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Category: Graphic Arts
Modern Art And Modernism: A Critical Anthology
Caravaggio
Caravaggio is the most arresting European painter of the years around 1600. Although he died in 1610, in his thirty-ninth year, he is often considered the most important Italian painter of the entire seventeenth century. He is also notorious as a painter-assassin: he killed a man in 1606, and a similar crime was rumored in his youth. Caravaggio’s painting speak to us more personally and more poignantly than any others of the time. We meet him over the gulf of centuries, not as a commanding and admirable historical figure like Annibale Carracci, but as an artist who somehow cut through the artistic conventions of his time right down to the universal blood and bone of life..
Perspectives On Western Art, Vol.1: Source Documents And Readings From The Ancient Near East Through The Middle Ages
The purpose of this anthology is to unite the study of Western art history with the understanding of Western social and cultural history. Painting, sculpture, architecture, and other forms of the visual arts are, like literary documents, primary sources that reveal the thoughts and abilities of individuals and that record the fundamental concerns of their age and culture..
Michelangelo
Feminism And Art History: Questioning The Litany
Art And Architecture In Medieval France: Medieval Architecture, Sculpture, Stained Glass, Manuscripts, The Art Of The Church Treasuries
Anti-Story An Anthology of Experimental Fiction
Masterpieces of the Drama
Designed as a main text-anthology for the introductory drama course. Applauded by reviewers for its generous number of selections, the sixth edition offers true ‘masterpieces’ of drama. This text contains 30 plays ranging from Aeschylus to Churchill, brief introductions and annotations that do not detract from the student’s appreciation of the text.9780023180316 This text is appropriate for Ethics and Moral theory courses. A compilation of many of the most influential and provocative papers in twentieth-c.