The Arts: treatments and subjects

This single-volume resource explores the five major oceans of the world, addressing current issues such as sea rise and climate change and explaining the significance of the oceans from historical, geographic, and cultural perspectives.

Drawing and painting realistic flowers is achievable!

The domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankind's future.

Would it surprise you to know that New Testament scholars, missiologists, and church-planting authorities cannot agree on how to define tentmaking, whether or not the church should be practicing it today, or even why Paul did it in the first place?

An engaging argument about what experimental music can tell us about being human.

In a nineteenth century Chinese lacquer box, this book's author Joris Escher found two drawings of his great-uncle, the world-famous graphic artist M.

WINNER Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award 2025, Society of Architectural HistoriansWINNER Historians of British Art Book Award 2025 for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period between 1800-1960Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible.

Kirsten Malmkjaer argues that translating can and should be considered a valuable art form.

This classic of art instruction is the work of James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), who served as drawing master and sketching companion to the great Victorian art critic, John Ruskin.

Olga von Boznańska (1865–1940) und Otolia Gräfin Kraszewska (1859–1945) gehören der ersten Generation von Künstlerinnen an, die professionell tätig waren und damit auch teilweise ihren Lebensunterhalt selbst bestritten.

Anna Mason's vibrant, detailed and uplifting watercolours have earned her worldwide recognition.

Herbert Bayer was one of the most extraordinary artists associated with the Bauhaus school.

Taking as its starting point the notion of photocinema - or the interplay of the still and moving image - the photographs, interviews, and critical essays in this volume explore the ways in which the two media converge and diverge, expanding the boundaries of each in interesting and unexpected ways.

This is the first book to take seriously (though not too seriously) the surprisingly neglected role of humour in art.

The ancient Celtic world evokes debate, discussion, romanticism and mythicism.

In 1970 a concrete replica of the St John’s Cross arrived in Iona sitting incongruously on the deck of a puffer delivering the island’s annual supply of coal.

Defending National Treasures explores the fate of art and cultural heritage during the Nazi occupation of France.

The Framing of Sacred Space offers the first topical study of canopies as essential spatial and symbolic units in Byzantine-rite churches.

This study argues that intimacy requires an overcoming of shame, and each of these artists, in their own way, uses photography to frame moments that can be shameful to some and intimate others, leaving it to the viewer to navigate this affectively perilous terrain.

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* A masterclass in all kinds of watercolour media, including pencil and paints * Inspiring variety of subjects and styles * Successful, proven author; highly motivated and available for demonstration work.

Woven coverlets have appeared in several guises within the history of folk textiles.

Beginning with the first comprehensive account of the discourse of appropriation that dominated the art world in the late 1970s and 1980s, Art After Appropriation suggests a matrix of inflections and refusals around the culture of taking or citation, each chapter loosely correlated with one year of the decade between 1989 and 1999.

Since at least the early sixth century C.

In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers.

Ein Buch das zeigt, wie sehr Frauen die Kunst prägenWie viele Künstlerinnen kennen Sie?

The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities provides a series of exemplary studies conjoining perspectives from Asian, African, and Latin American Studies on subjectivity in the Global South as a central category of social and cultural analysis.

Reviews the most important topics in current primatology using research on the long-studied Arashiyama population of Japanese macaques.

First published in 1980.

This book offers a reassessment of how "e;matter"e; - in the context of art history, criticism, and architecture - pursued a radical definition of "e;multiplicity"e;, against the dominant and hierarchical tendencies underwriting post-fascist Japan.

From the third through the sixth centuries, the binding of Isaac saw a flourish of representation in Christian, Byzantine and Jewish art.

Why did orientalism emerge and how has it evolved?

Fifty Key Texts in Art History is an anthology of critical commentaries selected from the classical period to the late modern.

Wie führte das Wiedererstarken einer autoritären Staatlichkeit zur Entwicklung des 'Kunst-Aktivismus' von Vojna und Pussy Riot?

Thinking about Science, Reflecting on Art: Bringing Aesthetics and Philosophy of Science Together is the first book to systematically examine the relationship between the philosophy of science and aesthetics.

The Architecture of Medieval Churches investigates the impact of affective theology on architecture and artefacts, focusing on the Middle Ages as a period of high achievement of this synthesis.

Social Play in Primates provides comprehensive discussions on the social aspect of play in the behavior of primates.

Unfolding the Unconscious Psyche is a study of the creative arts and depth psychology, and the threads that run between the two.

As India celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of its independence, much praise was lavished on its emergence as a major player on the global stage.

Explores the philosophical import and use of musical notions in crucial moments and authors of the Roman Imperial period.