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The Measure of ManLiberty, Virtue, and Beauty in the Florentine Renaissance
It was one of the most concentrated surges of creativity in the history of civilization. Between 1390 and 1537, Florence poured forth an astonishing stream of magnificent artworks. But Florentines did more during this brief period than create masterpieces. As citizens of a fractious republic threatened from below, without, and within, they also were driven to reimagine the political and ethical…
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I Medici e le arti
eDossier è una nuova collana di Art e Dossier. Un artista da leggere, un movimento da conoscere come un racconto, una raccolta di saggi agile, portatile e accessibile. Sommario: Firenze, città dei Medici; I Medici del Quattrocento; Capitani, papi, duchi e granduchi. I Medici del Cinquecento; Nel cuore del Seicento: da Cosimo II a Ferdinando II; Da Cosimo III alla fine della dinastia.
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Gottfried Lindauer's New ZealandThe Maori Portraits
From the 1870s to the early twentieth century, the Bohemian immigrant artist Gottfried Lindauer travelled to marae and rural towns around New Zealand and – commissioned by Maori and Pakeha – captured in paint the images of key Maori figures. For Maori then and now, the faces of tupuna are full of mana and life. Now this definitive book on Lindauer's portraits of the ancestors collects that …
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Historical Dictionary of Surrealism
The Surrealist Movement is an international intellectual movement that has led a sustained questioning of the basis of human experience under twentieth- and twenty-first century modernity since its founding in the early 1920s. Influenced by the psychoanalytical teachings of Sigmund Freud, Surrealism emerged among the generation that had witnessed the insanity and horror of the First World War, …
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I Pollaiolo. La pittura
eDossier è una nuova collana di Art e Dossier. Un artista da leggere, un movimento da conoscere come un racconto, una raccolta di saggi agile, portatile e accessibile. Un dossier dedicato alla pittura di Antonio (Firenze, 1431 circa - Roma, 4 febbraio 1498) e del fratello Piero (Firenze, 1441/1442 - Roma, post 1485) Benci o del Pollaiolo. In sommario: Introduzione: Antonio e Piero, un'autonomi…
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Dark NightWalking with McCahon
In 1984, on his way to a major exhibition opening, celebrated New Zealand painter Colin McCahon went missing for 24 hours in Sydney, Australia. He was discovered by police the next day on a bench in Centennial Park with no identification and suffering from amnesia; by all accounts, McCahon was never quite the same from this night until his death three years later. This work of creative nonficti…
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Exhibiting the Foreign on U.S. SoilAmerican Art Museums and National Diplomac…
The uneasy relationship between the arts, US art museums, and the federal government has not been thoroughly explored by scholars. This book focuses on the development of "national diplomacy exhibitions" during World War II and the early Cold War and explains how the War provided the government with an impetus to create a national arts policy. It discusses how national diplomacy exhibitions on …
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I Vivarini
eDossier: una collana di Art e Dossier. Un artista da leggere, un movimento da conoscere come un racconto, una raccolta di saggi agile, portatile e accessibile. Il ruolo di Venezia nel rinnovamento quattrocentesco della pittura italiana è ben noto, ma ai plurimenzionati Bellini, Cima e Carpaccio vanno certamente accostati tre membri della famiglia Vivarini: Antonio, Bartolomeo e Alvise. Pittor…
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The Twelve Cakes of ChristmasAn evolutionary history, with recipes
Many popular recipes come from lineages that can be traced back for decades, even centuries. Festive cakes have been made in December for at least two thousand years. Using archaeological evidence and ancient books, the authors define the key ingredients of the cakes that would eventually be served on Twelfth Night, at the end of the Christmas season. From 17th century English cookbooks, they i…
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The Art of Looking at Art
A readable guide to the art of looking at art. There's an art to viewing art. A sizable portion of the population regards art with varying degrees of reverence, bewilderment, suspicion, contempt, and intimidation. Most people aren't sure what to do when standing before a work of art, besides gaze at it for what they hope is an acceptable amount of time, and even those who visit galleries and m…
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