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The Art of the Northern Renaissance by Craig Harbison
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
This book evokes the art of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Northern Europe in all its richness and splendor. The works of Van Eyck, Bosch, Bruegel, D rer, and other masters are considered within the larger context of a changing society in which church and state, Protestant and Catholic, man and woman, ...Show more
The Body in Sculpture by Tom Flynn
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
This is a history of sculpted representations of the human body, acknowledging the critical debates about the body, as well as the aesthetic and historical significance of individual works of art. The book's coverage ranges from prehistory to postmodernism and incorporates both the great achievements of ...Show more
The Renaissance Florence by Richard Turner
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
This volume explores the social, political and economic background to the great works of art of the Florentine Renaissance. It shows how artistic patrimony rests on a firm Gothic base, from which grew a dynamic urban society whose secular values were underlined by the rediscovery of pagan antiquity.
The Rise of the Sixties by Thomas E. Crow
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
This account of the years 1955-69 examines artists from Europe and America who worked throughout the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War and the general social crises of the time. The book explores the relationship between art and politics, showing how the rhetoric of one informed or subverted the ot ...Show more