists of the twentieth century,richly depictedscenes and figures rooted in the American South and the Black experience.
The fight for racial equality in the nineteenth century played out not only in marches and political conventions but also in the print and visual culture created and disseminated throughout the United States by African Americans.
This book explores Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s provocative claim that “the unconscious is feeling itself,” reframing the unconscious as a fundamentally relational phenomenon rather than a private repository of repressed content.
A richly illustrated look at three visionary artists who charted new directions for photography in midcentury AmericaMinor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan carved out a new role for photographers and their art in the decades after World War Two.
This book explores Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s provocative claim that “the unconscious is feeling itself,” reframing the unconscious as a fundamentally relational phenomenon rather than a private repository of repressed content.
The aim of this book is to engender Mexican folk art and locate women at its centre by studying the processes of creation, distribution, and consumption, as well as examining iconographic aspects, and elements of class and ethnicity, from the perspective of gender.
'He created his own universe and became its star' David Cronenberg, GuardianAndy Warhol carried a camera with him everywhere he went and, taken from ten years of extraordinary shots, his America aspires to the strange beauty and staggering contradictions of the country itself.
Balinese Art is the first comprehensive survey of Balinese painting from its origins in the traditional Balinese village to its present position at the forefront of the high-priced Asian art scene.
