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  • - The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance
    af John Onians
    827,95 kr.

    For all those interested in the relationship between ideas and the built environment, John Onians provides a lively illustrated account of the range of meanings that Western culture has assigned to the Classical orders. Onians shows that during the 2,000 years from their first appearance in ancient Greece through their codification in Renaissance Italy, the orders--the columns and capitals known as Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite--were made to serve expressive purposes, engaging the viewer in a continuing visual dialogue.

  • - From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki
    af John Onians
    228,95 kr.

    There has been increase in both the quantity and the quality of our knowledge about the brain, especially the visual brain. Knowledge of phenomena such as neural plasticity and neural mirroring is making it possible to answer some of the questions about both creative process and response to art. This title offers an account of neuroarthistory.

  • - A Neuroarthistory
    af John Onians
    538,95 kr.

    A bold revision of the history of European art, told through the lens of neuroscience

  • - Containing and Explaining the World's Art
    af John Onians
    214,95 kr.

    How do we do justice to art when we treat it as a worldwide phenomenon with a long history? In this study, academics, curators, bibliographers and representatives of international organizations explain the ways they deal with the conflict between the need to compress and the desire to express.