Van Dyck se acostumbró pronto al estilo de vida suntuoso de Rubens, y cuando viajó a Italia con unas cartas de presentación de su maestro, vivió en los palacios de sus mecenas, adoptando para sí una ostentación tan elegante que llegó a conocérsele como “el pintor caballero”.
The result of decades of study, Alan Grinnells Painting the Cosmos presents the spectacular and underappreciated art of Panama and its revealing iconography.
For more than a decade, Alexis Lerner combed the alleyways, underpasses, and public squares of cities once under communist rule, from Berlin in the west to Vladivostok in the east, recording thousands of cases of critical and satirical political street art and cataloging these artworks linguistically and thematically across space and time.
Miraculous Journeys of Faithand FailureWhat if God was bigger than your box and had a unique role for you in his missioneven though you aren't perfect?
Bart van der Heide plädiert mit dieser Publikation dafür, dass Techno-Musik nicht nur als ekstatisches sowie kollektives Erlebnis fungieren, sondern auch als Plattform für gesellschaftskritische Diskurse dienen kann.
Contributors investigate the motivation behind scientifically-embedded contemporary art practices as well as art-based scientific research and engagement that attempt to shape society.
In Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction, Jaleh Mansoor provides a counternarrative of modernism and abstraction and a reexamination of Marxist aesthetics.
This study demonstrates the significance of using contemporary art in scholarly debates about cultural aspects of skin, in particular "e;whiteness"e; as a phenomenon that is both overly visible and invisible.
This volume examines the criticism of five influential British writers on the visual artsJohn Ruskin, Walter Pater, Roger Fry, Clive Bell, and Sir Herbert Read.
This study provides a new interpretation of art after modernism by foregrounding the importance of conceptual thinking as a pervasive force for change in art and art history since 1950.
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.
This exploration of Iberian, Latin American, and US-Hispanic representations of Christ focuses on outliers in art, literature, and theology: Spanish painter Salvador Dali, Mexican muralist Jose Clemente Orozco, Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, Spanish existentialist Miguel de Unamuno, Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff, and Mexican philosopher Jose Vasconcelos, some of the most brilliant stars in the Spanish and Latin American firmament.
She helped found MoMA and pioneered the promotion of work of American and French modern artists at the turn of the 20th century, but until now, her life and legacy remain woefully under examined.
This groundbreaking study examines the intricate relationship between the rise of the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie and the emergence of modern architecture, exploring this connection through major intellectual and theoretical works while also analyzing their tangible manifestations in buildings and architectural projects.
Mainframe Experimentalism challenges the conventional wisdom that the digital arts arose out of Silicon Valley's technological revolutions in the 1970s.
Dive into the intricate world of ancient Athenian timekeeping with The Athenian Year, an in-depth exploration of the city-states calendar system and its historical significance.
Allan Kaprow's "e;happenings"e; and "e;environments"e; were the precursors to contemporary performance art, and his essays are some of the most thoughtful, provocative, and influential of his generation.
