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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 726

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A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.

Author: Carol Strickland
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780740768729
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge." --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern * This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media. * Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes art accessible-even at a cursory reading. * From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from Holbein to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections covering a little more than 200 pages.

Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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Author: Douglas M. Walls
Publisher: CSU Open Press
ISBN: 9781607328612
Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Examines the impact of social media on three writing-related themes: publics and audiences, presentation of self and groups, and pedagogy at various levels of higher education.

Author: Germana Ernst
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 904813126X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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A friend of Galileo and author of the renowned utopia The City of the Sun, Tommaso Campanella (Stilo, Calabria,1568- Paris, 1639) is one of the most significant and original thinkers of the early modern period. His philosophical project centred upon the idea of reconciling Renaissance philosophy with a radical reform of science and society. He produced a complex and articulate synthesis of all fields of knowledge – including magic and astrology. During his early formative years as a Dominican friar, he manifested a restless impatience towards Aristotelian philosophy and its followers. As a reaction, he enthusiastically embraced Bernardino Telesio’s view that knowledge could only be acquired through the observation of things themselves, investigated through the senses and based on a correct understanding of the link between words and objects. Campanella’s new natural philosophy rested on the principle that the books written by men needed to be compared with God’s infinite book of nature, allowing them to correct the mistakes scattered throughout the human ‘copies’ which were always imperfect, partial and liable to revisions. It is in the light of these principles that he defended Galileo’s right to read the book of nature while denouncing the mistake of those – be they Aristotelian philosophers or theologians – who wanted to stop him from carrying on his natural investigations. However, Campanella maintained that the book of nature, far from being written in mathematical characters, was a living organism in which each natural being was endowed with life and a degree of sensibility that was appropriate for its preservation and propagation. Nature as a whole was an organism in which each single part was directed towards the common good. This is the reason why Campanella thought that nature had to be regarded as an ideal model for any political organisation. Political structures were often ruled by injustice and violence precisely because they had departed from that natural model. This book charts Campanella’s intellectual life by showing the origin, development and persistence of some of the fundamental tenets of his thought.

Author: Christina Neilson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107172853
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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Verrocchio worked in an extraordinarily wide array of media and used unusual practices of making to express ideas.

Author: Lori Waselchuk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884167225
Category : Prisoners
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Lori Waselchuk explores the humanity of the incarcerated through gripping photographs of Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola's new hospice program.

Author: Amy R. Bloch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131640465X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 874

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This book examines the heretofore unsuspected complexity of Lorenzo Ghiberti's sculpted representations of Old Testament narratives in his Gates of Paradise (1425–52), the second set of doors he made for the Florence Baptistery and a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture. One of the most intellectually engaged and well-read artists of his age, Ghiberti found inspiration in ancient and medieval texts, many of which he and his contacts in Florence's humanist community shared, read, and discussed. He was fascinated by the science of vision, by the functioning of nature, and, above all, by the origins and history of art. These unusually well-defined intellectual interests, reflected in his famous Commentaries, shaped his approach in the Gates. Through the selection, imaginative interpretation, and arrangement of biblical episodes, Ghiberti fashioned multi-textured narratives that explore the human condition and express his ideas on a range of social, political, artistic, and philosophical issues.

Author: Christopher Noey
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0714873543
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Artists have long been stimulated and motivated by the work of those who came before them—sometimes, centuries before them. Interviews with 120 international contemporary artists discussing works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection that spark their imagination shed new light on art-making, museums, and the creative process. Images of works from The Met collection appear alongside images of the contemporary artists' work, allowing readers to discover a rich web of visual connections that spans cultures and millennia.

Author: William Dauney
Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh Print. ; London : Smith, Elder
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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