Am 19. Januar 1939 erreicht Walter Kaufmann mit einem der letzten jüdischen Kindertransporte aus Nazi-Deutschland das rettende London. Es ist sein 15. Geburtstag. Nur kurz währt das Gefühl der Sicherheit in der Internatsschule Bunce Court in Faversham. Im Mai 1940 internieren ihn die britischen Behören als "Ausländer" in Liverpool. Mit zweitausend anderen Flüchtlingen wird er auf dem Gefa…
Filled with easy step-by-step instruction from a variety of artists anda wealth of inspiring images to study and admire, The Art of Basic Drawing shows beginning artists how to draw everything from flowers and still lifes to landscapes, animals, and people. You’ll find plenty of helpful tips on choosing the right tools and materials, fundamental drawing techniques, developing value and s…
Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's "beauty and attraction" invisible. In The Beauty of a Social Problem, Walter Benn Michaels explores the effort to overcome this difficulty through a study of several contemporary artist-photographers whose work speaks to questions of political economy. Although he discusses well-known …
Die Studiensammlung Theatrologia. Kleine Schriften zur Bühnenkunst und Theatergeschichte umfasst zwölf Studien aus dem letzten Forschungsjahrzehnt von Walter Puchner. Die Arbeiten gliedern sich in einen theoretischen Teil, der sich mit den allgemeinen Entwicklungen der internationalen Theaterwissenschaft der letzten Jahre auseinandersetzt, und einen historischen Teil, der sich vor allem mit F…
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This award-winning amply illustrated volume of informative essays and vibrant prints by the current members of the California Society of Printmakers was published to commemorate its 2013 centennial year. Readers interested in knowing more about how a small group of prominent artist-etchers in Northern California formulated an aspirational society near the turn of the 20th century and transforme…
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by George Bell & Sons in London, 1905.
The 1960s were heady years in Argentina. Visual artists, curators, and critics sought to fuse art and politics; to broaden the definition of art to encompass happenings and assemblages; and, above all, to achieve international recognition for new, cutting-edge Argentine art. A bestseller in Argentina, Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics is an examination of the 1960s as a brief historic…
"The golden book of spirit and sense, the holy writ of beauty." — Oscar Wilde Published to equal parts scandal and acclaim in 1873, The Renaissance inspired a generation of Oxford undergraduates, who adapted its credo of "arts for art's sake" for their Aesthetic Movement. Combining the skepticism of empirical philosophy, the materialism of 19th-century science, and the det…
«Il film offre l'esempio di una forma d'arte il cui carattere è per la prima volta integralmente determinato dalla sua riproducibilità . Attraverso il film è divenuta decisiva una qualità che i Greci non avrebbero ammesso che in ultimo luogo: la perfettibilità dell'opera d'arte. Il film è dunque l'opera d'arte più perfettibile, e questa perfettibilità deriva direttamente dalla sua rinun…