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Acorn by Yoko Ono
epub |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Yoko Ono

Cleaning Piece III Try to say nothing negative about anybody. a) for three days b) for forty-five days c) for three months See what happens to your life. Cleaning Piece ...
( Category: Beatles March 22,2015 )
Peter Selz by Paul J. Karlstrom
epub |eng | | Author:Paul J. Karlstrom

Eventually I said, “Well, okay, it’s about time to get somebody else to run the museum,” hoping that my resignation . . . would prompt the administration to find more ...
( Category: History March 22,2015 )
A History of Roman Art by Steven L. Tuck
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Steven L. Tuck

Suggestions for Further Reading Larry F. Ball, Domus Aurea and the Roman Architectural Revolution (Cambridge University Press 2003). This thorough study of Nero’s grand palace includes a needed comprehensive analysis ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 3,2015 )
Radical History and the Politics of Art by Gabriel Rockhill
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:Gabriel Rockhill

AESTHETIC GENEALOGY In a revealing interview, Rancière candidly admits his indebtedness to Michel Foucault: “The genealogy of the concept of literature that I have attempted in La Parole muette [Mute ...
( Category: Deconstruction March 3,2015 )
A Needle in the Right Hand of God by R. Howard Bloch
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:R. Howard Bloch [Bloch, R. Howard]

Fragment of textile from Oseberg, Norway, buried ca. A.D. 950 © MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, NORWAY Unlike the Bayeux Tapestry, the Oseberg textile contains no writing and ...
( Category: England February 15,2015 )
The Roots of Romanticism (Second Edition) by Berlin Isaiah Hardy Henry Gray John
epub |eng | 2013-02-12 | Author:Berlin, Isaiah, Hardy, Henry, Gray, John

1 ‘Fanatical gush’. 1 As to the fallacies of this doctrine, I shall not enter into them here, for it would take me too far afield; but this is the ...
( Category: History February 13,2015 )
Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizatio by David Standish
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-09-09 | Author:David Standish [Standish, David]

Koreshan children dressed in costumes, standing in front of the Tea House. (Koreshan State Historic Site) They also had a little riverside outdoor theater. As Carl Carmer, a New Yorker ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy February 8,2015 )
The Ugly Renaissance by Alexander Lee
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Alexander Lee [Lee, Alexander]

THE UGLY: MERCENARIES ON THE EDGE OF MADNESS If condottieri like Sir John Hawkwood and Federico da Montefeltro were bad, Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta was the paradigm of all that was ...
( Category: History February 5,2015 )
The Book of Books
epub |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:Melvyn Bragg

Its use and its purpose could appear to have come to an end. The weapon of destruction, of course, was a book, by the leading star in the constellation of ...
( Category: General January 29,2015 )
Old Masters, New World by Cynthia Saltzman
epub |eng | 2012-11-17 | Author:Cynthia Saltzman [Saltzman Cynthia]

The “greatest Rembrandt” was a large, late ­self-­portrait, signed and dated 1658, when the artist was ­fifty-­two, and at what many believed to be the height of his powers. For ...
( Category: History January 29,2015 )
Fighting Temeraire by Sam Willis
epub |eng | | Author:Sam Willis

These sketches and notes would form the main source material for Turner’s two magnificent paintings of Trafalgar and would plant a seed in his mind that would germinate thirty years ...
( Category: Naval January 29,2015 )
Goya by Robert Hughes
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Robert Hughes [Hughes, Robert]

Goya, Asensio Juliá, 1798. Oil on canvas, 56 × 42 cm. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. (illustration credit 6.27) Goya, Milagro de San Antonio de Padua (The Miracle of St. Anthony of ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers January 29,2015 )
Lee Krasner by Gail Levin
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Gail Levin

BY 1955, KRASNER HAD TO LOOK TO HER OWN WORK FOR SOLACE. She must have determined not to let Pollock pull her down with him into the abyss. The critic ...
( Category: Women January 29,2015 )
Ancient Greece by Thomas R. Martin
epub |eng | 2013-01-20 | Author:Thomas R. Martin

SEVEN Culture and Society in Classical Athens As mentioned in the previous chapter, the prosperity and cultural achievements of Athens in the mid-fifth century B.C. have led to this period ...
( Category: Greece January 21,2015 )
Modernism by Peter Childs
mobi |eng | 2011-05-06 | Author:Peter Childs

Everything I have done has been influenced by Flaubert and Cézanne, and this gave me a new feeling about composition. Up to that time composition had consisted of a central ...
( Category: Modernism January 17,2015 )

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