The Anthropology Art and This book provides an introduction to anthropological perspectives on art. Svasek defines art as a social process. We study not only the artefacts themselves and the values attributed to them, but …
The Enchanted Screen The In The Enchanted Screen, Jack Zipes looks at the long, illustrious life of fairy tales on film. Decades before Walt Disney made his mark on the genre, Zipes argues that fairy tales were central to …
Japanese Tea Culture Art From its origins as a distinct set of ritualised practices in the sixteenth century to its international expansion in the twentieth, tea culture has had a major impact on artistic production, …
People of Paradox A One of the most thought provoking books I have read and the only one that I know of that addresses culture which is such a big part of the Mormon experience. We spend a lot of time talking about …
Multimedia Histories From the Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today’s digital culture and an absorbing history of screen …
Hugo Van Der Goes Hugo van der Goes is a towering figure in the history of art. Hugely original, he exerted a massive influence, pushing the portrayal of volume, motion and light to its limits while exploring an …
The Unknown Monet Pastels As a landscape artist, I have studied over and over the angles of his brushstrokes, the juxtaposition of color that defies description. But here, in this book, we find the sketches we know he had to …
The Coral Mind Adrian Our view of modernism in the arts has been largely shaped by the prominence of painting and, in particular, by a succession of major painters working in Paris–from Courbet and Manet to the Cubists. …
Medieval Art A Topical Designed as a quick-reference source to the topics, symbols, themes, and stories most frequently found in early Christian, western medieval, and Byzantine art, this work describes topics that …
History s Beauties Women The ‘beauties’ – women of note – who were welcomed to the National Portrait Gallery’s early collection were those whose lives and portraits were recognized as significant to the ‘civil, …