In Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination, Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine how animated films address aesthetic experience within contexts of technological, environmental, and sociocultural change.
Discussing multiple aspects of material culture and domestic consumption, this book tackles the relationship between the trajectories and biographies of people, families, houses and objects and how they intertwine and produce each other.
Restless Infections is an innovative collection of critical essays exploring artistic interventions in urban spaces, focusing on place-making and the politics of space in post-colonial South Africa.
Out of Eden presents the rigorous investigations and musings of a poet-essayist on the ways in which modern artists have confronted and transfigured the realist tradition of representation.
Durante dos décadas, Jairo Morales y Jorge Cárdenas sostienen un intercambio escrito de preguntas y respuestas en las que se pueden apreciar reflexiones sobre la vida y la obra del artista y sobre el ámbito artístico colombiano y antioqueño del siglo XX e inicios del XXI.
Ovid's Metamorphoses is a masterful exploration of transformation, weaving together a vast tapestry of mythological and human tales that span the origins of the world to the deification of Julius Caesar.
Ovid's Metamorphoses is a masterful exploration of transformation, weaving together a vast tapestry of mythological and human tales that span the origins of the world to the deification of Julius Caesar.
This is the most comprehensive English-language compilation available on Chinese painters and their works from the late sixth through the mid- fourteenth century.
Early Netherlandish Triptychs offers an in-depth examination of the transformative role of triptych altarpieces in fifteenth-century Netherlandish art, analyzing how these works reflect and negotiate the relationship between artist, donor, sacred subject, and their original physical settings.
Early Netherlandish Triptychs offers an in-depth examination of the transformative role of triptych altarpieces in fifteenth-century Netherlandish art, analyzing how these works reflect and negotiate the relationship between artist, donor, sacred subject, and their original physical settings.
A brilliant look at the writers, artists, scientists, movie directors, and scholars-ranging from Bertolt Brecht to Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Mann, and Fritz Lang-who fled Hitler's Germany and how they changed the very fabric of American culture.
Es incuestionable la importancia que tuvo el estudio del artista en la literatura decimonónica como lugar en el que los autores podían disentir y articular opiniones diferentes de aquellas marcadas como "normales" por las reglas socioculturales de su época.
This is the most comprehensive English-language compilation available on Chinese painters and their works from the late sixth through the mid- fourteenth century.
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.
This richly illustrated work provides a new and deeper perspective on the interaction of visual representation and classical culture from the fifth century B.
