The Arts: treatments and subjects

From BBC television and radio presenter Amber Butchart, The Fashion Chronicles is an exploration of 100 of the most fascinating style stories ever told.

A lively and accessible guide to the rich literary, philosophical and artistic achievements of the notorious age of Nero.

Nationally recognized maritime artist Loretta Krupinski's meticulously rendered oil paintings show fascinating details of Maine's waterfront towns in their heyday, when fishing, quarrying, and the cargo trade were the backbone of the coastal economy.

The Everyday Practice of Public Art: Art, Space, and Social Inclusion is a multidisciplinary anthology of analyses exploring the expansion of contemporary public art issues beyond the built environment.

The ultimate fashion bible for manga and anime artists!

In the quarter century following the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act, art museums, along with other public institutions, were tasked with making their facilities and collections more accessible to people with disabilities.

The primary purpose of Prophetic Liturgy is to inquire into the prophetic dimension of the liturgy.

What is the relationship between the gospel and the church's responsibility toward the poor?

The first compendium of archaeoprimatological studies, covering past relationships between humans and nonhuman primates across the world.

History of Sculpture, Painting, and Architecture is offered, under the impression that the general cultivation of practical taste, and an acquaintance with the principles of the Fine Arts, are not only desirable in the light of acquirement, but must eventually prove highly beneficial to the useful arts of the country.

The author investigates the points of contact between literature, visual arts and feminist criticism by offering fresh readings of selected Romantic and Victorian poems about women and a discussion of their wide-ranging visual history - a subject which has not yet been undertaken in a book-length study.

If sensuality had a name, it would be without doubt Utamaro.

A bold reorientation of art history that bridges the divide between fine art and material culture through an examination of objects and their usesArt history is often viewed through cultural or national lenses that define some works as fine art while relegating others to the category of craft.

This book gives you the historical sensation of coming face to face with the bodily expression and regulation of children's emotions over time.

From his earliest work with glass to the stunning aerial panoramas of Maine islands that have gained him far-reaching fame, Eric Hopkins has consistently explored boundaries-of medium, of space, of vision.

Short-term mission trips are commonplace in American church life.

Theatre and empire looks at the genesis of British national identity in the reign of King James VI and I.

The Centennial decade was an era of ambivalence, the United States still unresolved about the incomprehensible damage it had wrought over four years of Civil War, and why.

This book explores body images in visual culture, from revolutionary France to contemporary New York.

Biography of the medieval Mediterranean''s most cross-culturally significant sculptural monument, the tallest in the pre-modern world.

This book is an ambitious and expansive examination of the visual language of self-injury in performance art from the 1960s to the present.

This book explores how Latin inscriptions were used in the Roman world and makes them accessible to students today.

Félix Vallotton, né à Lausanne le 28 décembre 1865 et mort à Paris le 29 décembre 1925, est un artiste peintre, sculpteur et graveur sur bois Suisse, naturalisé Français en 1900.

The quality of 'monumentality' is attributed to the buildings of few historical epochs or cultures more frequently or consistently than to those of the Roman Empire.

We have grown accustomed to corporate influence in retail outlets, restaurants, and even higher education-but what happens when corporations take over desire?

Shine allures and awakens desire.

This is a must-read for the nervous novice as well as the world-weary veteran.

Few creatures symbolise the beauty of the natural world better than birds.

Art History: The Key Concepts is a systematic, reliable and accessible reference guide to the disciplines of art history and visual culture.

Als verfemter Künstler gehört Ernst Kelle zu den Malern der "verschollenen Generation".

Lebensmittel als Kunst: Ein einzigartiges Lexikon zur zeitgenössischen KunstpraxisEntdecken Sie eine neue Perspektive auf zeitgenössische Kunst mit Das Lexikon der Lebensmittel als Kunstmaterial.

The paintings examined and contextualised in this volume are those secured for Giotto through early written sources.

It has long been an accepted assumption that the abstracted mode of visual representation that emerged in late antiquity reflected a collective shift from the outer-directed and 'material' world-view of classical antiquity to an inner-directed, 'spiritual' mentality informed by Christianity: the purpose of this volume is to offer a more nuanced and diverse image of the nature and meanings of abstraction and symbolism in late antique and early medieval art, beyond normative intepretation models, and from a number of different methodological and interpretative perspectives.

What does modern British and Irish literature have to do with French impressionist painting?

In The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience: Self, Relationship and Culture, George Hagman eloquently provides an overview of ideas regarding the aesthetic foundation of human experience and the way in which this aesthetic perspective can shed light on human development, culture, and analytic clinical process.

Since the dawn of western fashion in the Middle Ages, women's dress has never stopped evolving, yet menswear has seen far fewer style revolutions.

Zahllose Künstler*innen feierten im 20.

This book argues narrative, people and place are inseparable and pursues the consequences of this insight through the design of narrative environments.

Les anges, symboles mystiques de la religion et du mythe, sont une source d'inspiration artistique depuis des siècles.

The first history of indigenous photography in the Middle EastThe birth of photography coincided with the expansion of European imperialism in the Middle East, and some of the medium's earliest images are Orientalist pictures taken by Europeans in such places as Cairo and Jerusalem-photographs that have long shaped and distorted the Western visual imagination of the region.

Written as a series of reflections, this book is a conversation-shifting exploration of how the church understands the role of missionaries and their work.

Die Mona Lisa – ein Meisterwerk, das seit Jahrhunderten fasziniert, inspiriert und Rätsel aufgibt.

Shows how fifteenth-century writers explored the complex relationships between visual and verbal images.

In this highly original study, Vanessa Russ examines the gradual invention of Aboriginal art within the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

A series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum.

The term "e;classical"e; is used to describe everything from the poems of Homer to entire periods of Greek and Roman antiquity.

An Intimate Distance considers a wide range of visual images of women in the context of current debates which centre around the body, including reproductive science, questions of ageing and death and the concept of 'body horror' in relation to food, consumption and sex.