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  • Light Touches

    Cultural Practices of Illumination, 1800-1900

    by Alice Barnaby ...
    Series series Directions in Cultural History
    Light Touches: Cultural Practices of Illumination, 1800-1900 explores how urban lives in the nineteenth century were increasingly touched by innovations in the technologies and aesthetics of illumination. Dramatic changes in qualities of light – and darkness – became acutely palpable to the human sensorium; using, seeing, feeling, and being in light were now matters of intense personal and ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

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  • Visual Shock

    A History of Art Controversies in American Culture

    by Michael Kammen ...
    In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s obsession with public memorials and the changing role of art and museums in our society. From Thomas Eakins’s 1875 masterpiece The Gross Clinic, (considered “too big, bold, and gory” when ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • Art & Visual Culture 1600-1850: Academy to Avant-Garde

    Edited by Emma Barker ...
    An innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture and architecture, it also explores a wide range of visual culture in a variety of media and methods. ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Introduction to Iconography

    Symbols, Allusions and Meaning in the Visual Arts

    by Roelof van Straten ...
    Translated by Patricia de Man ...
    Series series Documenting the Image
    Available for the first time in English, An Introduction to Iconography explains the ways that artists use references and allusions to create meaning. The book presents the historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of iconography and ICONCLASS, the comprehensive iconographical indexing system developed by Henri van de Waal. It gives particular emphasis to the history of iconography, ... Read more

    $104.42 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts

    Edited by Michael Biggs, Henrik Karlsson ...
    Series series Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts is a major collection of new writings on research in the creative and performing arts by leading authorities from around the world. It provides theoretical and practical approaches to identifying, structuring and resolving some of the key issues in the debate about the nature of research in the arts which have surfaced during the establishment of ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Clothing, A historical Consideration

    by Edward Jackson Lowell ...
    Clothing, A Historical Consideration traces the history of clothing in the western world from the Greeks to the high fashions of the late 19th century. A good brief survey of the subject. ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD

  • Artworks

    Meaning, Definition, Value

    by Robert Stecker ...
    What is art? What is it to understand a work of art? What is the value of art? Robert Stecker seeks to answer these central questions of aesthetics by placing them within the context of an ongoing debate criticizing, but also explaining what can be learned from, alternative views. His unified philosophy of art, defined in terms of its evolving functions, is used to explain and to justify current ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

  • The Art of Death. Myths and Rites

    Symbols of mortality and the art of remembrance

    by Victoria Charles ...
    Since the first funerary statues were placed in the first sepulchres, the ideas of death and the afterlife have always held a prominent place at the heart of the art world. An unlimited source of inspiration where artists can search for the expression of the infinite, death remains the object of numerous rich illustrations, as various as they are mysterious. The ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rethinking Place in South Asian and Islamic Art, 1500-Present

    Edited by Deborah S. Hutton, Rebecca M. Brown ...
    Place plays a fundamental role in the structuring of the discipline of Art History. And yet, place also limits the questions art historians can ask and impairs analysis of objects and locations in the interstices of established, ossified categories. The chapters in this interdisciplinary volume investigate place in all of its dynamism and complexity: several call into question traditional ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Poland and Artistic Culture of Western Europe

    14 th –20 th Century

    Edited by Barbara Przybyszewska-Jarminska, Lech Sokol ...
    Series Book 6 - Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives
    In ten studies by Polish authors this book offers an overview of Polish artistic culture and its relation to Western European culture. Thematically, it ranges from fine arts, sculpture and architecture to music, drama and theatre, spanning seven centuries of European artistic culture. While forming an array of topics, it provides a perfect factual introduction into history of art and culture of ... Read more

    $177.69 CAD

  • Old Tavern Signs

    Enriched edition. An Excursion in the History of Hospitality

    by Fritz August Gottfried Endell, Tessa Caldwell ...
    In "Old Tavern Signs," Fritz August Gottfried Endell delves into the rich tapestry of cultural heritage through the lens of historical tavern signage. This work combines a meticulous examination of various signs with a narrative style that is both engaging and informative. Endell weaves together folklore, craftsmanship, and regional identity, presenting readers with a visual and textual feast that ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Art and the City

    by Nicolas Whybrow ...
    To Henri Lefebvre, the space and 'lived everydayness' of the inter-dependent, multi-faceted city produces manifold possibilities of identifiction and realisation through often imperceptible interactions and practices. 'Art and the City' takes this observation as its cue to examine the role of art against a backdrop of globally rising urban populations, taking into account the more recent ... Read more

    $37.79 CAD