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Cambridge University Press Literature Art and the Pursuit of Decay in TwentiethCentury France 66 Cambridge Studies in French Series Number 66
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Cambridge University Press Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era C.680850
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Cambridge University Press EighteenthCentury Aesthetics and the Reconstruction of Art
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Cambridge University Press Lorenzo deMedici Collector of Antiquities
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Cambridge University Press The Subjects of Art History
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Cambridge University Press Rembrandts Bathsheba Reading King Davids Letter
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Cambridge University Press Visualizing Labor in American Sculpture
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Cambridge University Press Masaccios Trinity
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Cambridge University Press Design Paradigms
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Cambridge University Press Masaccios Trinity
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Cambridge University Press The End of the Salon Art and the State in the Early Third Republic Cambridge New Art History Criticism S
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Cambridge University Press The Cult of the AvantGarde Artist
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Cambridge University Press The Rhetoric of Purity
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Cambridge University Press Manets Le Déjeuner sur lherbe
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Cambridge University Press Jan Van Eycks Arnolfini Portrait
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1993, Arnolfini Portrait: Stories of an Icon examines one of the earliest and most celebrated paintings in the history of European art from a variety of perspectives. In her lucid analysis, Seidel considers this famous double portrait as social record, legal document, material object, and poetic fiction.Table of Contents1. The burdens of matrimony; 2. The business of painting; 3. The power of sight; 4. Poetic fictions; Epilogue: Founder's heritage.
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Cambridge University Press Visualizing Boccaccio
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Cambridge University Press Women Art and Spirituality
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Cambridge University Press Art and Society in Cyprus from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age
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Cambridge University Press Greek Vasepainting and the Origins of Visual Humour
Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive study of visual humour in ancient Greece, with special emphasis on works created in Athens and Boeotia. Alexandre G. Mitchell brings an interdisciplinary approach to this topic, combining theories and methods of art history, archaeology and classics with the anthropology of humour, and thereby establishing new ways of looking at art and visual humour in particular. Understanding what visual humour was to the ancients and how it functioned as a tool of social cohesion is only one facet of this study. Mitchell also focuses on the social truths that his study of humour unveils: democracy and freedom of expression; politics and religion; Greek vases and trends in fashion; market-driven production; proper and improper behaviour; popular versus elite culture; carnival in situ; and the place of women, foreigners, workers and labourers within the Greek city. Richly illustrated with more than 140 drawings and photographs, this study amply documents the comic represeTrade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'The author is thorough and I can think of no genre of Greek humour which he has overlooked, and he has been as thorough with the relevant literary evidence as with the representational. The book is very fully illustrated.' Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewReview of the hardback: 'Caricature, parody, overt sexual imagery, drunkenness, gender stereotyping, and the deconstruction of myths are investigated, categorized, and interpreted with exemplary thoroughness and psychological subtlety.' Columbia University: Choice ReviewReview of the hardback: 'This broad survey of scenes of visual humor will serve as a valuable starting point for further research. The extensive lists and citations will make the book an aid for further work on humor and should encourage more synthesis and refinement of theoretical approaches to visual humor.' American Journal of ArchaeologyTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Humour in the city: the world of men, women and animals; 3. Humour in the city: gods, heroes and myth; 4. Satyrs and comic parody; 5. Caricatures in Athens and at the Kabirion sanctuary in Boeotia; 6. Conclusion: vases, humour and society.
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Cambridge University Press Rhetoric beyond Words Delight and Persuasion in the Arts of the Middle Ages 78 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 78
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Cambridge University Press The Mythology of Kingship in NeoAssyrian Art
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Cambridge University Press Pythagoras and Renaissance Europe Finding Heaven
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Cambridge University Press The Emperor and Rome Space Representation and Ritual 35 Yale Classical Studies Series Number 35
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Cambridge University Press Conceptual Art Theory Myth and Practice
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Cambridge University Press Reformed Theology and Visual Culture
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Cambridge University Press The Drawings of Michelangelo and his Followers in the Ashmolean Museum
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Cambridge University Press Pausanias Greece
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Cambridge University Press The Altars and Altarpieces of New St. Peters
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Cambridge University Press Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates 07 The New Cambridge History of India
Book SynopsisThe Muslim kingdoms of the Deccan plateau flourished from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries. During this period, the Deccan sultans built palaces, mosques and tombs, and patronised artists who produced paintings and decorative objects. Many of these buildings and works of art still survive as testimony to the sophisticated techniques of their craftsmen. This volume is the first to offer an overall survey of these architectural and artistic traditions and to place them within their historical context. The links which existed between the Deccan and the Middle East, for example, are discernible in Deccani architecture and paintings, and a remarkable collection of photographs, many of which have never been published before, testify to these influences. The book will be a source of inspiration to all those interested in the rich and diverse culture of India, as well as to those concerned with the artistic heritage of the Middle East.Trade Review' … a book into which you will be drawn - and at some points will almost drown - in the powerfully and sumptuously exotic works of art which are discussed. It would be difficult to imagine two scholars better suited to present the architectural and artistic heritage of this huge region, for George Michell and Mark Zebrowski have made this subject their own.' Richard Blurton, British Museum Magazine'In this jointly authored work Michell is mainly responsible for the discusiions on architecture, while Zebrowski deals with the visual arts, including the arts of the book and miniature painting as well as metal work and other minor arts. Discussions on these topics are clear and informative and are supposed by illustrations, many in colour.' The Times Higher Education Supplement' … analyses the architecture and art that flourished in western, central and southern India between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. The book's subtitle Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanate is misleading because the book also incorporates the artistic creations of several non-Sultanate kingdoms such as the Mughals and the Marathas. The authors have taken a very broad view of both 'architecture' and 'art': 'architecture' includes not only palaces, forts, gateways, tombs, mosques and temples but also the plans and layouts of the urban and semi-urban settlements housing the above buildings. Similarly, 'art' includes within its fold, wall and miniature paintings, painted wall and floor tiles, sculptures and textiles, besides artifacts in stone, wood and metal … The authors have painstakingly visited and photographed the various Sultanate sites and buildings. In addition, they have also identified and examined, for the first time ever, the Sultanate artifacts in the collection of libraries and museums in UK, France, Germany and USA … The most interesting and informative sections of the book are those dealing with the Middle Eastern influences on the art and culture of the Deccan.' Indian Review of Books'To the non-specialist, even with some knowledge of the art and architecture of the Mughals in North India, the individuality, variety and exuberance of Deccani art and architecture, admirably surveyed in the present handbook, will come as a delightful surprise.' Burlington Magazine'In this scholarly desert, The Art and Architecture of the Deccan Sultanates in the New Cambridge History of India is a major landmark. It is also one of the most beautifully written works of Indian art history published for many years, combining rigorous scholarship with an aesthetic sensitivity and a feeling for language all too rare in modern academia. One of the authors, Mark Zebrowski, died shortly after finishing it. The power of his prose and the perception of his eye are amply demonstrated by the remarkable chapters he has contributed to this book. As scholars of the period are already discovering, his death has created a gap it will be very difficult to fill.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Historical framework; 2. Forts and palaces; 3. Mosques and tombs; 4. Architectural decoration; 5. Miniature painting: Ahmadnagar and Bijnapur; 6. Miniature painting: Golconda and other centres; 7. Textiles, metalwork and stone objects; 8. Temples; 9. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy
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Cambridge University Press Bunuels Discreet Charm Bourgeoisie Cambridge Film Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Defining the Renaissance Virtuosa
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Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of RockArt
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Cambridge University Press The Scramble for Art in Central Africa
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Cambridge University Press Picassos Les Demoiselles DAvignon
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Cambridge University Press Picassos Les demoiselles dAvignon
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Cambridge University Press The Vocation of the Artist
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Cambridge University Press The Royal Image
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Cambridge University Press Cervantes Raphael and the Classics
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Cambridge University Press Antiquity and its Interpreters
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Cambridge University Press Art and the Early Greek State
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Cambridge University Press The Grosvenor Gallery Exhibitions
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Cambridge University Press Achille Bocchi and the Emblem Book as Symbolic Form
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Cambridge University Press John Stuart Mill
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Cambridge University Press Nuns Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and CounterReformation Italy
Book SynopsisThis well-illustrated and innovative book analyses convent culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the medium of three unpublished nuns' chronicles, using a comparative methodology of 'connected differences' to examine their intellectual and imaginative achievement, and to investigate how they fashioned and preserved individual and convent identities by writing chronicles.Trade Review'… splendid in its objectivity, allowing its primary sources to speak for themselves … Professor Lowe is much to be commended on the thoroughness of her study. This is historical writing at its best: focused, colourful, vibrant.' Art Newspaper'K. J. P. Lowe's Nun's Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy is a truly impressive work that reflects the wide range and depth of its author's knowledge of Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italian culture. Lowe does a fine job of bringing these neglected writings to life, and into a context which invites further imaginative engagement with these nun's lives.' Reformation' … important and richly nuanced …'. Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. History Writing and Authorship: 1. The creation of chronicles: contents and appearance; 2. The authors of the chronicles; Part II. Historical and Cultural Context: 3. The convents and physical space; 4. Nuns and convent communities; 5. Rules and traditions; Part III. Chronicles and the Culture of Convent Identity: 6. The chronicles and ceremonial life; 7. Cultural creativity and cultural production; 8. Convents and art; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of Ancient Greece Cambridge World Archaeology
Book SynopsisA synthesis of research on the material culture of Greece in the Archaic and Classical periods. The book shows how material evidence can be used to address historical questions for which literary evidence is often insufficient, and situates Greek art within the broader field of Greek material culture.Trade Review'… a magisterial survey of the current state of Greek archaeology …'. The Anglo-Hellenic Review'… deserves the attention of us all … an excellent account of what the discipline is, where it has been, and where it is now'. Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPart I. Approaches to Greek Archaeology: 1. Introduction: classical archaeology and its objects; 2. Great traditions: classical scholarship and classical archaeology; 3. Modern archaeologies of Greece; 4. Chronology and terminology; Part II. Archaic Greece: 5. Archaic Greece, 1000–700 BC; 6. The Aegean, the Levant and the West: the orientalising phenomenon; 7. Gods, heroes and sacred places; 8. The city, the state and the Polis; 9. Art, narrative and monumentality; 10. Regional archaeologies; Part III. Classical Greece: 11. Defining the classical: classical art; 12. Cities and sanctuaries of Classical Greece; 13. The archaeology of democracy: Classical Athens; 14. Beyond the Polis: the countryside of Classical Greece; 15. Epilogue: towards Hellenistic archaeology.
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Cambridge University Press The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance
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Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of Ancient Greece Cambridge World Archaeology
Book SynopsisThe Archaeology of Ancient Greece provides a synthesis of research on the material culture of Greece in the Archaic and Classical periods (1000â300 BC). The rich and diverse material culture of ancient Greece has always provoked admiration and even wonder, but it is seldom analysed as a key to our understanding of Greek civilisation. Dr Whitley shows how the material evidence can be used to address central historical questions for which literary evidence is often insufficient. He also situates Greek art within the broader field of Greek material culture, providing an historically more accurate perspective on both. This is a significant contribution to the integration of archaeological and art historical evidence.Trade Review'… a magisterial survey of the current state of Greek archaeology …'. The Anglo-Hellenic Review'… deserves the attention of us all … an excellent account of what the discipline is, where it has been, and where it is now'. Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPart I. Approaches to Greek Archaeology: 1. Introduction: classical archaeology and its objects; 2. Great traditions: classical scholarship and classical archaeology; 3. Modern archaeologies of Greece; 4. Chronology and terminology; Part II. Archaic Greece: 5. Archaic Greece, 1000–700 BC; 6. The Aegean, the Levant and the West: the orientalising phenomenon; 7. Gods, heroes and sacred places; 8. The city, the state and the Polis; 9. Art, narrative and monumentality; 10. Regional archaeologies; Part III. Classical Greece: 11. Defining the classical: classical art; 12. Cities and sanctuaries of Classical Greece; 13. The archaeology of democracy: Classical Athens; 14. Beyond the Polis: the countryside of Classical Greece; 15. Epilogue: towards Hellenistic archaeology.
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