An enthralling exploration of the biologically richest island on Earth, featuring more than 200 spectacular color images by award-winning National Geographic photographer Tim LamanIn this beautiful book, Bruce Beehler, a renowned author and expert on New Guinea, and award-winning National Geographic photographer Tim Laman take the reader on an unforgettable journey through the natural and cultural wonders of the world's grandest island.
The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts is a major collection of new writings on research in the creative and performing arts by leading authorities from around the world.
The first study of the translations of Andy Warhol's writing and ideas, Translating Warhol reveals how translation has alternately censored, exposed, or otherwise affected the presentation of his political and social positions and attitudes and, in turn, the value we place on his art and person.
Die gesammelten Beiträge von Werner Eck erörtern unter sehr verschiedenen sachlichen Gesichtspunkten die Frage, wie die zahlreichen regionalen Gesellschaften und einzelne reichsweite Personengruppen im Imperium Romanum durch die kaiserzeitliche Politik in Religion, Sprache, Familie, Recht oder auch bei den Begräbnissitten beeinflusst wurden.
A look at the painting traditions of northwestern India in the eighteenth century, and what they reveal about the political and artistic changes of the eraIn the long eighteenth century, artists from Udaipur, a city of lakes in northwestern India, specialized in depicting the vivid sensory ambience of its historic palaces, reservoirs, temples, bazaars, and durbars.
Aussi etonnant que cela puisse paraitre, la retrospective consacree a l'artiste americain Dan Flavin (1933-1996) par le musee d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, accueillant, du 9 juin au 8 octobre 2006, un projet itinerant concu par la Dia Foundation de New York, etait la premiere organisee en France.
In Surrealist sabotage and the war on work, art historian Abigail Susik uncovers the expansive parameters of the international surrealist movement's ongoing engagement with an aesthetics of sabotage between the 1920s and the 1970s, demonstrating how surrealists unceasingly sought to transform the work of art into a form of unmanageable anti-work.
One of the most admired artists of the twentieth century, Max Ernst was a proponent of Dada and founder of surrealism, known for his strange, evocative paintings and drawings.
The Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world's fairs and export shops catapulted Japanese art to new levels of international popularity.
Brilliant and controversial, art critic Sadakichi Hartmann wrote copiously about American and European art and the shaping of American culture during the decades from 1890 to 1910.
This volume examines the role of fish and molluscs in everyday life as well as in terms of their impact on social structures, and as part of ideological and symbolic expression.
This volume examines the role of fish and molluscs in everyday life as well as in terms of their impact on social structures, and as part of ideological and symbolic expression.
El barniz de pasto —técnica conocida también como mopa-mopa— es una particular expresión artística originaria de esta zona de Nariño, en Colombia, que la Unesco reconoció como patrimonio cultural inmaterial de la humanidad en el año 2020.
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.
Le musee d'Orsay a Paris, du 16 septembre 2002 au 5 janvier 2003, puis le Metropolitan Museum a New York (24 fevrier-8 juin 2003), ont accueilli une exposition consacree a l'influence de la peinture espagnole sur la peinture francaise du romantisme a la fin du XIXe siecle.
Russian writer Maxim Gorky takes us to the beginning of the twentieth century to tell us the story of a child who lived as an orphan, moving from one home to another and from one job to another.
The first major work to examine Joseph Cornell's relationship to American modernismJoseph Cornell (1903-1972) is best known for his exquisite and alluring box constructions, in which he transformed found objects-such as celestial charts, glass ice cubes, and feathers-into enchanted worlds that blur the boundaries between fantasy and the commonplace.
A richly illustrated history of textiles in the Mughal EmpireIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a vast array of textiles circulated throughout the Mughal Empire.
Este é mais uma obra em que analiso obras de artes, lógico que com um olhar de reflexão e na qual tiro as minhas impressões pessoais e também trago informações de outros admiradores e especialistas.
Whereas Victorian optimists imagined that armed conflict would gradually disappear as the world continued to head for universal peace and prosperity, the 20th century wiped out any such illusions.
Jesus - the Man for others"e; is a contemporary expression of the Gospel message, with many references about how it was appropriated over the centuries, and as illustrated in art.
Annette Schemmel provides a highly illuminating case study of the major actors, discourses and paradigm that shaped the history of visual arts in Cameroon during the second part of the 20th century.
