The Arts: treatments and subjects

Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998) was one of the seminal theologians of mission in the twentieth century, and perhaps the most important in the English-speaking world.

Turner was deeply affected by the world in which he lived, the sciences that explained it, and the conflicts and accomplishments of his society.

Imperfect Fit: Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950 is an expansive and incisive examination of the patterns of connectedness in contemporary art and poetry.

Drawing on recent research by established and emerging scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art, this volume reconsiders the art and architecture produced after 1563 across the conventional geographic borders.

Although considered a minor genre for a long time, the art of landscape has risen above its forebears - religious and historic painting - to become a genre of its own.

A leading art historian's plea for a more engaged reading of Italian Renaissance artOnly Connect constructs a history of Renaissance paintings and sculptures that are by design completed outside themselves by the spectator, that draw the spectator into their narrative plot or aesthetic functioning, and that reposition the spectator imaginatively or in time and space.

Whilst Impressionism marked the first steps toward modern painting by revolutionising an artistic medium stifled by academic conventions, Post-Impressionism, even more revolutionary, completely liberated colour and opened it to new, unknown horizons.

Compassionate missions constitutes a growing focus among evangelical denominations and agencies.

Mit dem vorliegenden Band eröffnet Maren Waike-Koormann neue Blickwinkel auf das Werk, die Biografie und die Wahrnehmung der beiden 1899 geborenen Künstlerinnen Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler und Grethe Jürgens.

The first comprehensive study of rape – its images and its politics – at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance.

Perhaps the single most revolutionary aspect of the Renaissance was the re-emergence of the gods and goddesses of antiquity.

Born to Jewish radical parents in Chicago in 1939, Judy Cohen grew up to be Judy Chicagoone of the most daring and controversial artists of her generation.

A powerful reminder to anyone who thinks design is primarily a visual pursuit, The Senses accompanies a major exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum that explores how space, materials, sound, and light affect the mind and body.

This book posits that along with holy icons, pagan statues were an integral part of Byzantine visual culture.

Understanding Folk Islam to Plant Churches that LastMuslims, Magic and the Kingdom of God combines a description of folk Islam, biblical perspectives, and strategies for church planting among Muslims.

This book examines how the Embassy members approached, selected, and represented information, and how, in doing so, they helped to shape European perceptions of China.

A unique and visionary generation of young Chinese artists are coming to prominence in the art world - just as China cements its place as the second largest art market on the planet.

A beautifully illustrated hardback anthology of 26 of Australia's most fascinating animals from CBCA Honour Book author/illustrator Jennifer Cossins.

This book studies R.

In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Award-winning artist Hashim Akib's striking portraits are at the heart of this inspirational book.

Counterpractice highlights a generation of women who used art to define a culture of experimental thought and practice during the period of the French women's movement or Mouvement de Liberation des Femmes (1970-81).

How have radical print cultures fostered and preserved queer lived experience from the 1960s to the present?

Christian Daniel Rauch und Karl Friedrich Schinkel sind als Bildhauer, Architekt und Gestalter weltbekannt.

War as Spectacle examines the display of armed conflict in classical antiquity and its impact in the modern world.

Christian Reflections on the Buddhist DukkhaWhat is dukkha?

A 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleOpening with an account of print portraiture facilitating Franz Liszt's celebrity status and concluding with Riot Grrrl's noisy politics of feminism and performance, this interdisciplinary anthology charts the relationship between music and the visual arts from late Romanticism and the birth of modernism to 'postmodernism', while crossing from Western art to the Middle East.

In The Urban Sketching Handbook: Techniques for Beginners,artist and Urban Sketcher correspondent Suhita Shirodkar shares essential skills for sketching architecture, people, and everyday objects on location.

Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (1950-53), this book shows the dynamic role art, specifically sculpture, played in constructing both Italian and American culture after World War II (WWII).

Music and fashion: the deep connection between these two expressive worlds is firmly entrenched.

As the Christian church in the West moves further into the post-Christian era a dilemma rises for those thoughtful followers of Jesus Christ who find themselves in venerable, older church institutions that have become forgetful of their reason for being in the purpose of God.

This volume examines the ontology of music groups.

This book provides an introduction to the Human Centred Design of autonomous vehicles for professionals and students.

This book looks at contemporary political violence, in the form of jihadism, through the lens of a philosophical polemic between Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon: intellectual representatives of the global north and global south.

Sigmund Freuds Untersuchung des Moses von Michelangelo sowie seine Sammlung antiker Kleinskulpturen bieten, gemeinsam betrachtet, Elemente einer visuellen Psychoanalyse, die dem ikonoklastischen Grundzug dieser Wissenschaft widerspricht.

El dibujo de la figura humana ha sido siempre una cuestión principal, la meta para cualquier artista; sin embargo, es uno de los temas que tiene más dificultad, pues su representación conlleva prestar mayor atención al modelo, tener muy en cuenta las proporciones y trabajar la anatomía.

Dive in to this breathtaking read about the world's oceansExplore the last wilderness left on Earth, with an enhanced and updated edition of this exhaustive guide to the underwater world.

Expert colorist Teruko Sakurai takes you to the end of the rainbow--and beyond--in this inspiring color dictionary!

At the heart of the Castilian plateau, far from the coastal towns and ports of Spain, sits the great city of Madrid.

The arts of China explores the world's oldest continuous artistic tradition as well as one of its most brilliant.

Born in Missouri at the end of the nineteenth century, Thomas Hart Benton would become the most notorious and celebrated painter America had ever seen.

This book will be the first collection that offers an overview and case studies around understandings and manifestations of penises and phalluses in the early twenty-first century.