Whether they focus on Thor's powerful hammer, the mysterious valkyries, the palatial home of the gods - Asgard - or ravenous wolves and fierce elemental giants, the Norse myths are packed with vivid incident. This book shows how the Norse myths have resonated from era to era: fr…
Velázquez's Las Meninas
by Stratton-Pruitt, Suzanne L.
fromMasterpieces of Western painting
Om den spanske maler Diego Velázquez (1599-1660)
On the centenary of Mies van der Rohe, a new Barcelona Pavilion was built on the site of the original 1929 German Pavilion. That same decade marked the 150th anniversary of photography. Since then, much has been published about van der Rohe, the Pavilion, and photography. This t…
Examining the wide-ranging implications of Ruskin's engagement with his contemporaries and followers, this collection is organized around three related themes: Ruskin's intellectual legacy and the extent to which its address to working men and women and children was realised in …
Durkheim, the Durkheimians, and the arts
