History & Criticism
epub |eng | 2004-01-21 | Author:Dana Arnold [Arnold, Dana]

A brief consideration of how collections were formed in Europe shows the ways in which art objects were historicized as a result of the activities of patrons and collectors. The ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-12 | Author:Eliza Factor [Factor, Eliza]

Chapter 13 Connecticut, October 1997 She held the canvas to one edge of the table and stretched it by hand. The table wobbled under the pressure. It was a cheap ...
( Category: Women's Fiction September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-02 | Author:Geraldine Norman [Geraldine Norman]

The battle between museum curators and Antiquariat was not restricted to the Hermitage. A 1929 letter from Viktor Lazarev, keeper of the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts – now the ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Martin Kemp

Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalusi, 1827 No one could miss the challenge that the Sardanapalus posed to academic values. The painter and writer, Étienne-Jean Delécluze, who had studied with David, summarised ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides September 3,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Véronique Patteeuw,Léa-Catherine Szacka

Domus in Mendini’s postmodern trajectory Between 1979 and 1985, during the heyday of international postmodernism, Domus was directed by Milan-based architect and designer Alessandro Mendini, who had built his outstanding ...
( Category: Architecture August 31,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-03-29 | Author:Noam Chomsky [Chomsky, Noam]

Chapter 5 Supporting Evidence: The Middle East Beyond declarations of leaders, and the self-refuting case of Iraq, several additional bits of evidence have been adduced to justify the faith in ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 26,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Boris Groys

The difficulty of imagining culture as situated ‘in the middle of work’ has its roots in the Romantic opposition between the artwork and the industrial product – an opposition that ...
( Category: Philosophy August 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-23 | Author:National Gallery of Art

3 In Relief A relief is a type of sculpture that is raised from a flat surface rather than being sculpted “in the round.” Coins and medals are examples of ...
( Category: Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions August 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-18 | Author:Edmund J. Sullivan

No. 49. Gustave Doré. Contes Drolatiques. Compare this drawing with No. 50. Beardsley Facts existed for Beardsley no more than as he would have them; Nature “put him out.” He ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Benjamin H. Bratton

We Are the Troops The doubled but certainly not interchangeable atrocities of beheading videos and the Abu Ghraib torture games .jpgs turn degraded, profaned, dehumanized bodies into sacrificial symbols, and ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-13 | Author:Joanna Henly [Henly, Joanna]

EXERCISE Keep a collection of images of interest from magazines, websites, and books. When you’re stuck, you can always call on your library of figures and faces. You’ll be able ...
( Category: Drawing August 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-21 | Author:Dana Arnold [Arnold, Dana]

A brief consideration of how collections were formed in Europe shows the ways in which art objects were historicized as a result of the activities of patrons and collectors. The ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-02 | Author:Jonathan Crary

CHAPTER FOUR Chris Marker’s La jetée (1962) opens in a post-apocalyptic future where surviving humans inhabit cramped underground spaces beneath destroyed cities in permanent exile from daylight. The authorities in ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-10-04 | Author:Danny Danziger [Danny Danziger & John Gillingham]

Next John was dressed in the royal robes and handed the sword of justice by the archbishop. He was then led back to the high altar where the archbishop adjured ...
( Category: Europe August 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-10 | Author:Dawn DeVries Sokol

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( Category: Crafts & Hobbies August 11,2018 )