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This book is a new account of the surrealist movement in France between the two world wars. It examines the uses that surrealist artists and writers made of ideas and images associated with the French Revolution, describing a complex relationship between surrealism’s...
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Das Urheberrechtsgesetz macht das Bestehen verschiedener Ansprüche vom Vorliegen eines Originals abhängig, definiert den Begriff aber nicht. Gerade das Folgerecht, das für Künstler eine wichtige Einnahmequelle ist, setzt ein Original voraus. Die Arbeit untersucht die...
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The philosophical essays collected here are predicated on the conviction that we live in a time when all-encompassing philosophical systems can no longer be seriously entertained as a true reflection of extant reality. Instead, an indefinite number of perspectives on –...
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Schilderungen von stürmischem Meer sind in der Literatur des Mittelalters weit verbreitet, bislang aber von der Forschung stark vernachlässigt worden. Diese Arbeit erschließt der Mediävistik ein neues Motiv und mit diesem einen neuen Blickwinkel auf die Forschung zur...
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Sculpture was no occupation for a lady in Victorian Britain. Yet between 1837 and 1901 the number of professional female sculptors increased sixteen-fold. The four principal women sculptors of that era are the focus of this book. Once known for successful careers marked...
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The strict prohibition on the representation of the human
form has channeled artistic creation into architecture and
architectural decoration. This book is a magical tour
through Central Asia - Khirgizia, Tadjikistan, Turkmenia,
and Uzbekistan - a ...
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What happened to the insolence of the 18th-century libertines or to the carefree excesses of the Belle Époque and its legalized brothels? They have merely been inhibited and buried by the nowadays political correctness and the aggressive one-eyed ...
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Men’s fashion, particularly the trends involving undergarments, was once reserved for the elite; today it has become democratised, clear proof of social progress.The aestheticism of the body so highly valued by the Greeks seems to have regained a ...
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The prolific master J. M. W. Turner was born in Covent Garden in 1775 and has left over 19,000 artworks that have eventually given to the fog of London its Turnerian savour. Turner was one of the most important Romantic when it came to landscapes, ...
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As well as being one of the leading figures in the American Pop Art movement, Andy Warhol was a painter, printmaker, occasional sculptor and filmmaker whose work carried on the tradition of Dadaism which questioned the very validity of art itself. ...
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It took a mid-twentieth century art show in Milan to rediscover this Italian artist, emblematic of the Baroque period, who lived during the second half of the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries. Michelangelo Merisi was born to a family of ...
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Edward Hopper, born in Nyack in 1882, remains one of the most important American painters. After studying to be an illustrator, he entered the famous New York School of Art, where he studied under the direction of Robert Henri, whose influence on ...
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“Studying nature with passion, and all the independence proper to his character, he could not fail to combine precision with liberty, and truth with beauty. It is in this final emancipation, this perfect mastery of modelling, of illumination, and ...
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“Studying nature with passion, and all the independence proper to his character, he could not fail to combine precision with liberty, and truth with beauty. It is in this final emancipation, this perfect mastery of modelling, of illumination, and ...
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An emblematic figure of the early 20th century, Paul Klee participated in the expansive Avant-Garde movements in Germany and Switzerland. From the vibrant Blaue Reiter movement to Surrealism at the end of the 1930s and throughout his teaching years ...
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“I was aware of Diego Rivera, the Mexican muralist, long before I encountered the many other “Diego Riveras” that roamed the world between the beginning of the twentieth century and the late 1950s. […] While his easel paintings and drawings ...
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Émile Verhaeren (1855–1916), art critic, poet and homme de lettres, was a man whose vision transcended his native Belgium. With close ties to Mallarmé in France and Rilke in Germany, Verhaeren, a peripatetic student of the arts, readily traveled to Paris, Berlin,...
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This book explores interaction and competition between painting and literature in France, from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth, offering new readings of works by key figures including Paul Gauguin, Stéphane Mallarmé, Pablo Picasso and André Gide....
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Das Arbeiten in Kollektiven ist in der Gegenwartskunst zur Selbstverständlichkeit geworden. Werke und Projekte sind häufig Ergebnis von Verhandlungen und dem Zusammenspiel zahlreicher Akteure. Die Kunstgeschichte ist weiterhin dominiert vom Einzelkünstler und seinem...
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Giorgio Vasari’s Prefaces: Art and Theory provides students and scholars alike with the opportunity to study and understand the art, theory, and visual culture ofGiorgio Vasari and sixteenth century Italy. For the first time all of Vasari’s Prefaces from the Lives of...
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