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A Roger Fry Reader
ISBN: 9780226266428 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 447 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the first decades of the twentieth century, the art critic Roger Fry introduced English-speaking audiences to modern French art and formalist aesthetic theory. "A Roger Fry Reader, " edited by Christopher Reed, brings together for the first time a comprehensive selection of Fry's essays. Most appear here for the first time since their original publication in scholarly journals and art magazines, while some have never been published before. Representing 40 years of engagement with the arts, the essays cover a broad spectrum of topics, from Fry's influential promotion of Post-Impressionism...
In the first decades of the twentieth century, the art critic Roger Fry introduced English-speaking audiences to modern French art and formalist aesth...
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197,32 zł |
The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 1: Perceptions and Judgments, 1939-1944
ISBN: 9780226306216 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Clement Greenberg is widely recognized as the most influential and articulate champion of modernism during its American ascendency after World War II, the period largely covered by these highly acclaimed volumes of The Collected Essays and Criticism. Volume 3: Affirmations and Refusals presents Greenberg's writings from the period between 1950 and 1956, while Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance gathers essays and criticism of the years 1957 to 1969. The 120 works range from little-known pieces originally appearing Vogue and Harper's Bazaar to such celebrated essays as The Plight of Our...
Clement Greenberg is widely recognized as the most influential and articulate champion of modernism during its American ascendency after World War II,...
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131,54 zł |
The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949
ISBN: 9780226306223 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Clement Greenberg (1909-1994), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism--of Pollock, Miro, and Matisse--has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the twentieth century, and possibly the greatest art critic of all time. On radio and in print, Greenberg was the voice of "the new American painting," and a central figure in the postwar cultural history of the United States.
Greenberg first established his reputation writing for the Partisan Review, which he joined as an editor in 1940. He became art critic for the Nation in 1942, and was associate... Clement Greenberg (1909-1994), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism--of Pollock, Miro, and Matisse--has been esteemed by many as the great...
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164,43 zł |
The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 3: Affirmations and Refusals, 1950-1956
ISBN: 9780226306230 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Clement Greenberg is widely recognized as the most influential and articulate champion of modernism during its American ascendency after World War II, the period largely covered by these highly acclaimed volumes of "The Collected Essays and Criticism." "Volume 3: Affirmations and Refusals" presents Greenberg's writings from the period between 1950 and 1956, while "Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance" gathers essays and criticism of the years 1957 to 1969. The 120 works range from little-known pieces originally appearing "Vogue" and "Harper's Bazaar" to such celebrated essays as "The Plight...
Clement Greenberg is widely recognized as the most influential and articulate champion of modernism during its American ascendency after World War II,...
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164,43 zł |
The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969
ISBN: 9780226306247 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Clement Greenberg is widely recognized as the most influential and articulate champion of modernism during its American ascendency after World War II, the period largely covered by these highly acclaimed volumes of "The Collected Essays and Criticism." "Volume 3: Affirmations and Refusals" presents Greenberg's writings from the period between 1950 and 1956, while "Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance" gathers essays and criticism of the years 1957 to 1969. The 120 works range from little-known pieces originally appearing "Vogue" and "Harper's Bazaar" to such celebrated essays as "The Plight...
Clement Greenberg is widely recognized as the most influential and articulate champion of modernism during its American ascendency after World War II,...
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180,87 zł |
The Rhetoric of Perspective: Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting
ISBN: 9780226309682 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears to be real by the way these objects are rendered. Likewise, the trick of perspective can prevent us from being absorbed in a scene. Connecting contemporary critical theory with close readings of seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture, "The Rhetoric of Perspective" puts forth the claim that painting is a form of thinking and that perspective functions as the language of the image.
Aided by a stunning full-color gallery, Hanneke Grootenboer... Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears ...
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438,48 zł |
The Rhetoric of Perspective: Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting
ISBN: 9780226309705 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears to be real by the way these objects are rendered. Likewise, the trick of perspective can prevent us from being absorbed in a scene. Connecting contemporary critical theory with close readings of seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture, The Rhetoric of Perspective puts forth the claim that painting is a form of thinking and that perspective functions as the language of the image.
Aided by a stunning full-color gallery, Hanneke... Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears ...
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153,47 zł |
Sculpture: Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion's Creative Dream
ISBN: 9780226327556 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 141 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "The eye that gathers impressions is no longer the eye that sees a depiction on a surface; it becomes a hand, the ray of light becomes a finger, and the imagination becomes a form of immediate touching."-Johann Gottfried Herder
Long recognized as one of the most important eighteenth-century works on aesthetics and the visual arts, Johann Gottfried Herder's "Plastik" (Sculpture, 1778) has never before appeared in a complete English translation. In this landmark essay, Herder combines rationalist and empiricist thought with a wide range of sources-from the classics to Norse legend,... "The eye that gathers impressions is no longer the eye that sees a depiction on a surface; it becomes a hand, the ray of light becomes a finger, and t...
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142,51 zł |
High Renaissance Art in St. Peter's and the Vatican: An Interpretive Guide
ISBN: 9780226327822 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Michelangelo, Raphael, Bramante together these artists created some of the most glorious treasures of the Vatican, viewed daily by thousands of tourists. But how many visitors understand the way these artworks reflect the passions, dreams, and struggles of the popes who commissioned them? For anyone making an artistic pilgrimage to the High Renaissance splendors of the Vatican, George L. Hersey's book is the ideal guide.
Before starting the tour of individual works, Hersey describes how the treacherously shifting political and religious alliances of sixteenth-century Italy, France, and... Michelangelo, Raphael, Bramante together these artists created some of the most glorious treasures of the Vatican, viewed daily by thousands of touris...
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230,39 zł |
Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque
ISBN: 9780226327846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The age of the baroque - a time of great strides in science and mathematics - also saw the construction of some of the world's most magnificent buildings. Hersey explores the interrelations of the two developments and how they cross-fertilised.
The age of the baroque - a time of great strides in science and mathematics - also saw the construction of some of the world's most magnificent buildi...
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219,24 zł |
Making Theory/Constructing Art: On the Authority of the Avant-Garde
ISBN: 9780226328928 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Artists and critics regularly enlist theory in the creation and assessment of artworks, but few have scrutinized the art theories themselves. Here, Daniel examines and critiques the norms, assumptions, historical conditions, and institutions that have framed the development and uses of art theory.
Spurred by the theoretical claims of Arthur Danto, a leader in the philosophy of the avant-garde, Herwitz reexamines the art and theory of major figures in the avant-garde movement including John Cage, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, and Andy Warhol. " Artists and critics regularly enlist theory in the creation and assessment of artworks, but few have scrutinized the art theories themselves. Here, Da...
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219,24 zł |
The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements
ISBN: 9780226394817 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 530 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In "The Art of Moral Protest," James Jasper integrates diverse examples of protest from nineteenth-century boycotts to recent movements into a distinctive new understanding of how social movements work. Jasper highlights their creativity, not only in forging new morals but in adopting courses of action and inventing organizational forms.
"A provocative perspective on the cultural implications of political and social protest." "Library Journal" " In "The Art of Moral Protest," James Jasper integrates diverse examples of protest from nineteenth-century boycotts to recent movements into a distinc...
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197,32 zł |
Cezanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture
ISBN: 9780226423081 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1886 Paul Cezanne left Paris permanently to settle in his native Aix-en-Provence. Nina M. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer argues that, far from an escapist venture like Gauguin's stay in Brittany or Monet's visits to Normandy, Cezanne's departure from Paris was a deliberate abandonment intimately connected with late-nineteenth-century French regionalist politics.
Like many of his childhood friends, Cezanne detested the homogenizing effects of modernism and bourgeois capitalism on the culture, people, and landscapes of his beloved Provence. Turning away from the mainstream modernist aesthetic of... In 1886 Paul Cezanne left Paris permanently to settle in his native Aix-en-Provence. Nina M. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer argues that, far from an escapist ...
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306,94 zł |
Why Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago
ISBN: 9780226423227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For more than a decade, Pulitzer Prize-winning "Chicago Tribune" architecture critic Blair Kamin has been writing fiery, intelligent essays on the state of contemporary architecture. His subjects range from high-rises to highways, parks to public housing, Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry. "Why Architecture Matters" collects the best of Kamin's acclaimed columns, offering both a look at America's foremost architectural city and a taste of Kamin's penetrating, witty style of critique.
For more than a decade, Pulitzer Prize-winning "Chicago Tribune" architecture critic Blair Kamin has been writing fiery, intelligent essays on the sta...
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147,99 zł |
Court, Cloister, and City: The Art and Culture of Central Europe, 1450-1800
ISBN: 9780226427300 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe opened the doors to cultural treasures that for decades had been hidden, forgotten, or misinterpreted. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann looks at Central Europe as a cultural entity while chronicling more than three hundred years of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Ukraine, Lithuania and western parts of the Russian Federation. Kaufmann surveys a remarkable range of art and artifacts created from the coming of the Renaissance through to the Enlightenment. "Kaufmann throws...
The collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe opened the doors to cultural treasures that for decades had been hidden, forgotten, or misinte...
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303,06 zł |
The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
ISBN: 9780226449999 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this groundbreaking and elegantly written study, Joseph Koerner establishes the character of Renaissance art in Germany. Opening up new modes of inquiry for historians of art and early modern Europe, Koerner examines how artists such as Albrecht Durer and Hans Baldung Grien reflected in their masterworks the changing status of the self in sixteenth-century Germany. " A] dazzling book. . . . He has turned out one of the most powerful, as well as one of the most ambitious, art-historical works of the last decade." -- Anthony Grafton, New Republic "Rich and splendid. . . ....
In this groundbreaking and elegantly written study, Joseph Koerner establishes the character of Renaissance art in Germany. Opening up new modes of in...
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285,01 zł |
Melancholia's Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship
ISBN: 9780226465784 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Bred to provide human companionship, dogs eclipse all other species when it comes to reading the body language of people. Dog owners hunger for a complete rapport with their pets; in the dog the fantasy of empathetic resonance finds its ideal. But cross-species communication is never easy. Dog love can be a precious but melancholy thing.
An attempt to understand human attachment to the "canis familiaris" in terms of reciprocity and empathy, "Melancholia s""Dog" tackles such difficult concepts as intimacy and kinship with dogs, the shame associated with identification with their suffering,... Bred to provide human companionship, dogs eclipse all other species when it comes to reading the body language of people. Dog owners hunger for a comp...
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438,48 zł |
Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth of the Self
ISBN: 9780226475448 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This text provides an understanding of the life and work of Claude Monet and the myth of the modern artist. Levine analyzes the extensive critical reception of Monet and the artist's own writings in the context of the story of Narcissus, popular in late 19th-century France. Through a balance of psychoanalytical theory and historical study, he identifies narcissism and obsession as driving forces in Monet's art and demonstrates how meaning is derived from the accumulated responses to the work.
This text provides an understanding of the life and work of Claude Monet and the myth of the modern artist. Levine analyzes the extensive critical rec...
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274,05 zł |
Leonardo, the Last Supper
ISBN: 9780226504278 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Leonardo's Last Supper, one of the most important works of the Renaissance if not all of Western art, was painted between 1494 and 1498 in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. From the moment that the prior at the monastery complained to Leonardo that the work was taking too long, the Last Supper has endured centuries of controversy, neglect, and difficulty. Leonardo, The Last Supper, translated from the Italian, is the definitive document of the recently completed project to reverse these centuries of decline by restoring the painting and preserving it in...
Leonardo's Last Supper, one of the most important works of the Renaissance if not all of Western art, was painted between 1494 and 1498 in the ...
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602,91 zł |
The Politics of the Artificial: Essays on Design and Design Studies
ISBN: 9780226505046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Emerging from the world of commercial art and product styling, design has now become completely integrated into human life. Its marks are all around us, from the chairs we sit on to the Web sites on our computer screens.
Emerging from the world of commercial art and product styling, design has now become completely integrated into human life. Its marks are all around u...
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175,39 zł |