Encyclopedia of comparative iconography : themes depicted in works of art. 2. M - Z
Author: Helene E. Roberts
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 535
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Author: Helene E. Roberts
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 535
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-05
Total Pages: 2586
ISBN-13: 1136787925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1998. The Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography compares the uses of iconographic themes from mythology, the Bible and other sacred texts, literature, and popular culture in works of art through various periods, cultures, and genres. Art historians now tend to study narrative themes depicted in works of art in relation to such subjects as gender and sexuality, politics and power, ownership and possession, ceremony and ritual, legitimacy and authority. The Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography reflects these new approaches by ordering the themes of various iconographic sources in particular biblical, mythological, and literary texts according to these new emphases.Each handsomely illustrated entry discusses the major relevant iconographic narratives and the historical background of each theme. A list of selected works of art that accompanies each essay guides the reader to examples in art that depict the theme under discussion. Each essay includes a list of suggested reading that provides further sources of information about the themes. A general bibliography of reference books is listed separately and can be used in association with all the essays. With 119 entries written by 42 experts, the Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography is an important reference work for art historians, students of art history, artists, and the general reader.
Author: Helene E. Roberts
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 7
ISBN-13: 9781579580094
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 1120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Howard Daniel
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNearly 400 of the subjects that recur most frequently in Western art - most of them mythological or religious - are arranged alphabetically and are concisely explained. Every subject is illustrated by a major work from a public gallery.
Author: David Ganz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-12-03
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 3110558602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccording to a longstanding interpretation, book religions are agents of textuality and logocentrism. This volume inverts the traditional perspective: its focus is on the strong dependency between scripture and aesthetics, holy books and material artworks, sacred texts and ritual performances. The contributions, written by a group of international specialists in Western, Byzantine, Islamic and Jewish Art, are committed to a comparative and transcultural approach. The authors reflect upon the different strategies of »clothing« sacred texts with precious materials and elaborate forms. They show how the pretypographic cultures of the Middle Ages used book ornaments as media for building a close relation between the divine words and their human audience. By exploring how art shapes the religious practice of books, and how the religious use of books shapes the evolution of artistic practices this book contributes to a new understanding of the deep nexus between sacred scripture and art.
Author: John Oliver Hand
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780521450935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA catalogue of fifteenth and sixteenth century German paintings in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Author: Renato Poggioli
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780674882164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConvinced that all aspects of modern culture have been affected by avant-garde art, Renato Poggioli explores the relationship between the avant-garde and civilization. Historical parallels and modern examples from all the arts are used to show how the avant-garde is both symptom and cause of many major extra-aesthetic trends of our time, and that the contemporary avant-garde is the sole and authentic one.
Author: Bernhard Siegert
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2015-05-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0823263770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, displace, process, and reflect the distinctions fundamental for a given culture. Cultural Techniques aims to forget our traditional understanding of media so as to redefine the concept through something more fundamental than the empiricist study of a medium’s individual or collective uses or of its cultural semantics or aesthetics. Rather, Siegert seeks to relocate media and culture on a level where the distinctions between object and performance, matter and form, human and nonhuman, sign and channel, the symbolic and the real are still in the process of becoming. The result is to turn ontology into a domain of all that is meant in German by the word Kultur. Cultural techniques comprise not only self-referential symbolic practices like reading, writing, counting, or image-making. The analysis of artifacts as cultural techniques emphasizes their ontological status as “in-betweens,” shifting from firstorder to second-order techniques, from the technical to the artistic, from object to sign, from the natural to the cultural, from the operational to the representational. Cultural Techniques ranges from seafaring, drafting, and eating to the production of the sign-signaldistinction in old and new media, to the reproduction of anthropological difference, to the study of trompe-l’oeils, grids, registers, and doors. Throughout, Siegert addresses fundamental questions of how ontological distinctions can be replaced by chains of operations that process those alleged ontological distinctions within the ontic. Grounding posthumanist theory both historically and technically, this book opens up a crucial dialogue between new German media theory and American postcybernetic discourses.
Author: Eric Schlosser
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 0547750331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.