Some of the loveliest works of Archaic art were the Athenian koraiāsculptures of beautiful young women presenting offerings to the goddess Athena that stood on the Acropolis. Sculpted in the sixth and early fifth centuries B.C., they served as votives until Persians sacked the citadel in 480/79 B.C. Subsequently, they were buried as a group and forgotten for nearly twenty-four centuries, until archaeologists excavated them in the 1880s. Today, they are among the treasures of the Acropolis Museum...
La Peinture En Visite (Kunstgeschichten Der Gegenwart, #7)
by Ileana Parvu
This supplementary volume brings together the diverse material resulting from the author's research over many years. Nearly three-quarters of the sculptors in volumes one to three, published in 1977, 1981 and 1987 respectively, are covered in this volume, with new entries and additional information making up most of the book. All the errata and addenda that appeared in earlier volumes is included in this book.
The so-called Peleus and Thetis Sarcophagus in the Villa Albani (Iconological Studies in Roman Art, #1)
Govan and Its Early Medieval Sculpture (Art/Architecture)
Covering the entirety of Kwang Young Chun's career from his early abstract paintings to his famed Aggregation series - complex structures and canvases created from the antique, handmade mulberry paper pages of literary and academic texts and tinted with teas, fruits and flowers - this book documents a highly influential contemporary artist whose work, writes the New York Times, ...makes you sense something fundamental about great art that is too often forgotten or overlooked in today's age of in...
On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian capital's automobile repair district. This veritable junkyard of steel and rubber, recycled parts, old tires, and scrap metal might seem an unlikely foundry for art. Yet, on the street's opposite end thrives the Grand Rue Galerie, a working studio of assembled art and sculptures wrought from the refuse. Established by artists Andre Eugene and Celeur in the late 1990s, the...
D'Un Jugement a l'Autre (Culture Et Societe Medievales, #25)
by M Angheben