Kategoria BISAC: Photography >> Subjects & Themes - Portraits & Selfies

Calligraphy has held an honored place in the spiritual traditions of Tibet. Monks dedicate their lives to mastering the many subtleties of the art, often spending years transcribing sacred Buddhist manuscripts. The carefully composed lines and deliberate spatial awareness in each work of calligraphy within Sacred Scripts encourage reflection, mindfulness, and meditation.

Within these pages, sacred mantras, seed syllables,...

Die hier erstmals vorgestellte Bildnissammlung der osterreichischen Erzherzogin Maria Anna (1738-1789), Tochter Maria Theresias und Franz Stephans von Lothringen, zeigt eine faszinierende Adaption kaiserlicher Reprasentationspraktiken. Die Portrats des Klagenfurter Konvoluts dienen der Darstellung der weit gefacherten Habsburgerfamilie und bieten einen exemplarischen Einblick in die hofische Portratkultur des 18. Jahrhunderts.

Nineteenth-century Iran was an ocularcentered society predicated on visuality and what was seen and unseen, and photographs became liminal sites of desire that maneuvered "betwixt and between" various social spaces public, private, seen, unseen, accessible, and forbidden thus mapping, graphing, and even transgressing those spaces, especially in light of increasing modernization and global contact during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Of primary interest is how photographs negotiated and coded gender, sexuality, and desire, becoming strategies of empowerment, of domination,...

'Those who have eyes, ' writes Georges Braque, my favourite cubist painter, 'know just how irrelevant words are to what they see.' Does this mean that I don't have the eyes to
see? Perhaps it does. But it also shows my propensity to take refuge in words. I can't draw or paint. It's only words that I can rely on. If I turn to them, this is because when my eyes look at a painting, words help me discover more about myself.

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