Allmän konsthistoria
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A dictionary of Chinese symbols
Eberhard, WolframTaylor & Francis Group 2006This unique and authoritative guide describes more than 400 important Chinese symbols, explaining their esoteric meanings and connections. Their use and development in Chinese lite...
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Art history the basics
Pooke, Grant.; Newall, DianaRoutledge 2008Art & Art Histories Formalism & Art An Introduction to Art & Social Meaning Marxism, Art & Aesthetics Art & Gender Art, Sex & Psychobiography Semiotics, Signs & Simulacr...
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Frida Kahlo
Souter, GerryParkstone International 2015 1. utgåvaBehind Frida Kahlo’s portraits, lies the story of both her life and work. It is precisely this combination that draws the reader in. Frida’s work is a record of her life, and rarel...
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Art history for dummies
Wilder, Jesse BryantWiley 2007Art history is more than just a collection of dates and foreign-sounding names, obscure movements and arcane isms. Every age, for the last 50,000 years has left its unique imprint...
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Frida Kahlo
Shouter, GerryParkstone International 2016 1. utgåvaBehind Frida Kahlo’s portraits, lies the story of both her life and work. It is precisely this combination that draws the reader in. Frida’s work is a record of her life, and rarel...
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Gay Art
Smalls, JamesParkstone International 2016 1. utgåvaThis book is not a panegyric of homosexuality. It is a scientific study led by Professor James Smalls who teaches art story . His works examines the process of creation and allows...
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Art nouveau
Lahor, Jean.; Brimacombe, RebeccaParkstone; 2007Art Nouveau designates a decorative and architectural style developed in the 1880s and 1890s in the West. Born in reaction to the Industrial Revolution and to the creative vacuum i...
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Post-impressionism
Brodskaja, NataliaParkstone 2010While Impressionism marked the first steps toward modern painting by revolutionising an artistic medium stifled by academic conventions, Post-Impressionism, even more revolutionary...
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Dalí
Shanes, EricParkstone International 2014 1. utgåvaSalvador Dalí (1904-1989) is best known for his unique and striking style with an extraordinary repertoire reaching out across film, painting, photography, and sculpture. Whilst hi...
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Notebooks
LeonardoOxford University Press 2008 New ed.This selection offers a cross-section from the 6,000 surviving sheets that constitute Leonardo's notebooks, including his thoughts on landscape, optics, anatomy, architecture, scul...
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Cubism
Apollinaire, Guillaume.; Eimert, Dorothea.; Podorsik, AnatoliParkstone 2010Les Demoiselles d’Avignon: five young women that changed modern art forever. Faces seen simultaneously from the front and in profile, angular bodies whose once voluptuous feminine...
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Russian avant-garde
Kovtun, Jevgeni.; Cowling, Nick.; Dumaz, Marie-NoëlleParkstone 2007The Russian Avant-Garde was born at the turn of the twentieth century in pre-revolutionary Russia. The intellectual and cultural turmoil had then reached a peak and provided fertil...
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The Pre-Raphaelites
La Sizeranne, Robert deParkstone 2008In Victorian England, with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelites, close to William Morris’ Arts and Crafts movement, yearned for a return to bygone...
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Art is not what you think it is
Preziosi, DonaldWiley-Blackwell 2012Art Is Not What You Think It Is utilizes original research to present a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has...
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Leonardo Da Vinci / Gabriel Séailles
Séailles, GabrielParkstone International 2013 1. utgåvaLeonardo’s early life was spent in Florence, his maturity in Milan, and the last three years of his life in France. Leonardo’s teacher was Verrocchio. First he was a goldsmith, the...
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How Our Ancestors Died
Wills, SimonPen and SwordWhat were the principal causes of death in the past? Could your ancestor have been affected? How was disease investigated and treated and what did our ancestors think about the ill...
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Violence and Civilization
Oxbow BooksThis collection of essays begins with the premise that violence, in its relationship to order, is a central element of history. Taking a broad definition of violence, including str...
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The Archaeology of Politics and Power
Maisels, Charles KeithOxbow BooksArchaeology is not just about the past, but the present and future too. Much of our present condition and future prospects are inevitably bound up with what states do and what they...
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Art in Europe
Charles, VictoriaParkstone International 2014 1. utgåvaThe European continent gathers together, without a doubt, the most famous works of art, evidence of the history of Western art. The cultural capitals and their emblematic museums c...