A Half-Century of Conflict - Vol. II, by Francis Parkman, is a historical masterwork that dives into the intricate and tumultuous connections between European powers, Native American tribes, and American colonies in the mid-17th century. This second...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Dec-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478060314)
In Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art, Caroline Fowler examines the fundamental role of the transatlantic slave trade in the production and evolution of seventeenth-century Dutch art. Whereas the sixteenth-century image debates in Europe engaged...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Oct-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691240053)
How todays questions surrounding monuments and the ways we commemorate our past first arose in Rembrandts timeMonuments occupy a controversial place in nations founded on principles of freedom and self-governance. It is no accident that when we thi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Oct-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691240053)
How todays questions surrounding monuments and the ways we commemorate our past first arose in Rembrandts timeMonuments occupy a controversial place in nations founded on principles of freedom and self-governance. It is no accident that when we thi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Oct-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477329740)
An examination of sculpture and authorship in eighteenth-century Quito that documents Caspicara as a participant in the innovative artistic production of the citys workshops and its widespread commerce of polychrome sculptures.Who is Caspicara? Noth...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 vitalit...Lasīt vairāk
Brings to light the evolution of Sikh art from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.Breaking fresh ground in the study of Sikh art, after the pioneering contributions of W.H. McLeod and B.N. Goswamy, this book on Sikh art evolution is centred on p...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Aug-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009418713)
In early modern Europe, the emergence and development of print culture proved a powerful new method for producing and disseminating knowledge of Russia through visual means. By examining the images of Russia found in travel accounts, pamphlets, maps...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Aug-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501776366)
Russian Archaism considers the aesthetic quest of Russian modernism in relation to the nation-building ideas that spread in the late imperial period. Irina Shevelenko argues that the cultural milieu in Russia, where the modernist movement began as an...Lasīt vairāk
Reframing long-held assumptions about what distinguishes fine from decorative art, this innovative study explores a mode of making, seeing, and thinking that slices across eighteenth-century visual culture.This book provides a new way of thinking abo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jul-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040098486)
Arboreal Symbolism in European Art, 1300-1800 probes the significance of trees in religious iconography of Western art.Based in the disciplines of art history, botany, and theology, this study focuses on selected works of art in which tree forms embo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jul-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040098417)
Arboreal Symbolism in European Art, 1300-1800 probes the significance of trees in religious iconography of Western art.Based in the disciplines of art history, botany, and theology, this study focuses on selected works of art in which tree forms embo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jul-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526169358)
Relics, dreams, voyages is a closely focused sequence of studies of worldwide connections in all the arts in the baroque period. Drawing on original research in libraries, collections, and archives in five countries, and in as many languages, this bo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jul-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526169334)
Relics, dreams, voyages is a closely focused sequence of studies of worldwide connections in all the arts in the baroque period. Drawing on original research in libraries, collections, and archives in five countries, and in as many languages, this bo...Lasīt vairāk
Deriving from the French word rocaille, in reference to the curved forms of shellfish, and the Italian Barocco, the French created the term Rococo. Appearing at the beginning of the 18th-century, it rapidly spread to the whole of Europe. Extravagant...Lasīt vairāk
The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the 17th-century to the middle of the 18th-century. Baroque art was artists response to the Catholic Churchs demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its monumentality an...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Jun-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503639164)
Anxieties about the fate of reading in the digital age reveal how deeply our views of the moral and intellectual benefits of reading are tied to print. These views take root in a conception of reading as an immersive activity, exemplified by the expe...Lasīt vairāk
