This book is the first detailed investigation to focus on the late medieval use of Tree of Jesse imagery, traditionally a representation of the genealogical tree of Christ. In northern Europe, from the mid-fifteenth to the early sixteenth centuries, it could be found across a wi…
In this book the authors investigate how iconology as a field and method, which originated within art history, relates to recent developments in the Humanities such as Anthropology and Visual Studies. The main questions are: How has iconology evolved in the past decennia, could …
Black male: representations of masculinity in contemporary Am…
by Gates, Henry Louis Jr, Hooks, Bell, Ross, Andrew, Tate, Greg, Mercer, Kobena, Rose, Tricia, Whitney museum of American art (New York, N.Y.), Smith, Valerie, Golden, Thelma, Alexander, Elisabeth, Gray, Herman, Guerero, Ed, Hanhardt, John G., Harper, Phillip Brian, Julien, Isaac, Taylor, Clyde
This study of the Soviet political posters issued between 1918 and 1953, describes the archetypal images they featured, such as the worker, the peasant woman, the enemy and the leader. It analyzes these Bolshevik icons and explains how they defined the popular outlook in Soviet …
Der Ikonoklasmus des Westens
by Feld, Helmut
fromStudies in the history of Christian thought