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de Gruyter Antike Und Theater Heute
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Prestel Coloring Book Jan Vermeer
Book SynopsisBig art for little hands, these enchanting activity books allow young artists to explore the world’s masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty of space to color outside the lines.
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Indian Craftsman
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Instituto Monsa de Ediciones Murals
Book SynopsisFilled with full-colour photography, this is a superb visual celebration of one of the most prominent and exciting forms of street art murals and large-scale illustrations. Bringing together some of the of finest works from world-renowned street artists, Murals, reveals how this how this niche-art form is transforming the look of cities and towns around the world with many artists now being asked to create works on specific buildings.
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Weights of Laos and the Mekong Region
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National Gallery Singapore Awesome Art: The Next 20 Works Everyone Should Know
Book SynopsisExplore the awesome world of art through 20 awesome works from Southeast Asia! Perfect for the young and young at heart, Awesome Art dispels the notion that art is a difficult domain, introducing instead its colourful stories and personalities, as well as the diverse styles and forms artworks can take. Besides learning to understand and look at art, readers will also be able to see how art is inextricably connected to the world around us. Beautifully reproduced in full colour, the 20 artworks featured in Awesome Art are also accompanied by original illustrations, fun facts and questions.
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Hatje Cantz Per Kirkeby Bronze Kaltnadel Holz
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Argonowta Digital The Prado. Art Guide: 96 essential masterpieces
Book SynopsisThe most wonderful and clear art guide to explore and learn all the fundamentals of the greatest works, artists, schools of art and styles in the Prado Museum. Discover the Prado, one of the premier art galleries in the world. Explore and appreciate the greatest masterpieces and the artists who created them: El Greco, Velázquez, Goya, Botticelli, Raphael, the Venetians, Rubens, Rembrandt, Lorraine, Poussin, 19th century Spanish painting plus the best sculptural and decorative works it treasures in its collections. Learn its history and transformation from picture gallery to global treasured museum, which houses one of the very best collections of European art in the world including the most complete collection of Spanish paintings.
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Argonowta Digital The Louvre. Art Guide: 120 essential masterpieces
Book SynopsisThe essential artistic guide to discover and learn the essentials of the greatest works, artists and styles in the Louvre Museum.Discover the immense art collection of the Louvre Museum, from Oriental, Egyptian, Greco-Roman and medieval antiquities to the great works of the Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Painting, sculpture and decorative arts from all periods and civilizations. Works by great French masters such as Poussin and David, Flemish painters such as Rubens and Van Dyck, Dutch artists such as Rembrandt, Italian masters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian and Tintoretto, and Spanish artists such as El Greco, Zurbarán, Velázquez and Goya. An essential book to delve into the structure of the Louvre palace and its dependencies, learning in detail about 120 essential masterpieces among the more than 400,000 pieces contained in the most important museum in the world.
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Cinco Tintas Cómo Se Hace El Arte
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Editorial Juventud S.A. A stroll with Mr Gaudi
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Taylor & Francis Medieval Art Second Edition
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Taylor & Francis Memento Mori in Contemporary Art
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Taylor & Francis Ltd CyberneticExistentialism Freedom Systems and
Book SynopsisCybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance offers a unique discourse and an original aesthetic theory. It argues that fusing perspectives from the philosophy of Existentialism with insights from the universal science' of cybernetics provides a new analytical lens and deconstructive methodology to critique art. In this study, Steve Dixon examines how a range of artists' works reveal the ideas of Existentialist philosophers including Kierkegaard, Camus, de Beauvoir, and Sartre on freedom, being and nothingness, eternal recurrence, the absurd, and being-for-others. Simultaneously, these artworks are shown to engage in complex explorations of concepts proposed by cyberneticians including Wiener, Shannon, and Bateson on information theory and noise', feedback loops, circularity, adaptive ecosystems, autopoiesis, and emergence. Dixon's groundbreaking book demonstrates how fusing insights and knowledTable of Contents1. Introduction: Cybernetics and Existentialism in Arts and Popular Culture; 2. Visual Art: The Aesthetics of Systems; 3. Interactive Art: Communicating, Controlling and Being-for-Others; 4. Participatory Art: Autopoiesis with Strangers; 5. Theater Art: Staging Cybernetics, Dread, and the Existential Crisis; 6. Performance art: actualizing science fiction and invoking transcendence; 7. Identity Art: The Adaptive System of the Authentic Self; 8. Uncanny Art: Existential Absurdity within Cybernetic Environments; 9. Conclusion: the eternal return and being-in-new-systems
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Taylor & Francis Surrealism in Britain Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Contemporary Art in Heritage Spaces
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Taylor & Francis Visual Words
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ideologies of the Real in Title Sequences Motion Graphics and Cinema Routledge Studies in Media Theory and Practice
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Taylor & Francis Arts in Place
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Taylor & Francis Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Psychology of Art The Psychology of Everything
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Taylor & Francis An Introduction to Visual Culture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Portraiture and Early Studio Photography in China
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the early history of the photographic studio and portrait in China and Japan. The institution of the photographic studio has received relatively little attention in the history of photography; contributors here investigate various manifestations of the studio as a place and as a space that was cultural, economic, and creative. Its authors also look closely at the studio portrait not as images alone, but also as collaborative ventures between studio operators and sitters, opportunities to invent new roles, images that merged the new medium with traditional visual practices, as well as the portrait's part in devising modern, gendered, nationalistic, and public identities for its subjects. As the first collection of its kind, Portraiture and Early Studio Photography in China and Japan analyzes the photographic likenessits producers, subjects, viewers, and pictorial formsand argues for the historical significance of the photographic studio as a specific Trade Review"All the essays in this book are well-written, accessible and thoroughly-researched, as well as wide-ranging and appealing to whatever area of interest in the subject the reader might have. I have not discussed them all because to do so would be to rewrite the introduction, which gives an excellent overview of the subject and the purpose of each essay. Anyone interested in early photography should read this book, and Routledge should be commended for presenting it in such an attractive format, on decent quality paper with clearly-reproduced illustrations."-- Asian Review of Books"The editors maintain a balance between contributions on Japan and on China. Their organization nicely structures the flow of the chapters, building on issues starting from the empirical and moving toward the representational. The contributors’ attention to photographic technique, composition, circulation, and display is just one common denominator; others are skillfully using contemporaneous print sources and a shared solid fidelity to the photographic image as the anchor of their studies. Although some of these chapters are more original and fruitful than others, they all maintain a high quality and make their own individual contribution to photography studies, our growing understanding of the importance of portraiture, and the emerging histories of photography in China and Japan."-- Trans Asia Photography Review"The book itself is beautifully designed, well edited, and the text and images professionally presented. People interested in the history of photography, photography in Asia, technology and the modernization of society (women and photography), the interaction of artists and their subjects, the artistic milieu of the portrait studio, photography as it related to traditional and cultural art forms and values, and the rise and demise of studio photography, will want to read this book and to have it part of their library."-- H-Japan"[This book] puts a spotlight on one of the least-studied areas of the history of photography. The value in this new title truly lies in its ability to fill a longstanding gap in scholarship with excellent quality and approachably-delivered original research."-- ARLIS/NA"Portraiture and Early Studio Photography in China and Japan, the volume of essays edited by Gartlan and Wue, shows how much we have to learn from 'the diverse roles of the subject invoked in photographic sittings, the medium’s association with and incorporation into ‘traditional’ visual practices and cultural systems, and photography’s part in devising modern, gendered, and public identities for its subjects.'"-- Cross-Currents"The book adds to expanding research about the histories of portraiture and early studio photography, that have traditionally sat outside of the western canon of photography. ...This is a fascinating read and one which illuminates cultural insight into early Chinese and Japanese socio-cultural behaviours. The appeal alongside of photographic and social historians can equally be of interest to cultural anthropologists."-- Visual StudiesTable of ContentsTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsNote on TransliterationAcknowledgmentsNotes on Contributors1 Introduction Luke Gartlan and Roberta WuePart I Studios and Photographers2 Shimizu Tōkoku and the Japanese Carte de Visite: Circumscriptions of Yokohama PhotographyLuke Gartlan3 Group Encounters: Milton M. Miller’s Hong Kong and Canton PhotographsRoberta Wue4 Powkee and the Era of Large StudiosYi GuPart II Sitters and Domestic Markets5 Guiding the Sitter: Matsuzaki Shinji’s Dos and Don’ts for the Photographic CustomerSebastian Dobson 6 Chinese Ideas of Likeness: Painting, Photography, and IntermedialityClaire Roberts7 Inscribed Photographic Portraits: Commemoration and Self-Fashioning in Republican-Period ChinaRichard K. Kent 8 One, and the Same: The Double in Photographic Portraiture from Republican China H. Tiffany LeePart III Citizens and Subjects9 The Fluidity of Representation: Early Photographs, Asakusa, and KabukiMaki Fukuoka10 From Private to Public: Shifting Conceptions of Women’s Portrait Photography in Late Meiji JapanKaren M. Fraser11 The Republican Lady, the Courtesan, and the Photograph: Visibility and Sexuality in Early Twentieth-Century ChinaJoan JudgeAppendix Matsuzaki Shinji’s Dos and Don’ts for the Photographic CustomerTranslated by Sebastian DobsonGlossary of Chinese and Japanese CharactersBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mary of Mercy in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Art
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Taylor & Francis Nationalism and Popular Culture Popular Culture and World Politics
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Taylor & Francis Art Critical Pedagogy and Capitalism
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Taylor & Francis Visual and Cultural Identity Constructs of Global Youth and Young Adults
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Taylor & Francis Contemporary Art Photography and the Politics of
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes recent artistic and activist projects in order to conceptualize the new roles and goals of a critical theory and practice of art and photography. Vered Maimon argues that current artistic and activist practices are no longer concerned with the âœpolitics of representationâ and the critique of the spectacle, but with a âœpolitics of rightsâ and the performative formation of shared yet highly contested public domains.The book thus offers a critical framework in which to rethink the artistic, the activist, and the political under globalization. The primary focus is on the ways contemporary artists and activists examine political citizenship as a paradox where subjects are struggling to acquire rights whose formulation rests on attributes they allegedly don't have; while the universal political validity of these rights presupposes precisely the abstraction of every form of difference, rights for all.The book will be of interest to scholars working in artTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Third Citizen: Critique, Belief, and the Problem of Appearance 2. Medium, (Re)Mediation, and the Circulation of Affect 3. The Pulse of the Archive: On the Lives of Images
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Taylor & Francis The Domestic Interior and the Self in
Book SynopsisBy carefully conceptualising the domestic in relation to the self and the photographic, this book offers a unique contribution to both photography theory and criticism, and life-narrative studies. Jane Simon brings together two critical practices into a new conversation, arguing that artists who harness domestic photography can advance a more expansive understanding of the autobiographical.Exploring the idea that self-representation need not equate to self-portraiture or involve the human form, artists from around the globe are examined, including Rinko Kawauchi, Catherine Opie, Dayanita Singh, Moyra Davey, and Elina Brotherus, who maintain a personal gaze at domestic detail. By treating the representation of interiors, domestic objects, and the very practice of photographic seeing and framing as autobiographical gestures, this book reframes the relationship between interiors and exteriors, public and private, and insists on the importance of domestic interiors to understandiTable of Contents1. Introduction: photography, domesticity, interiors 2. Domestic things: animating objects and the still life 3. Domestic time: diaries, habits, durations 4. Domestic selves: relationality and slow portraiture 5. Domestic display: proximity and the handheld Conclusion: Windows, doorways, footpaths
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