In a nineteenth century Chinese lacquer box, this books author Joris Escher found two drawings of his great-uncle, the world-famous graphic artist M.C. Escher. The sheets had not been looked at in more than 90 years. He believes that these early stu...Loe edasi...
In a nineteenth century Chinese lacquer box, this books author Joris Escher found two drawings of his great-uncle, the world-famous graphic artist M.C. Escher. The sheets had not been looked at in more than 90 years. He believes that these early stu...Loe edasi...
The captivating story behind the iconic Blue Poles - the painter, the process, the patronage, the politics and the national scandal.In 1973, Blue Poles, the iconic painting by Americas great abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock, was acquired by th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252047718)
Why do we seek to return to the past or rescue pieces of the past that may have value in the present? Why does nostalgia attach to an approach to the world, social rules, and material products that willfully rejected the past Larry Bennett explores t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Feb-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691261508)
A comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American ModernismIn the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily. W...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691261508)
A comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American ModernismIn the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily. W...Loe edasi...
How did German aesthetic values change during the Weimar Republic and after its immediate collapse at the beginning of the National Socialist period? Contrary to conventional narratives that depict modernist aesthetics as static, shaping principles o...Loe edasi...
How did German aesthetic values change during the Weimar Republic and after its immediate collapse at the beginning of the National Socialist period? Contrary to conventional narratives that depict modernist aesthetics as static, shaping principles o...Loe edasi...
Modernist painter, socialist realist, Holocaust survivor, and student of the Parisian Avant Garde, Jewish-Polish artist Henryk Streng was extraordinary for his aesthetic innovation during the two major traumas of 20th-century European history, the Ho...Loe edasi...
Modernist painter, socialist realist, Holocaust survivor, and student of the Parisian Avant Garde, Jewish-Polish artist Henryk Streng was extraordinary for his aesthetic innovation during the two major traumas of 20th-century European history, the Ho...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Nov-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040256275)
This book is the first substantial study of the presence and relationship with the concepts of apocalypse, eschatology, and millennium in modern British art from 1914 to 1945, addressing how and why practitioners in both religious and secular spheres...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Nov-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040256305)
This book is the first substantial study of the presence and relationship with the concepts of apocalypse, eschatology, and millennium in modern British art from 1914 to 1945, addressing how and why practitioners in both religious and secular spheres...Loe edasi...
Sari: Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Nov-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477329832)
An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis.The Earth That Modernism Built traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse about the influence of the earthly envir...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Nov-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477330265)
How San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of the American West.California s 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the instant city of San Francisco as a base to exploit the rich natu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Nov-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252047565)
Created in 1934, the Coit Tower murals were sponsored by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the first of the New Deal art programs. Twenty-five master artists and their assistants worked there, most of them in buon fresco, Nearly all of them dre...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Nov-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487549053)
Naturalisms Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century examines one of the most revered art historical narratives of Western art: the famous turning point for painting and sculpture usually emblematized by the works of Edouard...Loe edasi...
Diana Seave Greenwald, Alex Zivkovic, Hilton Als, Nancy Locke, Emily Beeny, Adrienne Chaparro, Kathryn Kremnitzer, Samuel Rodary, Bill Scott, Juliet Wilson-Bareau...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Oct-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691260655)
A groundbreaking and richly illustrated account of the importance of Manets family to his artAll families are complicated, but the family of Edouard Manet (18321883) was more complicated than most. The artist married a piano teacher who worked for h...Loe edasi...
Diana Seave Greenwald, Alex Zivkovic, Hilton Als, Nancy Locke, Emily Beeny, Adrienne Chaparro, Kathryn Kremnitzer, Samuel Rodary, Bill Scott, Juliet Wilson-Bareau...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Oct-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691260655)
A groundbreaking and richly illustrated account of the importance of Manets family to his artAll families are complicated, but the family of Edouard Manet (18321883) was more complicated than most. The artist married a piano teacher who worked for h...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Parkstone Press USA, Limited, ISBN-13: 9798894050195)
Born at the dawn of the 20th-century, Fauvism burst onto the artistic scene at the 1905 Salon dAutomne with great controversy by throwing bright, vibrant colours in the face of artistic convention. Fuelled by change, artists like Matisse, Derain, an...Loe edasi...
Both a translation and critique of an early 20th century seminal French text on the physical effects of corseting, The Bad Corset explores contemporary anti-woman bias to challenge the commonly accepted assertions about corsetrys contribution to dis...Loe edasi...
Both a translation and critique of an early 20th century seminal French text on the physical effects of corseting, The Bad Corset explores contemporary anti-woman bias to challenge the commonly accepted assertions about corsetrys contribution to dis...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Sep-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040144930)
This book is a portrait of the period when modern art became contemporary art. It explores how and why writers and artists in Australia argued over the idea of a distinctively Australian modern and then postmodern art from 1962, the date of publicati...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Sep-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040144961)
This book is a portrait of the period when modern art became contemporary art. It explores how and why writers and artists in Australia argued over the idea of a distinctively Australian modern and then postmodern art from 1962, the date of publicati...Loe edasi...
This book provides the first comprehensive history of window display as a practice and profession in Britain during the dynamic period of 1919 to 1939. In recent decades, the disciplines of retail history, business history, design and cultural histor...Loe edasi...
This book provides the first comprehensive history of window display as a practice and profession in Britain during the dynamic period of 1919 to 1939. In recent decades, the disciplines of retail history, business history, design and cultural histor...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Aug-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609389642)
Imaging Animal Industry focuses on the visual culture of the American meat industry between 1890 and 1960. It describes how, during that period, photographs and other images helped to shape public perceptions of industrial-scale meat production. Alth...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Aug-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609389642)
Imaging Animal Industry focuses on the visual culture of the American meat industry between 1890 and 1960. It describes how, during that period, photographs and other images helped to shape public perceptions of industrial-scale meat production. Alth...Loe edasi...
Situated at the crossroads of the foreign and the vernacular, Quito-the capital of Ecuador, with its world-famous yet understudied built environment-stands as a testament to architectural in-betweenness. This book interweaves history and theory to ex...Loe edasi...
Situated at the crossroads of the foreign and the vernacular, Quito-the capital of Ecuador, with its world-famous yet understudied built environment-stands as a testament to architectural in-betweenness. This book interweaves history and theory to ex...Loe edasi...
Sari: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Aug-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501776366)
Russian Archaism considers the aesthetic quest of Russian modernism in relation to the nation-building ideas that spread in the late imperial period. Irina Shevelenko argues that the cultural milieu in Russia, where the modernist movement began as an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Aug-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Fordham University Press, ISBN-13: 9781531507008)
The first comprehensive treatment in seventy years of the American Art-Unions remarkable rise and fallFor over a decade, the New York based American Art-Union shaped art creation, display, and patronage nationwide. Boasting as many as 19,000 members...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Aug-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Fordham University Press, ISBN-13: 9781531507015)
The first comprehensive treatment in seventy years of the American Art-Unions remarkable rise and fallFor over a decade, the New York based American Art-Union shaped art creation, display, and patronage nationwide. Boasting as many as 19,000 members...Loe edasi...
The Yenidze Cigarette Factory of 1909 was constructed as an industrial, architectural object that advertised Dresden as a center for the tobacco trade. Born from a unique client-architect relationship between Hugo Zietz and Martin Hammitzsch, the fa...Loe edasi...
When the Nazis came to power in January 1933, they began a program of transforming Germany from a democracy into a totalitarian state, but it was not a matter of simply enforcing compliance. The people had to be coaxed into believing in the new regim...Loe edasi...
When the Nazis came to power in January 1933, they began a program of transforming Germany from a democracy into a totalitarian state, but it was not a matter of simply enforcing compliance. The people had to be coaxed into believing in the new regim...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jul-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Parkstone Press USA, Limited, ISBN-13: 9781639198481)
The Art Deco movement emerged from the remnants of a world that had been torn apart after World War I. This aesthetic movement came to embody dreams of industry and prosperity. In the whirl of the Jazz Age and frenzy of the "e;Roaring Twenties&qu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jul-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Parkstone Press USA, Limited, ISBN-13: 9781639198498)
At the beginning of the 20th-century, trends started to emerge that began to diverge from a naturalistic conception of reality and set out to explore beneath the mere superficial appearance of things. Throughout, the author shows that, regardless of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jul-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Parkstone Press USA, Limited, ISBN-13: 9798894050041)
Les Demoiselles dAvignon: five young women that changed modern art forever. Faces seen simultaneously from the front and in profile, angular bodies whose once voluptuous feminine forms disappear behind asymmetric lines - with this work, Picasso revo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jul-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Parkstone Press USA, Limited, ISBN-13: 9798894050072)
Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, E.L. Kirchner, Paul Klee, Franz Marc as well as the Austrians Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele were among the generation of highly individual artists who contributed to the vivid and often controversi...Loe edasi...
While the domestic sphere might seem tangential to the dire political situation and humanitarian crises of interwar Europe, it was nevertheless at the forefront of debates about cultural identity and economic policy in the Viennese press, culture, an...Loe edasi...
A collection of highlights from Mary Ann Cawss long, highly distinguished career writing about literature, art, and modernism. Throughout her long, highly distinguished career writing about literature and art, Mary Ann Caws has excavated, illuminate...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jun-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040052143)
This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives of members of the wealthy trading classes in Brighton during the period 1840-1914.Chapters focus on the collecting practices of five...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jun-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040052167)
This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives of members of the wealthy trading classes in Brighton during the period 1840-1914.Chapters focus on the collecting practices of five...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300276329)
A groundbreaking reassessment that foregrounds Van Goghs profound engagement with the industrial age while making his work newly relevant for our world today Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is most often portrayed as the consummate painter of nature...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jun-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781496851512)
Antisemitic caricatures had existed in Polish society since at least the mid-nineteenth century. But never had the devastating impacts of this imagery been fully realized or so blatantly apparent than on the eve of the Second World War. In Cartoons a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jun-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781496851536)
Antisemitic caricatures had existed in Polish society since at least the mid-nineteenth century. But never had the devastating impacts of this imagery been fully realized or so blatantly apparent than on the eve of the Second World War. In Cartoons a...Loe edasi...
