Macarthur, The Picturesque
When we look at the view while out walking, or when protestors against wind farms criticise them for damaging the ‘landscape’, or when ...
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Theories of Art offers a thorough-going analysis and reassessment of major trends in European art theory and the development of that theory from ...
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The present study is closely connected with a lecture given by Prof. Ernst Cassirer at the Warburg Library whose subject was “The Idea ...
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Preimesberger, Paragons And Paragone
The paragone―the notion of competition and rivalry among the arts―has been a topic of debate for centuries. It erupted with great force in ...
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This book seeks to broaden the comprehension of the student of Italian Renaissance painting by concentrating not on the works of art themselves, ...
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La seconda parte dei “Teorici e Storia della critica d’arte” nell’età moderna, in considerazione dell’ampiezza della trattazione storica verrà suddivisa in tre volumi ...
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The present volume has been compiled in response to the ever increasing demand for the original documents on the arts. Its aim is ...
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Based on a close study of Van Dyck’s Self-portrait with a Sunflower, this book examines the picture’s context in the symbolic discourses of ...
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In the Counter Reformation, art and architecture are often attributed a central role in such a process of persuasion. Recent historical studies, however, ...
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“No single scholar has had a greater influence than Hagstrum in suggesting the intimate (and sometimes troubled) relationship between poetry and painting. Few ...
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