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Classical Presences eBook Series

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  • Piranesi's Candelabra and the Presence of the Past

    Excessive Objects and the Emergence of a Style in the Age of Neoclassicism

    by Caroline van Eck ...
    Series series Classical Presences
    Near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) created three colossal candelabra mainly from fragments of sculpture excavated near the Villa Hadriana in Tivoli, two of which are now in the Ashmolean Museum, and one in the Louvre. Although they were among the most sought-after and prestigious of his works, and fetched enormous prices during Piranesi's life, they suffered a steep ... Read more

    $60.39 CAD

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  • The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art

    Materials, Power and Manipulation

    Edited by Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Ika Matyjaszkiewicz, Zuzanna Sarnecka ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or ... Read more

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  • Festival Architecture

    by Sarah Bonnemaison, Christine Macy ...
    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory.Festival Architecture is arranged in historical periods – from Antiquity to the modern era – and divided between analyses of specific festivals, set in relation to ... Read more

    $152.52 CAD

  • Jan van Eyck

    The Play of Realism, Second Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Craig Harbison ...
    Jan van Eyck (1395-41) was the foremost artist of the Early Netherlandish School. Although Court painter to Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, van Eyck’s surviving work was not executed for the Duke, but for rising Court bureaucrats, Italian merchants and members of the secular clergy, for whom he created a series of painstakingly detailed oil paintings of astonishing verisimilitude. Most ... Read more

    $32.49 CAD

  • Greek Art: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Ioannis Mylonopoulos ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art

    Edited by Babette Bohn, James M. Saslow ...
    Series Book 29 - Wiley Companions to Art History
    A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modern history.Presents a collection of original, in-depth essays from art experts that address various aspects of European visual arts produced from circa 1300 to ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • A Short History of the Shadow

    by Victor I. Stoichita ...
    Series series Essays in Art and Culture
    In this investigative tour de force, Victor I. Stoichita untangles the history of one of the most enduring technical and symbolic challenges to beset Western artists - the depiction and meanings of shadows. The representation of shadow, and especially of cast shadow, is as old as art itself, for according to classical writers art was born when the outline of a human shadow thrown onto a wall was ... Read more

    $22.19 CAD

  • Fictions of Art History

    by Paul Barolsky, Professor Thomas Crow, Gloria Kury, Ralph Lieberman, Maria H. Loh, Alexander Nemerov, Joanna Scott, Cole Swensen, Marianna Torgovnick, Caroline Vout, Marina Warner ...
    Fictions of Art History, the most recent addition to the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, addresses art history’s complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art historians’ viewing practices and modes of writing. How, the contributors ask, are we to unravel the supposed facts of history from the fictions constructed ... Read more

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  • The Etruscan World

    Edited by Jean MacIntosh Turfa ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, and in some cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and northern Mediterranean. To the Etruscan people we can attribute such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden structures, surveying and engineering drainage and water tunnels, the development of the foresail for fast long-distance sailing vessels, fine ... Read more

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  • Chora 5

    Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

    by Alberto Pérez-Gomez, Stephen Parcell ...
    Series Book 5 - CHORA: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture
    Provocative views on why architecture matters offer vital information for developing a richer architecture. ... Read more

    Was $87.99 CAD Now $27.99 CAD

  • The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History

    by James Hall ...
    “Hall provides a lively cultural interpretation of the genre from the Middle Ages to today. . . . Rather than provide a series of ‘greatest hits,’ he is more concerned with the reasons why artists create self-portraits.” —The Weekly StandardThe self-portrait may be the visual genre most identified with our confessional era, but modern artists are far from the first to have explored its power and ... Read more

    $28.39 CAD

  • A Companion to Roman Art

    Edited by Barbara E. Borg ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Roman Art encompasses various artistic genres, ancient contexts, and modern approaches for a comprehensive guide to Roman art.Offers comprehensive and original essays on the study of Roman artContributions from distinguished scholars with unrivalled expertise covering a broad range of international approachesFocuses on the socio-historical aspects of Roman art, covering several ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD