General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 1968
Category : English imprints
ISBN :
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher :
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 1959
Category : English imprints
ISBN :
Book Description
Broken Tablets
Author : Jonathan P. Ribner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520308891
Book Description
In this first study of art, law, and the legislator, Jonathan Ribner provides a revealing look at French art from 1789 to 1848, the period in which constitutional law was established in France. Drawing on several disciplines, he discusses how each of the early constitutional regimes in France used imagery suggesting the divine origin and sacred character of its laws. Primarily a study of art and politics, Broken Tablets discusses painting, sculpture, prints, and medals (many reproduced here for the first time), as well as contemporary literature, including the poetry of Alfred de Vigny, Alphonse de Lamartine, and Victor Hugo. Ribner assesses the ways in which legislation imagery became an instrument of political propaganda, and he clearly illuminates the cult of the law as it became personalized under Napoleon, monarchist under the Restoration, and defensive under Louis-Phillipe.
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal
Author : The J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,71 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892360909
Book Description
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 13 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, decorative arts, drawings, paintings, and photographs. This volume includes a supplement introduced by John Walsh with a fully illustrated checklist of the Getty’s recent acquisitions. Volume 13 includes articles written by Helayna I. Thickpenny, Michael Pfrommer, Klaus Parlasca, Heidemaire Koch, Jean-Dominique Augarde, Colin Streeter, Gillian Wilson, Charissa Bremer-David, C. Gay Nieda, Adrian Sassoon, Selma Holo, Marcel Roethlisberger, Louise Lippincott, Mark Leonard, Burton B. Fredericksen, Nigel Glendinning, Eleanor Sayre, and William Innes Homer.
Bodyscape
Author : Nicholas Mirzoeff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 1134859783
Book Description
Western art has long sought to visualize the perfect body. Whether composed from fragments or derived from a single model, this ideal, straight, white body is now in crisis. But what will take its place? In Bodyscape, Nicholas Mirzoeff traces the roots of our current obsession with body images from revolutionary France to contemporary New York. He argues that the representation of the body has always shaped, and been shaped by, crises of political and cultural identity. Mirzoeff's illuminating study engages with artists' work in painting, sculpture, photography and film, showing the centrality of the body in the work of artists ranging from Leonardo, Manet and Poussin, to photographers Julia Margaret Cameron and Paul Strand, to Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith and Nancy Spero.
England and Her Soldiers
Author : Harriet Martineau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1108020569
Book Description
Martineau analyses the history of military hygiene and its effect on the health and performance of soldiers in war.
Gustave Courbet
Author : Georges Riat
Publisher : Parkstone Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
Child of materialism and positivism, Courbet was without a doubt one of the most complex painters of the nineteenth century. Symbolising the rejection of traditions, Courbet did not hesitate to confront the public with the truth by liberating painting of conventional rules. He became from then on the leader of pictorial realism.
Roman Baroque Sculpture
Author : Jennifer Montagu
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 11,68 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300053661
Book Description
Draws on contemporary biographies and a wealth of hitherto unpublished archival material to illuminate the position and practice of the Baroque sculptor, to enable the reader to appreciate, understand and evaluate the sculptural monuments of the Roman Baroque.
A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Pope
Author : Edwin Abbott
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 1875
Category : English language
ISBN :
Book Description
The Real World of the Surrealists
Author : Malcolm Haslam
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 13,66 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
"In this superbly illustrated book Malcolm Haslam describes the background o the Surrealists' and Dadaists' struggle against the establishment, from their origins to the eve of the Second World War. The paintings of de Chirico, Miró, Dali, Ernst, Magritte and others are shown against a background of contemporary documents and photographs of both the exponents and the enemies of the movement, as well as stills from the films the Surrealists made and those that inspired them. Many of the more celebrated names of twentieth-century art and literature - Picasso, Cocteau, Gide and Apollinaire, to name but a few - figure in Malcolm Haslam's fascinating survey of this unique cultural movement."--book jacket.
