This book discusses the role and significance of symbols and symbolism in graphical communication toward the establishment of meaningful architecture. It explores how these are effectively applied in architectural education for the empowerment of lea...More info...
The chain of linked cultures of the southern coast of New Guinea, from the Asmat in the west to the Papuan Gulf in the east all share remarkably similar mythology and rituals, inspired by a common ancient worldview.In this book art historian...More info...
Attentive modern-day visitors to the Mediterranean world will notice a symbol depicting an eight-spoked wheel carved into stone walls, floors, and funerary art. This symbol has long been considered the remnant of an ancient game or the work of vanda...More info...
New identifications of the 460 bas-reliefs of Borobudur illustrating the Gandavyuha, based upon a comparison with the contents of three early Chinese translations of Sanskrit manuscripts of the text of Central Asian or Indian provenance....More info...
In the 1980s and 1990s, leaders of the Christian Right became obsessed with feminist and queer art, which they attacked as sacrilegious or pornographic-and sometimes both. Tracing the history of these public debates, this book provides a new interpr...More info...
(Pub. Date: 24-Jun-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780271099187)
Examines medieval Jewish art as a vital site of critical commentary to uncover otherwise inaccessible social, political, and theological perceptions among Europes major medieval minority--...More info...
(Pub. Date: 17-Jun-2025, Hardback, Publisher: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649031877)
This volume offers an exploration of the Christian-Islamic encounter in a pan-Mediterranean context, through an array of new research papers based on micro-historical case studies of the religious arts, architecture, and material culture. The new Me...More info...
The book addresses the question of the extent to which theological discourse has been and is relevant to the origins of the meanings, symbols, and realities of some instituted political practices. This relevance has historically manifested itself...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Apr-2025, Other book format, Publisher: OUP India, ISBN-13: 9780190938451)
In the late twentieth century, artists were on the front lines of the culture wars. Leaders of the Christian Right in the U.S. made a national spectacle out of feminist and queer art, blasting it as sacrilegious or pornographic--and sometimes both. O...More info...
(Pub. Date: 31-Mar-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816553488)
This book explores how the Hohokam used art forms such as pottery, shell ornaments, carved stone, and rock art to convey their views of the world. The Hohokam used their distinctive symbols and objects to convey ideas about water, the Sonoran Desert...More info...
This comprehensive and cross-cultural study examines three-dimensional structural replicas of the Santa Casa, or Holy House of the Virgin Mary, and related circulating visual and textual media.Interdisciplinary in its design, the project en...More info...
The green man or foliate head can be found in almost every pre-Reformation cathedral and in many churches. It often decorates arches, corbels, roof bosses, choir stalls and chancel screens. In this book, Imogen Corrigan takes the reader on a journe...More info...
In this book, Dominus legem dat, labeled the most debated motif in early Christian art, is dealt with in all its different contexts, particularly Roman sarcophagi, where it most often occurs. In light of concurrent Roman funerary art, it offers a ne...More info...
(Pub. Date: 20-Feb-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009408653)
Demonstrates, by examining the decoration of Mediterranean baptisteries from the fifth to the seventh century, that Roman popular culture had a strong impact on how common Christians defined what it meant to them to be Christian. Important for schola...More info...
Allow the Spirit to stir your soul Amid busy lives, Drawing Near invites you to slow down, to pause and ponder, and to explore the creative edges of your faith. This unique devotional brings together 40 stunning original artwo...More info...
(Pub. Date: 13-Feb-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009557498)
The spiritual turmoil of the sixteenth century had a profound impact on religious life throughout Italy. Art and architecture were directly implicated in the seismic historical events of the age, as the Catholic Church countered Protestant iconoclasm...More info...
Focusing on England, the German-speaking territories, and the Italian peninsula, this book examines how Saint Georges image crossed boundaries and was disseminated. Alison Barker attempts to dissolve the boundary of the Alps through examination o...More info...
