Redressing the neglect of World War I memorials in art history scholarship, this volume shows why sculptures of doughboys (US soldiers during World War I) were in such demand during the 1920s, and how their functions and meanings have evolved. Jen...Daugiau...
This book is a portrait of the period when modern art became contemporary art. It explores how and why writers and artists in Australia argued over the idea of a distinctively Australian modern and then postmodern art between 1962....Daugiau...
This edited collection explores the intersection of historical studies and the artistic representation of the past in the long nineteenth century....Daugiau...
This book examines the unique socialist-modernist architecture built in the 20th century in Central and Eastern Europe, as a source of heritage and of existing and potential value for present and future generations. It focuses particularly on concre...Daugiau...
This book represents the first attempt to study an ancient network of pilgrimage sites, known as Shakti Pithas, dedicated to the Hindu goddess Sati in an art historical and political context. During the nineteenth century these sites were re-imagine...Daugiau...
This book examines the art of Cobra, a network of poets and artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam (194851). Although the name stood for the organizers home cities, the Cobra artists hailed from countries in Europe, Africa, and the United...Daugiau...
Advancing a Different Modernism analyzes a long-ignored but formative aspect of modern architecture and art. By examining selective buildings by the Catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner (1850-1923) and by the Slovenian designer Joe Plecnik (1...Daugiau...
These in-depth, historical and critical essays study the meaning of ornament, the role it played in the formation of modernism, and its theoretical importance between the mid-nineteenth century and the late twentieth century in England and Germany....Daugiau...
Surrealism and the Gothic argues for the determinative influence of the gothic of the gothic novel itself and of ideas strongly associated with the gothic (insanity, incarceration, the accursed outsider, magic, etc.) upon both the formation and su...Daugiau...
This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, one informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medical treatises centered on hysteria, and an original examination of dramatic gestures in expression...Daugiau...
Exhibiting Craft and Design: Transgressing the White Cube Paradigm investigates the firmly-established manner in which craft and design have typically been presented by museums and galleries, what strategies curators have employed throughout the twe...Daugiau...
This book complements the more textually-based Bauhaus scholarship with a practice-oriented and creative interpretive method, which makes it possible to consider Bauhaus-related works in an unconventional light. Edit Toth argues that focusing on the...Daugiau...
Shaped by the tensions and anxieties of the modern era and powerfully expressed in the space and material culture of faith, the architecture presented here creates a set of new turning points in the history of the built environment....Daugiau...
This book challenges hardening narratives of primitivism by reexamining the enthusiasm for world art in the early modern period from the perspective of Russia rather than Western Europe. The book will appeal to students of modernism, orientalism, pr...Daugiau...
This book presents the history of a gentlemens club in London that was founded in 1866 for the purpose of exhibiting private art collections. It takes the main exhibition themes as a starting point to explore approaches to art, connoisseurship and d...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 14-May-2019, Leidėjas: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781315311456)
This book traces the emergence of modernism in art in South Asia by exploring the work of the iconic artist George Keyt. The author examines his tumultuous relationships with women; his involvement with social events in India and Sri Lanka on the th...Daugiau...
