Issues & Debates – serie
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9 produkter
Print Matters
Media and Modernity in Illustrated Magazines, 1910-1970
Av Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Maria Antonella Pelizzari m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
662 kr
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In the early to mid-twentieth century, the vast majority of printed photographs appeared in the pages of illustrated magazines. Publications such as Life, China Pictorial, Drum, Picture Post, and Ebony did more than showcase photographs; they crafted visual narratives by combining images, text, and …
Photography and Sculpture - The Art Object in Reproduction
Av Sarah Hamill, Megan R. Luke m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
420 kr
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Ever since the mid-nineteenth century, when the new medium of photography was pressed into service to illustrate sculpture, photographs of sculptural objects have directed viewers as to just when, in the course of ambling around a sculpture, was the single perfect moment to stop and look. What is …
Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean
Av Erich S. Gruen, Erich S. Gruen
Häftad, 2011
873 kr
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This is an illuminating collection of essays that explore the idea of cultural identity in the ancient Mediterranean. Cultural identity is a slippery and elusive concept. When applied to the collective self-consciousness among people or nations, it becomes all the more difficult to define or grasp. …
Persian Cultures of Power and the Entanglement of the Afro-Eurasian World
Häftad, 2024
603 kr
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With the rise of the Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BCE), Persian institutions of kingship became the model for legitimacy, authority, and prestige across three continents. Despite enormous upheavals, Iranian visual and political cultures connected an ever-wider swath of Afro-Eurasia over the next two …
Collecting Mesoamerican Art before 1940
A New World of Latin American Antiquities
Av Andrew D. Turner, Megan E. O'Neill
Häftad, 2024
603 kr
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This book traces the fascinating history of how and why ancient Mesoamerican objects have been collected. It begins with the pre-Hispanic antiquities that first entered European collections in the sixteenth century as gifts or seizures, continues through the rise of systematic collecting in Europe …
Art History and Anthropology
Modern Encounters, 1870–1970
Av Peter Probst, Joseph Imorde
Häftad, 2023
603 kr
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While today we are experiencing a revival of world art and the so-called global turn of art history, encounters between art historians and anthropologists remain rare. Even after a century and a half of interactions between these epistemologies, a sceptical distance prevails with respect to the …
Money in the Air
Art Dealers and the Making of a Transatlantic Market, 1880-1930
Av Gail Feigenbaum, Sandra van Ginhoven m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
557 kr
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“There was money in the air, ever so much money,” wrote Henry James in 1907, reflecting on the American appetite for art acquisitions. Indeed, collectors such as Henry Clay Frick and Andrew W. Mellon are credited with bringing noteworthy European art to the United States, with their collections …
Entangled Worlds
Ancient Iran and the Classical Mediterranean
Häftad, 2027
662 kr
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Formore than a millennium, ancient Persia and the classical Mediterranean weredeeply intertwined-not merely through conflict but also through diplomacy,trade, and cultural exchange. From the rise of the Achaemenid Empire in thesixth century BCE to the fall of Rome in 476 CE and the twilight of …
Monumentality
Geographies, Histories, Ideologies
Häftad, 2027
662 kr
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Thiscompelling volume invites readers to reimagine how monuments shape history,identity, and public space. Monumentality is explored as a dynamic andcontested idea—one that moves beyond grand buildings and enduring structuresto understand how societies remember the past and envision …
