The Arts: treatments and subjects

Seit ihren Anfängen tendiert die archäologische Frühgeschichtsforschung dazu, Sachgüter mit bestimmten, schriftlich überlieferten Ethnien gleichzusetzen.

Where previous accounts of the Renaissance have not fully acknowledged the role that music played in this decisive period of cultural history, Laurenz Lutteken merges historical music analysis with the analysis of the other arts to provide a richer context for the emergence and evolution of creative cultures across civilizations.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Bringing together a fascinatingly diverse yet closely related group of subjects, Where Words and Images Meet asks us to rethink what we know about words and images and how they interact.

Le plus célèbre récit de voyage du Moyen Âge n’a pas perdu de son charme.

Walsingham was medieval England's most important shrine to the Virgin Mary and a popular pilgrimage site.

From faithful apostle and seductress to feminist icon, Mary Magdalene's many complex roles in Christian history have fascinated us for 2000 years.

Formal and informal institutions structure our social interactions by giving rise to normative expectations and patterns of collective behaviour.

Craft Economies provides a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary craft production, situating practices of amateur and professional making within a wider creative economy.

Explores Martial''s radical vision of the relationship between art and reality and his role in formulating modern perceptions of Rome.

This is an exploration of house churches, especially in Poland.

C’est avec Impression, soleil levant, exposé en 1874, que le peintre Claude Monet (18401926) se fait connaître du grand public et donne naissance au mouvement impressionniste.

Navigating Ethnic Identity for Gospel WitnessIn most peoples minds ethnic or ethnicity are terms associated with conflict, cleansing, or even genocide.

Curating Transcultural Spaces asks what a museum which enables the presentation of multiple perspectives might look like.

Figure majeure du mouvement romantique, le britannique William Blake (1757-1827) fut à la fois peintre, dessinateur, graveur et poète.

Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th-21st Centuries) proposes a transhistorical analysis that will serve as a reference work on the evolution of literary and artistic representations of chance and contingency.

Winner of the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies 2016Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2016This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

China's Urban Christians: A Light That Cannot Be Hidden looks at how massive urbanization is redrawing not only the geographic and social landscape of China, but in the process is transforming China's growing church as well.

This is the first interdisciplinary exploration of machine culture in Italian futurism after the First World War.

Explores through keywords how Vasari''s Lives is designed to address a variety of compelling, culturally determined ideas.

Edvard Munch (1863-1944), peintre norvégien rattaché à l’expressionnisme, était si impliqué dans ses oeuvres qu’il les appelait ses « enfants », ce qui paraît plutôt cohérent au vu du contenu hautement personnel de ses toiles.

A readable guide to the art of looking at art.

Edges of Empire is a timely reassessment of the history and legacy of Orientalist art and visual culture through its focus on the intersection between modernization, modernism and Orientalism.

The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies represents more than a century of scholarship related to the theology, history, and methodology of the propagation of Christian faith and the engagement of Christians with cultures, religions, and societies worldwide.

The art of Japanese woodblock printing, known as ukiyo-e ("e;pictures of the floating world"e;), reflects the rich history and way of life in Japan hundreds of years ago.

This first comprehensive analysis of the Third Reich's efforts to confiscate, loot, censor and influence art begins with a brief history of the looting of artworks in Western history.

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Rather than the customary focus on the activities of individual collectors, The Emergence of the Antique and Curiosity Dealer in Britain 1815-1850: The Commodification of Historical Objects illuminates the less-studied roles played by dealers in the nineteenthcentury antique and curiosity markets.

Through meticulously researched case studies, this book explores the materiality of terracotta sculpture in early modern Europe.

This is an ebook version of a very rare Japanese woodblock print collection.

This definitive volume vividly chronicles the glass artist's remarkable work and unique methods as they evolved over the course of his career.

Das Mega Square Herbarium basiert auf dem botanischen Werk des berühmten Pflanzenexperten Basilius Beslers, der als einer der ersten über 1000 verschiedene Pflanzenarten beschrieb, zeichnete und präparierte.

An Endless Thread serves as a long-overdue celebration of Grant, who has long advocated for the intersection of cultural pride, style, and a maintaining of tradition.

This is the story of one of the world' s most iconic images.

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.

Harald Naegeli, Mensch voll Poesie, Künstler voll Liebe zur Natur und Kämpfer für die Utopie und das Museum auf der Straße.

Sculptor and architect Bernini was the virtual creator and greatest exponent of Baroque in 17th century Italy.

There are fewer grey seals in the world than endangered African elephants, but the British Isles host almost half of this global population.

More recently a post-modern world has emphasised the aggressive and destructive march of this age of reason.

This interdisciplinary study examines painted portraiture as a defining metaphor of elite self-representation in early modern culture.

By the late 1960s cartographic formats and spatial information had become a regular feature in many conceptual artworks.

Shaping the Future includes a global overview of girl child issues stemming from gender discrimination and explores the root causes for this disparity.

Darwin's Camera tells the extraordinary story of how Charles Darwin changed the way pictures are seen and made.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Stylish retro travel posters bring to mind summer holidays, happiness and fun.

Following conflicting desires for an Aztec crown, this book explores the possibilities of repatriation.