Art and Architecture of Sicily is the first book to cover the rich artistic heritage of Sicily from prehistory up to the late 20th century. Sicilys strategic position in the centre of the Mediterranean led to settlement or conquest by a succession of different peoples - Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Muslims, Normans, Germans, ......
"It is a well-known fact that The Isenheim Altarpiece has in the past been seen as having central significance as a 'medium for healing' by the Antonites. To what extent this function has taken hold again in our 'modern' times can be seen not only in the steadily growing numbers of visitors, but also in the fact that this book had to be ......
How many female artists can you name? Artemisia Gentileschi, Frida Kahlo, Georgia OKeefe? Heres a 360-degree look at the role women have played in art history, including the influence and empowerment of women through art beyond those who have taken up a brush or a chisel.
Classical Tazhib from Ottoman to Contemporary Times
Islamic Art of Illumination presents an amazing mixture of classical Turkish illumination patterns and their contemporary interpretations. It illustrates how illumination, also known as the art of tezhip, was applied to various articles during the Ottoman period, including pictures, royal edicts and insignia, tiles, chests, gun holsters, shields, ......
The nineteenth century saw the emergence of more professional women artists than ever before. But they still faced the age-old presumption: that a womans role in life was to marry and have children.
Mother of the Lamb tells the remarkable story of a Byzantine icon: the Virgin of the Passion. Matthew Milliner traces the history, evolution, and theological significance of one of the most pervasive images of our time.
How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Shaped the Art World
The Devil in the Gallery is a guided tour of the history of art through it scandals, rivalries, and shocking acts. Award-winning art historian shares dozens of stories, lavishly illustrated in full color, of such dramatic moments and arguing how they not only affected the history of art but affected it for the better.
This intriguing book investigates the very rare discovery of a huge, lost, Last Supper painting produced in the workshop of Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titian. The discoloured canvas hung neglected in a parish church for 110 years until the conservator and art historian Ronald Moore removed centuries of discoloured varnish and began to appreciate ......
Written by a lover of Florence, The Heart of the Renaissance describes the Christian traditions and legends, as well as the Greek myths, shown in the great works of art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance. Exploring the historical contexts of the stories of local saints and miraculous works of art, as well as describing the lives of the ......
"As an art student in the late sixties, I recall how painfully dry and intellectual my art history classes were. I thought to myself, or rather felt to myself, There must be something more" (Van James).
* Soviet art is of great interest today and has a large colleting following * Written by five experts in the field of Russian and Soviet Art this book is the first comprehensive look at the importance of women in Soviet, state sponsord art.
This book explores the multi-faceted career of this unique figure, whose ventures into all things popular resulted in perhaps his greatest creation-Andy Warhol himself. In each chapter, the author looks at how Warhol undertook these various roles and to what extent he achieved success.
Everything You Need to Know about Art in a Dozen Masterpieces
The 12-Hour Art Expert: Everything You Need to Know about Art in a Dozen Masterpieces provides a fun, full-color, crash course in art appreciation in a down-to-earth, quirky, and personal manner by one of the world's best-known art historians.
Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA RA is mostly thought about in terms of his people and their industrial setting but there is a great deal more to be read from the detail of his paintings. Throughout his artistic career, Lowry used street furniture to brilliant effect. He was a master of observation and composition. Lamp-posts, telegraph poles, flag ......
Told in his own words, in response to questions from the writer and art critic Andrew Lambirth, this book chronicles Andrew Logan's life and work through expressive anecdote and factual recollection. Reflections is a look back, but also a look at the present and a look forward: it is about the meaning of Andrew's world and the sculpture he has ......
Learn the basics of producing music with Apple's Logic Pro digital audio workstation. Since its introduction by Emagic in the 1990s, Logic software has become a favorite platform among musicians and music creators everywhere. Today's Logic Pro features an intuitive interface that is easy for beginners to learn while also offering deep ......
Oliver Simon, Signature Magazine, and the rise of British Neo-Romantic A
The significant influence of the periodical Signature on fine art has long been overlooked. While few people nowadays will have read it, no journal has greater claim to have stimulated the taste that became British neo-romanticism in the mid-20th century. Oliver Simon, its editor, publisher, patron and printer was something of an enigma. ......
Four books - Landscapes, Still Lifes, Nudes and Portraits - are opening a new series called Art of the Soviet Union. This set will examine different genres of art in the USSR, covering the period from the October Revolution in 1917 to the dissolution of the Union in 1991.
Four books - Landscapes, Still Lifes, Nudes and Portraits - are opening a new series called Art of the Soviet Union. This set will examine different genres of art in the USSR, covering the period from the October Revolution in 1917 to the dissolution of the Union in 1991.
Considers the relation of anarchist ideology to avant-garde sculpture through an examination of iconic artists and writers whose work transformed European modernism: Jacob Epstein, Oscar Wilde, Umberto Boccioni, F. T. Marinetti, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Ezra Pound.
Examines a series of linked case studies that not only highlight moments of seeming disconnect between seeing and believing, including hoaxes, miracles, spirit paintings, manipulated photographs, and holograms, but also offer a sensory history of ways of seeing.
This groundbreaking book seeks to explain why women artists were far more numerous, diverse, and successful in early modern Bologna than elsewhere in Italy.
Surrealism is widely thought of as an artistic movement that flourished in Europe between the two world wars. However, during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, diverse radical affinity groups, underground subcultures, and student protest movements proclaimed their connections to surrealism. Radical Dreams argues that surrealism was more than an ......
Grand Larcenies features generous selections from the work of ten classic modern Dutch poets: Eva Gerlach, Gerrit Kouwenaar, Hester Knibbe, Hans R. Vlek, Rob Schouten, Willem van Toorn, J. Eijkelboom, H.H ter Balkt, K. Michel, and Esther Jansma.
The translator, a notable Welsh poet and writer now living in the Netherlands, takes his bearings from ......
* The story of Fred Dubery and Joanne Brogden and their life and incredible legacy * The author is a well-known writer and curator. * Publication will be supported by a major publicity and marketing campaign
In an art world that has lost itself to gimmickry and the distortions and hallucinations of Capitalism on crack, here is an artist who values depth and integrity, and is patiently and powerfully reminding us of what art is and can be.
During an exhibition of pictorial works by Margarita and Max Voloshin at the Goetheanum (autumn 2021 to spring 2022), Peter Selg delivered two lectures on the life of the two artists.
Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Regime du corps
Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 and 1750 for the training of future missionaries. These "practical guides" present the intricacies of the natural, social, and religious environment of ......
The Many Faces of Art Forgery: From the Dark Side to Shades of Gray provides a broad treatment that delves into historical highlights, philosophical insights, psychological profiles, economic theories, and legal statutes and cases.
Examines the social roles, cultural meanings, and active agency of precious stones in jeweled crowns, illustrated lapidaries, and illustrated travel accounts in the European Middle Ages.
Portraits of France's Foreign Relations During the Long Nineteenth Centu
Examines visual representations of and by persons defined as Creole, the term applied to white, Black, and mixed-race persons born in French colonies during the nineteenth century.
In this book, James H. Rubin explores these conditions and shows how Monets work-said to be a harbinger of abstraction-appeals not only to the eye but also to something deep in modern consciousness. The myth of Impressionism is that it was reviled and misunderstood, but by the 1890s Monet was rich by anyones standards.
This book provides a bidirectional investigation of Asia's spatiotemporality by asking how Asia is located and how localities are Asianized. Historical and theoretical inquiries into architecture and urbanism in order to trace a notional "common divisor" are integrated with readings of this Asian imagery. Such a common divisor is conditioned to ......
