Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and JournalsIn Two Volumes, Volume II

Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II is a comprehensive and intimate collection of the personal correspondence and diary entries of Samuel F. B. Morse, the renowned American inventor and artist best known for developing the telegraph and Morse code. This second volume, meticulously edited by his son Edward Lind Morse, continues the chronicle of Morse's remarkab…

Soft Is FastSimone Forti in the 1960s and After

Simone Forti's art developed within the overlapping circles of New York City's advanced visual art, dance, and music of the early 1960s. Her "dance constructions" and related works of the 1960s were important for both visual art and dance of the era. Artists Robert Morris and Yvonne Rainer have both acknowledged her influence. Forti seems to have kept one foot inside visual art's frames of mea…

Selfie AestheticsSeeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art

In Selfie Aesthetics Nicole Erin Morse examines how trans feminine artists use selfies and self-representational art to explore transition, selfhood, and relationality. Morse contends that rather than being understood as shallow emblems of a narcissistic age, selfies can produce politically meaningful encounters between creators and viewers. Through close readings of selfies and other digital a…

The Court Artist in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Up to now the theme of the artist in the service of Italian courts has been examined in various studies focused mostly on the High Renaissance, as though the phenomenon was relevant only to the XV and XVI centuries. It actually lasted much longer, spanning the whole longue durée of the lives of the courts of the ancient regime. The present volume intends to fill this gap, presenting for the fi…

Rubens e la cultura italiana1600-1608

L'attenzione per la cultura italiana costituì per Rubens un costante riferimento durante tutta la vita e, in particolare, gli otto anni di soggiorno in Italia furono l'occasione per studiare l'arte antica e i grandi maestri rinascimentali, ma anche per guardare le opere di artisti a lui contemporanei, come Caravaggio e Baglione, per analizzare l'architettura, per frequentare circoli scientific…

Tra Fiandre e Italia: Rubens 1600-1608Regesto biografico-critico

Gli anni che Rubens trascorse in Italia dal luglio del 1600 all'ottobre del 1608 sono attestati da più di duecento documenti, oggi dispersi in sedici archivi diversi, suddivisi tipologicamente in lettere, contratti e fonti letterarie a lui coeve. Tale documentazione, ritrovata, trascritta e soprattutto tradotta in lingue differenti a partire dalla seconda metà dell'Ottocento fino ai giorni no…

Rembrandt's Etching TechniqueAn Example

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The Early Architecture Of Western Pennsylvania

A new edition of this long unavailable classic reproduces photographic prints made from original negatives and features an extensive analytical introduction by the noted architectural historian Dell Upton.Before the 1936 publication of The Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania, the architectual heritage of a region prominent in the history of early America had been almost totally neglected…

Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings

This work deals with every aspect of the traditional Japanese home, from its general plan and major structural features to such ceremonial and traditional appointments as the tatami mats (which actually determine the size of the house), lamps, hibachi (braziers), fusuma and shoji screens, candlesticks, pillows, and tokonoma (places where art objects or flowers are displayed). It covers details …

Kentucky Folk Architecture

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