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Author
Pub. Date
1976
Physical Desc
2 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive, illustrated survey of Western art, from Stone Age to present day, placing individual masterworks of painting, sculpture, and architecture within their respective civilizations.
Author
Pub. Date
1894
Physical Desc
xvi, 252 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Walter Pater (1839-1894) attained a B.A. degree in Classics from Queen's College, Oxford, followed soon after by a M.A. degree from Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was made a Fellow in 1865. That same year Pater toured Italy, where he discovered what would become a lifelong passion for masters of the Italian Renaissance like Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo, among many others. In 1877 he published "The Renaissance: Studies in...
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Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (vi, 330 pages) illustrations (some color)
Language
English
Description
A thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first artworks ever made to art's central role in culture today. ""A fresh take on art history as we know it."" (Katy Hessel, The Great Women Artists Podcast)
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Language
English
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The cross stirs intense feelings among Christians as well as non-Christians. Robin Jensen takes readers on an intellectual and spiritual journey through the two-thousand-year evolution of the cross as an idea and an artifact, illuminating the controversies--along with the forms of devotion--this central symbol of Christianity inspires. Jesus's death on the cross posed a dilemma for Saint Paul and the early Church fathers. Crucifixion was a humiliating...
Author
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
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Since the confirmation of Deng Xiaoping's policy of Opening and Reform in 1978, the People's Republic of China has undergone a liberalization of culture that has led to the production of numerous forms of avant-garde, experimental, and museum-based art. With a fast-growing international market and a thriving artistic community, contemporary Chinese art is riding a wave of prosperity, though issues of censorship still abound. Shedding light on the...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Language
English
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" Teddy Roosevelt's head sculpted from butter. The Liberty Bell replicated in oranges. The Sioux City Corn Palace of 1891 encased with corn, grains, and grasses and stretching for two city blocks--with a trolley line running down its center. Between 1870 and 1930, from county and state fairs to the world's fairs, large exhibition buildings were covered with grains, fruits, and vegetables to declare in no uncertain terms the rich agricultural abundance...
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