A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European art, and the social, economic, philosophical, and political debates that helped shape them. * Covers both artistic developments and critical approaches to the period by leading contemporary scholars * Uses an innovative framework to emphasize t…
This excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism blends expert synthesis of the latest scholarship with completely new research, offering historical coverage as well as in-depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender. * This book provides an excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism from some of the finest established and up-and-coming sc…
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Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie sitzen am Mittelmeer in einer Taverne, die Füße im Sand, nippen an einem Wein und genießen, je nachdem, wo Sie gerade sitzen, exotische Tabbouleh, köstliche Lasagne oder griechischen Joghurt mit Honig und Walnüssen. Diese und viele weitere Köstlichkeiten der mediterranen Küche können Sie sich mit diesem Buch in die eigene Küche holen. Und das ganz ohne schlech…
A Companion to Public Art is the only scholarly volume to examine the main issues, theories, and practices of public art on a comprehensive scale. * Edited by two distinguished scholars with contributions from art historians, critics, curators, and art administrators, as well as artists themselves * Includes 19 essays in four sections: tradition, site, audience, and critical frameworks * C…
A fully updated and comprehensive companion to Romanesque and Gothic art history This definitive reference brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe and provides a clear analytical survey of what is happening in this major area of Western art history. The volume comprises original theoretical, historical, and historiographic es…
Consumerism Pop art Mechanisation Baroque Kitsch Postmodern Vanitas Antiquity Oeuvre Chiaroscuro Patron Picture plane Cubism Ionic Humanism Critic Abstracted Screen print Art market Thinking About Art explores some of the most influential works of art and architecture in the world through the prism of themes, instead of chronology, to offer intriguing juxtapositions of art and history. The bo…
A Companion to Modern Art presents a series of original essays by international and interdisciplinary authors who offer a comprehensive overview of the origins and evolution of artistic works, movements, approaches, influences, and legacies of Modern Art. * Presents a contemporary debate and dialogue rather than a seamless consensus on Modern Art * Aims for reader accessibility by highlight…
The final installment in the critically-acclaimed trilogy on globalization and art explores the growing dominance of Asian centers of art This book takes readers on a fascinating journey around five Asian centers of contemporary art and its myriad institutions, agents, forms, materials, and languages, while posing vital questions about the political economy of culture and the power of visual…
A comprehensive review of art in the first truly modern century A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art contains contributions from an international panel of noted experts to offer a broad overview of both national and transnational developments, as well as new and innovative investigations of individual art works, artists, and issues. The text puts to rest the skewed perception of nineteenth-c…