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An expansive collection that introduces the short-lived and ruthlessly creative phenomenon that was Blacklips.

An inspirational and insightful resource for architecture students and professionals that offers a new way of thinking about the architecture to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century.

"Previous edition published in the United States...under the title "Renaissance people" (Getty Publications, 2011)."

The ultimate guide to surrounding yourself with French country style, wherever you are.

"A breathtaking social portrait, peeling the glitter from privileged lives even as it fleshes out the spectacle they created." --The Washington Post

This innovative book expertly leads readers through the methods used by Impressionists masters such as Monet, Renoir, and Gauguin and supplies the essential information needed to create paintings in the style of the most popular movement in art history. 400 illustrations, 362 in color.

Legendary tales of kings and princes, wars, conquests, and unions with gods and goddesses--all these are portrayed in the spectacular friezes, reliefs, and stone carvings for which Cambodia has become justly renowned. The enormous variety of styles and influences, both sacred and secular, that are expressed in Cambodian art make this one of the most surprising and rewarding of all Southeast Asian cultures. Our understanding of the Khmers, whose kingdom dates back to early in the first millennium, is drawn from written Chinese records, myths recorded in Sanskrit, and the evidence revealed by research and exploration that continues to the present day. The profound and lasting influence of India on Khmer culture is evident in Cambodia's religious architecture, principally Hindu and Buddhist temples; each faith is reflected in work of remarkable vigor and exceptional grace and beauty. French archaeologists in the nineteenth century reopened the doors onto this world. Still more remarkable, perhaps, is how much has survived through generations of determined looting and political conflict. These persistent features of Cambodia's history make the richness and fragility of its architectural and artistic legacy strikingly apparent. World-famous sites, such as Angkor Wat and Preah Vihear, breathtaking monuments in their own right, have tended to overshadow a wealth of lesser-known buildings and complexes buried deep in the jungle. Many remarkable photographs are published here for the first time, of both famous sites and those that have, until now, been almost impossible to see, for both geographical and political reasons.

In this controversial and compassionate book, the distinguished psychiatrist James Gilligan proposes a radically new way of thinking about violence and how to prevent it.

Paperbound edition of a 1999 publication. Stressing the dynamism of Northwest Coastal hunter-gatherers, anthropologists Ames (Portland State U.) and Maschner (U. of Wisconsin) describe the 11,000 year-history of these exceptional First Nation Peoples as a matter of stops and starts, shifts and ta

"What is art? Is that art?" At the end of the twentieth century, these questions continue to provoke and to bedevil discussion. The uncertainty that prompts them can be productive for artists, who may thrive on such a state of tension. Yet uncertainty can also shade into the suspiciousness with which many people approach the work of those artists. Reasonable questions deserve articulate answers, and Julian Bell provides them in this lucid, straightforward, and often challenging book. In the process he offers an incisive guide to artistic thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and to the complexities of contemporary theory. Among the many fields of activity covered by the word "art," Bell, himself a painter, focuses on "flat things"--the paintings that modern theories seek to explain. The questions he addresses include: What is painting? Does anything unite these objects we call paintings? What happened to the idea of representation in "modern art"? What has caused the vast changes in painting over the last two centuries? What does the ancient practice of painting amount to in today's world at the turn of the twenty-first century? Bell writes with a wide-ranging curiosity about what other painters have produced in the last two hundred years, giving fresh accounts of the most influential works and introducing many painters who may lie outside fashionable canons. What Is Painting? is a book for everyone interested in making sense of modern art and of the cultural debates it provokes.

This volume brings together new work along with poems gathered from nine previous collections. When Linda Pastan's first book was published in 1971, the Jerusalem Post wrote, she "in large measure fulfilled Emerson's dream - the revelation of 'the miraculous in the common.' " Since then Pastan has continued to explore the complexities, passion, and dangers under the surfaces of ordinary life. "Some critics point to Emily Dickinson when citing Pastan's lapidary style and metaphysical wit, a comparison that does justice to either poet when Pastan is at her best." - Gettysburg Review  "Pastan's unfailing mastery of her medium holds the darkness firmly in check." - New York Times Book Review National Book Award finalist  Linda Pastan was Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1991 to 1993.

The Beethoven Compendium, written by four leading Beethoven scholars, is the key to a complete understanding of the composer-- an invaluable guide to his character, his social life, his religious beliefs, his politics, and above all his music.

Confronts the effects of modernism on society and proposes a remedy based on a redefinition of our art and culture

A comprehensive introduction to philosophy from Plato to Popper

The revolutionary cult of sun-worship that Akhenaten introduced, and such contentious issues as the role of Nefertiti as a goddess, the dominant part played by plague during Akhenaten's reign, and likely events of the king's twilight years are treated with new insight and set within the framework of an authoritative overview of the entire period.

In this widely acclaimed study, Alwyn and Brinley Ress reinterpret Celtic tradition in the light of advances made in the comparative study of religion, mythology and anthropology. Part One considers the distinguishing features of the various Cycle of tales and the personages who figure most prominently in them. Part Two reveals the cosmological framework within which the action of the tales takes place. Part Three consists of a discussion of the themes of certain classes of stories which tell of Conceptions and Births, Supernatural Adventures, Courtships and Marriages, Violent Deaths and Voyages to the Other World, and an attempt is made to understand their religious function and glimpse their transcendent meaning.

This is a concise history from Gluck to Beethoven containing 50 illustrations.

A concise history of Romantic music and composers from Schubert to Sibelius

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A brand-new, comprehensive history of world animation

Like many progressive artists of his time, Hans Uhlmann suffered under the reign of the national socialists. He was arrested because of his political stance in 1933 and spent almost two years in prison. In this period, Uhlmann filled multiple diaries and sketchbooks published for the first time in this volume. Not only do they offer invaluable insights into the formation of a unique artistic position and the daily routine behind the bars of a Nazi prison, they call for a reassessment of the status of drawing in Uhlmann's artistic practice, who is often primarily seen as a sculptor.HANS UHLMANN (1900-1975), best known for his works in metal, is one the most influential German artists of the post war era. From 1950 onwards, he taught as professor at the Berlin University of the Arts and participated in numerous major exhibitions such as the São Paulo Biennale, the documenta and the Venice Biennale.

When we visit museums, we rarely become aware of when, why, and by whom the collections found their way into the museum's holdings, or what previous histories the objects bring with them. These are highly topical questions in view of the intense debate on restitution. This publication tells the history of the museum from the perspective of the origins of its holdings - uncovering layers of origin with their coincidences, surprises, and concepts in an exemplary manner and assembling them not only into a new kind of museum history, but also into a history of the reception of cultural heritage. At the same time, this new perspective represents a break with conventional institutional historiography, as it undermines traditional narratives of a conceptually consistent and purposeful inventory construction. The uncompleted is the motto: an invitation to take up the challenge of constantly looking at cultural assets anew.Founded in 1884, the DEUTSCHE BUCH- UND SCHRIFTMUSEUM of the German National Library in Leipzig is considered the world's oldest and, with over one million objects, one of the most important museums in the field of book culture and media history.

Travel is a fundamental experience of human existence. For Max Beckmann it was of existential importance both in a symbolic, but also in a deeply personal sense. In the 1920s, he regularly traveled to the noble health resorts and palace hotels on the Dutch, Italian, and French coasts. His defamation as a "degenerate" artist by the Nazi regime, however, forced him to retreat, first from Frankfurt to Berlin and subsequently into exile in Amsterdam. His emigration to the United States marked the culmination of a life entwined with the longing to travel as well as uprooting, transit, and exile. Max Beckmann. DEPARTURE assembles an outstanding selection of artworks and initiates a dialogue with hitherto unseen objects and materials from the Max Beckmann Archive. It shows Beckmann's relationship to film and literature as a producer of images of aspirations and longing resonating with notions of identity and home.MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950) is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. A star of the Berlin Secession, Beckmann's career was slowed by World War I and a personal crisis, but continued in the 1920s. After the Nazis forced him to resign his professorship in Frankfurt in 1933, he went into exile in Amsterdam in 1937 and subsequently emigrated to the US in 1947. Teaching in St. Louis and New York, he became the most successful German artist in the United States of his time.