The Oxford companion to twentieth-century art
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"To what extent did mythological figures such as Circe and Medea influence the representation of the powerful 'oriental' enchantress in modern Western art? What role did the ancient gods and heroes play in the construction of the imaginary worlds of the modern fantasy genre? Wha…
"To what extent did mythological figures such as Circe and Medea influence the representation of the powerful 'oriental' enchantress in modern Western art? What role did the ancient gods and heroes play in the construction of the imaginary worlds of the modern fantasy genre? Wha…
"To what extent did mythological figures such as Circe and Medea influence the representation of the powerful 'oriental' enchantress in modern Western art? What role did the ancient gods and heroes play in the construction of the imaginary worlds of the modern fantasy genre? Wha…
"To what extent did mythological figures such as Circe and Medea influence the representation of the powerful 'oriental' enchantress in modern Western art? What role did the ancient gods and heroes play in the construction of the imaginary worlds of the modern fantasy genre? Wha…
Preliminary Material /Pauline Bachmann, Melanie Klein, Tomoko Mamine and Georg Vasold -- Acknowledgements /Pauline Bachmann, Melanie Klein, Tomoko Mamine and Georg Vasold -- Introduction /Pauline Bachmann, Melanie Klein, Tomoko Mamine and Georg Vasold -- Western Modern Masters M…
The Culture of Diagram is about visual thinking. Exploring a terrain where words meet pictures and formulas meet figures, the book foregrounds diagrams as tools for blurring those boundaries to focus on the production of knowledge as process.-publisher description.
This book defines diagrams as tools manipulated by users to produce new kinds of understanding and demonstrates that a modern diagrammatic knowledge emerged in eighteenth-century visual culture to become the foundation of later nineteenth-century science.
Caravaggio and his copyists
by Moir, Alfred
fromMonographs on archaeology and fine arts
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Art as a form of thinking -- Defining the pensive image. Theorizing stillness ; tracing the Denkbild -- Painting as philosophical reflection. Room for reflection : interior and interiority; The profundity of still life; Painting as a space for thought -- Painting's wonder. "Gro…
"Grootenboer is interested in art as philosophy, that is, art as a consideration of thinking. She insists that early modern art can be viewed through the lenses of contemporary interest and means. She argues that art is capable of articulating thoughts and shaping concepts in vi…