History of Art, Paperback

This is the first book to analyse art from the northern frontier zones of Roman Britain and to interpret the meaning and significance of this art i...

Learning about art through the ages has never been as interesting or fun as in this humorous and very informative graphic novel. As two kids give t...

Reducere. In this collection of essays J. B. Harley (1932-1991) draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy, and the study of visual culture to sub...

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Reducere. DescriptionWhen the world learned that Wilbur and Orville Wright had performed man's first powered, controlled flights at Kitty Hawk on December 17...

Reducere. Ancient petroglyphs and paintings on rocky cliffs and cave walls preserve the symbols and ideas of American Indian cultures. From scenes of human-t...

Reducere. Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Ar...

Collects the lectures that represent the distillation of Hegel's views on the three most important activities of spirit. This title features an Int...

Reducere. Over the last three decades, a new generation of conceptual artists has come to the fore in the Arab Middle East. As wars, peace treaties, sanction...

" A] tart, funny, lurid little bomb of a book. It's all p.c., of course, but not at all predictable, and a lot of righteous information gets disper...

"Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's Fountain. But questions about the categ...

DescriptionIn an increasingly polarized world, Social Forms surveys those artists at the forefront of political resistanceIn Social Forms: A Short ...

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The most detailed set of studies ever on all aspects of one of the most beautifully decorated Egyptian non-royal tombs, new in paperback This lavis...

Employs the full range of material and written evidence to explore four key questions around Roman funerary customs that alter our view of the soci...

As its teachings spread from the Indian subcontinent in all directions across Asia, Buddhism influenced every culture it touched--from Afghanistan ...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Steve (Brunel University) DixonIllustration(s): 235 illus.; 235 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 828Co...

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Al Filreis recasts 1960 as a turning point to offer a groundbreaking account of postwar culture. He examines an eclectic group of artistic, literar...

Reducere. WHAT IS THE SECRET ART? The history of radionics is the story of how various inventors designed devices that employ directed intent to affect the r...

Reducere. Folk tales of the Shaolin Temple depict warrior monks with superhuman abilities. Today, dozens of East Asian fighting styles trace their roots back...

Reducere. The eagerly anticipated updated return of a bestselling martial arts classicThe leaders of Tae Kwon Do, an Olympic sport and one of the world’s mos...

If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again.

Publisher: Page Street Publishing Co.Author(s): Shannon Wong-NizicIllustration(s): 60 photosNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

This book looks at the origins of Hap and Ki as they are found in Hapkido. Going back to 660 B.C., the roots of the art are traced from ancient Kor...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

DescriptionFor forty years, as New York's Lower East Side went from disinvested to gentrified, residents lived with a wound at the heart of the nei...

DescriptionEddie Tipton went to prison in 2017 for masterminding the biggest lottery fraud in U.S. history. In a twisting and bizarre tale, he some...