The History of Western Art in Comics Part Two: From the Renaissance to Modern Art, Paperback - Marion Augustin

Learn even more about art through the ages in this humorous and informative graphic novel sequel. Two kids and their grandpa continue their adventu...

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. The formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment ...

" 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...

Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs create...

DescriptionOriginally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed the viewing habits of a generation. After centuries of repression...

Reducere. NEW EDITION: A collection of paintings, drawings, and prints from Western art illustrating the occupation and hobby of knitting during the 1800s. I...

Available in English for the first time, Julius von Schlosser's seminal work in the history of art and collecting was the first study to interpret ...

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...

The history of modern art has generally been understood as a grand leap away from tradition, religion, and conventional norms, yielding decidedly s...

Reducere. What was the "Classical Revolution" in Greek art? What were its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? This book introduces students to these qu...

Reducere. A fascinating history of the practice of surgery from one of the leading figures in the field, chronicling centuries of scientific breakthroughs by...

Reducere. Already a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. This landma...

Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs create...

Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs create...

Reducere. The main concepts and development of art from about 1900 to the present are analyzed in authoritative essays by some of the most distinguished art ...

DescriptionPublished as a large-format hardcover to celebrate the museum's 90th anniversary and the October 2019 opening of the new MoMA after its ...

DescriptionPrinciples of Art History by Heinrich W lfflin (1864-1945), a revolutionary attempt to construct a science of art through the study of t...

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art in WarsawAuthor(s): Monika TalarczykNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 196 x 140 x 20Cover type:...

DescriptionAn exciting new approach to understanding the trade of antiquities in early modern Rome traces the journey of objects from discovery to ...

An illustrated key to unlocking the mysteries of paintings, sculpture and architecture by the great Italian masters, this book also provides fresh ...

The first book to document how artists of the early twentieth century responded to new scientific conceptions of reality.In the early twentieth cen...

Reducere. DescriptionThis engrossing anthology gathers together a remarkable collection of writings on the use of strategy in war. G rard Chaliand has ranged...

Reducere. DescriptionAbout the loss of Western art to a false art philosophy, nihilism, industrialization, and a corrupt art establishment. Art, tasteful sth...

The Revival of the Olympian Gods in Renaissance Art - Luba Freedman

From farming, cooking and feasting scenes depicted in the Middle Ages in books of hours to the fish and fruit of ancient frescoes and mosaics, Food...

DescriptionRenaissance bodies, dressed and undressed, have not lacked attention in art historical literature, but scholarship on the male body has ...

'Mesmeric ... a macabre and illuminating survey of anatomical art' Guardian

DescriptionThe Italian sculptor known as Donatello helped to forge a new kind of art--one that came to define the Renaissance. His work was progres...

From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering wor...

A treasury of information based on solid scholarship, anyone seeking a factual and vivid account of the story of arms from the Renaissance period t...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Saddle up and ride the winding trails of the Sierra through the pages of this book. In the not so distant past, exploration and settlement of this ...

Explores the art of acting in Europe between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, demonstrating how stage acting was understood as a branch of r...

An exploration of food images in European and American painting from the early Renaissance to the present. It underlines the central importance of ...

Perhaps the single most revolutionary aspect of the Renaissance was the re-emergence of the gods and goddesses of antiquity. This book surveys this...

These in-depth, historical and critical essays study the meaning of ornament, the role it played in the formation of modernism, and its theoretical...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Fresco painting was reintroduced to public attention in this important work by a recognized authority. In addition to translating descriptions of p...

During the half-millennium from the eleventh through the sixth centuries BC, the power and the glory of the imperial pharaohs of the New Kingdom cr...

Reducere. Today's leading poets and writers--from Anne Carson to Roxane Gay--respond to modern and contemporary masterpiecesIn this book, 26 internationally ...

Conceptualizes "graft"- the violent and creative processes of suturing arts as a method of empire building in western eighteenth-century IndiaPubli...

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics, U.S.Author(s): Bryan KonietzkoIllustration(s): 192 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 20...

DescriptionFor much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an "art of living." This practical aspect...

Reducere. In this collection of nine essays some of the preeminent art historians in the United States consider the relationship between art and craft, betwe...

Seeing Renaissance Glass explores how artists such as Giotto, Duccio, Nicola Pisano, Simone Martini, and others employed the medium of glass-whethe...

Examines the intersection of private art collecting, domestic social life, and recreational practices in Renaissance Venice.Publisher: Pennsylvania...

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art in WarsawAuthor(s): Agata PietrasikNumber of pages: 292Collection: New Histories of ArtPublication date: 2021Dimens...

Reducere. Federica Francesconi writes the history of the Jewish merchants who lived and prospered in the northern Italian city of Modena, capital city of the...