Art History category: 15294 books
Epic in American Culture
Settlement to Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The epic calls to mind the famous works of ancient poets such as Homer, Virgil, and Ovid. These long, narrative poems, defined by valiant characters and heroic deeds, celebrate events of great importance in ancient times. In this thought-provoking study, Christopher N. Phillips shows in often surprising...
by Ernesto Ballesteros Arranz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2015
eBook Interactivo. A partir de la obra helénica, y con una influencia etrusca muy marcada, los romanos aparecen en el escenario artístico europeo con gran originalidad, sobre todo en el capítulo arquitectónico, aunque también muestran gran talento para la escultura y la pintura, y son los grandes...
Sacred Founders
Women, Men, and Gods in the Discourse of Imperial Founding, Rome through Early Byzantium
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Diliana Angelova argues that from the time of Augustus through early Byzantium, a discourse of “sacred founders”—articulated in artwork, literature, imperial honors, and the built environment—helped legitimize the authority of the emperor and his family. The discourse coalesced around the...
Roman Artists, Patrons, and Public Consumption
Familiar Works Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
In recent decades, the study of Roman art has shifted focus dramatically from issues of connoisseurship, typology, and chronology to analyses of objects within their contemporary contexts and local environments. Scholars challenge the notion, formerly taken for granted, that extant historical texts—the...
by Reverend James M. Lamb CADC CCS
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Rev. James Lamb has provided the Afro centric Spiritual community a tremendous literary historical-theological treatise. The psycho-social issues facing the African American community today have their roots in the legacy of white supremacy which has dominated Black life in all areas of human activity,...
by Joanna Pitman
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
"An engaging and dishy read, On Blondes will have power-hungry brunettes reaching for the peroxide." -Entertainment Weekly
In art and literature, in history and popular culture, blonde has never been a mere color. For two and a half thousand years, it has been a blazing signal in...
Politics personified
Portraiture, caricature and visual culture in Britain, c.1830–80
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The remarkable popularity of political likenesses in the Victorian period is the central theme of this book, which explores how politicians and publishers exploited new visual technology to appeal to a broad public. The first study of the role of commercial imagery in nineteenth-century politics,...
Reimagining Life
Philosophical Pessimism and the Revolution of Surrealism
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
In Reimagining Life, Raihan Kadri presents a pioneering critical history of the epistemological and theoretical origins of the Surrealist movement and its subsequent legacy. The book contains extensive examination and new interpretations of the oft-neglected theoretical writing of Surrealists such...
by Cecil Chesterton
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2018
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox". Time magazine has observed of his writing...
Dark Mirror
The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
In Dark Mirror, Sara Lipton offers a fascinating examination of the emergence of anti-Semitic iconography in the Middle Ages
The straggly beard, the hooked nose, the bag of coins, and gaudy apparel—the religious artists of medieval Christendom had no shortage of virulent symbols for identifying...
The Shi’a of Samarra
The Heritage and Politics of a Community in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
On 22 February 2006, the main dome of the al-Askariyya shrine in Samarra was blown up. In the aftermath, sectarian strife between Shi'i and Sunni communities in Iraq and the wider region resonated around the world. The assault on Samarra, which was built in the period of the Abbasid caliphate in the...
Excellent Art Auction Guide
This Ultimate Guide Will Let You Learn The Different Art Auctions Ideas Which Include Art Auctions Online, Grotesques, Vintage Photography Auctions, Amsterdam Auctions And A Whole Lot More!
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
It is truly a wonderful thing when you consider how much we gain from our appreciation of art, what volumes it speaks about our own culture, and among cultures that make up the world besides our own. It is highly fashionable to understand something of what art is, how it tries to reinterpret...
by Iain Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Originally published in 2011, Iain Robertson's A New Art from Emerging Markets introduced and examined three types of emerging markets for contemporary art: the very recently established, the maturing and the mature. This fully revised second edition not only updates the reader on this rapidly evolving...
by Henry Shaw, FSA
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
First published in 1842, this volume made an important contribution to the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival, during which English artists rediscovered decorative styles from their country's medieval past. Few published sources of the Victorian era offered information on historic designs, and The...