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Art and Identity in the Roman World by Eve D'Ambra
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In this reappraisal of the art and architecture of ancient Rome, Eve D'Ambra focuses on the personal, social and cultural identity of its subjects. The acquisition of art, whether the purchase of copies of Greek statuary, the construction of a sumptuous villa or the commissioning of a portrait head, pla ...Show more
Art and Propaganda in the Twentieth Century - The Political Image in the Age of Mass Culture by Toby Clark
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This volume focuses on the uses and abuses of art as propaganda in the 20th century, but starts by setting the scene using precedents from the past. It then explores protest art to 1939, including Social Realism and its links with communism and the left wing, Dada, artists' reactions to the Spanish Civi ...Show more
Art of Today by Brandon Taylor
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This is an international survey of contemporary art, taking a critical look at the work of established artists and exploring broad international trends and movements. The book takes the impact of feminist, structuralist and postmodern theories on the visual arts as a central theme. The dominance of New ...Show more
Art of the Italian Renaissance Courts - Virtue and Magnificence by Alison Cole
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This series looks at artists and their work against the background of the social, political and historical world in which they worked, examining issues of race, class, gender and psychology. It covers the Western canon, and also extends to popular imagery and non-Western traditions. This title looks at ...Show more
Impressionism - Beneath the Surface by Paul Smith
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This series considers artists and their work against the background of the social, political and historical world in which they worked, examining issues of race, class, gender and psychology. It covers the Western canon, and also extends to popular imagery and non-Western traditions. This title looks at ...Show more
Japanese Art of the Edo Period by Christine Guth
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The Edo period saw the growth of an urban culture of extraordinary richness, sophistication and cultural diversity, and an unprecendented flowering of the arts, in painting, woodblock prints, ceramics, laquer and textiles. This text offers an overview of the arts of the Edo period as they developed in K ...Show more
Painting in Spain - El Greco to Goya, 1561-1828 by Janis A. Tomlinson
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Pre-Columbian Art by Esther Pasztory
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When the Spanish conquered Mexico and Peru, they discovered in the Aztecs and Incas the latest in a long line of highly civilized peoples to have inhabited Mesoamerica and the Andes. This book describes the very different cultural traditions of these two groups, placing them in their historical and soci ...Show more
Romanesque Art by Andreas Petzold
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
This series considers artists and their work against the background of the social, political and historical world in which they worked, examining issues of race, class, gender and psychology. It covers the Western canon, and also extends to popular imagery and non-Western traditions. This title looks at ...Show more
The Art of Byzantium - Between Antiquity and the Renaissance by Thomas F. Mathews
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A beautiful and affordable introduction to Byzantine art which explores the city of Constantinople, the development of icons as a medium of religious devotion, palaces and fashions of palace life, churches where interior decoration in mosiac and fresco rose to golden heights and highly exportable object ...Show more
The Art of the Dutch Republic by Mariet Westermann
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This interpretive study of the artistic culture of the Dutch Republic in the 17th century describes the art of the period as it was experienced by the people of the period and how it appears to us today. The book investigates the 17th-century Dutch art market, the themes of Dutch art and the parallels b ...Show more
The Art of the Dutch Republic by Mariet Westermann
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
This interpretive study of the artistic culture of the Dutch Republic in the 17th century describes the art of the period as it was experienced by the people of the period and how it appears to us today. The book investigates the 17th-century Dutch art market, the themes of Dutch art and the parallels b ...Show more