In April 1937, the Museum of Modern Art in New York hosted an exhibition that served as a catalyst for the appropriation of prehistoric rock art in postwar abstract painting. With the title "e;Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa"e;...Loe edasi...
In April 1937, the Museum of Modern Art in New York hosted an exhibition that served as a catalyst for the appropriation of prehistoric rock art in postwar abstract painting. With the title "e;Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa"e;...Loe edasi...
This book is the first to identify an interpretive path through Paleolithic cave art that can provide plausible meaning to the animal figures in the Lascaux cave in France. The artwork was created during a period described as the Creative Explosion,...Loe edasi...
It may be true, as Paul Valery said, that the painter "e;takes his body with him,"e; but it is almost certain that artists leave some of their bodies in their art. This book studies the embodied intentionality inscribed in the works of the ar...Loe edasi...
This publication presents the archaeological evidence from two associated Minoan sites situated at Apesokari in the Mesara Plain of South-Central Crete, Tholos Tomb A and the neighboring free-standing domestic complex on Vigla Hill. It thoroughly rec...Loe edasi...
Focusing on stunning paintings and engravings from around the world, Powerful Pictures interrogates the driving forces behind global rock art research. Many of the rock art motifs featured in the 16 chapters of this book were created by indigenous hu...Loe edasi...
Primitive art is inseparable from primitive consciousness and can be correctly understood only with the correct socio-cultural context. This book examines the ancient art of Siberia as part of the integral whole of ancient society....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Sep-2022, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Trinity University Press,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781595348791)
Why is something a masterpiece? Art History 101 . . . Without the Exams is about revisiting famous works of art that we may have studied in an art history class or seen in a textbook. Each discussion delves into one great masterpiece and asks the que...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Sep-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Trinity University Press,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781595348791)
Why is something a masterpiece? Art History 101 . . . Without the Exams is about revisiting famous works of art that we may have studied in an art history class or seen in a textbook. Each discussion delves into one great masterpiece and asks the que...Loe edasi...
Signalling and Performance: Ancient Rock Art in Britain and Ireland presents a state of the art survey of the ancient rock art of Britain and Ireland, bringing together new discoveries and new interpretations. Ancient rock art offers unique insights...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-May-2022, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Zone Books, ISBN-13: 9781942130666)
An examination of how modern art was impacted by the concept of prehistory and the prehistoricPrehistory is an invention of the late nineteenth century. In that moment of technological progress and acceleration of production and circulation, three ma...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-May-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Zone Books, ISBN-13: 9781942130666)
An examination of how modern art was impacted by the concept of prehistory and the prehistoricPrehistory is an invention of the late nineteenth century. In that moment of technological progress and acceleration of production and circulation, three ma...Loe edasi...
The first study devoted to a single sculptor in ancient America, as understood through four unprovenanced masterworks traced to a small sector of Guatemala.In 1950, Dana Lamb, an explorer of some notoriety, stumbled on a Maya ruin in the tropical for...Loe edasi...
Sari: Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Oct-2021, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9781683402466)
In this volume, contributors show how stylistic and iconographic analyses of Mississippian imagery provide new perspectives on the beliefs, narratives, public ceremonies, ritual regimes, and expressions of power in the communities that created the ar...Loe edasi...
This book provides a general self-reflexive review and critical analysis of Scandinavian rock art from the standpoint of Chris Tilley’s research in this area over the last thirty years. It offers a novel alternative theoretical perspective stre...Loe edasi...