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Imagining Childhood: Themes in the Imagery of Childhood
ISBN: 9780300101317 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The images of children that abound in Western art do not simply mirror reality; they are imaginative constructs, representing childhood as a special stage of human life, or emblematic of the human condition itself. In a compelling book ranging widely across time, national boundaries, and genres from ancient Egyptian amulets to Picasso's Guernica, Erika Langmuir demonstrates that no historic period has a monopoly on the 'discovery of childhood'. Famous pictures by great artists, as well as barely known anonymous artefacts, illustrate not only Western society's perennially ambivalent...
The images of children that abound in Western art do not simply mirror reality; they are imaginative constructs, representing childhood as a special s...
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257,86 zł |
A Closer Look: Still Life
ISBN: 9781857095005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. What is still life? We are familiar with the objects portrayed but have difficulty explaining the essence of this popular art form. Erika Langmuir examines the special fascination of still life, and what distinguishes it from other categories of painting. She discusses its evolution from the trompe l oeil wall paintings of antiquity, through its revival in the age of Caravaggio and Velazquez, and again in the works of Cezanne and Picasso. Originally published as Pocket Guide Still Life, this eloquent survey benefits from a wider format, new reproductions, and updated... What is still life? We are familiar with the objects portrayed but have difficulty explaining the essence of this popular art form. Erika Langmuir ... |
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A Closer Look: Allegory
ISBN: 9781857094855 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Painters in the past and commercial artists in our own day have relied on allegory to create "message pictures." Once thought to rival literary works or political oratory in influence and prestige, such paintings, with their references to ancient myth, the Bible, or medieval astrology, all too often puzzle modern viewers. This Closer Look guide illustrates and explains the main types of visual allegory in Western art and the contexts in which they were originally created and viewed.
Painters in the past and commercial artists in our own day have relied on allegory to create "message pictures." Once thought to rival literary wor... |
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A Closer Look: Landscape
ISBN: 9781857096279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Landscape. An accessible account of how artists translate outdoor space and light into paint and how landscape imagery has evolved over the centuries.
Landscape. An accessible account of how artists translate outdoor space and light into paint and how landscape imagery has evolved over the centuries.
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54,23 zł |