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Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy

Bartolomeo Scappi's Paper Kitchens

by Deborah L Krohn
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

Though Bartolomeo Scappi's Opera (1570), the first illustrated cookbook, is well known to historians of food, up to now there has been no study of its illustrations, unique in printed books through the early seventeenth century. In Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy, Krohn both treats the illustrations...
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by Klaus H. Carl
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014

Ever since the ancient greeks sculpted the first kouros, children have been a source of inspiration for some of the world’s greatest artists. Whether portraits of their own children, friends, and family members, or a nostalgic psychological portrayal of the artist’s own youth, depictions of children...
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Beyond the Frame

Feminism and Visual Culture, Britain 1850 -1900

by Deborah Cherry
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012

Beyond the Frame rewrites the history of Victorian art to explore the relationships between feminism and visual culture in a period of heady excitement and political struggle. Artists were caught up in campaigns for women's enfranchisement, education and paid work, and many were drawn into controversies...
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Realism in the Age of Impressionism

Painting and the Politics of Time

by Marnin Young
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015

The late 1870s and early 1880s were watershed years in the history of French painting. As outgoing economic and social structures were being replaced by a capitalist, measured time, Impressionist artists sought to create works that could be perceived in an instant, capturing the sensations of rapidly...
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by Maria Tsaneva
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015

Thomas Gainsborough (1727 – 1788) was an English portrait and landscape artist, the most versatile English painter of the 18th century. He was the most inventive and original, always prepared to experiment with new ideas and techniques. Gainsborough alone among the great portrait painters of the...
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Ornamented Chair

Its Development in America (1700-1890)

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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1989

Discriminating decorators and collectors, no less than dealers and researchers in antiques, have long felt the need of a comprehensive study of the ornamented chair and its development in America. This book is the product of an effort to satisfy that need and at the same time to bring new pleasures...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016

The collections of museums, galleries and online art organisations are increasingly broadening to include more new media art. Because new media is used as a means of documenting, archiving and distributing art, and because new media art might be interactive with its audiences, this highlights the...
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After the Red Army Faction

Gender, Culture, and Militancy

by Charity Scribner
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014

Masterminded by women, the Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorized West Germany from the 1970s to the 1990s. Afterimages of its leaders persist in the works of pivotal artists and writers, including Gerhard Richter, Elfriede Jelinek, and Slavoj Žižek. Why were women so prominent in the RAF? What does...
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Aisha's Cushion

Religious Art, Perception, and Practice in Islam

by Jamal J. Elias
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012

Westerners have a strong impression that Islam does not allow religious imagery. Elias corrects this view. Unearthing shades of meaning in Islamic thought throughout history, he argues that Islamic perspectives on representation and perception should be sought in diverse areas such as optics, alchemy, dreaming, vehicle decoration, Sufi metaphysics.
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by Francisco Goya
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012

The strikingly original characterizations and sharply drawn scenes that came to be known posthumously as Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War) are among Francisco Goya's most powerful works and one of the masterpieces of Western civilization. Goya's model for his visual indictment of war...
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Civic Aesthetics

Militarism, Israeli Art and Visual Culture

by Noa Roei
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016

Awarded an Honourable Mention by the Association for Israeli Studies. Exploring the politics of the image in the context of Israeli militarized visual culture, Civic Aesthetics examines both the omnipresence of militarism in Israeli culture and society and the way in which this omnipresence...
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A Capsule Aesthetic

Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art

by Kate Mondloch
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018

How new media art informed by feminism yields important and original insights about interacting with technologies In A Capsule Aesthetic, Kate Mondloch examines how new media installation art intervenes in the fields of technoscience and new materialism, showing how three diverse artists—Pipilotti...
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Enemies of Rome

Barbarians Through Roman Eyes

by I. M. Ferris
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2003

The artists of Ancient Rome portrayed the barbarian enemies of the empire in sculpture, reliefs, metalwork and jewellery. This study of these images tells us a great deal about the barbarians, as well as Roman art and the Romans' view of themselves. It examines the literary and historical background...
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by Maria Peitcheva
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016

Guido Reni (1575 – 1642) was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style and popular religious works and critically acclaimed mythological scenes. He was a quintessentially classical academic but he was also one of the most elegant painters in the annals of art history. He was constantly seeking an...
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