Histories of Vision – serie
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13 produkter
Sacred Traces
British Explorations of Buddhism in South Asia
Inbunden, 2003
2512 kr
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In his novel Kim, in which a Tibetan pilgrim seeks to visit important Buddhist sites in India, Rudyard Kipling reveals the nineteenth-century fascination with the discovery of the importance of Buddhism in India's past. Janice Leoshko, a scholar of South Asian Buddhist art uses Kipling's account …
Modernism and the Mediterranean
The Maeght Foundation
Inbunden, 2004
2586 kr
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Situated in a Mediterranean landscape, the Maeght Foundation is a unique Modernist museum, product of an extraordinary collaboration between the architect, José Luis Sert, and the artists whose work was to be displayed there. The architecture, garden design and art offer a rare opportunity to see …
Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism
Inbunden, 2009
2826 kr
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After a century of Rationalist scepticism and political upheaval, the nineteenth century awakened to a fierce battle between the forces of secularization and the crusaders of a Christian revival. From this battlefield arose an art movement that would become the torchbearer of a new religious art: …
Beholder
The Experience of Art in Early Modern Europe
Av Thomas Frangenberg, Robert Williams
Inbunden, 2006
3192 kr
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One of the most significant developments in the study of works of art over the past generation has been a shift in focus from the works themselves to the viewer's experience of them and the relation of that experience both to the works in question and to other aspects of cultural life. The ten …
Look of Van Dyck
The Self-Portrait with a Sunflower and the Vision of the Painter
Av John Peacock
Inbunden, 2006
2586 kr
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Based on a close study of Van Dyck's Self-portrait with a Sunflower, this book examines the picture's context in the symbolic discourses of the period and in the artist's oeuvre. The portrait is interpreted as a programmatic statement, made in the ambience of the Caroline court after Van Dyck's …
Signorelli and Fra Angelico at Orvieto
Liturgy, Poetry and a Vision of the End Time
Inbunden, 2003
787 kr
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Built in 1290, the cathedral at Orvieto, Italy, is a masterpiece of Italian gothic architecture. The decoration of the Cappella Nuova, commenced by Fra Angelico in 1447 and magnificently completed by Luca Signorelli in 1499 and 1504, displays an awe-inspiring Last Judgement and Apocalypse and, …
Art of Religion
Sforza Pallavicino and Art Theory in Bernini's Rome
Inbunden, 2012
2586 kr
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Bernini and Pallavicino, the artist and the Jesuit cardinal, are closely related figures at the papal courts of Urban VIII and Alexander VII, at which Bernini was the principal artist. The analysis of Pallavicino's writings offers a new perspective on Bernini's art and artistry and allow us to …
Presence
The Inherence of the Prototype within Images and Other Objects
Av Robert Maniura, Rupert Shepherd
Inbunden, 2006
2826 kr
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In about 25 BC tribesmen of the kingdom of Meroe placed a bronze head of Augustus, cut from a full-length statue, beneath the steps of a temple of victory: the decapitated head of the Emperor was thus regularly trampled underfoot. Two millennia later, during the second Gulf War, Iraqis 'insulted' a …
At the Edges of Vision
A Phenomenological Aesthetics of Contemporary Spectatorship
Inbunden, 2008
2586 kr
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In At the Edges of Vision, Renée van de Vall re-examines the aesthetics of spectatorship in terms of new-media art and visual culture. The aesthetic experience of visual art has traditionally been described in terms of the distanced contemplation and critical interpretation of the work's form and …
Look of Van Dyck
The Self-Portrait with a Sunflower and the Vision of the Painter
Av John Peacock
Häftad, 2016
817 kr
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Based on a close study of Van Dyck's Self-portrait with a Sunflower, this book examines the picture's context in the symbolic discourses of the period and in the artist's oeuvre. The portrait is interpreted as a programmatic statement, made in the ambience of the Caroline court after Van Dyck's …
Art of Religion
Sforza Pallavicino and Art Theory in Bernini's Rome
Häftad, 2016
892 kr
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Bernini and Pallavicino, the artist and the Jesuit cardinal, are closely related figures at the papal courts of Urban VIII and Alexander VII, at which Bernini was the principal artist. The analysis of Pallavicino's writings offers a new perspective on Bernini's art and artistry and allow us to …
Beholder
The Experience of Art in Early Modern Europe
Av Thomas Frangenberg, Robert Williams
Häftad, 2016
892 kr
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One of the most significant developments in the study of works of art over the past generation has been a shift in focus from the works themselves to the viewer's experience of them and the relation of that experience both to the works in question and to other aspects of cultural life. The ten …
Modernism and the Mediterranean
The Maeght Foundation
Häftad, 2017
892 kr
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Situated in a Mediterranean landscape, the Maeght Foundation is a unique Modernist museum, product of an extraordinary collaboration between the architect, José Luis Sert, and the artists whose work was to be displayed there. The architecture, garden design and art offer a rare opportunity to see …
