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La vida y la obra de Vincent van Gogh están tan entrelazadas que es casi imposible ver sus pinturas sin leer en ellas la historia de su vida: una vida de la que se habló tanto que ya se ha convertido en leyenda. Van Gogh es la encarnación del sufrimiento, un mártir...
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Vincent van Gogh’s life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to see his pictures without reading in them the story of his life, a life which has been described so many times that it is by now the stuff of legend. Van Gogh is the incarnation of the...
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This paradox - the sadness and health of the country - reflects van Gogh’s own situation: nature always was a kind of home for him - a home that he could never share with anyone else. In Saint-Rémy, van Gogh had worked on a picture named The Reaper:
“For I see in this...
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Greek art, at the very moment that it was breaking up in depth, was scattering over the whole material surface of Hellenic antiquity. After the movement of concentration that had brought to Athens all the forces of Hellenism, a movement of dispersal began, which was to...
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Egyptian art is perhaps the most impersonal that exists. The artist effaces himself. But he has such an innate sense of life, a sense so directly moved and so limpid that everything of life which he describes seems defi ned by that sense, to issue from the natural...
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Ukiyo-e („Bilder der fließenden Welt“) ist die Bezeichnung für eine in der glanzvollen Edo-Ära (1605-1868) entstandene japanische Kunstbewegung. Der diesen Drucken verliehene hedonistische Name war als ein ironischer Kontrast zu der buddhistischen Astralebene der...
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Este libro ofrece una perspectiva radicalmente novedosa sobre la llamada creativa dinámica Arte Pop que ha estado presente desde la década de los años 1950. Y lo consigue al realzar el término “Pop Art” que siempre ha sido reconocido como nombre inapropiado, pues...
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This book offers a radically new perspective on the so-called ‘Pop Art’ creative dynamic that has been around since the 1950s. It does so by enhancing the term ‘Pop Art’ which has always been recognised as a misnomer, for it obscures far more than it clarifies. Instead,...
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Dieses Buch bietet eine völlig neue Sicht auf die in den 1950er Jahren aufgekommene so genannte “Pop Art”. Der zentrale Ansatz dieses Buches weitet die schon immer die Verhältnisse eher verdunkelnde als erhellende Bezeichnung des Terminus “Pop Art” aus und befasst sich...
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In the arts, Neoclassicism is a historical tradition or aesthetic attitude based on the art of Greece and Rome in antiquity. The movement started around the 18th-century, age of Enlightenment, and continued into the early 19th-century The general credo associated with...
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“La iconografía cristiana y, sobre todo, la representación de Cristo, se basa en la doctrina de la encarnación. De la misma manera que el teólogo se expresa a través del pensamiento, el iconógrafo, a través de su arte, expresa la verdad viviente, la revelación que posee...
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Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, E.-L. Kirchner, Paul Klee, Franz Marc y los austriacos Oskar Kokoschka y Egon Schiele pertenecieron a la generación de artistas de gran individualidad que contribuyeron al nuevo movimiento, intenso y con frecuencia...
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The French painter Robert Delaunay (1885-1941) revolutionised the use of colour in art. Influenced by the French master Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), close friends with the French poet Apollinaire (1880-1918) and admired by the German painter Paul Klee (1879-1940), he...
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Poco antes de su muerte, Claude Monet escribió: "Todavía lamento el haber sido la causa del nombre que se le dio a este grupo, ya que la mayoría de los artistas no eran impresionistas en absoluto". Comenzando con esta paradoja, la de un conjunto de artistas que se...
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Dada shocked the world between the years 1916 and 1922.Dada was not an art movement in the normal sense. It was a storm that broke over the art scene of the time, as the war upon the peoples. They consciously staged anti-art events. According to Max Ernst, it was the...
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Mario Praz: Voice Centre Stage is the first collection of essays in English on Italian writerMario Praz (1896-1982), a central figure of twentieth-century culture and international literary relations. Praz’s formidable oeuvre spanned six decades and covered such topics...
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From Late Antiquity to ca. 1500, the exchange of artistic expressions, literary formulas and moral ideals allowed successive bishops to generate and transform the paradigmatic buildings and devices epitomising episcopal power, both in life and posthumously by dictating...
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The period from the 1870s to the 1920s was marked by an interplay between nationalisms and internationalisms, culminating in the First World War, on the one hand, and the creation of the League of Nations, on the other.The arts were central to this debate, contributing...
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The book deals with the problems of media communication and its formation in the Slovak Republic in and after 1993. It focuses on the social function of the media in the sense of journalistic communication.The authors also address the problems of gender stereotypes...
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Das Schicksal der Altieri Familie im Rom der Frühen Neuzeit zeigt beispielhaft die soziokulturelle Entwicklung Roms, des Papsttums und deren Wirkungskreise in Italien und Europa. Die Aufarbeitung neuer Dokumente aus dem Altieri Archiv und dem Geheimarchiv des Vatikans...
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