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  • An Introduction to Iconography

    Symbols, Allusions and Meaning in the Visual Arts

    Traducido por 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, ... Leer más

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  • An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols

    de J. C. Cooper ...
    In nearly 1500 entries, many of them strikingly and often surprisingly illustrated, J. C. Cooper has documented the history and evolution of symbols from prehistory to our own day.With over 200 illustrations and lively, informative and often ironic texts, she discusses and explains an enormous variety of symbols extending from the Arctic to Dahomey, from the Iroquois to Oceana, and coming from ... Leer más

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  • On Craftsmanship

    Towards a New Bauhaus

    Series series Oberon Masters Series
    'Craftsmanship has again become fashionable in high places, just as it did in the last few recessions.'The concept of craftsmanship has never been as relevant and timely as it is today. Assailed on all sides by – among many other tendencies - flexible working, short-termism, portfolio careers, quick-fix training and the cult of celebrity, it has recently re-entered public debate with a new sense ... Leer más

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  • Mona Lisa in Camelot

    How Jacqueline Kennedy and Da Vinci's Masterpiece Charmed and Captivated a Nation

    The acclaimed biographer tells the charming story of the First Lady's mission to bring the Mona Lisa to America in this "little gem of a book" (Good Morning America).In December 1962, Da Vinci's Mona Lisa set sail from Paris to New York for what was arguably the riskiest art exhibition ever mounted. The fragile icon traveled like a head of state, with armed guards and military surveillance, in a ... Leer más

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

    Edición de 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. ... Leer más

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  • Why Art Photography?

    de Lucy Soutter ...
    The second edition of Why Art Photography? is an updated, expanded introduction to the ideas behind today’s striking photographic images. Lively, accessible discussions of key issues such as ambiguity, objectivity, fiction, authenticity, and photography’s expanding field are supplemented with new material around timely topics such as globalization, selfie culture, and photographers’ use of ... Leer más

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  • The Greening of Art

    Shifting Positions Between Art and Nature Since 1965

    de Marga Bijvoet ...
    The Greening of Art describes the shifts in position between art and nature which took place during the past fifty years, to set out re-establishing a new relationship between art and the landscape-environment, and attempt in various ways to re-connect art with nature. From the 1960s onward, when artists went outdoors to explore the environment as extended space of the self, via land reclamation ... Leer más

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  • The New Art History

    A Critical Introduction

    The New Art History provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental changes which have occurred in both the institutions and practice of art history over the last thirty years.Jonathan Harris examines and accounts for the new approaches to the study of art which have been grouped loosely under the term 'the new art history'. He distinguishes between these and earlier forms of 'radical' or ... Leer más

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  • Drawing on the Victorians

    The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts

    Series series Series in Victorian Studies
    Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to a mass readership. This Victorian visual turn prefigured the present-day impact of the Internet on how ... Leer más

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  • Monographic Exhibitions and the History of Art

    Series series Studies in Art Historiography
    This edited collection traces the impact of monographic exhibitions on the discipline of art history from the first examples in the late eighteenth century through the present. Roughly falling into three genres (retrospectives of living artists, retrospectives of recently deceased artists, and monographic exhibitions of Old Masters), specialists examine examples of each genre within their social, ... Leer más

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  • Ingres Then, and Now

    de Adrian Rifkin ...
    Ingres Then, and Now is an innovative study of one of the best-known French artists of the nineteenth century, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Adrian Rifkin re-evaluates Ingres' work in the context of a variety of literary, musical and visual cultures which are normally seen as alien to him. Re-viewing Ingres' paintings as a series of fragmentary symptoms of the commodity cultures of nineteenth ... Leer más

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  • Light Touches

    Cultural Practices of Illumination, 1800-1900

    de 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 ... Leer más

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