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This rich, readable anthology contains 17 unabridged essays by some of the 20th century's leading artistic innovators. Chosen for their intrinsic quality and documentary value by editor Robert L. Herbert — Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke College — the essays are...

The poems and paintings presented by Dean Glorso in “In Search of the Laughing Place” arise from yearnings and recollections, some nostalgic and harking back to childhood, others connecting to history and the circumstances of a veteran’s homecoming. Together the poems and iconic paintings are...

In Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art, Andrew Sansom, a leading Texas conservationist, and William E. Reaves, an influential Texas art collector and historian, have teamed up to showcase some of the finest contemporary river art detailing the gorgeous traits of Texas landscapes. The featured artwork comes...

This collection, never before published in the United States, presents art from the early fifteenth to the end of the eighteenth centuries. Selected with great care and impeccable taste by a highly respected artist and teacher, these drawings are the finest efforts of great masters of Western art,...

The Caderno Sesc_Videobrasil 12 | METAFLUXUS focuses on the thinking of the Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser. Constructed based on his way of understanding and delimiting contemporary cultural territories, this publication creates an experi- mental space in which different lines of thought...

The Potential of Watercolor Revealed Luminous, dynamic and expressive, watercolor is an intriguing medium for artist and viewer alike. Splash 9: Watercolor Secrets invites you to push your own creative potential to new heights as you explore the work of more than 100 of today's best watercolor...

L'immagine della Wunderkammer, o Cabinet of curiosity, in relazione alla fantascienza distopica è emersa durante la visione di film, la lettura di testi e fumetti che rientrano nello sterminato filone narrativo della distopia. Focalizzando l'attenzione su alcune di queste narrazioni antiutopiche...

Il catalogo ufficiale delle opere 2013 dell'artista digitale italiano Simone Morana Cyla.

Par la beauté et la diversité de ses îles, l'archipel du Vanuatu est l'un des plus attachants du monde océanien, mais peut-être l'un des moins connus du grand public. Cet ensemble d'îles (plus de quatre-vingts), formées essentiellement de volcans, dont plusieurs sont encore en activité, et...

On attendait depuis longtemps en France une exposition consacrée au sculpteur américain David Smith (1906-1965): le Musée national d'art moderne-Centre Georges-Pompidou l'a finalement présentée du 14 juin au 21 août 2006... À PROPOS DE L’ENCYCLOPAEDIA UNIVERSALIS Reconnue...

Daniel Abadie, le commissaire de l'exposition présentée à la Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume en 1996, a opéré une sélection radicale des artistes et des œuvres pour mener à bien un projet ambitieux : montrer au public français un siècle de sculpture anglaise... À PROPOS DE L’ENCYCLOPAEDIA...

L'exposition monographique consacrée à Marie d'Orléans, 1813-1839, princesse et artiste romantique, présentée conjointement au musée du Louvre à Paris (18 avril-21 juillet 2008) et au musée Condé à Chantilly (9 avril-21 juillet 2008), ne cherchait pas seulement à.... À PROPOS...

The final book of the Bible, known both as The Book of Revelation and The Apocalypse of John, is a prophesy of the events that will occur at the end of time. During the Middle Ages, in a society which held a deep belief in God and was mainly ruled by religious authorities, this apocalyptic theme recurs...

Michelangelo's originality as an artist lay not only in ideas about perfection and beauty, but also in his unique approach to the artistic process and art's site specificity. Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel and the sculptures of the Medici chapel and Julius II's tomb should all be understood...