Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - General

Few works of art better illustrate the splendor of eleventh-century painting than the manuscript often referred to as the "precious gospels" of Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim, with its peculiar combination of sophistication and naivete, its dramatically gesturing figures, and the saturated colors of its densely ornamented surfaces. In The Bernward Gospels, Jennifer Kingsley offers the first interpretive study of the pictorial program of this famed manuscript and considers how the gospel book conditioned contemporary and future viewers to remember the bishop. The codex constructs a...

Wie konnte man 1945 einfach wieder anfangen? Diese Frage stellt sich ganz besonders fur die deutschen Museen und ihren Umgang mit der Kunst der Moderne. Die meisten Museen waren stark beschadigt, die modernen Kunstwerke 1937 in der Aktion "Entartete Kunst" konfisziert, zerstort oder verkauft worden. Kunstler, Kuratoren und Direktoren waren, wenn sie nicht ihrer judischen Herkunft wegen ermordet oder vertrieben worden waren, in den Dienst des Regimes eingetreten, manche widerwillig, manche freudig. Nun galt es, zum Teil mit dem alten Personal, zum Teil mit jungen Kraften, wieder anzufangen....

Founded in 1933, the Seattle Art Museum is home to a premier collection of Chinese art. This book is the first to chronicle and analyze the growth of the collection, which was largely assembled during the first half of the twentieth century. Reviewing more than one hundred boxes of museum archives, annual reports, correspondences, and available records of all transactions, Josh Yiu provides a nuanced account of Seattle's Chinese art collection, and reconsiders the ?golden age? of collecting Chinese art in the early twentieth century. Yiu demonstrates the challenges for Westerners to...

The French art novel, with its tales of artists, models and creative struggles, is often thought to be a specifically nineteenth-century phenomenon, which dies out by 1900. This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study argues that the art novel does not in fact disappear but rather undergoes a series of transformations in the early twentieth century, in step with radical changes in the visual arts of the period. Examining both well-known and all-but-forgotten novels, Shingler examines the ways in which they move on from their nineteenth-century predecessors, as the development of avant-garde...

Foregrounding Gauguin's conscious use of ambiguity, Gamboni unpacks what the artist called the...

Bouleau's classic illustrated work examines the essential reliance of European painting tradition on the golden mean and other geometrical patterns. From antiquity to the present, expert painters-including abstract modern masters such as Paul Klee and Jackson Pollock-have conveyed harmony through the mathematics of spatial division, ultimately giving geometry a crucial role as the foundation upon which these classics were built. For over half a century, The Painter's Secret Geometry has been a seminal work for students of art history and composition. Now this popular, rich analysis...

Fritz Nathan zahlte zu den aufstrebenden Architekten im Deutschland der Zwanzigerjahre. Doch fuhrte die nationalsozialistische Diktatur zum jahen Ende der Karriere des judischen Architekten. 1940 in die USA emigriert, konnte ernach schwierigen Anfangen in seinem Beruf wieder Fuss fassen. Die langst fallige Wurdigung Nathans weist seine herausragende Bedeutung fur das Neue Bauen in Deutschland und die moderne Synagogenarchitektur in den USA nach.