Losing Your Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism
ISBN: 9781442239487 / Angielski / Twarda / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Losing Your Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism looks at the subject of beheading in art as a trope of the destruction of the mind. This book discusses both psychoanalytic theory and art criticism. It addresses critics, readers, and spectators interested in the keys of interpretation that psychoanalysis can offer, and analysts who are curious to know if artists can help them refine the tools they use every day. It asks whether artists have something to say about the concepts of reverie and negative reverie or about change as aesthetic transformation, and about...
Losing Your Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism looks at the subject of beheading in art as a trope of the destruction o...
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348,61 zł |
Aristarchos of Samos the Polymath: A collection of interrelated papers
ISBN: 9781496994233 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Of all the giants on whose shoulders we stand, Aristarchos of Samos, the ancient Greek all-rounder, has proved to be especially tall: no one else (not even Einstein, to mention an iconic figure) has ever discovered anything (of like importance) that took so long to dawn on the rest of humanity. His achievement was extraordinary: with nothing more than the naked eye and the mind of a genius, he got to know the Sun's distance better than anyone else before, and he put the Earth in motion around the Sun for the first time in human awareness. The present book examines what history has spared of...
Of all the giants on whose shoulders we stand, Aristarchos of Samos, the ancient Greek all-rounder, has proved to be especially tall: no one else (not...
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162,49 zł |
Aesthetic Theology and Its Enemies: Judaism in Christian Painting, Poetry, and Politics
ISBN: 9781611687781 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through most of Western European history, Jews have been a numerically tiny or entirely absent minority, but across that history Europeans have nonetheless worried a great deal about Judaism. Why should that be so? This short but powerfully argued book suggests that Christian anxieties about their own transcendent ideals made Judaism an important tool for Christianity, as an apocalyptic religion--characterized by prizing soul over flesh, the spiritual over the literal, the heavenly over the physical world--came to terms with the inescapable importance of body, language, and material things in...
Through most of Western European history, Jews have been a numerically tiny or entirely absent minority, but across that history Europeans have noneth...
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132,80 zł |
The Masorah of Elijah Ha-Naqdan: An Edition of Ashkenazic Micrographical Notes
ISBN: 9783110417913 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following Levita's statement, the Masorah transmitted by medieval illuminated manuscripts was generally considered as less significant for the study of the biblical and masoretical knowledge in the Jewish world. The biblical codices produced in Ashkenaz were considerably disregarded compared to Spanish codices. Challenging this assertion, this work engages in a reflection on the link between the standard Eastern tradition and the Ashkenazic biblical text-culture of the 13th century. Elodie Attia provides an edition of thirteen cases taken from MS Vat. Ebr. 14, offering... Following Levita's statement, the Masorah transmitted by medieval illuminated manuscripts was generally considered as less significant for the stud... |
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393,90 zł |
Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
ISBN: 9783836556590 / Angielski / Twarda / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. City lights and cherry trees: The woodblock prints of Tokyo that captured Europe's imagination Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries and came to characterize the Western world's visual idea of Japan. In many ways images of hedonism, ukiyo-e scenes often represented the bright lights and attractions of Edo (modern-day Tokyo) beautiful women, actors and wrestlers, city life, and spectacular landscapes....
City lights and cherry trees: The woodblock prints of Tokyo that captured Europe's imagination Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great...
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103,72 zł |
Well-Read Women: A Reader's Journal
ISBN: 9781452143026 / Angielski / Other / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Well-read women keep their books close to their heart. Here they can record what they've read, reflect on their favorite characters and notable quotations, and list books to devour next. With a satin ribbon bookmark and gorgeous watercolor portraits of literature's most beloved female characters--plus a comprehensive list of prize-winning fiction to inspire new selections--this go-to reading companion is as elegant as it is practical.
Well-read women keep their books close to their heart. Here they can record what they've read, reflect on their favorite characters and notable quotat...
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56,18 zł |
Die Freiburger Glasmalerei Des 16. Bis 18. Jahrhunderts / Le Vitrail Fribourgeois Du Xvie Au Xviiie Siècle: Corpus Vitrearum Schweiz: Reihe Neuzeit. B
ISBN: 9783034315593 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 1069 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Freiburg i. U., seit jeher der Angelpunkt germanischer und franzosischer Kultur und Sprache in der Schweiz, beteiligte sich seit dem spaten 15. Jahrhundert rege an der Fenster- und Wappenschenkung der eidgenossischen Orte. Die als Bildmedium ausserst wirksamen leuchtenden Glasbilder, die sich Kantone, kirchliche und gesellschaftliche Institutionen und Privatleute anlasslich von Bauprojekten stifteten, spielten eine wichtige Rolle im Selbstverstandnis der Eidgenossen und forderten die Identitat und Zusammengehorigkeit ihres Staatenbundes in kaum abschatzbarem Masse.
In einem mehrjahrigen... Freiburg i. U., seit jeher der Angelpunkt germanischer und franzosischer Kultur und Sprache in der Schweiz, beteiligte sich seit dem spaten 15. Jahrhu...
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850,06 zł |
Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design
ISBN: 9783931936525 / Angielski / Miękka / 345 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past decade, Africa has experienced a tremendous political, economic and technological transformation. Spearheading this shift is a new generation of entrepreneurs and doers who have opened up a fresh view of this vast and diverse continent, using the Internet to make themselves visible. Developed in collaboration with renowned curator Okwui Enwezor, Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design embraces this new perspective, seeking to reveal the continent as a thinktank and investigating the intriguing possibility of a new understanding of design. It focuses on a...
Over the past decade, Africa has experienced a tremendous political, economic and technological transformation. Spearheading this shift is a new gener...
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468,93 zł |
Egon Schiele: Paintings and Drawings
ISBN: 9781503339866 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With his signature graphic style, embrace of figural distortion, and bold defiance of conventional norms of beauty, Egon Schiele was one of the leading figures of Austrian Expressionism. He was an Austrian painter, a protege of Gustav Klimt and important figurative painter of the early 20th century. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize his paintings and drawings mark the artist as one an earliest exponent of Expressionism. In Schiele's early years, he was strongly influenced by Klimt and Kokoschka but soon evolved into his own characteristic style. He focused on...
With his signature graphic style, embrace of figural distortion, and bold defiance of conventional norms of beauty, Egon Schiele was one of the leadin...
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36,89 zł |
Beyond the First Emperor's Mausoleum: New Perspectives on Qin Art
ISBN: 9780989371865 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our imaginations are sparked by the compelling findings unearthed at Lintong near Xi?an, capital of modern-day Shaanxi Province. There the grand mausoleum and its thousands of guardian Terracotta Warriors and horses stand as testimony to the extraordinary legacy of China's First Emperor, Qin Shihuang. Equally significant in shedding light on the days of the Qin state and its evolution from a tribe of the western frontier to a dominant superpower are numerous recent archaeological finds from the region of present-day Gansu and Shaanxi provinces. In Beyond the First Emperor's Mausoleum:... Our imaginations are sparked by the compelling findings unearthed at Lintong near Xi?an, capital of modern-day Shaanxi Province. There the grand ma... |
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Critical Shift: Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art
ISBN: 9780271060675 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American Civil War-era art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that have become fundamental to our modern periodization of the art of the nineteenth century. In Critical Shift, Karen Georgi rereads many of their well-known texts, finding certain key discrepancies between their words and our historiography that point to unrecognized narrative desires. The book also studies ruptures and revolutionary breaks between "old" and "new" art, as well as the issue of the morality of "true" art. Georgi asserts that... American Civil War-era art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that hav... |
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214,89 zł |
Performing Englishness: Identity and Politics in a Contemporary Folk Resurgence
ISBN: 9780719097300 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Performing Englishness looks in detail at the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Based on original research within English folk culture, it is the only ethnographic study of its kind. By closely scrutinising various facets of this folk resurgence - discursive, musical and visual - the authors explore how it speaks to a broader explosion of interest in the subject of English national and cultural identity. How does contemporary English folk music and dance relate to ideas about England and Englishness? What kinds of...
Performing Englishness looks in detail at the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the first decade of the twenty-first centur...
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166,01 zł |
Wszystko o cudach świata Atlas Informator
ISBN: 9788394012212 / Polski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Niniejsza książka zawiera opisy wspaniałych obiektów, a także wielu zabytków, stworzonych dzięki wspaniałości myśli i talentu ludzkiego. Opisano w niej stare i nowe cuda świata, a także inne zadziwiające budowle Europy, Azji, Afryki, Australii, Ameryki Północnej i Południowe?
Niniejsza książka zawiera opisy wspaniałych obiektów, a także wielu zabytków, stworzonych dzięki wspaniałości myśli i talentu ludzkiego. Opi...
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George Lance: Victorian Master of Still Life
ISBN: 9781781300312 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George Lance (1802 1864), a pupil of B.R. Haydon, a titanic figure in the Regency art world, brought new vibrancy to still life painting in the early Victorian period. In his seminal work Victorian Painting (1966) Graham Reynolds stated that the revival of still life painting, as an artist's main preoccupation, was effected almost single-handedly by Lance. Over one hundred years earlier J.M.W. Turner had expressed the view that Lance was one of the three greatest colourists of his era. Lavishly illustrated with Lance's works and detailing other aspects of his life, this book gives a rounded...
George Lance (1802 1864), a pupil of B.R. Haydon, a titanic figure in the Regency art world, brought new vibrancy to still life painting in the early ...
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138,34 zł |
Fashionable Art
ISBN: 9780857851819 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Owing to digitization, globalization and mass culture, what is deemed 'desirable' and 'of the moment' in art has increasingly followed the patterns of fashion. While in the past artistic styles were always inflected with signs of their modernity, today biennales and art markets are defined by the next big thing, the next sensation, the next new idea. But how do opinions of what is 'good', 'progressive' and 'cutting edge' guide styles? What is it that makes works of art fashionable and commercial? Fashionable Art critically explores the relationships between art, commerce,... Owing to digitization, globalization and mass culture, what is deemed 'desirable' and 'of the moment' in art has increasingly followed the patterns... |
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578,26 zł |
Transcendence and Sensoriness: Perceptions, Revelation, and the Arts
ISBN: 9789004274525 / Angielski / Twarda / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Protestant theology and culture are known for a reserved, at times skeptical, attitude to the use of art and aesthetic forms of expression in a religious context. In Transcendence and Sensoriness, this attitude is analysed and discussed both theoretically and through case studies considered in a broad theological and philosophical framework of religious aesthetics. Nordic scholars of theology, philosophy, art, music, and architecture, discuss questions of transcendence, the human senses, and the arts in order to challenge established perspectives within the aesthetics of religion and...
Protestant theology and culture are known for a reserved, at times skeptical, attitude to the use of art and aesthetic forms of expression in a religi...
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980,90 zł |
Wounded Cities: The Representation of Urban Disasters in European Art (14th-20th Centuries)
ISBN: 9789004284913 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Natural hazards punctuate the history of European towns, moulding their shape and identity: this book is devoted to the artistic representation of those calamities, from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. It contains nine case studies which discuss, among others, the relationship between biblical imagery and the realistic depiction of urban disasters; the religious, political and ritual meanings of "destruction subjects" in early modern painting; the image of fire in Renaissance treatises on architecture; the first photographic campaigns documenting earthquakes' damages; the role of...
Natural hazards punctuate the history of European towns, moulding their shape and identity: this book is devoted to the artistic representation of tho...
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586,79 zł |
Botticelli: Classic 2015
ISBN: 9780714869674 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Celebrates one of the giants of French Impressionism with luxurious, large-format images Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was one of the founders of Impressionism and a friend of Monet, Pissarro and Sisley. He worked side-by-side with Monet on the banks of the Seine, sharing Monet's concern with light and colour, but landscape painting never displaced his enduring love of figure painting. Delighting in the ample curves of the nudes he painted increasingly frequently in his later years, Renoir was also a master at capturing the spirit of Parisian life. His art... Celebrates one of the giants of French Impressionism with luxurious, large-format images Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) w... |
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525,68 zł |
Ornament, Fantasy, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century French Literature
ISBN: 9780691635101 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this examination of the role of ornament in nineteenth-century French literature, Rae Beth Gordon shows that ornament, far from being a simple accessory, raises problems that are at the very heart of aesthetic experience: limits and their transgression, illusion and seduction, pleasure and tension, harmony and confusion, excess and marginality. After placing texts by Nerval, Gautier, Mallarm, Huysmans, and Rachilde within the context of the history and techniques of the decorative arts, she reveals in these works the powerful role played by decorative figurations of syntax, diction, and... In this examination of the role of ornament in nineteenth-century French literature, Rae Beth Gordon shows that ornament, far from being a simple a... |
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737,07 zł |
History as a Profession: The Study of History in France, 1818-1914
ISBN: 9780691634135 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a vivid portrait of the French historical profession in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, concluding just before the emergence of the famous Annales school of historians. It places the profession in its social, academic, and political context and shows that historians of the period have been unfairly maligned as amateurish and primitive in comparison to their more celebrated successors. Pim den Boer begins by sketching the contours of French historiography in the nineteenth century, examining the quantity of historical writing, its subject matter, and who... This is a vivid portrait of the French historical profession in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, concluding just before the emergence ... |
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1179,32 zł |