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Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Ferber Michael
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Ferber, Michael [Ferber, Michael]

In France, Alfred de Musset indulges in a similar nostalgia: ‘O Greece! … / / I am a citizen of your ancient ages; / My soul with the bee strays ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic January 3,2016 )
Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons by Shirane Haruo
epub |eng | 2012-03-19 | Author:Shirane, Haruo

FIGURE 21 DOLL’S FESTIVAL AND IKEBANA This “portrait of a beautiful person” (biiinga) in Chōbunsai Eishi’s series “Elegant Five Sacred Festivals” (Fūryū gosekku, ca. 1794–1795) exemplifies the ways in which ...
( Category: Asian December 28,2015 )
Aesthetic Theory by Adorno Theodor W
epub |eng | | Author:Adorno, Theodor W.

Notes 1 Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment, trans. Werner S. Pluhar (Indianapolis, 1987), p. 43. 2 Ibid. 3 Ibid., p. 64. 4 Adorno, Notes to Literature, trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen, ...
( Category: Theory December 25,2015 )
Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction by Catherine Belsey
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-01-14 | Author:Catherine Belsey

6. The goddess of love is subject to desire. Venus Blindfolding Cupid shows the goddess of love punishing her son for shooting his arrows apparently at random. Ironically, her action ...
( Category: Structuralism December 21,2015 )
Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2002-03-14 | Author:Christopher Butler [Butler, Christopher]

Indeed, it is typical of many postmodernist commentators (such as Andreas Huyssen) that they see the ‘true’ function of the avant-garde as being critical in the postmodernist sense – it ...
( Category: Humanism December 20,2015 )
How Art Made the World by Nigel Spivey
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Nigel Spivey [NIGEL SPIVEY]

64 The Natural Bridge, Virginia by F.E. Church, 1852. 65 T.H. O'Sullivan’s atmospheric photograph, taken in 1871, of Black Canyon on the Colorado River, Arizona. Church did also seek beyond ...
( Category: Criticism December 18,2015 )
Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Cottington David
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-02-23 | Author:Cottington, David [Cottington, David]

Those four years were the period in which, with Georges Braque, he fashioned the deep structure and radical vocabulary of a style of painting – christened ‘cubism’ by its critics ...
( Category: History December 16,2015 )
Josephine Baker: The Hungry Heart by Jean-Claude Baker & Chris Chase
mobi |eng | 1992-12-31 | Author:Jean-Claude Baker & Chris Chase [Baker, Jean-Claude & Chase, Chris]

Chapter 29 JOSEPHINE, HEROINE OF THE RESISTANCE “That German cow in my blue satin sheets!” If Hitler hadn’t cast out blacks along with Jews, might Josephine have stayed on in ...
( Category: African-American Studies December 12,2015 )
The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe
epub |eng | 1975-12-04 | Author:Tom Wolfe [Wolfe, Tom]

Barnett Newman In any event, if Greenberg was right about Pollock’s status in the world of art—and Pollock wasn’t arguing—then he must also be right about the theories. So Pollock ...
( Category: History December 5,2015 )
Fabritius and the Goldfinch (Kindle Single) by Davis Deborah
azw3 |eng | 2014-07-13 | Author:Davis, Deborah [Davis, Deborah]

From this you learn, always labor wisely, And understand what time and place require. J. Claire Wood, an English ornithologist who found himself bedridden for several months, decided to use ...
( Category: Criticism November 12,2015 )
A People's Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice by Nicolas Lampert
epub |eng | 2012-08-27 | Author:Nicolas Lampert [Lampert, Nicolas]

Visual Testimony Okubo was rewarded for her decision not to agitate those who controlled her freedom. She, along with all the other internees who answered “yes” to the key questions ...
( Category: History October 10,2015 )
Patron Saints by Nicholas Fox Weber
epub |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Nicholas Fox Weber [Weber, Nicholas Fox]

This was not their sole objection, but the local paper could hardly be expected to say that the Russians had found Hartford to be a hostile environment and that they ...
( Category: History October 8,2015 )
Gestures by Flusser Vilém
mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-05-31 | Author:Flusser, Vilém [Flusser, Vilém]

The Gesture of Planting Contrary to superficial first impressions, we are dealing here with an unnatural gesture, “perverse” in a radical sense: for in it, being turns into its opposite. ...
( Category: Phenomenology September 24,2015 )
The Books that Shaped Art History: From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss by Shone Richard & Stonard John-Paul
epub |eng | 2013-04-05 | Author:Shone, Richard & Stonard, John-Paul [Shone, Richard]

Interior spread showing drawings by Pisanello and after Leonardo da Vinci. From Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style, ...
( Category: Criticism September 4,2015 )
Leonardo's Notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-01-07 | Author:Leonardo da Vinci

Force arises from dearth or abundance; it is the child of physical motion, and the grandchild of spiritual motion, and the mother and origin of gravity. IX. Physical Sciences and ...
( Category: Criticism August 25,2015 )

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