In studies of fashion and literature, the trend over the past two decades has been to focus on clothing and dress within literary texts. This book raises a provocative question: What about the author? How did he dress? What where her shopping practic...Lasīt vairāk
Though many early modern women spent much of their lives in a state of pregnancy, their pregnancies are seldom made apparent in surviving portraits. Comprising material from the fifteenth century to the present day, Portraying Pregnancy consid...Lasīt vairāk
Graphic Novels and Visual Cultures in South Asia explores the shifting landscapes of the graphic narratives and related visual cultures scene in South Asia today. This exciting volume explores the ever-developing scene of graphic novels,...Lasīt vairāk
Artistic Mentoring as a Decolonizing Methodology: An Evolving 18-year Collaborative Painting Ethnography with Maya Artists illuminates the collaborative, holistic teaching processes of artistic mentoring, a decolonizing arts-based methodology,...Lasīt vairāk
Artistic Mentoring as a Decolonizing Methodology: An Evolving 18-year Collaborative Painting Ethnography with Maya Artists illuminates the collaborative, holistic teaching processes of artistic mentoring, a decolonizing arts-based methodology,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Jan-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503606364)
Challenging the hitherto most influential accounts of the medium, this book argues that photography has never been a single, selfsame thing and that its invention irreversibly transformed our perception of the world along with our relationship...Lasīt vairāk
Challenging the hitherto most influential accounts of the medium, this book argues that photography has never been a single, selfsame thing and that its invention irreversibly transformed our perception of the world along with our relationship...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Jan-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Rizzoli International Publications, ISBN-13: 9780847867110)
A volume devoted to artists addressing our politically tumultuous times.Soft Power: A Conversation for the Future accompanies an exhibition of recent work and new commissions by twenty artists from around the world organized by...Lasīt vairāk
Intended for students in the visual arts and for others with an interest in art, but with no prior knowledge of physics, this book presents the science behind what and how we see. The approach emphasises phenomena rather than mathematical theories an...Lasīt vairāk
This book deals with the complexity of art by focusing on the singularity of the work of art. Gathering a selection of writings in art theory and semiotics, it explores the question of apprehending art from its perceptual aspects to ae...Lasīt vairāk
Compelling and troubling, colorful and dark, black figures served as the quintessential image of difference in nineteenth-century European art; the essays in this volume further the investigation of constructions of blackness during this period...Lasīt vairāk
Long obfuscated by modern definitions of historical evidence and art patronage, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de Medicis impact on the visual world of her time comes to light in this book, the first full-length scholarly argument for a lay womans contributi...Lasīt vairāk
John Clarks magisterial The Asian Modern reconstructs the notion of art and its historiography. Writing the history of the Asian modern through the social life of artists, he generates a new paradigm for the narration of art. Both volumes me...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Jan-2020, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231145190)
Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory richness with primal desire, and finds tha...Lasīt vairāk