Clarendon Studies in the History of Art
Title | Clarendon Studies in the History of Art PDF eBook |
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Pages | 229 |
Release | 1993 |
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Clarendon Studies in the History of Art
Title | Clarendon Studies in the History of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Farr |
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Release | 1989 |
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Art and Science in German Landscape Painting, 1770-1840
Title | Art and Science in German Landscape Painting, 1770-1840 PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Mitchell |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Art |
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This book is the first study to trace the relationship between the artistic changes in landscape art and the revolution taking place in the natural sciences. As various theories about the earth's history were presented, artists began to render nature in new ways. This topic is more iconography than connoisseurship as the paintings are presented as reflecting in both image and style the radical upheavals which mark intellectual history during those decades.
Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst
Title | Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst PDF eBook |
Author | David Hopkins |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780198175131 |
Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst are two of the greatest names associated with Dada and Surrealism, the iconoclastic art movements of the early part of the twentieth century. This detailed study brings their work into close proximity for the first time, examining the structural interaction of "ready-made" belief systems in their productions (Catholicism, masculinism, hermeticism). These artists are revealed as precursors of our postmodern obsessions with male and female identity and cultural fragmentation.
Mural Painting in Britain 1840-1940
Title | Mural Painting in Britain 1840-1940 PDF eBook |
Author | Clare A. P. Willsdon |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 730 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780198175155 |
This survey sets state, civic, commercial, church, private and other murals in their historical and cultural contexts. The book covers work by over 400 artists and numerous murals never previously documented or illustrated.
Oxford Studies in the History of Art and Architecture
Title | Oxford Studies in the History of Art and Architecture PDF eBook |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1971 |
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Aubrey Beardsley and Victorian Sexual Politics
Title | Aubrey Beardsley and Victorian Sexual Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Gertner Zatlin |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780198175063 |
In the first serious examination of Aubrey Beardsley's drawings, poetry, and unfinished erotic novel, this book looks beyond dismissals of Beardsley's work, and offers a stimulating reconsideration of his artistic perspective. By examining Beardsley's work within the social, artistic, and literary context of the 1890's, Zatlin demonstrates that behind the choice of his subject matter there was more than simply a desire for sexual exploration: there was also a serious protest against hypocrisy and against the sexist social conventions that fostered that hypocrisy. She explores the various types of women revealed in his art, and argues convincingly that gender relations were Beardsley's overwhelming concern, and that his main achievement emerged as an erotic art which challenged public sexual morality.