Arab Modernism(s) is an exploration of how the Arab world encountered modernism sometimes inadvertently, sometimes deliberately and how those encounters continue to shape the built environment of its cities today....Loe edasi...
This book proposes new understandings of modern life in Britain by bringing constructs of female spirituality centre stage and examining three forgotten artists identified with the Pre-Raphaelites and Victorianism....Loe edasi...
This study focusses on the moment in the history of modern art, during the 1950s when sculptors and architects began to use concrete to create a previous impossible fusion of their respective art forms and the mutual influences between sculpture and...Loe edasi...
This pioneering book offers fresh insights into the photographic work of the American artist Frederick Sommer, whose long career spanned the 20th century. With detailed analyses of individual photographs, it unpacks how the artist generates other wa...Loe edasi...
Written by artists, curators, historians and cultural workers, Art Encounters in the Nuclear Age: Radiant Objects is a collection of essays that offers an idiosyncratic cross-section of nuclear history, foregrounding stories of objects and artworks....Loe edasi...
This volume examines the emergence of a market for Scottish art among Scotlands wealthy industrialists in the mid-nineteenth century and in the period leading up to the First World War. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection...Loe edasi...
This book explores the widespread fascination with world creation among early twentieth century artists, and examines those trends within the European avant-garde....Loe edasi...
This volume delves into the complex topic of race relations in 1980s Britain by examining the concept of whiteness and how it was portrayed visually in popular art and mass media....Loe edasi...
This volume seeks to reframe French Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot (1841-95) in the history of art via a focus on the spaces and people that informed her work and thereby offers a new interpretation of Impressionism and of modernist aesthetics...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Aug-2025, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003703006)
This book explores the revelationist tradition from the 1950s to the early 2000s, revisiting a formative period in film history from Italian Neorealism and the Nouvelle Vague to political modernism....Loe edasi...
David Bate examines automatism and the photographic image, the Surrealist passion for insanity, ambivalent use of Orientalism, use of Sadean philosophy and the effect of fascism of the Surrealists. The book is illustrated wtih a wide range of surrea...Loe edasi...
This book explores ideologies, conflicts and ideas that underpinned art historical writing in Ukraine in the 20th century. Disciplinary beginnings testify both to its deep connection to Krakow, Saint Petersburg and especially Vienna with its school...Loe edasi...
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 sphere...Loe edasi...
A survey of modern art from the Impressionists to the present, with a new chapter on the art of the seventies and eighties, and corrections and revisions in the text....Loe edasi...
Postmodernism in the visual arts is not just another ism. To explain why, Paul Crowther investigates topics such as eclecticism, the sublime, deconstruction in art and philosophy, and Paolozzis Wittgenstein-inspired works....Loe edasi...
Redressing the neglect of World War I memorials in art history scholarship, this volume shows why sculptures of doughboys (US soldiers during World War I) were in such demand during the 1920s, and how their functions and meanings have evolved. Jen...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2024, Kirjastus: RIBA Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781003571346)
Redesigned and refreshed edition of Terry Farrell and Adam Nathaniel Furmans seminal text, Revisiting Postmodernism, first published in 2017....Loe edasi...
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 between 1962....Loe edasi...
This book investigates the aesthetic and political dialectics of East Berlin to argue how its theatre and opera stages incited artists to act out, fuel and resist the troubled construction of political legitimacy. It will be of interest to scholars...Loe edasi...
