The Arts: treatments and subjects

Ever since its triumph at the Paris Universal Exposition, Art Nouveau has continued to inspire artists.

From Subjection to Survival is a work of feminist scholarship that works at the intersection of literature and art history, the written and the visual.

In the mid 1980s the Waterboys took a sudden turn away from their climb up the ladder of UK rock stardom and headed out to Ireland--and eventually the rural West of Ireland--to record the remarkable Fisherman's Blues album.

Bring your favorite anime foods to life with 75 recipesfrom traditional Japanese favorites to inventive recreationsthat are easy to make, fun, and delicious.

Wild Maine is not only a book of outstanding images of wild mammals and birds from around the state, but it is also a collection of anecdotes and amusing stories about photographer Bill Silliker's interactions with wildlife.

This study examines the five extant large Imperial cameos of the Early Roman Empire as a coherent whole, revealing that these gemstones were a referential group with complex interrelationships.

Readers will know Bob Ross (1942-1995) as the gentle, afro'd painter of happy trees on PBS.

This comprehensive guide to colour science presents A.

* 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.

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.

In recent years, celebrities from George Clooney to Bono to Angelina Jolie have attempted to play an increasingly important role in global politics.

The book investigates the lives and careers of the Procaccini brothers: Camillo (1561-1629), Carlo Antonio (1571-1631) and Giulio Cesare (1574-1625), the most important family of painters working in northern Italy at the start of the seventeenth century.

Asian City Crossings is the first volume to examine the relationship between the city and performance from an Asian perspective.

Fok focuses on the ways in which these artists use their own bodies, animals' bodies and other corporeal substances to represent life and death in performance art, installations, and photography.

A leading writer on American theatre explores the works and influences of ten contemporary American playwrights.

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

Across the nine thematic chapters of Experiencing Medieval Art, renowned art historian Herbert L.

In many different parts of the world modern furniture elements have served as material expressions of power in the post-war era.

Examining the extraordinary influence of Darwin's theory of evolution on French thought from 1875 to 1910, Rae Beth Gordon argues for a reconsideration of modernism both in time and in place that situates its beginnings in the French cafe-concert aesthetic.

Wien um 1900 – Hier befand sich nicht nur das Zentrum der Habsburgermonarchie, sondern auch das Herzstück des europäischen Kunstlebens.

You are girlish, our images tell us.

This is a sequel to Richard Viladesau's well-received study, The Beauty of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts from the Catacombs to the Eve of the Renaissance.

The 1970s is often considered the period that design forgot.

Hot Art, Cold War - Northern and Western European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 is one of two text anthologies that trace the reception of American art in Europe during the Cold War era through primary sources.

In this centennial year of China's 1911 Revolution, Volume 3 in the Salt and Light series includes the life stories of influential Chinese who played a political or military role in the new Republic that emerged.

A how-to guide for ethnoprimatological research in the Anthropocene, offering an inside look at the latest research in the field.

William Hogarth is a house-hold name across the country, his prints hang in our pubs and leap out from our history-books.

During the Cold War, culture became another weapon in America's battle against communism.

"e;Perspective for Art Students"e; presents the reader with a comprehensive and beginner-friendly introduction to perspective in drawing, being an overview of it's main principles with instructions and tips on how to correctly use it in the creation of art.

This book reframes the formative years of three significant artists: Henri Fantin-Latour, Alphonse Legros, and James McNeill Whistler.

In the first volume to collect the paintings and drawings of Clarence Major, readers are offered six decades of unique, colorful, and compelling canvases and works on paper-works of singular beauty and social relevance.

This book examines British collectors of so-called Persian art (a broad umbrella term then covering a large portion of Islamic art) in the late 19th century, including ceramics, metalwork, carpets, textiles and woodwork.

A study of British theatre historiography, from its origins in the Restoration to its development as an academic discipline in the twentieth century.

¿Qué se deduce sobre nuestra sociedad de las miles de imágenes de ropa interior moldeando cuerpos esculturales que vemos multiplicarse en vallas publicitarias y revistas?

Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece pursues a new approach to ancient Greek narrative beyond the taxonomies of structuralist narratologies.

Born in 1860 in a small Czech town, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was an artist on the forefront of Art Nouveau, the modernist movement that swept Paris in the 1910s, marking a return to the simplicity of natural forms, and changing the world of art and design forever.

This book is the first of its kind offering a materialistic semiotic analysis of a non-Western theatre culture: Bengali group theatre.

In Light as Experience and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times, David S.

Klaus-Michael Bull folgt in seinem Reiseführer den Spuren des Apostels Paulus und der frühen Christen des 1.

'I am out of the country and will not be checking my emails' DAWN FRENCH 'The file is just showing up blank my end?

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 examines diverse ways of questioning, critiquing, and communicating site in the creative process of architecture, interior design, urban planning, and historical and cultural studies.

The bonobo, along with the chimpanzee, is one of our two closest living relatives.

Most Christians worship on a regular basis on the Lord's Day.

Als Mitbegründer der symbolistischen Malerei, des Cloisonismus und des Synthetismus, war Emile Bernard eine der glanzvollsten Persönlichkeiten des endenden 19.

Dépassant son admiration, Gerry Souter, auteur du remarquable Frida Kahlo, n’hésite pas à ramener Diego Rivera à une dimension humaine, en constatant ses choix politiques, ses amours, et « qu’au fond de lui bouillonnait le Mexique, langue de ses pensées, sang de ses veines, azur du ciel au-dessus de sa tombe.