Herder combines rationalist and empiricist thought with a wide range of sources - from the classics to Norse legend, Shakespeare to the Bible - to illuminate the ways we experience sculpture.
Artworks are seen here as presenting themselves as a means by which to navigate and plot the city for a writing interlocutor; The examples discussed reveat a plethora of emergent forms which are concentrated into three key modalities of urban arts practice in the twenty-first ce…
Groundbreaking study of gestational imagery on ancient Olmec monuments and objects brings to light Mesoamerica's earliest creation narrative and traces its evolution into one of the enduring themes of Mesoamerican ritual life and art.
"Studies the influence of the plastic arts on the major writers of Latin American Modernism"--Provided by publisher
"Studies the influence of the plastic arts on the major writers of Latin American Modernism"--Provided by publisher.
"This book reveals how Gothic choir screens, through both their architecture and sculpture, were vital vehicles of communication and shapers of community within the Christian church"-- "In the Catharijneconvent Museum in Utrecht there hangs a panel painting whose diminutive siz…
"Alberto Giacometti's 1943 Cube stands apart for many as atypical of the Swiss artist, the only abstract sculptural work in a wide œvre that otherwise had as its objective the exploration of reality. With The Cube and the Face, renowned French art historian and philosopher Georg…
This survey of the variety of Pietàs traces the rise, spread, and significance of the image in French sculpture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.-- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
