Filter by
Logic and the Art of MemoryThe Quest for a Universal Language
A brilliant translation of this classic account of the art of memory and the logic of linkage and combination, the two traditions deriving from the Classical world and the late medieval period, and becoming intertwined in the 16th Century. From this intertwining emerged a new tradition, a grandiose project for an 'alphabet of the world' or 'Clavis Universalis'. Translated with an Introduction b…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781847144614
- Collation
- 1 online resource (362 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Judaism and Christian ArtAesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism
Christian cultures across the centuries have invoked Judaism in order to debate, represent, and contain the dangers presented by the sensual nature of art. By engaging Judaism, both real and imagined, they explored and expanded the perils and possibilities for Christian representation of the material world.The thirteen essays in Judaism and Christian Art reveal that Christian art has always def…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780812208368
- Collation
- 1 online resource (456 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Boundaries of Art and Social Space in RomeThe Caged Bird and Other Art Forms
This volume focuses on four cultural phenomena in the Roman world of the late Republic - the garden, a garden painting, tapestry, and the domestic caged bird. They accept or reject a categorisation as art in varying degrees, but they show considerable overlaps in the ways in which they impinge on social space. The study looks, therefore, at the borderlines between things that variously might or…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781472529992
- Collation
- 1 online resource (208 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Art of ContactComparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art
The proem to Herodotus's history of the Greek-Persian wars relates the long-standing conflict between Europe and Asia from the points of view of the Greeks' chief antagonists, the Persians and Phoenicians. However humorous or fantastical these accounts may be, their stories, as voiced by a Greek, reveal a great deal about the perceived differences between Greeks and others. The conflict is fram…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780812293944
- Collation
- 1 online resource (320 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Philosophical Perspectives on Fashion
Philosophical Perspectives on Fashion places philosophical approaches at the heart of contemporary fashion studies. Considering the mutual relationships between aesthetics, modern society and culture, fashion and the fine arts, and the way these relationships have influenced and shaped our views on identity and taste, this ground-breaking book also explores the various intellectual and cultural…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781474237482
- Collation
- 1 online resource (208 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Peasant Scenes and LandscapesThe Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art …
Modern viewers take for granted the pictorial conventions present in easel paintings and engraved prints of such subjects as landscapes or peasants. These generic subjects and their representational conventions, however, have their own origins and early histories. In sixteenth-century Antwerp, painting and the emerging new medium of engraving began to depart from traditional visual culture, whi…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780812207439
- Collation
- 1 online resource (392 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1770-1940
Correspondence, travel writing, diary writing, painting, scrapbooking, curating, collecting and house interiors allowed British women scope to express their responses to imperial sites and experiences in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Taking these productions as its archive, British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1775-1930 includes a collection of essays from different disciplines …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781501332173
- Collation
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Tale of GenjiA Visual Companion
An illustrated guide to one of the most enduring masterworks of world literature Written in the eleventh century by the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji is a masterpiece of prose and poetry that is widely considered the world's first novel. Melissa McCormick provides a unique companion to Murasaki's tale that combines discussions of all fifty-four of its chapters with pa…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780691188751
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
In the Blink of an EarToward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art
An ear-opening reassessment of sonic art from World War II to the present Marcel Duchamp famously championed a "non-retinal" visual art, rejecting judgments of taste and beauty. In the Blink of an Ear is the first book to ask why the sonic arts did not experience a parallel turn toward a non-cochlear sonic art, imagined as both a response and a complement to Duchamp's conceptualism. Rather than…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781441183071
- Collation
- 1 online resource (296 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Old Masters and Young GeniusesThe Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity
When in their lives do great artists produce their greatest art? Do they strive for creative perfection throughout decades of painstaking and frustrating experimentation, or do they achieve it confidently and decisively, through meticulous planning that yields masterpieces early in their lives? By examining the careers not only of great painters but also of important sculptors, poets, novelis…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781400837397
- Collation
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography