Art History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 7

Rebecca Zorach
Spontaneous Objects

In the late medieval and early modern periods, European artists, theorists, and natural philosophers imagined Nature not simply as a force of reproduction but as an artist in its own right--a creative pow…

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Sue Roe
Hidden Portraits

Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot, and Jacqueline Roque. These six extraordinary women loved and inspired Pablo Picasso. They frequently appear as the wome…

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Ravinder S Binning
The Medieval Art of Fear

A bold new approach to medieval art and architecture's shaping of psychosomatic experience. > Moving between early monastic spaces in Egypt and major urban centers like Constantinople from the fourth…

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From Nothingness to Dreams

From Nothingness to Dreams offers a vast survey of surrealism and Dada organized around ten brilliantly conceived themes that cut to the conceptual heart of both movements. These include The Dada Zero Deg…

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Hallie Franks,
Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood

This book examines the reception of Graeco-Roman sculptures of Venus and their role in the construction of the body aesthetics of the "fit" American woman in the decades around the turn of the 2…

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Josephine Berry
Planetary Realism

Traditions of realism are brought together with the decolonial and ecological concept of "planetarity" to understand a new realism in contemporary art.The devastation left in the wake of moderni…

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Zahi Hawass
Discovering Tutankhamun

A thorough and absorbing account of the life and times of the famous young pharaoh, Tutankhamun, from the discovery of his tomb to the CT-scans of the twenty-first century, now fully updated and expandedP…

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Cristina Cruz González
Saints & Santos

Explore how sacred art evolved in early Mexico, adapting to local cultures and artistic traditions.This beautifully illustrated book reveals the importance of saints in New Spain, a viceroyalty that was p…

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Angela Bussi, Penelope Curtis, Frederica Toniolo, François Avril
European Illuminated Manuscripts in the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection

The books that Calouste Gulbenkian have collected include a series of illuminated manuscripts from Europe, purchased between 1919 and 1937, whose coherence amid striking nuance make them outstanding examp…

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Lawrence Gowing
Lucian Freud

'One of the best books ever written by one painter about another' John Russell, The New York TimesLucian Freud (1922-2011) was exceptional among 20th-century artists. His vigorous and innovative paintings…

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Bérengère Primat, Jean Hubert Martin
Nothing Too Beautiful for the Gods

This book argues that globalisation challenges the Western idea of art and explores how different cultures express spirituality through art. Text in English and French.Globalization has forced us to stop …

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James Payne
Great Art Explained

'James Payne's YouTube Channel "Great Art Explained" gained a huge and appreciative worldwide audience. This beautifully put-together book is simply the best introduction to the lifelong pleasur…

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Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko

A stunning volume illuminating the artistic exchange between three seminal American artists---Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko. This groundbreaking book underscores the lasting significance …

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Aihe Wang
Painting Into Being

Painting into Being is the first in-depth study of underground art during China's Cultural Revolution, focusing on the Wuming (No Name) Painting Group from 1972 to 1981. Aihe Wang interweaves history, the…

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Gill Perry
Islands and Contemporary Art

A profound journey through diverse representations of islands in contemporary art.In this groundbreaking exploration, Gill Perry looks at the vital role that islands play in contemporary visual arts. Resp…

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Robert Wellington
Versailles Mirrored

A history of the Palace of Versailles as the paradigm of cultural capital in Western architecture, interior design, and material culture from the 17th century to the present.

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Nikki van de Car
Faeries

Discover the history and mythology of faeries---across time and cultures---as well as their significance in art, poetry, and more, in this lushly illustrated volume, featuring more than 100 reproductions …

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Jung-Sil Lee, Dong-Yeon Koh
Modern and Contemporary Korean Art in Context (1950 - Now)

Including over 120 full-colour images throughout, this is a vividly illustrated, in-depth and up-to-date introduction to the world of Korean art from 1950 to the present day.The book covers such as topics…

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Jung-Sil Lee, Dong-Yeon Koh
Modern and Contemporary Korean Art in Context (1950 - Now)

Including over 120 full-colour images throughout, this is a vividly illustrated, in-depth and up-to-date introduction to the world of Korean art from 1950 to the present day.The book covers such as topics…

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Peter Benson Miller,
American Artists in Postwar Rome

Drawing on unpublished archival sources, this book reconstitutes the experiences of a wide range of American artists, critics, and writers working in Rome in a charged environment of "Cold War cosmop…

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