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How to Be an Artist

par Jerry Saltz ...

Lu par Jerry Saltz ...

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2 heure 20 min

"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity. . . . This book is for the artist or non-artist, for the person who gets plain English, for the person who understands that practical talk can coax out the mystical messages that lie underneath." —Steve MartinArt has the power to change our lives. For many, becoming an artist is a lifelong dream. But how to make it happen? ... En savoir plus

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"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity. . . . This book is for the artist or non-artist, for the person who gets plain English, for the person who understands that practical talk can coax out the mystical messages that lie underneath." —Steve MartinArt has the power to change our lives. For many, becoming an artist is a lifelong dream. But how to make it happen?
... En savoir plus
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Art & Fear

Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

par David Bayles, Ted Orland ...

Lu par Arthur Morey ...

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3 heure 8 min

What is your art really about? Where is it going? What stands in the way of getting it there?These are questions that matter, questions that recur at each stage of artistic development—and they are the source for this volume of wonderfully incisive commentary. Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many ... En savoir plus

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What is your art really about? Where is it going? What stands in the way of getting it there?These are questions that matter, questions that recur at each stage of artistic development—and they are the source for this volume of wonderfully incisive commentary. Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many
... En savoir plus
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Sexual Personae

Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

par Camille Paglia ...

Lu par Emily Durante ...

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35 heure 15 min

In this brilliantly original book, Camille Paglia identifies some of the major patterns that have endured in western culture from ancient Egypt and Greece to the present. According to Paglia, one source of continuity is paganism, which, undefeated by Judeo-Christianity, continues to flourish in art, eroticism, astrology, and pop culture. Others, she says, are androgyny, sadism, and the aggressive ... En savoir plus

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In this brilliantly original book, Camille Paglia identifies some of the major patterns that have endured in western culture from ancient Egypt and Greece to the present. According to Paglia, one source of continuity is paganism, which, undefeated by Judeo-Christianity, continues to flourish in art, eroticism, astrology, and pop culture. Others, she says, are androgyny, sadism, and the aggressive
... En savoir plus
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The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World

par Anthony M. Amore ...

Lu par Michael Johnson ...

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8 heure 7 min

Art scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from the business of authentication and forgery, and with good reason. Art scams are increasingly convincing and involve incredible sums of money. The cons perpetrated by unscrupulous art dealers and their accomplices are proportionately elaborate.Anthony M. Amore's ... En savoir plus

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Art scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from the business of authentication and forgery, and with good reason. Art scams are increasingly convincing and involve incredible sums of money. The cons perpetrated by unscrupulous art dealers and their accomplices are proportionately elaborate.Anthony M. Amore's
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Stoned

Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World

par Aja Raden ...

Lu par Justine Eyre ...

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10 heure 56 min

What makes a stone a jewel? What makes a jewel priceless? And why do we covet beautiful things? In this brilliant account of how eight jewels shaped the course of history, jeweler and scientist Aja Raden tells an original and often startling story about our unshakeable addiction to beauty and the darker side of human desire.What moves the world is what moves each of us: desire. Jewelry—which has ... En savoir plus

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What makes a stone a jewel? What makes a jewel priceless? And why do we covet beautiful things? In this brilliant account of how eight jewels shaped the course of history, jeweler and scientist Aja Raden tells an original and often startling story about our unshakeable addiction to beauty and the darker side of human desire.What moves the world is what moves each of us: desire. Jewelry—which has
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The Reith Lectures

10 of the best

par Various ...

Lu par Grayson Perry, Hilary Mantel, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Atul Gawande, Margaret Macmillan, Michael J. Sandel, Tom Kirkwood, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Daniel Barenboim, Eliza Manningham-Buller ...

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7 heure 30 min

Ten emblematic lectures by world-leading thinkers, specially selected by the series producer.Since 1948, the BBC's iconic annual lecture series has provided a platform for brilliant, entertaining individuals to discuss and develop their ideas on radio. The topics range from art and science to history, culture, politics and more, and each Reith Lecture - which is a little longer than a TED talk - ... En savoir plus

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Ten emblematic lectures by world-leading thinkers, specially selected by the series producer.Since 1948, the BBC's iconic annual lecture series has provided a platform for brilliant, entertaining individuals to discuss and develop their ideas on radio. The topics range from art and science to history, culture, politics and more, and each Reith Lecture - which is a little longer than a TED talk -
... En savoir plus
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Rembrandt Is in the Wind

Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

par Russ Ramsey ...

Lu par Zach Hoffman, John Behrens ...

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6 heure 50 min

How do art and faith intersect? How does art help us see our own lives more clearly? What can we understand about God and humanity by looking at the lives of artists?Striving for beauty, art also reveals what is broken. It presents us with the tremendous struggles and longings common to the human experience. And it says a lot about our Creator too. Great works of art can speak to the soul in a ... En savoir plus

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How do art and faith intersect? How does art help us see our own lives more clearly? What can we understand about God and humanity by looking at the lives of artists?Striving for beauty, art also reveals what is broken. It presents us with the tremendous struggles and longings common to the human experience. And it says a lot about our Creator too. Great works of art can speak to the soul in a
... En savoir plus
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The Gift

How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World

par Lewis Hyde, Lewis Hyde, Lewis Hyde ...

Lu par Stephen Bowlby ...

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13 heure 36 min

A modern classic cherished by many of the greatest artists of our time, The Gift is a brilliant, life-changing defense of the value of creative labor.Drawing on examples from folklore and literature, history and tribal customs, economics and modern copyright law, Lewis Hyde demonstrates how our society—governed by the marketplace—is poorly equipped to determine the worth of artists’ work. He shows ... En savoir plus

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A modern classic cherished by many of the greatest artists of our time, The Gift is a brilliant, life-changing defense of the value of creative labor.Drawing on examples from folklore and literature, history and tribal customs, economics and modern copyright law, Lewis Hyde demonstrates how our society—governed by the marketplace—is poorly equipped to determine the worth of artists’ work. He shows
... En savoir plus
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Turn Your Life Into Art

Lessons in Psychomagic From the San Francisco Underground

par Caveat Magister ...

Lu par Lee Goettl ...

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8 heure 37 min

Over thirty years, San Francisco's underground art scene developed techniques to create magical, impossible, life-changing experiences. Today big corporations are trying to figure out how to spend millions of dollars to do what these artists and anti-artists did using nothing but time, space, and imagination. It was "a movement without a manifesto," with people discovering how it worked through ... En savoir plus

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Over thirty years, San Francisco's underground art scene developed techniques to create magical, impossible, life-changing experiences. Today big corporations are trying to figure out how to spend millions of dollars to do what these artists and anti-artists did using nothing but time, space, and imagination. It was "a movement without a manifesto," with people discovering how it worked through
... En savoir plus
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Charm

par Stephen Bayley ...

Lu par Stephen Bayley ...

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2 heure 22 min

An informative, fun and rather charming essay on the nature and history of one of life’s most desirable assets, Charm, by renowned culture and design critic, Stephen Bayley.Aiming to wound, a schoolmaster wrote on future design-guru Stephen Bayley’s last ever school report “Charm alone will not get him through”. Bayley took this to mean that an affable, genial, outgoing nature was not enough to ... En savoir plus

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An informative, fun and rather charming essay on the nature and history of one of life’s most desirable assets, Charm, by renowned culture and design critic, Stephen Bayley.Aiming to wound, a schoolmaster wrote on future design-guru Stephen Bayley’s last ever school report “Charm alone will not get him through”. Bayley took this to mean that an affable, genial, outgoing nature was not enough to
... En savoir plus
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Painted People

Humanity in 21 Tattoos

par Matt Lodder ...

Lu par Henry Nott ...

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9 heure 37 min

In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing ‘an art without a history’. ‘No-one’, it went on, ‘has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.’ Until now.Painted People is a beguiling and intimate look at an untold history of humanity.The earliest tattoos yet identified belonged to Ötzi, the ‘iceman’, whose mummy allows us a brief glimpse into the ... En savoir plus

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In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing ‘an art without a history’. ‘No-one’, it went on, ‘has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.’ Until now.Painted People is a beguiling and intimate look at an untold history of humanity.The earliest tattoos yet identified belonged to Ötzi, the ‘iceman’, whose mummy allows us a brief glimpse into the
... En savoir plus
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Postmodernism

A Very Short Introduction

par Christopher Butler ...

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4 heure 7 min

Postmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly engaging introduction, the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are unraveled, casting a critical light upon the way we live now, from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct. The key postmodernist ideas are explored and challenged, ... En savoir plus

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Postmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly engaging introduction, the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are unraveled, casting a critical light upon the way we live now, from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct. The key postmodernist ideas are explored and challenged,
... En savoir plus
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Marking Time

Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration

par Nicole R. Fleetwood ...

Lu par Adenrele Ojo ...

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11 heure 39 min

More than two million people are currently behind bars in the United States. Incarceration not only separates the imprisoned from their families and communities; it also exposes them to shocking levels of deprivation and abuse and subjects them to the arbitrary cruelties of the criminal justice system. Yet, as Nicole Fleetwood reveals, America's prisons are filled with art. Despite the isolation ... En savoir plus

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More than two million people are currently behind bars in the United States. Incarceration not only separates the imprisoned from their families and communities; it also exposes them to shocking levels of deprivation and abuse and subjects them to the arbitrary cruelties of the criminal justice system. Yet, as Nicole Fleetwood reveals, America's prisons are filled with art. Despite the isolation
... En savoir plus
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Splinters

Another Kind of Love Story

par Leslie Jamison ...

Lu par Leslie Jamison ...

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8 heure 32 min

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes “a blazing, unputdownable memoir” (Mary Karr, author of Lit), the “piercing, intimate” story (TIME Magazine) of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, ... En savoir plus

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes “a blazing, unputdownable memoir” (Mary Karr, author of Lit), the “piercing, intimate” story (TIME Magazine) of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true,
... En savoir plus
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Istorija umetnosti, tom 1.

Antička umjetnost

par Elie Faure ...

Lu par Adrian Vale ...

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5 heure 27 min

Prvi tom serije Istorija umjetnosti Élie Faure-a vodi nas na zapanjujuće putovanje do izvora ljudske mašte. Ova knjiga prati rađanje ljudskog pogleda — od pećina paleolita do egipatskih kolosa, od asirskih krilatih bikova do grčkih hramova obasjanih svjetlošću, pa sve do Rima, genija kamenja i puteva. Kao pjesnik-pripovjedač i vizionarski historičar, Faure otkriva da umjetnička djela nisu nikada ... En savoir plus

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Prvi tom serije Istorija umjetnosti Élie Faure-a vodi nas na zapanjujuće putovanje do izvora ljudske mašte. Ova knjiga prati rađanje ljudskog pogleda — od pećina paleolita do egipatskih kolosa, od asirskih krilatih bikova do grčkih hramova obasjanih svjetlošću, pa sve do Rima, genija kamenja i puteva. Kao pjesnik-pripovjedač i vizionarski historičar, Faure otkriva da umjetnička djela nisu nikada
... En savoir plus
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Kunstgeschichte Band 1.

Antike Kunst

par Elie Faure ...

Lu par Adrian Vale ...

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6 heure 22 min

Der erste Band von Élie Faures Reihe Geschichte der Kunst nimmt den Hörer mit auf eine faszinierende Reise zu den Ursprüngen der menschlichen Vorstellungskraft. Dieses Buch zeichnet die Geburt des menschlichen Blicks nach – von den paläolithischen Höhlen über die Kolosse Ägyptens, die geflügelten Stiere Assyriens und die vom Licht durchfluteten griechischen Tempel bis hin zu Rom, dem Genie des ... En savoir plus

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Der erste Band von Élie Faures Reihe Geschichte der Kunst nimmt den Hörer mit auf eine faszinierende Reise zu den Ursprüngen der menschlichen Vorstellungskraft. Dieses Buch zeichnet die Geburt des menschlichen Blicks nach – von den paläolithischen Höhlen über die Kolosse Ägyptens, die geflügelten Stiere Assyriens und die vom Licht durchfluteten griechischen Tempel bis hin zu Rom, dem Genie des
... En savoir plus
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藝術史，第四卷

現代藝術

par 埃利·福尔 ...

Lu par 阿德里安·维尔 ...

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10 heure 50 min

发现埃利·福尔的《艺术史·第四卷·现代艺术》——一场哲学性和诗意的旅程，深入艺术创作的核心。在这部最终卷中，福尔超越时代，探索艺术作为人类生命活力脉搏的本质。从非洲偶像到威尼斯杰作，他揭示文化与形象表达之间的深层联系，分析推动历史的合成与分析的交替节奏。从古埃及到现代时代，穿越希腊、印度和西方，福尔解密艺术如何将激情的混沌与精神秩序相结合——从建筑到绘画，从雕塑到音乐。以迷人的散文，福尔赞颂艺术家为英雄的西西弗斯，在瞬间中追求绝对。这部流畅而沉浸式的有声书朗读唤醒心灵对普遍类比的觉悟，邀请我们重新思考与世界的联系。一部滋养灵魂、鼓舞人心的远见之作。 ... En savoir plus

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发现埃利·福尔的《艺术史·第四卷·现代艺术》——一场哲学性和诗意的旅程，深入艺术创作的核心。在这部最终卷中，福尔超越时代，探索艺术作为人类生命活力脉搏的本质。从非洲偶像到威尼斯杰作，他揭示文化与形象表达之间的深层联系，分析推动历史的合成与分析的交替节奏。从古埃及到现代时代，穿越希腊、印度和西方，福尔解密艺术如何将激情的混沌与精神秩序相结合——从建筑到绘画，从雕塑到音乐。以迷人的散文，福尔赞颂艺术家为英雄的西西弗斯，在瞬间中追求绝对。这部流畅而沉浸式的有声书朗读唤醒心灵对普遍类比的觉悟，邀请我们重新思考与世界的联系。一部滋养灵魂、鼓舞人心的远见之作。
... En savoir plus
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Konsthistoria volym 3.

Renässanskonst

par Elie Fauré ...

Lu par Adrian Vale ...

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6 heure 35 min

Denna tredje volym av Élie Faures Konsthistoria är en mästerlig fördjupning i renässansens väsen, denna era av kreativ pånyttfödelse där konsten överstiger medeltiden för att omfamna individualism och humanism. Genom en levande analys av italienska centra som Florens, Rom och Venedig dechiffrerar författaren de estetiska revolutioner som bars av jättar som Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Rafael ... En savoir plus

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Denna tredje volym av Élie Faures Konsthistoria är en mästerlig fördjupning i renässansens väsen, denna era av kreativ pånyttfödelse där konsten överstiger medeltiden för att omfamna individualism och humanism. Genom en levande analys av italienska centra som Florens, Rom och Venedig dechiffrerar författaren de estetiska revolutioner som bars av jättar som Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Rafael
... En savoir plus
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Dejiny umenia, 4. zväzok.

Moderné umenie

par Elie Faure ...

Lu par Adrian Vale ...

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9 heure 37 min

Objavte "Dejiny umenia. Zväzok 4. Moderné umenie" od Élie Faurea - filozofickú a poetickú cestu do srdca umeleckej tvorby. V tomto záverečnom zväzku Faure prekračuje epohálne hranice a skúma podstatu umenia ako životného pulzu ľudstva. Od afrických idolov až po benátske majstrovské diela odhaľuje hlboké väzby medzi kultúrami a figurálnymi výrazmi, analyzuje striedavý rytmus syntézy a analýzy, ... En savoir plus

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Objavte "Dejiny umenia. Zväzok 4. Moderné umenie" od Élie Faurea - filozofickú a poetickú cestu do srdca umeleckej tvorby. V tomto záverečnom zväzku Faure prekračuje epohálne hranice a skúma podstatu umenia ako životného pulzu ľudstva. Od afrických idolov až po benátske majstrovské diela odhaľuje hlboké väzby medzi kultúrami a figurálnymi výrazmi, analyzuje striedavý rytmus syntézy a analýzy,
... En savoir plus
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Taiteen historia, osa 3.

Renessanssin taide

par Renessanssin taide ...

Lu par Adrian Vale ...

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Tämä kolmas osa Élie Fauren "Taiteen historiasta" on mestarillinen uppoutuminen renessanssin olemukseen, tuohon luovan uudelleensyntymän aikakauteen, jossa taide ylittää keskiajan omaksuakseen individualismin ja humanismin. Elävän analyysin kautta italialaisista keskuksista kuten Firenze, Rooma ja Venetsia, kirjoittaja tulkitsee esteettiset vallankumoukset, joita kantoivat jättiläiset kuten ... En savoir plus

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Tämä kolmas osa Élie Fauren "Taiteen historiasta" on mestarillinen uppoutuminen renessanssin olemukseen, tuohon luovan uudelleensyntymän aikakauteen, jossa taide ylittää keskiajan omaksuakseen individualismin ja humanismin. Elävän analyysin kautta italialaisista keskuksista kuten Firenze, Rooma ja Venetsia, kirjoittaja tulkitsee esteettiset vallankumoukset, joita kantoivat jättiläiset kuten
... En savoir plus
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Història de l'Art Volum 3.

Art renaixentista

par Elie Fauré ...

Lu par Adrià Vale ...

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Aquest tercer volum de la Història de l'art d'Élie Faure és una immersió magistral en l'essència del Renaixement, aquesta era de renaixement creatiu on l'art transcendeix l'Edat Mitjana per abraçar l'individualisme i l'humanisme. A través d'una anàlisi viva dels focus italians com Florència, Roma i Venècia, l'autor desxifra les revolucions estètiques portades per gegants com Miquel Àngel, Leonardo ... En savoir plus

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Aquest tercer volum de la Història de l'art d'Élie Faure és una immersió magistral en l'essència del Renaixement, aquesta era de renaixement creatiu on l'art transcendeix l'Edat Mitjana per abraçar l'individualisme i l'humanisme. A través d'una anàlisi viva dels focus italians com Florència, Roma i Venècia, l'autor desxifra les revolucions estètiques portades per gegants com Miquel Àngel, Leonardo
... En savoir plus
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تاريخ الفن المجلد 1

الفن القديم

par إيلي فوري ...

Lu par أدريان فالي ...

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6 heure 23 min

"غوص مذهل في جذور خيالنا الجمعي: المجلد الأول من تاريخ الفن لإيلي فور يعيد رسم ولادة النظرة الإنسانية، من كهوف العصر الحجري القديم إلى عمالقة مصر، ومن الثيران المجنحة في آشور إلى المعابد اليونانية المغمورة بالنور، وصولاً إلى روما وعبقريتها في الحجر والطرق. بصفته راوياً شاعرياً ومؤرخاً ذا رؤية، يكشف فور أن الأعمال الفنية ليست مجرد زينة، بل أنظمة حية من القوى، حيث تتحد الوظيفة بالشكل وتتحول الفكرة ... En savoir plus

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"غوص مذهل في جذور خيالنا الجمعي: المجلد الأول من تاريخ الفن لإيلي فور يعيد رسم ولادة النظرة الإنسانية، من كهوف العصر الحجري القديم إلى عمالقة مصر، ومن الثيران المجنحة في آشور إلى المعابد اليونانية المغمورة بالنور، وصولاً إلى روما وعبقريتها في الحجر والطرق. بصفته راوياً شاعرياً ومؤرخاً ذا رؤية، يكشف فور أن الأعمال الفنية ليست مجرد زينة، بل أنظمة حية من القوى، حيث تتحد الوظيفة بالشكل وتتحول الفكرة
... En savoir plus
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This is Not New

Art, Culture, and the Promise of Change

par David Balzer ...

Lu par Daniel Henning ...

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5 heure 51 min

Praise for Curationism: "Balzer writes with zest, skepticism, and sly humor" —Sheila Heti, author of Pure ColourWhat does it mean to call something "new"? Why is Western art and culture, even after postmodernism, still so obsessed with the concept? What are the consequences of relying on culture to bring about social change?In this provocative book, David Balzer argues that Western culture was ... En savoir plus

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Praise for Curationism: "Balzer writes with zest, skepticism, and sly humor" —Sheila Heti, author of Pure ColourWhat does it mean to call something "new"? Why is Western art and culture, even after postmodernism, still so obsessed with the concept? What are the consequences of relying on culture to bring about social change?In this provocative book, David Balzer argues that Western culture was
... En savoir plus
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Creativity, Objective Art & Meditation

par Osho, Osho ...

Lu par Osho, Osho ...

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45 min

'OSHO SINGLE': This is a short audio talk by Osho, selected from one of the many series of Osho Talks to listeners from around the world.Can true creativity arise only from meditation?In this illuminating talk, Osho responds to the question: "What is objective art? Is creativity somehow related with meditation?"Osho makes a remarkable distinction between two fundamentally different kinds of ... En savoir plus

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'OSHO SINGLE': This is a short audio talk by Osho, selected from one of the many series of Osho Talks to listeners from around the world.Can true creativity arise only from meditation?In this illuminating talk, Osho responds to the question: "What is objective art? Is creativity somehow related with meditation?"Osho makes a remarkable distinction between two fundamentally different kinds of
... En savoir plus

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