When dusting out corners, we often find things once thought useful, but perhaps not useful enough to keep on display or ready to hand. If we dust in a time and place distant from that in which they were once used, we may be surprised by their vitalit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jan-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487549824)
La Celestina, a Spanish literary masterpiece second only in importance to Don Quixote in Spanish literature, has been shaped by the inclusion of images from its very first edition in 1499. The subsequent five centuries were punctuated by many illustr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jan-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487549800)
La Celestina, a Spanish literary masterpiece second only in importance to Don Quixote in Spanish literature, has been shaped by the inclusion of images from its very first edition in 1499. The subsequent five centuries were punctuated by many illustr...Loe edasi...
Through a broad range of case studies spanning from imperial monuments to rural residences, Malayan Classicism puts forward a fundamentally new understanding of classical architecture in the Asian colonial context. Across Malaysia and Singapore, thou...Loe edasi...
Through a broad range of case studies spanning from imperial monuments to rural residences, Malayan Classicism puts forward a fundamentally new understanding of classical architecture in the Asian colonial context. Across Malaysia and Singapore, thou...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487546090)
The fin de siecle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland whose careers in po...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2023, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487546106)
The fin de siecle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland whose careers in po...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487509323)
Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Christ, among other devotional objects, pervaded nearly every aspect of public and private life in early modern Spain, but they were also a point of contention between Christian and Muslim cultures. Writers of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2022, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487509316)
Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Christ, among other devotional objects, pervaded nearly every aspect of public and private life in early modern Spain, but they were also a point of contention between Christian and Muslim cultures. Writers of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Feb-2022, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192646217)
The Living Death of Antiquity examines the idealization of an antiquity that exhibits, in the words of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, a noble simplicity and quiet grandeur. Fitzgerald discusses the aesthetics of this strain of neoclassicism as manifes...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Feb-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192646224)
The Living Death of Antiquity examines the idealization of an antiquity that exhibits, in the words of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, a noble simplicity and quiet grandeur. Fitzgerald discusses the aesthetics of this strain of neoclassicism as manifes...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Dec-2021, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487527761)
In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the Bank of England from its obligations to convert paper notes into coin. Paper quickly became associated w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Dec-2021, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487527754)
In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the Bank of England from its obligations to convert paper notes into coin. Paper quickly became associated w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Dec-2020, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781442600447)
In this beautifully illustrated overview, Renee Worringer provides a clear and comprehensive account of the longevity, pragmatism, and flexibility of the Ottoman Empire in governing over vast territories and diverse peoples. A Short History of the Ot...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Dec-2020, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781442600430)
In this beautifully illustrated overview, Renee Worringer provides a clear and comprehensive account of the longevity, pragmatism, and flexibility of the Ottoman Empire in governing over vast territories and diverse peoples. A Short History of the Ot...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Nov-2019, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190697037)
Inspired by newly discovered antiquities of the ancient world exhibited in the museums of Europe and celebrated in the illustrated press of the day, the leading British history painters Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sir Edward Poynter and Edwin Long crea...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Nov-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190697044)
Inspired by newly discovered antiquities of the ancient world exhibited in the museums of Europe and celebrated in the illustrated press of the day, the leading British history painters Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sir Edward Poynter and Edwin Long crea...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Nov-2019, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487530693)
Propaganda in Revolutionary Ukraine is a survey of domestic government and party printed propaganda in revolutionary Ukraine. It is the first account in English to study these materials using an illustrative sample of printed texts and to assess thei...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Nov-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487530709)
Propaganda in Revolutionary Ukraine is a survey of domestic government and party printed propaganda in revolutionary Ukraine. It is the first account in English to study these materials using an illustrative sample of printed texts and to assess thei...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Apr-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487530150)
Crowning Glories integrates Louis XIVs propaganda campaigns, the transmission of Northern art into France, and the rise of empiricism in the eighteenth century - three historical touchstones - to examine what it would have meant for Frances elite t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Apr-2019, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487530143)
Crowning Glories integrates Louis XIVs propaganda campaigns, the transmission of Northern art into France, and the rise of empiricism in the eighteenth century - three historical touchstones - to examine what it would have meant for Frances elite t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Mar-2019, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190641368)
Domesticating Empire is the first contextually-oriented monograph on Egyptian imagery in Roman households. Caitlin Barrett draws on case studies from Flavian Pompeii to investigate the close association between representations of Egypt and a particul...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Mar-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190641375)
Domesticating Empire is the first contextually-oriented monograph on Egyptian imagery in Roman households. Caitlin Barrett draws on case studies from Flavian Pompeii to investigate the close association between representations of Egypt and a particul...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Oct-2017, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190663605)
From the US Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial and the 9/11 Memorial Museum, classical forms and ideas have been central to an American nationalist aesthetic. Beginning with an understanding of this centrality of the classical tradition to the construct...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Oct-2017, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190663612)
From the US Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial and the 9/11 Memorial Museum, classical forms and ideas have been central to an American nationalist aesthetic. Beginning with an understanding of this centrality of the classical tradition to the construct...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jan-2015, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226184036)
The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of the most distinct and influential was a turn to cl...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jan-2015, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226184036)
The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of the most distinct and influential was a turn to cl...Loe edasi...
Recent years have seen an increase of interest in classicism and the reception and survival of antiquity. Classical Reception Studies is a rapidly developing field of research and teaching, and a growing number of new scholars are investigating issue...Loe edasi...
It is the aim of this work to examine the pivotal role of Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) as a judge of classical sculpture and as a major contributor to German art criticism. John Harry North seeks to identify the key features of his treatmen...Loe edasi...
Translated by Corinne AttwoodThe French Revolution was marked by a wealth of imagery and visual symbolism that inspired the masses to fight for freedom. Visualizing the Revolution surveys the rich and multifaceted visual culture of this time, explori...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Aug-2009, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780191609381)
The First World War mangled faces, blew away limbs, and ruined nerves. Ten million dead, twenty million severe casualties, and eight million people with permanent disabilities - modern war inflicted pain and suffering with unsparing, mechanical effic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Aug-2009, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780191570872)
The First World War mangled faces, blew away limbs, and ruined nerves. Ten million dead, twenty million severe casualties, and eight million people with permanent disabilities - modern war inflicted pain and suffering with unsparing, mechanical effic...Loe edasi...
Sari: Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Sep-2004, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780198038214)
By the Roman age the traditional stories of Greek myth had long since ceased to reflect popular culture. Mythology had become instead a central element in elite culture. If one did not know the stories one would not understand most of the allusions i...Loe edasi...
Sari: Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Sep-2004, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190291099)
By the Roman age the traditional stories of Greek myth had long since ceased to reflect popular culture. Mythology had become instead a central element in elite culture. If one did not know the stories one would not understand most of the allusions i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Mar-2001, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780191037245)
Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering or death? Is it because we see horrific matter controlled by majestic art? Or because tragedy actually reaches out to the dark side...Loe edasi...
