El retrato del «matrimonio Arnolfini», que Jan van Eyck pintó en 1434, es uno de los cuadros más fascinantes de la historia del arte: admirado a lo largo de los siglos, objeto de innumerables estudios, esconde sin embargo un secreto, un significado oculto que se hurta aún hoy incluso a la mirada más atenta.
A lo largo de la historia, el arte ha dedicado un espacio importante a la presencia del animal, su simbolismo y la tematizacion de los vinculos afectivos que tienen lugar entre especies, elaboraciones que resuenan hasta nuestros dias.
*A New Yorker, New Statesman and Daily Mail BOOK OF THE YEAR**Longlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction*'The best book I've ever read about motherhood' Jude Rogers, Observer'I kept scribbling in the margins: 'We need to know this stuff!
Desde su misma fundación en 1943, el Teatro de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile ha producido afiches como forma de publicitar sus distintas representaciones escénicas.
A través de esta propuesta editorial digital interactiva denominada "El nacimiento del Universo Kuna",el autor,la Editorial Universidad Nacional de Colombia,la Universidad Nacional de Colombia,la Facultad de Artes y la Escuela de Diseño Industrial esperan contribuir a recuperar y mantener vivos los valores expresivos de las molas (es decir,los artefactos comunicativos de los indígenas kunas de Colombia y Panamá), asícomo los valores estéticos y simbólicos que representan la identidad cultural de este pueblo originario de América y el invaluable patrimonio iconográfico que significan.
La publicación forma parte de la Monumenta Landivariana, serie mayor, cuyo objetivo es ofrecer estudios generales y especializados en torno a la obra poético-literaria de Rafael Landívar.
A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly from the Sanskrit.
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.
This compelling novel takes the reader into the tumultuous period of the Renaissance and the origins of Leonardo da Vinci, the bastard child of a notary.
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.
How 19th-century soldier, adventurer and scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform, the world's earliest writing, and rediscovered Iraq's ancient civilisations.
La efigie de una joven indígena –que aparece tanto en monedas como en grabados, pinturas y otras producciones visuales desde el siglo XV hasta nuestros días– condensa dos sentidos políticos y culturales muy diferentes.
A spectacularly illustrated history of an enigmatic surgical diagramThe Wound Mana medical diagram depicting a figure fantastically pierced by weapons and ravaged by injuries and diseaseswas reproduced widely across the medieval and early modern globe.
A revelatory history of the first artist collective in the United States and its effort to reshape nineteenth-century art, culture, and politicsThe American Pre-Raphaelites founded a uniquely interdisciplinary movement composed of politically radical abolitionist artists and like-minded architects, critics, and scientists.
A vivid account of Dutch seventeenth-century art and material culture against the backdrop of the geopolitics of the early modern worldThe seventeenth century witnessed a great flourishing of Dutch trade and culture.
In this fundamental rethinking of the rise of modernism from its beginnings in the Impressionist movement, Robert Jensen reveals that market discourses were pervasive in the ideological defense of modernism from its very inception and that the avant-garde actually thrived on the commercial appeal of anti-commercialism at the turn of the century.
The theory and practice of art underwent a number of fascinating changes between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, changes which are clearly revealed in this unique collection of letters, journals, essays, and other writings by the artists and their contemporaries.
This easy-to-understand guide shows how to overcome technical limitations and learn to see horses in a new light, fine-tuning observation skills, and discovering how to take best advantage of photo opportunities.
In this book, the authors document in photos and words the experience of looking closely, through the passage of one year, at their 70 acres of Maine woods.
Wild Maine is not only a book of outstanding images of wild mammals and birds from around the state, but it is also a collection of anecdotes and amusing stories about photographer Bill Silliker's interactions with wildlife.
In words and photographs, the story of visionary architect Addison Mizner* Introduced the Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles to southern Florida* Designed and developed the resort town of Boca Raton* Designed the exquisite Everglades Club in Palm BeachAddison Mizner transformed Palm Beach and South Florida with his visionary architecture.
For many children of the sixties, the gift of a Schwinn was a ticket to freedom, a chance to feel the wind on their face and the steady rotation of rubber at their feet.
A richly illustrated new exploration of the painting, photography, and illustration of the politically progressive American artist Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity offers a fresh and wide-ranging account of the work of Ben Shahn (18981969), a Jewish immigrant from Russian-controlled Lithuania who became one of America's most prominent and prolific ';social viewpoint' artists from the Great Depression through the Vietnam War.
A richly illustrated history of the glittering world of queer artistic life in the 1920s and '30sIn Queer Moderns, Alice Friedman tells the fascinating story of the queer avant-garde of the 1920s and '30s in New York, Paris, and Venice, as seen through the eyes of Max Ewing (19031934), a young musician, photographer, and man-about-town who, although virtually unknown today, moved in extraordinary circles.
For nearly thirty years, Maines premier boating magazine Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors has published a regular column called Boatyard Dogs about dogs and the nautical life.
Few morose thoughts permeate the brain when Yosemite Sam calls Bugs Bunny a ';long-eared galut' or a frustrated Homer Simpson blurts out his famous catch-word, ';D'oh!
