Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - General

Volume IV of A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings deals uniquely with the self-portraits of Rembrandt. In a clearly written explanatory style the head of the Rembrandt Research Project and Editor of this Volume, Ernst van de Wetering, discusses the full body of work of paintings and etchings portraying Rembrandt. He sets the different parameters for accepting or rejecting a Rembrandt self-portrait as such, whilst also discussing the exact working environment of Rembrandt and his apprentices. This workshop setting created a surroundings where apprentices could be involved in working on...

• Covers a wide variety of time periods and topics, from the Renaissance and the 18th century to the engravings, photography, and virtual realities of today

• Questions what we can learn from considering the use of images in the past...

• Covers indigenous art and agency, contemporary practices of collection and display, and a survey of key Orientalist tropes
  
• Contains original essays on new perspectives for scholars and students of art history, architecture, museum studies and cultural and postcolonial studies
  
• Highlights contested identities and new definitions of self through topics...

• Covers indigenous art and agency, contemporary practices of collection and display, and a survey of key Orientalist tropes
  
• Contains original essays on new perspectives for scholars and students of art history, architecture, museum studies and cultural and postcolonial studies
  
• Highlights contested identities and new definitions of self through topics...

• Explores important concepts and perspectives in the anthropology of art
  
• Includes nine groundbreaking case studies by an internationally renowned group of art historians and art theorists
  
• Covers a wide range of periods, including Bronze-Age China, Classical Greece, Rome, and Mayan, as well as the modern Western world
  
• Features an...

• Explores important concepts and perspectives in the anthropology of art
  
• Includes nine groundbreaking case studies by an internationally renowned group of art historians and art theorists
  
• Covers a wide range of periods, including Bronze-Age China, Classical Greece, Rome, and Mayan, as well as the modern Western world
  
• Features an...

• Explores the theme of 'Location', including transatlantic exchanges and global connections, and the nature of hospitality that arises in acknowledging migration and diaspora
  
• Questions how important location is in producing, understanding and curating art.
  
• Contributors consider such topics as site-specificity, examinations of the trans-national/trans-cultural, how images/visual forms migrate, and the...

• Written by an award-winning teacher as a response to students' ongoing challenge, -What is 'art', anyway, and why should I care?-
  
• Aims to bring readers into a meaningful relationship with art...

• Written by an award-winning teacher as a response to students' ongoing challenge, -What is 'art', anyway, and why should I care?-
  
• Aims to bring readers into a meaningful relationship with art...

The history of art from the early nineteenth century on- ward is commonly viewed as a succession of conflicts between innovatory and established styles that culminated in the formalism and aesthetic autonomy of high modernism. In Art and Crisis, first published in 1948, Hans Sedlmayr argues that the aesthetic disjunctures of modern art signify more than matters of style and point to much deeper processes of cultural and religious disintegration. As Roger Kimball observes in his informative new introduction, Art in Crisis is as much an exercise in cultural or spiritual...