Sērija : Monsters, Prodigies, and Demons: Medieval and Early Modern Constructions of Alterity
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Jul-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Medieval Institute Publications, ISBN-13: 9781580442763)
At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters--dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals--who, by their very presence, altered Renaissance ethics vis-a-vis anatomical difference, social virtues, and scientific knowledge. The stu...Lasīt vairāk
Exploring the intriguing interplay between tradition and modernity in the 19th-century capitals of London, Athens and Rome, Richard Alston delves into the political and architectural choices that shaped these cities as representations of self-conscio...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477330692)
A comparative, empire-wide study of the ceramics associated with the imperial Inca state, theorizing the role of these highly recognizable vessel forms in legitimizing Inca rule and establishing imperial identities.The beautiful polychrome ceramics o...Lasīt vairāk
The riveting story of how one woman rose from simple beginnings to become one of the most sought-after miniaturists of the Gilded Age. Richly illustrated with over 70 photos, including color images of her rare surviving works.No other female portrait...Lasīt vairāk
The riveting story of how one woman rose from simple beginnings to become one of the most sought-after miniaturists of the Gilded Age. Richly illustrated with over 70 photos, including color images of her rare surviving works.No other female portrait...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040337608)
Many of the major books published in the years between 1550 and 1660 - one of the richest periods in English culture - were embellished with an elaborate engraved title-page. The Comely Frontispiece (1979) selects twenty such title-pages which repres...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040337530)
Many of the major books published in the years between 1550 and 1660 - one of the richest periods in English culture - were embellished with an elaborate engraved title-page. The Comely Frontispiece (1979) selects twenty such title-pages which repres...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040338742)
Industrial Design in Britain (1976) describes the industrial design movement in Britain from its origins, when it broke away from the Arts and Crafts in 1915, until 1945 when its vital importance to industry was officially recognised, and the Council...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040338759)
Industrial Design in Britain (1976) describes the industrial design movement in Britain from its origins, when it broke away from the Arts and Crafts in 1915, until 1945 when its vital importance to industry was officially recognised, and the Council...Lasīt vairāk
The artistic strategies explored in this book are essential tools in fostering emancipatory consciousness in marginalized communities. Empowering Aesthetics weaves together case studies from the post-socialist Central European region (the Czech Repub...Lasīt vairāk
The artistic strategies explored in this book are essential tools in fostering emancipatory consciousness in marginalized communities. Empowering Aesthetics weaves together case studies from the post-socialist Central European region (the Czech Repub...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978835443)
Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings offers an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to analyzing Latinx studies and comics studies. The book draws together groundbreaking critical essays, practical pedagogical reflections,...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Visualidades: Studies in Latin American Visual History
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477330838)
How the visual culture of food, cookery, and consumption played a central role in the making of postrevolutionary Mexico.Postrevolutionary Mexico City was a site of anxious nation-building, as rampant modernization converged and clashed with the nati...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781804298459)
In Permanent Red, John Berger argues that the contemporary artist should strive for a realism that aims for hope, to transform the world. Surveying the work of historical artists as well as that of near contemporaries such as Picasso, L,ger and Matis...Lasīt vairāk
Examines the violins evolution as not just instrument but valued objet dart through the eyes of musicians, collectors, makers, dealers, connoisseurs, journalists, auctioneers and traders.The nineteenth century saw developments in the composition, p...Lasīt vairāk
In a nineteenth century Chinese lacquer box, this books author Joris Escher found two drawings of his great-uncle, the world-famous graphic artist M.C. Escher. The sheets had not been looked at in more than 90 years. He believes that these early stu...Lasīt vairāk
In a nineteenth century Chinese lacquer box, this books author Joris Escher found two drawings of his great-uncle, the world-famous graphic artist M.C. Escher. The sheets had not been looked at in more than 90 years. He believes that these early stu...Lasīt vairāk
A beautifully written memoir by one of the most important and original artists working today . . . utterly gripping, enraging, entertaining and important. I cant recommend it highly enough Jennifer HiggieA sparkling memoir and portrait of trailb...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Auckland University Press, ISBN-13: 9781776711611)
‘ As a boy Tony had drawn maps and diagrams and medieval battle scenes. He d read fairy tales and been enchanted by local sites of Maori history. As a young man he was a vagrant on the streets of Paris, was twice im...Lasīt vairāk
