The Arts and Their Interrelations
The Arts and Their Interrelations

Author: Thomas Munro

Publisher: Cleveland : Press of Western Reserve University

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13:

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"The Arts and Their Interrelations" is the first book of its kind. It did much to stimulate the present educational trend toward comparative surveys of the arts. This enlarged edition opens the way to further progress in the understanding of the arts from a standpoint of content, form, and function. Most book on the arts today are highly specialized, focusing on one art form, artist, style, or collection. By contrast, "The Arts and Their Interrelations" deals with all the arts: the visual arts, literature, music, theater, film, and industrial arts. Dr. Munro offers a theoretical explanation of these arts which is applicable to works of any place and period. The nature of each major art form of today is outlined, and comparisons are made with earlier art forms with respect to media and psychological materials, to forms, techniques, and processes employed, and to functions served in society. A concise historical sketch of the changing concepts of art and systems of classification since the time of Plato is also presented. -- From publisher's description

Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality
Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality

Author: L. Elleström

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-02-12

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0230275206

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A groundbreaking collection of essays looking at the concepts of 'intermediality' and 'multimodality' - the relationship between various forms of art and new media - and including case studies ranging from music, film and architecture to medieval ballads, biopoetry and Lettrism.

The Destruction of Art
The Destruction of Art

Author: Dario Gamboni

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2007-05-15

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1861893167

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"This is the first comprehensive examination of modern iconoclasm. Dario Gamboni looks at deliberate attacks carried out - by institutions as well as individuals - on paintings, buildings, sculptures and other works of art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Truly international in scope, "The Destruction of Art" examines incidents, some comic and others disquieting, in the USA, France, the former Soviet Union and other eastern bloc states, Britain, Switzerland, Germany and elsewhere. Motivated in the first instance by the recent destruction of many monuments in Europe's former Communist states, which challenged the assumption that iconoclasm was truly a thing of the past, the author has discovered just how widespread the destruction of art is today, manifested in explicable and inexplicable vandalism, political protest and censorship of all sorts. Dario Gamboni examines the relationship between contemporary destructions of art, older forms of iconoclasm and the development of modern art. His analysis is illustrated by case studies from Europe and the United States, from Suffragette protests in London's National Gallery to the controversy surrounding the removal of Richard Serra's Tilted Arc in New York and the resultant debate on artists' moral rights. "The Destruction of Art" asks what iconoclasm can teach us about the place of works of art and material culture in society. The history of iconoclasm is shown to reflect, and to contribute to, the changing and conflicting definitions of art itself." -- BOOK JACKET.

A History of Six Ideas
A History of Six Ideas

Author: W. Tatarkiewicz

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9400988052

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The history of aesthetics, like the histories of other sciences, may be treated in a two-fold manner: as the history of the men who created the field of study, or as the history of the questions that have been raised and resolved in the course of its pursuit. The earlier History of Aesthetics (3 volumes, 1960-68, English-language edition 1970-74) by the author of the present book was a history of men, of writers and artists who in centuries past have spoken up concerning beauty and art, form and crea tivity. The present book returns to the same subject, but treats it in a different way: as the history of aesthetic questions, concepts, theories. The matter of the two books, the previous and the present, is in part the same; but only in part: for the earlier book ended with the 17th century, while the present one brings the subject up to our own times. And from the 18th century to the 20th much happened in aesthetics; it was only in that period that aesthetics achieved recognition as a separate science, received a name of its own, and produced theories that early scholars and artists had never dreamed of.

The Carver's Art
The Carver's Art

Author: Simon J. Bronner

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780813130859

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Insurgencies, especially in the form of guerrilla warfare, continue to erupt across many parts of the globe. Most of these rebellions fail, but Four Rebellions that Shaped Our World analyzes four twentieth-century conflicts in which the success of the insurgents permanently altered the global political arena: the Maoists in China against Chiang Kai-shek and the Japanese in the 1930s and 1940s; the Viet Minh in French Indochina from 1945 to 1954; CastroÕs followers against Batista in Cuba from 1956 to 1959; and the mujahideen in Soviet Afghanistan from 1980 to 1989. Anthony James Joes illuminates patterns of failed counterinsurgencies that include serious but avoidable political and military blunders and makes clear the critical and often decisive influence of the international setting. Offering provocative insights and timeless lessons applicable to contemporary conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, this authoritative and comprehensive book will be of great interest to policy-makers and concerned citizens alike.