(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Nov-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781804296592)
For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and the beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on t...Loe edasi...
John Richardson, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803990538)
In 2019, Oscar-winning special effects supremo John Richardson released his first book, the bestselling Making Movie Magic, which chronicled his remarkable career in the film industry. A year later, during a house clear-out as t...Loe edasi...
An exploration of what it means when we say something is beautiful. Bringing together ideas of beauty from both Eastern and Western philosophy, François Jullien challenges the assumptions underlying our commonly agreed-upon definition of w...Loe edasi...
In this book, readers will gain a clear understanding of the rise of German opera in the early nineteenth century and the cultural and historical context in which this occurred....Loe edasi...
Medievalism, or the reception or interpretation of the Middle Ages, was a prominent aesthetic for German opera composers in the first half of the nineteenth century. A healthy competition to establish a Germanic operatic repertory arose at this ti...Loe edasi...
Surrealism is central to the study of 20th-century art, literature, film and photography, but its international impact has extended across music, theatre, architecture, fashion and design, as well as thinking about society and politics. The Enc...Loe edasi...
Giovanni Andrea Gilio’s Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters (1564) is one of the first treatises on art published in the post-Tridentine period. It remains a key primary source for the discussion of the reform of art as it...Loe edasi...
Curated by noted Picasso biographer John Richardson, this exhibition catalogue examines the intersection of Picassos bullfighting imagery with the mythological (and biographical) compositions of the 1930s. Including works dating from 1897 to 19...Loe edasi...
Surrealism and Photography in Czechoslovakia: On the Needles of Days sheds much-needed light on the location of the greatest concentration of Surrealist photography and examines the culture and tradition within which it has taken root and fl...Loe edasi...
