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The Baroque period was in some senses the beginning of modern Western scientific and intellectual culture-the early budding of the Enlightenment. In the light of a new scientific and historical consciousness, it saw the rise of deism and the critique of traditional...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-02-18
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The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century.A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2014-02-13
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Largely neglected for the four centuries after his death, the fifteenth century Italian artist Piero della Francesca is now seen to embody the fullest expression of the Renaissance perspective painter, raising him to an artistic stature comparable with that of Leonardo...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-02-13
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Largely neglected for the four centuries after his death, the fifteenth century Italian artist Piero della Francesca is now seen to embody the fullest expression of the Renaissance perspective painter, raising him to an artistic stature comparable with that of Leonardo...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-02-13
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Typography is the most ubiquitous of the graphic arts, with all of us now having access to innumerable fonts and the typographic tools that can, in the right hands, lift any text from the mundane to the beautiful.Opening with an overview of the history of the art, ...
Editeur :
Ilex Press
Parution :
2014-02-10
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Art introduces readers to 100 of the world's most important artists and their paintings, from the 13th century to the modern era. Works by artists including Caravaggio, Vermeer, van Gogh and Warhol are reproduced in superb high quality, arranged chronologically and set...
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Quercus
Parution :
2014-02-06
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Uniquely amongst the numerous publications to appear on the work of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu, this book deals with data analysis, examining a range of techniques and instruments. After an introductory chapter outlining the key principles of Bourdieu’s...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-05
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This book uses the contradictions, fractures and coincidences of a twentieth-century rural landscape to explore new methods of writing place beyond 'new nature writing'. In doing so it opens up new ways of reading modernist artists and writers such as Vanessa Bell, Mary...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-21
Collection :
Language, Discourse, Society
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These cartoons are are the original work of talented cartoonist, Brian Platt, author of the best-selling book How to Draw Cartoons. The humour is fun, international and certain to help people see the funny side of everyday life.Now available in paperback and ebook...
Editeur :
Headline Accent
Parution :
2014-01-03
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England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto turbulent nation out from the Dark Ages and transform it into the nation state we recognize today. Featuring some of England's greatest but also most...
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Quercus
Parution :
2014-01-02
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Silence and the Silenced: Interdisciplinary Perspectives comprises a collection of essays from North American and European scholars who examine the various ways in which the theme of silence is developed in literary narratives as well as in such visual media as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-12-19
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Scenes and characters from the Old Testament appear frequently in Western medieval art, yet the study of their significance is a neglected area of iconography. A common literature for both Jews and Christians, the Hebrew Scriptures had an especially broad appeal for the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-19
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Diese Arbeit diskutiert die religiösen und bildästhetischen Funktionen und Vorstellungen, die Hugo van der Goes beim Akt des Malens beschäftigten. Im Spiegel seiner Zeit und eines seiner Aufträge, des monumentalen Triptychons für den Leiter der Medici-Filiale in Brügge,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-19
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Dieser Band versammelt die Beiträge einer interdisziplinären und internationalen Winterschule, die vom 20. bis 24. Februar 2012 im Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald stattfand. Renommierte Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus den Bereichen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Anders als die Wort-Sprache ist die Bild-Sprache ein eher konservatives Medium. Dem Linguistic Turn, der das Denken als Form der Sprache erklärte, stellt sich ein Iconic Turn zur Seite, der unser Bild der Welt an Formen des Sehens bindet. Diese sind nicht allein...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Your website is the face that your creative endeavours show to the world, and you owe it to yourself to make it the most inviting and user-friendly site on the web. With The Creative Person's Website Builder, you'll learn how to create a site from scratch, or...
Editeur :
Ilex Press
Parution :
2013-12-02
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In 2008 the youtube video documenting the emotional reunion between two men and Christian the Lion became a worldwide sensation. Key themes of the essays in Captured: the Animal within Culture are encapsulated in Christian's story: the implications of the physical and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-20
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Diese Arbeit verfolgt das Ziel, die spezifischen Probleme des internationalen Kulturgüterschutzes aufzuzeigen und Lösungsansätze für diese Probleme zu erarbeiten. Die aktuell bestehenden internationalen Regelungen und völkerrechtlichen Verträge werden dargestellt....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-19
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Western Art and the Wider World explores the evolving relationship between theWestern canon of art, as it has developed since the Renaissance, and the art and culture of the Islamic world, the Far East, Australasia, Africa and the Americas. Explores the origins,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-11-18
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Im Laufe seiner Karriere als Hofmaler Philipps IV. malte Velázquez eine bemerkenswerte Anzahl von Narrenbildnissen, die durch ihre unkonventionellen Sujets und technische Brillanz hervorragen. In der Studie wird diese Werkgruppe erstmals in ihrem einstigen Bezugssystem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-15
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