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The widespread presence of jazz and blues in African American visual art has long been overlooked.The Hearing Eye makes the case for recognizing the music's importance, both as formal template and as explicit subject matter. Moving on from the use of iconic musical...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-01-02
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This book offers a wide-ranging introduction to the way that art was made, valued, and viewed in northern Europe in the age of the Renaissance, from the late fourteenth to the early years of the sixteenth century. Drawing on a rich range of sources, from inventories and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-11-27
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Have you ever dreamed of having your own red carpet moment? Or wondered how to emulate the effortlessly chic style of the most photographed trendsetters? Or wished you could master the art of all things glamorous? In Style A to Zoe, Hollywood's hottest celebrity...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2008-09-04
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Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art.
Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-08-14
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Matisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence during their lifetimes. They have become cultural icons, standing not only for different kinds of art but also for different ways of living. Matisse, known for his restraint and intense sense of privacy, for his...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2008-08-04
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It's not just rap music. Hip-hop has transformed theater, dance, performance, poetry, literature, fashion, design, photography, painting, and film, to become one of the most far-reaching and transformative arts movements of the past two decades. American Book...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2008-07-31
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Physics in the Arts is a concise, 288-page four-color entry in the Complementary Science Series, designed for science enthusiasts and liberal arts students requiring or desiring a well-developed discussion of physical phenomena, particularly with regard to sound and...
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Academic Press
Parution :
2008-06-04
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'Study me reader, if you find delight in me...Come, O men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose in nature.'
Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, which represent...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-04-17
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'Study me reader, if you find delight in me...Come, O men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose in nature.'
Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, which represent...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-04-17
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Psychoanalysis and the Image brings together an influential team of international scholars who demonstrate innovative ways to apply psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern art and visual representation. Examines psychoanalytic concepts, values,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
New Interventions in Art History
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Material Identities examines the way that individuals use material objects as tools for projecting aspects of their identities. Considers the way identity is fashioned, launched, used, and admired in the material world. Contributors intervene from the disciplines of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
New Interventions in Art History
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Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and the Image is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that brings together archaeologists, art historians and anthropologists to provide new perspectives on the construction of knowledge concerning the antiquity of man. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
New Interventions in Art History
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Edges of Empire is a timely reassessment of the history and legacy of Orientalist art and visual culture through its focus on the intersection between modernization, modernism and Orientalism. Covers indigenous art and agency, contemporary practices of collection and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
New Interventions in Art History
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The Companion provides an accessible critical survey of Western visual art theory from sources in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance thought through to contemporary writings.
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
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Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and the Image is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that brings together archaeologists, art historians and anthropologists to provide new perspectives on the construction of knowledge concerning the antiquity of man. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
New Interventions in Art History
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The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface. Comprising thousands of islands and hundreds of cultural groups, Polynesia and Micronesia cover a large part of this vast ocean, from the dramatic mountains of Hawaii to the small, flat coral islands of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-03-27
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For much of history, the rules of war decreed that "to the victor go the spoils." The winners in warfare routinely seized for themselves the artistic and cultural treasures of the defeated; plunder constituted a marker of triumph. By the twentieth century, international...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2007-12-31
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In analyses of tattoo contests, advertising, and modern primitive photographs, the book shows how images of tattooed bodies communicate and disrupt notions of gender, class, and exoticism through their discursive performances. Fenske suggests working within dominant...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-11-26
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Providing a distillation of knowledge in the various disciplines of arts education (dance, drama, music, literature and poetry and visual arts), the Handbook synthesizes existing research literature, helps define the past, and contributes to shaping the substantive and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2007-09-04
Collection :
Springer International Handbooks of Education
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A classic work of advice, criticism, and inspiration for aspiring artists and lovers of art "Art when really understood is the province of every human being." So begins The Art Spirit, the collected words, teachings, and wisdom of innovative artist and beloved teacher...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2007-08-01
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