Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Subjects & Themes - Plants & Animals

This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglected group of porticoes decorated with painted pergolas that appeared in Rome and environs in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it tells the story of how an element of the garden the pergola became a pictorial topos in portico decoration, and evolved, hand in hand with its real cousin in the garden, into an object for cultural emulation among the educated patrons of early modern Rome. The liminality of both the portico and the pergola...

The Animal Surreal situates Surrealism within the burgeoning field of Animal Studies by examining Surrealist representations of nonhuman animals through the lens of Darwinian theory. Unlike Marx and Freud, Darwin was rarely cited by name as a source for the Surrealists, and yet his influence is present in various ways, such as the frequent inclusion of -natural history- imagery and the exploration of themes of mutability and mutation. Animals and our relationship to them furthermore constitute a significant source of inquiry for Surrealism, as evidenced by Max Ernst's human-bird alter-ego...

When Georgia O'Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers was first published in 1987, it caused a sensation in the worlds of art and publishing. With its giant scale, unprecedented quality of reproduction fidelity, and hitherto unseen masterpieces of O?Keeffe's flower paintings, it became one of the most beloved and biggest-selling art books of all time, with over one million copies sold in its various editions across five languages.

Long out of print, this new edition of Georgia O?Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers is more glorious than ever, utilizing the best of state-of-the-art...