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Treasures of American Folk Art
by Beatrix T. Rumford and Carolyn J Weekley
Color illustrations of the beautiful, amusing, often touching works are accompanied by a substantial text, which places folk art in its social and historical context. 185 color illustrations.
Through ancient art, evocative myth, exciting archaeological revelations and philosophical explorations Bettany Hughes shows why this immortal goddess endures through to the twenty-first century, and what her journey through time reveals about what matters to us as humans.Charting Venus's origins in powerful ancient deities, Bettany demonstrates that Venus is far more complex than first meets the eye. Beginning in Cyprus, the goddess's mythical birthplace, Bettany decodes Venus's relationship to...
The European Union is facing the worst existential crisis in its history. At the same time, it is confronted with old and new challenges in its environment that call for joint action. But how do matters stand with the EU's capacity to act? Does the EU manage to effectively combine the different components of its external relations -- such as trade, development aid, and security policy -- better than it did in the past? How is the EU's external action determined by the internal socio-economic and...
Rise of English Provincial Art (Studies in History of Art & Architecture)
by Trevor Fawcett
Tableaux Anciens, Oeuvres d'Hubert Robert, Beaux Meubles Modernes
by Collectif
Eulenspiegel. Eine Auswahl Aus Tiefenpsychologischer Sicht Ins Neuhochdeutsche Ubertragen Von Roland F. Lukner
by Hermann Bote
What is Art? Learn Art Styles with Black White Drawings Movement on Canvas Lines & Curves by Artist Grace Divine
by Grace Divine
One of the most important and underappreciated visual artists of the twentieth century, Romare Bearden started as a cartoonist during his college years and emerged as a painter during the 1930s, at the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance and in time to be part of a significant community of black artists supported by the WPA. Though light-skinned and able to "pass, " Bearden embraced his African heritage, choosing to paint social realist canvases of African-American life. After World War II, he b...
Johannes Overbecks Antike Schriftquellen zur Geschichte der bildenden Kunste bei den Griechen sind seit ihrem Erscheinen (Leipzig 1868) ein Standardwerk nicht nur fur alle Disziplinen der Altertumswissenschaft, sondern auch fur die Kunstgeschichte und affine Kulturwissenschaften. Die vollstandige Neubearbeitung in funf Banden geht uber eine Revision und Erweiterung der Zeugnisse weit hinaus und berucksichtigt neben den Ergebnissen der archaologischen Forschung seit Overbeck auch die Veranderung...
The Arts and Crafts Movement espoused values of simplicity, craftsmanship and beauty quite counter to Victorian and Edwardian industrialism. Though most famous for its architecture, furniture and ornamental work, between the 1890s and the 1930s the movement also produced gardens all over Britain whose designs, redolent of a lost golden era, had worldwide influence. These designs, by luminaries such as Gertrude Jekyll and Sir Edwin Lutyens, were engaging and romantic combinations of manor-house g...
