Konsthistoria och stilbildning

This invaluable guide enables students to get the most from their art history course. Written in an accessible style, the book introduces two basic art historical methods - formal analysis and contextual analysis. In this new edition revising auth...

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This book is an accessible introduction to the critical theories used in analysing art. It covers a broad range of approaches, presenting individual arguments, controversies and divergent perspectives. This edition has been updated to reflect rece...

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Discover the slow, tactile art of hand-building ceramics and express yourself through the act of creating unique, timeless pieces for your home.The Urban Potter teaches you how to make beautiful, one-off handcrafted pieces with simple, natural sha...

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Belönad med Stora Fackbokspriset 2018 När Per I. Gedin planerade "När Sverige blev modernt" var hans avsikt att skriva en biografi över den framstående konsthistorikern Gregor Paulsson (1889-1977). Denne var dock inte bara verksam som konsthistori...

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'A rare and wonderful book... I could not be more enthusiastic.' Simon Winchester'Packed with stories, anecdotes and adventures. A full rainbow...as vivid as the colours themselves' ExpressColour unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow, ...

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I Familjen Medici skissar Ulla Britta Ramklint lustfyllt fram släkten Medici i ett drama med ett myller av karaktärer. Författaren är underfundig och underhållande, och trots bokens nätta omfång ger den en fullständig Medici-krönika samt presenter...

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Scandinavian design is still seen as democratic, functional and simple, its products exemplifying the same characteristics now as they have done since the 1950s. But both the essence and the history of Scandinavian design are much more complex tha...

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Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artists of the Baroque age. In Artemisia Gentileschi, critic and historian Jonathan Jones discovers how Artemisia overcame a turbulent past to become one of the foremost painters of her day. As a young...

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The New Yorker staff writer and Filterworld author Kyle Chayka examines the deep roots-and untapped possibilities-of our newfound, all-consuming drive to reduce. "e;Less is more"e;: Everywhere we hear the mantra. Marie Kondo and other decl...

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Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, th...

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Photographs are an integral part of our daily lives from sensationalist images in tabloid papers and snapshots, to art photograpy displayed in galleries and sold through international art markets. In this thought-provoking exploration of the subje...

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Joining the bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, a lively and intriguing tale of two artists whose competitive spirit brought to life one of the world's most magnificent structures and ignited the Renaissance The dome of the Santa Maria d...

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Kan något gott komma ur postmodernismen? På senare år har begreppet postmodernism blivit ett slagträ i debatten om allt från identitetspolitik och sanningsrelativism, skola, vård och vårdköer, konst och konspirationsteorier. Litteraturvetaren Frid...

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Justine Picardie has spent the last decade puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, attempting to peel away the accretions of romance and lies. In this critically acclaimed, bestselling biography she shares the history of the incredible woman wh...

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'Fanny Hill' scandalised thousands of Victorians with its vivid descriptions of sexual pleasure, and landed its author in court a year after publication on charges of 'corrupting the King's subjects'. This only heightened its allure - and today it...

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'The Autobiography of a Flea' was initally published in 1887, and inspired a film directed by one of the first female pornographic directors from the 1970s. Starring the inimitable John C Holmes, it is recognised as a classic example of the x-rate...

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'My Secret Life' is a dark work of Victorian erotica, and an explicit memoir of unspoken desires in the English class system - encapsulating the joy of hidden sins in an age of moral fervour.Would you undress with the curtains open?A champagne-dri...

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This edition does not include illustrations.The first major life of the outstanding British painter - and Jack the Ripper suspect - Walter Sickert (1860-1942), by the highly acclaimed biographer of Aubrey Beardsley.Walter Richard Sickert is perhap...

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Focusing on the art of self-portraiture, this effortlessly engaging exploration of the lives of artists sheds fascinating light on some of the most extraordinary portraits in art history.Self-portraits catch your eye. They seem to do it deliberate...

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The history of Renaissance France is rich and varied.The Renaissance in France, as elsewhere in Europe, saw glory crowned amidst conflict and squalor. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, France seemed set to become the most powerful nation ...

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This edition does not include illustrations.Please note that due to the level of detail, the family tree is best viewed on a tablet.The wayward life (1898-1979) of the voracious art collector and great female patron of world-famous artists.'Mrs Gu...

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A sweeping, beautifully written history of artistic patronage from 1000 to the present day by a Wolfson Prize-winning historian.?Marks of Opulence? is a magisterial survey of European art and artistic patronage from 1000 until the birth of moderni...

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A biography of an unsung Victorian hero, Joseph Paxton was the man behind the garden design at Chatsworth and the Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition of 1851.The Victorians heralded a new era of creativity, a revolutionary fervour seizing all f...

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The first biography of Venice?s greatest artist since 1877 ? a towering work which captures the genius of Titian ? and the extraordinary times in which he lived ? the apogee of Venice?s power and influence.Born in the mountains above Venice in the...

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The Times Art Book of the Year 2021FINALIST FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD 2022'Must surely be the definitive life of Francis Bacon ... A biography that no Bacon fan - or indeed foe - can afford to overlook ... Mesmerising' THE TIMES'A magnificent triumph...

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Drawn from Paradise is David Attenborough's journey through the cultural history of the birds of paradise, one of the most exquisite and extravagant, colourful and intriguing families of birds.From the moment they were introduced to the European m...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BERGER PRIZE FOR BRITISH ART HISTORY 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017A SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEARA SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARAN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES ART BOOK OF...

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From awe-inspiring Norman castles, to the skyscrapers of today, Simon Thurley explores how the architecture of this small island influenced the world.The Building of England puts into context the significance of a country's architectural history a...

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This illustrated journal uses colour metaphors throughout to represent physiological states and feelings: as such, it is best viewed on devices that can render images in colour.Uncover a very unconventional love story, in the notebook of one of Br...

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''The Painter with Women ? the evolution of a Project'' is the first publication about the artist Robert Lenkiewicz (1941-2002) which draws upon his private journals and notebooks to give an insight into the painter''s motivations and working prac...

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