Renaissance and Baroque Art: Selected Essays (Steinberg Leo)(Pevná vazba)

Renaissance and Baroque Art: Selected Essays (Steinberg Leo)(Pevná vazba)

Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures ranging from old masters to contemporary art, he combined scholarly erudition with an

Michelangelo's Sculpture: Selected Essays (Steinberg Leo)(Pevná vazba)

Leo Steinberg was one of the most original and daring art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretative risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures that ranged from old masters to contemporary art, he combined scholarly

Plague, Fall, Exile And The Kingdom And Selected Essays (Camus Albert)(Pevná vazba)

Translation and Cultural Identity: Selected Essays on Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication (Buesa-Gomez Carmen)(Pevná vazba)

Translation and Cultural Identity: Selected Essays on Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication tackles the complexity of the concepts mentioned in its title through seven essays, written by most highly regarded experts in the field of Translation Studies: Jose Lambert (Catholic University of

The genres of Renaissance tragedy (Cadman Daniel)(Pevná vazba)

These twelve new essays show the variety and versatility of Renaissance tragedy and highlight the issues it explores. Each chapter defines a particular kind of Renaissance tragedy and offers new research on a particularly striking example. Collectively the essays offer a critical overview of

New History of Italian Renaissance Art (Campbell Stephen J.)(Pevná vazba)

A new edition of Campbell and Cole's acclaimed survey of Italian Renaissance art, updated to reflect the very latest scholarship and contemporary

Letters of Intent - Selected Essays (Ozick Cynthia (Author))(Pevná vazba)

A selection of essays by the acclaimed and beloved writer Cynthia Ozick, collected by David

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Volume 31(Pevná vazba)

An international journal committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history to 1642. This issue includes eight new articles, a review essay, and reviews of nine new important

The Black Art Renaissance: African Sculpture and Modernism Across Continents (Cohen Joshua I.)(Pevná vazba)

Reading African art's impact on modernism as an international phenomenon, The 'Black Art' Renaissance tracks a series of twentieth-century engagements with canonical African sculpture by European, African American, and sub-Saharan African artists and theorists. Notwithstanding its occurrence during

A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750 (Bober Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

The legendary splendor of Genoese baroque art Genoa completed its transformation from a faded maritime power into a thriving banking center for Europe in the seventeenth century. The wealth accumulated by its leading families spurred investment in the visual arts on an enormous scale. This volume

The Making of Modern Art: Selected Writings (Peppiatt Michael)(Pevná vazba)

In this lively collection, renowned critic Michael Peppiatt presents key essays from a lifetime engagement with modern

Florence & Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science (Belting Hans)(Pevná vazba)

The use of perspective in Renaissance painting caused a revolution in the history of seeing, allowing artists to depict the world from a spectator's point of view. But the theory of perspective that changed the course of Western art originated elsewhere-it was formulated in Baghdad by the

Renaissance Realm: The Art of Olga Suvorova (Fishel Michael)(Pevná vazba)

From Fingers to Digits: An Artificial Aesthetic (Boden Margaret A.)(Pevná vazba)

Essays on computer art and its relation to more traditional art, by a pioneering practitioner and a philosopher of artificial intelligence.In From Fingers to Digits, a practicing artist and a philosopher examine computer art and how it has been both accepted and rejected by the mainstream art

Deleuze, Guattari and the Art of Multiplicity (Przedpelski Radek)(Pevná vazba)

This collection of essays from a range of philosophers and art practitioners offers tools through which we can action change across art and philosophy, across a range of media and across the theory/practice divide. Including insights from contemporary Middle Eastern art to Indigenous ritual art and

Beautiful and Impossible Things: Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde (Wilde Oscar)(Pevná vazba)

This selection of Oscar Wilde's writings provides a fresh perspective on his character and thinking. Compiled from his lecture tours, newspaper articles, essays and epigrams, these pieces show that beneath the trademark wit, Wilde was a deeply humane and visionary writer, as challenging today as he

Botticelli (Zollner Frank)(Pevná vazba)

Now available in a new edition, this celebration of the life and art of the Renaissance genius presents Sandro Botticelli's complete paintings and offers a comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date study of his work. Botticelli is one of the most admired artists of the Renaissance period and his

Donatello and the Dawn of Renaissance Art (Coonin A. Victor)(Pevná vazba)

The Italian sculptor known as Donatello helped to forge a new kind of art--one that came to define the Renaissance. His work was progressive, challenging, and even controversial. Using a variety of novel sculptural techniques and innovative interpretations, Donatello uniquely depicted themes

Essays and Dialogues (Scala Bartolomeo)(Pevná vazba)

Robert Adams: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews (Adams Robert)(Paperback)

A now classic text on the art, Why People Photograph gathers a selection of essays by the great master photographer Robert Adams, tackling such diverse subjects as collectors, humor, teaching, money and dogs. Adams also writes brilliantly on Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Laura Gilpin, Judith Joy

Persecution and the Art of Writing (Strauss Leo)(Paperback)

The essays collected in Persecution and the Art of Writing all deal with one problem-the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especially political philosophers, have reacted to the threat of persecution by disguising their most

The Cossacks - Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Dmitry Andreich Olenin, in the hope of escaping the hollowness of his privilege, joins the army and heads to the

What Is Art? (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback)

This profound analysis of the nature of art is the culmination of a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice, and religion. Considering and rejecting the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty, Tolstoy perceives the question of the nature of art to be a

Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art (Weibel Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Essays and images that map art's new sonic cosmos, illustrated in color throughout.This milestone volume maps fifty years of artists' engagement with sound. Since the beginning of the new millennium, numerous historical and critical works have established Sound Art as an artistic genre in its own