Art and Aesthetics After Adorno
ISBN: 9780823253098 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (1970) offers one of the most powerful and comprehensive critiques of art and of the discipline of aesthetics ever written. The work offers a deeply critical engagement with the history and philosophy of aesthetics and with the traditions of European art through the middle of the 20th century. It is coupled with ambitious claims about what aesthetic theory ought to be. But the cultural horizon of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory was the world of high modernism, and much has happened since then both in theory and in practice. Adorno's powerful vision of aesthetics...
Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (1970) offers one of the most powerful and comprehensive critiques of art and of the discipline of aesthetics ever w...
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Historical Perspectives on Preventive Conservation
ISBN: 9781606061428 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gathers more than 65 texts that have been influential in the development of thinking about the conservation of cultural heritage, from antiquity to the present day. This title includes John Evelyn's 17th-century tract on air pollution in London and the founding manifesto of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings by William Morris.
Gathers more than 65 texts that have been influential in the development of thinking about the conservation of cultural heritage, from antiquity to th...
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Ein Vermächtnis
ISBN: 9783846015551 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Diese sehr pers nliche Autobiografie erm glicht dem Leser einen tiefen Einblick in das Leben von Anselm Feuerbach, der zu den bedeutendsten deutschen Malern der zweiten H lfte des 19. Jahrhunderts z hlte. Die Aufgabe dieses Buches beschreibt Feuerbach folgend: Den Wenigen, welche sich die M he gegeben, meiner k nstlerischen Entwicklung einige Aufmerksamkeit zu schenken, werden diese Zeilen vielleicht nicht uninteressant sein. Sollten sie dazu dienen, hie und da eine Seele f r das Verst ndnis meiner Werke zu erwecken, so w re alles erreicht, was ich zu w nschen habe." Es ist dem Autor...
Diese sehr pers nliche Autobiografie erm glicht dem Leser einen tiefen Einblick in das Leben von Anselm Feuerbach, der zu den bedeutendsten deutschen ...
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Oxford in Prints: 1675-1900
ISBN: 9781851242467 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than three centuries, Oxford has served as a source of inspiration for fine illustrated books and engraved prints. These works hold an important place in the historical record of the city, showing its identity to be deeply rooted in history while also chronicling Oxford's development through the architecture of its most beautiful college and university buildings. With Oxford in Prints, Peter Whitfield has assembled a rich selection of more than seventy illustrations and prints that offer a portrait of Oxford before it became the modern city it is today....
For more than three centuries, Oxford has served as a source of inspiration for fine illustrated books and engraved prints. These works hold an import...
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The Arts of Collecting: Padre Sebastiano Resta and the Market for Drawings in Early Modern Europe
ISBN: 9780521181075 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work, first published in 2000, focuses on Sebastiano Resta to illuminates a crucial chapter in the history of collecting.
This work, first published in 2000, focuses on Sebastiano Resta to illuminates a crucial chapter in the history of collecting.
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Hundertwasser: Japan and the Avant-Garde
ISBN: 9783777420448 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries
ISBN: 9780521401074 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The National Gallery's collection of Spanish paintings is distinguished by seven of El Greco's works from every period of his activity in Italy and Spain; Diego Velazquez' work on an intimate scale; Bartolome Esteban Murillo's images addressing both the sacred and profane; and seven of Francisco de Goya's incisive portraits of Spain's aristocratic and intellectual society. Also included are two panels by the Master of the Catholic Kings, which represent Hispano-Flemish painting of the late fifteenth century at its best. The National Gallery's collection of Spanish paintings is distinguished by seven of El Greco's works from every period of his activity in Italy and... |
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Portraits, Painters, and Publics in Provincial England 1540 - 1640
ISBN: 9780199685967 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this, the first comprehensive study of post-Reformation provincial English portraiture, Robert Tittler investigates the growing affinity for secular portraiture in Tudor and early Stuart England, a cultural and social phenomenon which can be said to have produced a 'public' for that genre. He breaks new ground in placing portrait patronage and production in this era in the broad social and cultural context of post-Reformation England, and in distinguishing between native English provincial portraiture, which was often highly vernacular, and foreign-influenced portraiture of the court and...
In this, the first comprehensive study of post-Reformation provincial English portraiture, Robert Tittler investigates the growing affinity for secula...
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Cosimo I De' Medici and His Self-Representation in Florentine Art and Culture
ISBN: 9781107619319 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this 2006 study, Van Veen reassesses how Cosimo de' Medici represented himself in images.
In this 2006 study, Van Veen reassesses how Cosimo de' Medici represented himself in images.
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Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction
ISBN: 9780094769007 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Pictish School of Celtic art from pagan symbols to monumental sculptures, thoroughly covered and illustrated.
The Pictish School of Celtic art from pagan symbols to monumental sculptures, thoroughly covered and illustrated.
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Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780192803542 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Artists like Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, Durer, and Michelangelo and works such as the Last Supper fresco and the monumental marble statue of David, are familiar symbols of the Renaissance. But who were these artists, why did they produce such memorable images, and how would their original beholders have viewed these objects? Was the Renaissance only about great masters and masterpieces, or were women artists and patrons also involved? And what about the "minor" pieces that Renaissance men and women would have encountered in homes, churches and civic spaces? This Very Short Introduction...
Artists like Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, Durer, and Michelangelo and works such as the Last Supper fresco and the monumental marble statue of David...
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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style
ISBN: 9780192821447 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Serving as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of pictures in a given historical period, this new edition to Baxandall's pre-eminent scholarly volume examines early Renaissance painting, and explains how the style of painting in any society reflects the visual skills and habits that evolve out of daily life. Renaissance painting, for example, mirrors the experience of such activities as preaching, dancing, and gauging barrels. The volume includes discussions of a wide variety of painters, including Filippo...
Serving as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of pictures in a...
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Archaic and Classical Greek Art
ISBN: 9780192842022 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Archaic and Classical Greek Art is a revolutionary introduction to the images and sculptures of Ancient Greece from the Geometric period to the early Hellenistic. By carefully examining the context in which sculptures and paintings were produced, author Robin Osborne shows how artists responded to the challenges they faced in the formidable and ambitious world of the Greek city-state, producing the rich diversity of forms apparent in Greek art. Artistic developments of the period combined the influences of the symbolism and imagery of eastern Mediterranean art with the explorations of...
Archaic and Classical Greek Art is a revolutionary introduction to the images and sculptures of Ancient Greece from the Geometric period to the early ...
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Early Medieval Art
ISBN: 9780192842435 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first millennium, a rich and distinctive artistic tradition emerged in Europe. Early Medieval Art explores this tradition and tracks its development from c. 300 AD through c. 1000 AD, revealing forms of artistic expression ranging from brilliant illuminated manuscripts to decorative chairs, rich embroidery, and precious metalwork.
Nees explores issues of artist patronage, craftsmanship, holy men and women, monasteries, secular courts, and the expressive and educational roles of artistic creation. Instead of treating early Christian art in the late Roman tradition and the arts of... In the first millennium, a rich and distinctive artistic tradition emerged in Europe. Early Medieval Art explores this tradition and tracks its develo...
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Artistic Theory in Italy 1450-1600
ISBN: 9780198810506 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book seeks to broaden the comprehension of the student of Italian Renaissance painting by concentrating not on the works of art themselves, but on the various artistic theories which influenced them or were expressed by them. Taking Alberti's treatises as his starting-point, Anthony Blunt traces the development of artistic theory from Humanism to Mannerism. He discusses the writings of Leonardo, Savonarola, Michelangelo, and Vasari, examines the effect of the Council of Trent on religious art, and chronicles the successful struggle of the painters and sculptors themselves to elevate...
This book seeks to broaden the comprehension of the student of Italian Renaissance painting by concentrating not on the works of art themselves, but o...
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61,62 zł |
Life, Letters, and Poetry
ISBN: 9780199537365 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michelangelo was, apart from being a sculptor, architect, and painter of genius, a poet and letter-writer of remarkable accomplishment. George Bull, a distinguished translator of many Italian classics, has brought his skill and experience to bear on translating this new selection of Michelangelo's letters and poetry, as well as the Life, the biography written by Michelangelo's pupil Ascanio Condivi.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment... Michelangelo was, apart from being a sculptor, architect, and painter of genius, a poet and letter-writer of remarkable accomplishment. George Bull, a...
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The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946
ISBN: 9780226505169 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following World War I, a new artistic-social avant-garde emerged with the ambition to engage the artist in the building of social life. Through close readings of the works of Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy whose careers covered a broad range of artistic practices and political situations, Victor Margolin examines the way these three artists negotiated the changing relations between their social ideals and the political realities they confronted. Focusing on the difficult relationship between art and social change, Margolin brings important new insights to the...
Following World War I, a new artistic-social avant-garde emerged with the ambition to engage the artist in the building of social life. Through close ...
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164,75 zł |
Unseemly Pictures: Graphic Satire and Politics in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9780300142549 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This engaging book is the first full study of the satirical print in seventeenth-century England from the rule of James I to the Regicide. It considers graphic satire both as a particular pictorial category within the wider medium of print and as a vehicle for political agitation, criticism, and debate. Helen Pierce demonstrates that graphic satire formed an integral part of a wider culture of political propaganda and critique during this period, and she presents many witty and satirical prints in the context of such related media as manuscript verses, ballads, pamphlets, and plays....
This engaging book is the first full study of the satirical print in seventeenth-century England from the rule of James I to the Regicide. It consider...
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247,12 zł |
Sixteenth- To Nineteenth-Century British Painting: State Hermitage Museum Catalogue
ISBN: 9780300170467 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg houses a relatively small but choice collection of 16th- to 19th-century British paintings, among them Thomas Gainsborough's vibrant Portrait of a Lady in Blue (c. 1770) and his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds' vast Infant Hercules Strangling the Serpents (c. 1786), commissioned by the Russian Empress Catherine II and symbolizing a young Russia's growing strength. 135 paintings--works by artists from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales--are presented in this comprehensive catalogue. Also included are portraits from the... The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg houses a relatively small but choice collection of 16th- to 19th-century British paintings, among the... |
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Drawings by Rembrandt, His Students, and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection
ISBN: 9780300176063 / Angielski / Twarda / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George and Maida Abrams amassed perhaps the finest private collection of Dutch Old Master drawings in the world. This catalogue presents a selection of these superb works, and explores the role of drawing in the creative process in Rembrandt's studio and wider circle. The artists featured include Ferdinand Bol, Govert Flinck, Samuel van Hoogstraten, Jan Lievens, and Nicolas Maes: the key figures in Rembrandt's circle, who at times were deeply influenced by his remarkable style and on other occasions explored different approaches. Their works range from figure studies to landscapes,... George and Maida Abrams amassed perhaps the finest private collection of Dutch Old Master drawings in the world. This catalogue presents a selectio... |
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302,03 zł |