The Arts: treatments and subjects

From the award-winning author of Revolutionizing the Sciences, a monumental historical account of how we came to see the world through the lens of scienceScience is the basis of our assumptions about ourselves and our world, from ideas about our evolutionary past to our conceptions of the vast expanses of space and the smallest particles of matter.

This study bridges the chronological divide between the Romantic era and the first six decades of the 20th century, interpreting John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) as a major, under-recognized contributor to the cultural transmission of Romanticism.

The architecture of social reform explores the fascinating intellectual origins of modern architecture's obsession with domesticity.

By the late 1960s cartographic formats and spatial information had become a regular feature in many conceptual artworks.

In meinem eBook dreht sich alles um die Farbenlehre.

This book explores the tensions between aesthetics, gender, and disability in contemporary digital media installations and performance art.

Caspar David Friedrich's works and Romantic paintingIn this highly recommended book, art historian and author Barbara Hess provides new perspectives on one of the most influential artists of German Romanticism - Caspar David Friedrich.

The Social Value of Art (1939) is a thorough examination of art activity, using the knowledge of the workings of the mind and of the attractions of pleasure.

This monograph presents a detailed analysis of the beginning and rapid establishment of blood group research in the first half of the twentieth century.

This monograph presents a detailed analysis of the beginning and rapid establishment of blood group research in the first half of the twentieth century.

The Social Value of Art (1939) is a thorough examination of art activity, using the knowledge of the workings of the mind and of the attractions of pleasure.

When Pam Valois, a young photographer, met Jacomena Maybeck in 1979, she saw the woman she wanted to be in her own later years.

In postwar Britain, journalists and politicians predicted that the class system would not survive a consumer culture where everyone had TVs and washing machines, and where more and more people owned their own homes.

Para Monet, o acto de criar foi sempre um esforço doloroso.

How can arts-based approaches benefit patients and professionals within the health care system?

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the religious and artistic story behind The Light of the World by William Holman Hunt.

Verborgen in den fruchtbaren Tälern des nordperuanischen Lambayeque blühte eine Zivilisation, die ihrer Zeit weit voraus war: die Sicán-Kultur.

In 1906 George Shiras III (1859-1942) published a series of remarkable nighttime photographs in National Geographic.

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This edited volume explores the notion of "e;artifice"e; in modern visual culture, ranging from the eighteenth century to the present, in countries around the globe.

How God's Word Spreads in China and BeyondHow did China become the worlds largest supplier of Bibles?

In Visual Disobedience, Kency Cornejo traces the emergence of new artistic strategies for Indigenous, feminist, and anticarceral resistance in the wake of torture, disappearance, killings, and US-funded civil wars in Central America.