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Dictionary of Art
ISBN: 9780195170689 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 32600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Boasting well over 6,000 contributors from 12 countries, the Dictionary offers its readers authoritative and comprehensive global coverage.
A resource for both art and cultural studies, the Dictionary serves as a unique guide to all the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, drawing, printmaking, as well as the decorative arts. The Dictionary ranges far both geographically and historically; it features unparalleled coverage of Africa, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and Mongolia, China, India, the Islamic world, Japan, Korea, Native North... Boasting well over 6,000 contributors from 12 countries, the Dictionary offers its readers authoritative and comprehensive global coverage. |
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7879,28 zł |
Country, Park, & City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux
ISBN: 9780195171136 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. After beginning his career as an architect in London, Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) came to the Hudson River valley in 1850 at the invitation of Andrew Jackson Downing, the reform-minded writer on houses and gardens. As Downing's partner, and after Downing's death in 1852, Vaux designed country and suburban dwellings that were remarkable for their well-conceived plans and their sensitive rapport with nature.
By 1857, the year he published his book Villas and Cottages, Vaux had moved to New York City. There he asked Frederick Law Olmsted to join him in preparing a design for Central... After beginning his career as an architect in London, Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) came to the Hudson River valley in 1850 at the invitation of Andrew Jac...
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332,75 zł |
The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention
ISBN: 9780195173680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative--trying to stop "progress." The Nature of Design, on the other hand, is about starting things, specifically an ecological design revolution that changes how we provide food, shelter, energy, materials, and livelihood, and how we deal with waste. Ecological design is an emerging field that aims to recalibrate what humans do in the world according to how the world works as a biophysical system. Design in this sense is a large concept having to do as much with politics and ethics as with buildings and...
The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative--trying to stop "progress." The Nature of Design, on the other han...
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133,47 zł |
The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts: Two-Volume Set
ISBN: 9780195189483 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 1290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts covers thousands of years of decorative arts production throughout western and non-western culture. With over 1,000 entries, as well as hundreds drawn from the 34-volume Dictionary of Art, this topical collection is a valuable resource for those interested in the history, practice, and mechanics of the decorative arts. Accompanied by almost 100 color and more than 500 black and white illustrations, the 1,290 pages of this title include hundreds of entries on artists and craftsmen, the qualities and historic uses of materials, as well as concise...
The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts covers thousands of years of decorative arts production throughout western and non-western culture. With ove...
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1253,49 zł |
Color Ordered: A Survey of Color Systems from Antiquity to the Present
ISBN: 9780195189681 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Since antiquity, people have searched for a way to understand the colors we see--what they are, how many there are, and how they can be systematically identified and arranged in some kind of order. How to order colors is not merely a philosophical question, it also has many practical applications in art, design, and commerce. Our intense interest in color and its myriad practical applications have led people throughout history to develop many systems to characterize and order it. The number of color order systems developed throughout history is unknown but ranges in the hundreds. Many are no...
Since antiquity, people have searched for a way to understand the colors we see--what they are, how many there are, and how they can be systematically...
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762,39 zł |
Sacred and Profane Beauty: The Holy in Art
ISBN: 9780195223804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Gerardus van der Leeuw was one of the first to attempt a rapprochement between theology and the arts, and his influence continues to be felt in what is now a burgeoning field. Sacred and Profane is the fullest expression of his pursuit of a theological aesthetics, surveying religion's relationship to all the arts -- dance, drama, literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, and music. This edition makes this seminal work, first published in Dutch in 1932, newly available. A new foreword by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona analyzes the continuing relevance of van der Leeuw's...
Gerardus van der Leeuw was one of the first to attempt a rapprochement between theology and the arts, and his influence continues to be felt in what i...
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742,52 zł |
What Good Are the Arts?
ISBN: 9780195305548 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Hailed as "exhilarating and suggestive" (Spectator), "thought-provoking and entertaining" (David Lodge, Sunday Times), and "incisive and inspirational" (Guardian), What Good are the Arts? offers a delightfully skeptical look at the nature of art. John Carey--one of Britain's most respected literary critics--here cuts through the cant surrounding the fine arts, debunking claims that the arts make us better people or that judgments about art are anything more than personal opinion. But Carey does argue strongly for the value of art as an activity and for the superiority of one art in...
Hailed as "exhilarating and suggestive" (Spectator), "thought-provoking and entertaining" (David Lodge, Sunday Times), and "incisive and inspirational...
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133,47 zł |
Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875, with a New Preface
ISBN: 9780195305869 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years, American society drew from the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals. Between 1825 and 1875, all kinds of Americans--artists, writers, scientists, as well as everyday citizens--believed that God in Nature could resolve human contradictions, and that nature itself confirmed the American destiny. Using diaries and letters of the artists as well as quotes from literary texts, journals, and periodicals,...
In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak desc...
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239,09 zł |
The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity
ISBN: 9780195306361 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner's phrase, "irrepressibly artful minds." Cognitively modern minds produced a staggering list of behavioral singularities--science, religion, mathematics, language, advanced tool use, decorative dress, dance, culture, art--that seems to indicate a mysterious and unexplained discontinuity between us and all other living things. This brute fact gives rise to some tantalizing questions: How did the artful mind emerge? What are the basic mental operations that make art possible for us now, and...
All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner's phrase, "irrepressibly artful minds." Cognit...
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241,48 zł |
American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience
ISBN: 9780195309423 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially American about American art. She highlights not only those aspects that appear indigenously in our art works, but also those features that consistently reappear over time. Novak examines the paintings of Washington Allston, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, William Sidney Mount, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Albert Pinkham Ryder. She draws provocative and original conclusions about the role in...
In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara N...
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380,75 zł |
American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience
ISBN: 9780195309492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially American about American art. She highlights not only those aspects that appear indigenously in our art works, but also those features that consistently reappear over time. Novak examines the paintings of Washington Allston, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, William Sidney Mount, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Albert Pinkham Ryder. She draws provocative and original conclusions about the...
In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," ...
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150,27 zł |
Encyclopedia of Latin American & Caribbean Art
ISBN: 9780195310757 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 803 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Over 1,400 articles in this volume cover all the major artistic developments in Central and South America and the Caribbean from the colonial period to the present. From 16th-century Spanish colonial architects such as Fray Andres San Miguel to European explorers such as Alexander von Humboldt to contemporary artists such as Debora Arango, the entries chart the adaptations of European artistic traditions and the evolution of individual national cultures in this area of burgeoning importance in history and the visual arts.
Over 1,400 articles in this volume cover all the major artistic developments in Central and South America and the Caribbean from the colonial period t...
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954,42 zł |
The Emergence of the Modern Museum: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Sources
ISBN: 9780195331134 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What should a museum contain or exclude? Who does a museum hope to attract? What, in fact, is the purpose of a museum? The change from private collection to public museum is a crucial cultural development of the nineteenth century, but one that is bound to raise fundamental questions. The Emergence of the Modern Museum, a unique compendium of original sources, presents a detailed and dynamic account of the development of the institution and its practices during that critical period of inception. From poignant recollections of visits to stately homes to charged debates...
What should a museum contain or exclude? Who does a museum hope to attract? What, in fact, is the purpose of a museum? The change from private collect...
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261,31 zł |
The True Description of Cairo: A Sixteenth-Century Venetian View
ISBN: 9780197144060 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1549 a Venetian printmaker, Matteo Pagano, published a large engraving of an aerial view of the city of Cairo; it was accompanied by a Latin text ("Descriptio Alchiriae") written by the orientalist scholar, Guillaume Postel. The depiction of the city is sufficiently accurate to permit a detailed interpretation of the city to be made, and it remained the standard western representation of this fabled eastern city for the next 250 years.
Nicholas Warner provides a context for Pagano's view of Cairo, a translation of Postel's text, and a commentary on the contents of the engraving itself... In 1549 a Venetian printmaker, Matteo Pagano, published a large engraving of an aerial view of the city of Cairo; it was accompanied by a Latin text (...
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1026,43 zł |
Royal Coin Cabinet, Stockholm, Part V: Anglo-Saxon Coins: Edward the Confessor and Harold II, 1042-1066
ISBN: 9780197262337 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This fully illustrated catalogue of coins of Edward the Confessor and Harold II in the superb collection of the Swedish Royal Coin Cabinet is a fundamental reference work for anyone studying or identifying late Anglo-Saxon coins. The volume catalogues and illustrates 1,280 coins of Edward the Confessor, the largest collection ever published, alongside detailed discussion of the moneyers' names and commentary on a number of specific names. The majority of coins come from Swedish Viking-age finds, and the contents of 108 finds with coins of Edward the Confessor and Harold I are also surveyed....
This fully illustrated catalogue of coins of Edward the Confessor and Harold II in the superb collection of the Swedish Royal Coin Cabinet is a fundam...
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342,34 zł |
Roman Theatres: An Architectural Study
ISBN: 9780198144694 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 534 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book is a definitive architectural study of Roman theatre architecture. In nine chapters it brings together a massive amount of archaeological, literary, and epigraphic information under one cover. It also contains a full catalogue of all known Roman theatres, including a number of odea (concert halls) and bouleuteria (council chambers) which are relevant to the architectural discussion, about 1,000 entries in all. Inscriptional or literary evidence relating to each theatre is listed and there is an up-to-date bibliography for each building. Most importantly the book contains plans of...
This book is a definitive architectural study of Roman theatre architecture. In nine chapters it brings together a massive amount of archaeological, l...
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2310,59 zł |
Approaches to the Study of Attic Vases: Beazley and Pottier
ISBN: 9780198152729 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book examines the ways in which Attic painted vases were interpreted by Edmond Pottier (1855-1934), founder of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, and John Beazley (1885-1970), the master of attributions in the twentieth century. The comparison shows two markedly different approaches, one primarily archaeological, the other centered on the history of ancient art.
This book examines the ways in which Attic painted vases were interpreted by Edmond Pottier (1855-1934), founder of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, and...
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1086,44 zł |
Giotto and the Orators: Humanist Observers of Painting in Italy and the Discovery of Pictorial Composition
ISBN: 9780198173878 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This highly acclaimed volume examines the one firm bridge between the art of the humanists and the painters of the early Italian Renaissance: what Petrarch and other humanists wrote about painting. Baxandall surveys the main themes of their art criticism and describes how their language conditioned their insights into painting.
This highly acclaimed volume examines the one firm bridge between the art of the humanists and the painters of the early Italian Renaissance: what Pet...
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476,76 zł |
Paul Nash: Writings on Art
ISBN: 9780198174134 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is a critical edition of the art writings of the British painter Paul Nash (1889-1946). His writings span the years 1919 to 1946, with the majority dating from the 1930s; they were framed by his profession of painting and his activities as an art teacher, a product designer, and his involvement, as organizer and polemicist, in the art world.
This is a critical edition of the art writings of the British painter Paul Nash (1889-1946). His writings span the years 1919 to 1946, with the majori...
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822,40 zł |
The Architectural Setting of the Cult of Saints in the Early Christian West C.300-1200
ISBN: 9780198207948 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the earliest centuries of Christianity, the cult of saintly relics has been an important feature of the worship of the Church. This book explores the way in which church architecture has been shaped by holy bones--the physical remains or "relics" of those whom the Church venerated as saints. This is the first complete modern study of this aspect of medieval church architecture in western Europe.
From the earliest centuries of Christianity, the cult of saintly relics has been an important feature of the worship of the Church. This book explores...
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942,42 zł |