(Izdošanas datums: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487569020)
Dragons have roamed human consciousness throughout time and across cultures. A dragon is the embodiment of death and destruction in the Apocalypse battles of the Christian Bible and the evil that is vanquished by chivalrous knights in Medieval sagas...Lasīt vairāk
Through a broad range of case studies spanning from imperial monuments to rural residences, Malayan Classicism puts forward a fundamentally new understanding of classical architecture in the Asian colonial context. Across Malaysia and Singapore, tho...Lasīt vairāk
When dusting out corners, we often find things once thought useful, but perhaps not useful enough to keep on display or ready to hand. If we dust in a time and place distant from that in which they were once used, we may be surprised by their vitali...Lasīt vairāk
Esther Bell, Mehdi Korchane, Olivier Meslay, Alain Chevalier, Natasha Coleman, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Frederic Lacaille, Anne Lafont, Christelle Lozere, Sophie Kerwin...
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Jul-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300275780)
A groundbreaking publication on the Caribbean-born French Neoclassical painter Guillaume Lethičre and his extraordinary, yet largely unexamined career ...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Jan-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487549787)
La Celestina, a Spanish literary masterpiece second only in importance to Don Quixote in Spanish literature, has been shaped by the inclusion of images from its very first edition in 1499. The subsequent five centuries were punctua...Lasīt vairāk
Is it painting or sculpture? This literally outstanding exhibition catalog deepens our understanding of a genre-bending medium over the course of nearly two centuries.No other artistic medium transcends the boundaries of our vision qui...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-May-2023, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487556457)
Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Christ, among other devotional objects, pervaded nearly every aspect of public and private life in early modern Spain, but they were also a point of contention between Christian and Muslim cultures. Writers...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Apr-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487546083)
The fin de si cle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland wh...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Nov-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Fonthill Media Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781781558904)
This is the first ever publication of the recently discovered Grand Tour journal of Edward Geoffrey Stanley (1799-1869), future 14th earl of Derby and three-time prime minister. In 1820-22 Stanley travelled throughout northern and central Italy and t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Oct-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781781301128)
Extensively illustrated, this is the first accessible publication on the history of tapestry in over two decades.The Art of Tapestry tells the history of tapestry in Britain and Europe from the fifteenth to the twentieth cent...Lasīt vairāk
From the US Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial and the 9/11 Memorial Museum, classical forms and ideas have been central to an American nationalist aesthetic. Beginning with an understanding of this centrality of the classical tradition to the construct...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Mar-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487509309)
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The Arts of Encounter uncovers the significant role of religious images in literature, offering a new approach to understanding Christian-Muslim relations in early modern Spain. Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Chris...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Feb-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192893963)
The Living Death of Antiquity examines the idealization of an antiquity that exhibits, in the words of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, a noble simplicity and quiet grandeur. Fitzgerald discusses the aesthetics of this strain of neoclassicism a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Feb-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487527747)
Media Critique in the Age of Gillray reflects on print and paper culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, crafting a new approach to British visual culture. In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister Wi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Jan-2021, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781442600416)
This stunning new textbook traces the full history of the Ottoman Empire from its origins through to its dissolution in the early twentieth century The question of who were the Ottomans has occupied many scholars over the last hun...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Jan-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781442600423)
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This stunning new textbook traces the full history of the Ottoman Empire from its origins through to its dissolution in the early twentieth century The question of who were the Ottomans has occupied many scholars over the last hun...Lasīt vairāk
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. Edgar Degas Covering every era and over 650 artists, this comprehensive, illustrated guide offers an accessible yet expansive view of art history, featuring everything fro...Lasīt vairāk
