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Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars be…
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Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements
This collection examines key aesthetic avant-garde art movements of the twentieth century and their relationships with revolutionary politics. The contributors distinguish aesthetic avant-gardes —whose artists aim to transform society and the ways of sensing the world through political means—from the artistic avant-gardes, which focus on transforming representation. Following the work of ph…
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Gestualità LeonardescaTra teologia cristiana e virtus pagana: la Vergine del…
Esiste una relazione sotterranea che l'attiguità storica e stilistica fra due o più opere dissimula e veicola. Per coglierla è necessario pensare che ciò che nasconde svela e che ciò che svela nasconde, ovvero che l'aspetto storico della ricerca nasconde e svela quanto di archetipico la storia stessa racchiude. Lo nasconde perché alla storia in quanto disciplina non è metodologicamente c…
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L'azienda Prevost. Una storia di famiglia
Quando Alessio Calandra mi ha interpellata per leggere la sua tesidi laurea ‘Il caso dell’Azienda Prevost’, prima di presentarla,ho subito pensato che, senza saperlo, avevo vissuto nella storiadel cinema e che quella tesi avrebbe dovuto essere trasformatain un libro, portandola da testo puramente tecnico a raccontocircondato da aneddoti. Non che mentre ero in famiglia non sape…
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The Letters of Paul Cézanne
The long-awaited, fresh and accurate new translation of the correspondence of Paul Cézanne. For this richly-illustrated edition, Alex Danchev has gone back to the original manuscripts, clearing up decades of questionable scholarship. Cézanne was a singular thinker and an uncompromising seeker after artistic truth qualities that shine through in the letters which reveal the mans very human hop…
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Anachronic Renaissance
In this widely anticipated book, two leading contemporary art historians present a stunning reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance. With intellectual brilliance, Alexander Nagel and Christopher S. Wood reexamine the meanings, uses, and effects of chronologies, models of temporality, and notions of originality and repetition in Renaissance images and artifacts. Anachronic Ren…
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Romantic ModernsEnglish Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Wo…
While the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea-shops. In this multi-awardwinning book, Alexandra Harris tells a different story. In the 1930s and 1940s, artists and writers explored what it meant to be alive in England. Eclectically, pass…
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Thomas KinkadeThe Artist in the Mall
Often featuring lighthouses, bridges, or quaint country homes, Thomas Kinkade's soft-focus landscapes have permeated American visual culture during the past twenty years, appearing on everything from Bibles to bedsheets to credit cards. Kinkade sells his work through his shopping-mall galleries, QVC, the Internet, and Christian stores. He is quite possibly the most collected artist in the Unite…
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Embodying RelationArt Photography in Mali
In Embodying Relation Allison Moore examines the tensions between the local and the global in the art photography movement in Bamako, Mali, which blossomed in the 1990s after Malian photographers Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé became internationally famous and the Bamako Photography Biennale was founded. Moore traces the trajectory of Malian photography from the 1880s—when photography first…
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Productive failureWriting queer transnational South Asian art histories
This monograph provides novel methods for writing transnational South Asian art history outside of genealogy.
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