Con Breve historia del arte prehistórico y del Creciente Fértil (Mesopotamia y Antiguo Egipto) el lector tiene la oportunidad de conocer las tres grandes etapas iniciales de la historia del arte universal: las primeras creaciones del Homo Sapiens durante el Paleolítico superior a las que siguieron el arte neolítico y la edad de los metales; el arte mesopotámico en el Próximo Oriente y el arte del Egipto milenario, desde la protohistoria y el mítico faraón Narmer, pasando por las pirámides de Gizeh, la escultura en el Reino Antiguo y las creaciones del Reino Medio, hasta las colosales obras aéreas y subterráneas del Imperio Nuevo, adornadas en sus muros de espléndidas pinturas al fresco: los templos de Karnak y Luxor, las tumbas del Valle de los Reyes, de las Reinas y de los Nobles en Deir el Bahari, la escuela de Tell el-Amarna en torno al hereje Akhenatón, el speos de Abú Simbel presidido por las cuatro estatuas colosales de Ramsés II, el renacimiento saíta y la época ptolemaica hasta la caída del país del Nilo en poder de Roma.
Bei Recherchen für seinen Beitrag zur dOCUMENTA (13) stieß der Künstler Clemens von Wedemeyer in der Berliner Akademie der Künste auf das mit handschriftlichen Notizen und Zeichnungen versehene Regiebuch des Regisseurs Eberhard Itzenplitz, auf dessen Basis das Drehbuch von Ulrike Meinhof Bambule.
»Angenommen, wir hätten ein genau eingestelltes, ultra-empfindliches Instrument, das wir dazu verwenden könnten, uns an die Schattierungen und Feinheiten des Nichts heranzuzoomen und auf sie einzustimmen.
This book explores the ways Robert Smithson's art revealed and defamiliarized the constructs of rational reality in order to allow radically speculative alternatives to emerge.
This book explores the ways Robert Smithson's art revealed and defamiliarized the constructs of rational reality in order to allow radically speculative alternatives to emerge.
Der Künstler Francesco Matarrese unternimmt in diesem Notizbuch eine Neulektüre von zwei Texten der Moderne: In einer »extremen Begegnung« stellt er Recentness of Sculpture (Neuerdings die Skulptur) des amerikanischen Kunstkritikers Clement Greenberg von 1967 einem Auszug aus Lotta contro il lavoro!
Der Philosoph Graham Harman wiederholt das bekannte Gleichnis Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington aus dem Jahre 1927 der » zwei Tische « : den vertrauten » Tisch des täglichen Lebens « und dessen Nebenbuhler, den »wissenschaftlichen Tisch « der Physik.
Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices-spanning design, art, and architectural history; design studies; curation; poetry; activism; and social sciences--to interrogate the intersections of design and displacement.
Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices-spanning design, art, and architectural history; design studies; curation; poetry; activism; and social sciences--to interrogate the intersections of design and displacement.
Das Urbild der Demokratie bildet die Verfassung Athens vom fünften bis zum dritten vorchristlichen Jahrhundert – eine überwiegend direkte Demokratie, die den Bürgern ein Maximum an Mitwirkungsmöglichkeiten einräumte.
A celebration of the remarkable poem vessels of Dave the PotterDavid Drake, who often signed his work simply as "e;Dave,"e; was an enslaved potter who lived and worked in Edgefield District, South Carolina.
Die technologische Entwicklung der letzten Jahre bedingt eine tiefgreifende Veränderung der Wahrnehmungsverhältnisse, womit die Anforderungen an die Kompetenz der visuellen Wahrnehmungsfähigkeiten enorm gestiegen sind.
Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles is a novel examination of Los Angeles-based socially engaged art (SEA) practitioners' equitable placekeeping efforts.
Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles is a novel examination of Los Angeles-based socially engaged art (SEA) practitioners' equitable placekeeping efforts.
Julius von Schlosser (1866-1938) ist eine der großen Figuren der Kunstgeschichte und darf neben Alois Riegl (1858-1905) als einflussreichster Vertreter der Wiener Schule gelten.
This accessible book explores the creative uses of photography with political purpose, both in terms of subject matter and of the political perspectives that have driven attitudes to viewing photographs.
This accessible book explores the creative uses of photography with political purpose, both in terms of subject matter and of the political perspectives that have driven attitudes to viewing photographs.
This summary essay and the heavily annotated bibliography covering the period from the first colonization to 1826 are primarily intended to aid the scholar and student by suggesting areas of further study and ways of expanding the conventional interpretations of early American history.
This book brings together a selection of articles that have been published throughout a series of special issues of the journal Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies that originally focused on the so-called 'ethnographic turn' in contemporary arts.
In critical yet appreciative dialogue with four different art critics who demonstrated theological sensitivities, Adam Edward Carnehl traces an ongoing religious conversation that ran through nineteenth-century aesthetics.
Die Briefe der Malerin Julie Hagen Schwarz (1824–1902) gehören zu den seltenen erhaltenen Zeugnissen einer nach Profession strebenden Künstlerin der Jahrhundertmitte.
This volume is the first joint publication of the members of the American-Egyptian mission South Asasif Conservation Project, working under the auspices of the State Ministry for Antiquities and Supreme Council of Antiquities, and directed by the editor.
How Art Is Made looks at renowned works of art from across the centuries and around the globe and asks the intriguingly simple question how were these works actually made?
This book is a compendium of resources largely by and for artists and scholars interested in engaging in conversations of justice, diversity, and historiography in the fields of theatre and performance studies.
This edited volume breaks new ground for understanding peripheries and peripherality by providing a multidisciplinary cross-exposure through a collection of chapters and visual essays by researchers and artists.
This book is a compendium of resources largely by and for artists and scholars interested in engaging in conversations of justice, diversity, and historiography in the fields of theatre and performance studies.
This edited volume breaks new ground for understanding peripheries and peripherality by providing a multidisciplinary cross-exposure through a collection of chapters and visual essays by researchers and artists.
Jacopo de' Barbari's View of Venice, a woodcut first printed in the year 1500, presents a bird's-eye portrait of Venice at its peak as an international hub of trade, art, and culture.
This book examines the terms upon which painting in the United States sought to negotiate with the legacy of American formalist aesthetics and by extension, the understanding of modernist painting it had become most readily associated with.
This book examines the terms upon which painting in the United States sought to negotiate with the legacy of American formalist aesthetics and by extension, the understanding of modernist painting it had become most readily associated with.
Für sein Notizbuch hat der mexikanische Künstler Abraham Cruzvillegas Auszüge und Aufzeichnungen aus seinem persönlichen Skizzenbuch sowie assoziative Fotografien gesammelt.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDaily Mail - 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'The Observer - 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'I can think of no one better placed to tell the story behind The Beatles than Peter Brown.
