Filter by
El Renacimiento
El Renacimiento se inició a finales del siglo catorce en Italia y ya estaba extendido por toda Europa en la segunda mitad del siglo dieciséis. El redescubrimiento del esplendor de la antigua Grecia y Roma supuso el comienzo del renacimiento de las artes como consecuencia de la descomposición de la certeza dogmática de la Edad Media. Surgió una generación de artistas que comenzaron a innov…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781780425498
- Collation
- 1 online resource (200 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Fra Angelico
Der Maler Fra Angelico hat als einer der ersten die von dem italienischen Künstler, Gelehrten und Humanisten Leon Battista Alberti propagierte Technik der Perspektive angewandt. Seine Methode der Darstellung der Bewegung und sein Einsatz von Farbe und Gesichtsausdruck, um Anmut und Gefühl zu betonen, ordnen ihn in die Reihe der wichtigsten Maler der Frührenaissance ein. Mit Hilfe einer Reihe…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781781603970
- Collation
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Leonardo da Vinci volume 1
Leonardo's early life was spent in Florence, his maturity in Milan, and the last three years of his life in France. Leonardo's teacher was Verrocchio. First he was a goldsmith, then a painter and sculptor: as a painter, representative of the very scientific school of draughtsmanship; more famous as a sculptor, being the creator of the Colleoni statue at Venice, Leonardo was a man of striking ph…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781781603864
- Collation
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Immortal ComedyThe Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life
Immortal Comedy is the first book to 'think' philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general. Although author Agnes Heller had written a book that is both deeply scholarly and meditative on the subject of the comic form in film, literature, and life her writing is eminently approachable. In both its subject and style, Immortal Comedy is a seminal book. In it, Heller takes us on a journey …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780739156247
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Art
The Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Art illuminates important artists, styles, and movements of the past 70 years. Beginning with the immediate post-World War II period, it encompasses earlier 20th century masters, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Jean Dubuffet, Stuart Davis, Georgia O'Keeffe, and other well-known figures, who remained c…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781442276680
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Riddling between Oedipus and the SphinxOntology, Hauntology, and Heterolo…
The issue of the other has always been an urgent one, especially since 1980's, when the political debates over race, gender, class, culture, ethnicity, and post-colonialism took the central stage. The Riddling between Oedipus and the Sphinx, Ontology, Hauntology, and Heterologies of the Grotesque probes the polemic status of the other and the dubious nature of the subject from a heterodox persp…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780761866633
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Kwagh-hir TheaterA Weapon for Social Action
The Kwagh-hir Theater: A Weapon for Social Action represents a significant milestone in the documentation and theorization of non-Western theater. The book describes how the Tiv people of Nigeria used their indigenous theater to fight against British colonialism and oppression by dominant groups in Nigeria. It celebrates the power of the theater to give voice to the voiceless and to become a ca…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780761862512
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Fired Clay in Four Porcelain ClustersA Comparative Study of Energy Use, Produ…
Fired Clay in Four Porcelain Clusters examines how energy use in the ceramics-making industry has evolved as a result of technological advancements and changing social norms and ideas in environmental conservation. Three main research themes are highlighted. First, the book examines how the evolving use of energy fuels has impacted the developmental history of the ceramics-making industry, espe…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780761864295
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Triumph of ModernismThe Art World, 1987–2005
Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative art critic of his generation, Hilton Kramer advanced his comments and judgments largely in the form of essays and short pieces. Thus this first collection of his work to appear in twenty years is a signal event for the art world and for criticism generally. The Triumph of Modernism not only traces the vicissitudes of the art scene but diagnoses the…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781442223226
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Every Picture Hides a StoryThe Secret Ways Artists Make Their Work More Seduc…
Each year 11 million people trek to the Louvre to gawk at the Mona Lisa. Many visitors clutch guide books in hand describing the painting. For some, it's the experience of a lifetime, one they'll talk about with friends and family for decades. Yet some modern researchers say that the vast majority of people will never recognize the hidden messages in this painting. That's because those hidden m…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781538161371
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography