This comprehensive and cross-cultural study examines three-dimensional structural replicas of the Santa Casa, or Holy House of the Virgin Mary, and related circulating visual and textual media.
This book explores the Artistic Records Committee (ARC) of the Imperial War Museum (IWM) as a bureaucratic mechanism that enabled the deployment of art as an instrument of war.
Using previously undiscovered material, Surreal tells the riveting story of Gala Dal ,(1894-1982) who broke away from her cultured but penurious background in pre-Revolutionary Russia to live in Paris with both France's most famous poet, Paul luard, and artist Max Ernst.
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.
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.
This Festschrift in honor of Professor Charles Fensham aims to celebrate his remarkable contributions to the fields of missiology and systematic theology as well as his advocacy for the rights of the LGBTQI2+ community.
The motivation for this volume arose from a desire to bridge the gap between artists and their audience, facilitating a deeper understanding of the artists purpose and process.
This book explores the Artistic Records Committee (ARC) of the Imperial War Museum (IWM) as a bureaucratic mechanism that enabled the deployment of art as an instrument of war.
A joyous celebration of Britain's rich bird lifeIn Birdland, journalist and lifelong birder Jon Gower explores our intimate connection with the bird life around us.
This book considers how the presence or absence of writing can influence a culture’s distinctive styles of visual art, proposing that many of the most profound developments in the art world are directly correlative with a cultural transition from orality to literacy (that is, from a culture which only has a spoken form of language, to one which has both a spoken and written form).
Focusing on Black Americans' participation in world's fairs, Emancipation expositions, and early Black grassroots museums, Negro Building traces the evolution of Black public history from the Civil War through the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
In the eighth century, the Byzantine Empire began a campaign to remove or suppress sacred images that depicted Christ, the Virgin, or other holy figures, whether in paintings, mosaics, murals, or other media.
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.
In 1969, at the height of the Cold War, a group of British Christian researchers and activists, moved by the persecution of believers in the Soviet Union, established an organization dedicated to the study of religion under communism.
The motivation for this volume arose from a desire to bridge the gap between artists and their audience, facilitating a deeper understanding of the artists purpose and process.
Zwischenwelten von Realität und Fiktion – Illusion in der zeitgenössischen KunstTäuschung, Simulation, optische Illusionen – wie beeinflusst Kunst unsere Wahrnehmung?
Challenging the stereotypes of Scandinavian design, these essays explore design in Denmark, Norway and Sweden and assess the different roles that Finland and the wider Nordic region had in forming an image of Scandinavian design throughout the world.
First published in 1899, Arthur Wesley Dow's Composition has probably influenced more Americans than any other text to think of visual form and composition in relation to artistic modernity.
