Rudolph C. A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe

Emison P.A. Creating the Divine Artist: From Dante to Michelangelo

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Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. - 454 Pages. (Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions Medieval and Early Modern Peoples) Turning a skeptical eye on the idea that Renaissance artists were widely believed to be as utterly admirable as Vasari claimed, this book re-opens the question of why artists were praised and by whom, and specifically why the language of divinity was invoked, a practice the ancients did not license. The epithet ''divino'' is examin...

Hopkins D. Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction

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Oxford University Press, 2004. - 208 pages. The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock tactics. In this new treatment of the subject, Hopkins focuses on the many debates surrounding these movements: the Marquis de Sade's Surrealist deification, issues of quality (How good is Dali?), the idea of th...

Johnson G.A. Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction

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Oxford University Press, 2005. - 158 pages. Artists like Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, D?rer, and Michelangelo and works such as the Last Supper fresco and the monumental marble statue of David, are familiar symbols of the Renaissance. But who were these artists, why did they produce such memorable images, and how would their original beholders have viewed these objects? Was the Renaissance only about great masters and masterpieces, or were wo...

Jones A. A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945

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Wiley-Blackwell, 2006. - 648 pages. A Companion to Contemporary Art is a major survey covering the major works and movements, the most important theoretical developments, and the historical, social, political, and aesthetic issues in contemporary art since 1945, primarily in the Euro-American context. * Collects 27 original essays by expert scholars describing the current state of scholarship in art history and visual studies, and pointing to...

Taruskin R. Oxford History of Western Music. Volume 1

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Oxford University Press, 2009. - 3856 Pages (All 5 volumes). The history of "history" - our changing perspectives on the act of narrating and trying to "recapture" the past - encompasses the most profound seismic shifts in modern consciousness. Once seemingly commonsensical, the science-aspiring ambition of historiography to recount the past "as it actually was" (to borrow Leopold von Ranke's famously misunderstood phase) now betrays anachronist...

Taruskin R. Oxford History of Western Music. Volume 4

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Oxford University Press, 2009. - 3856 Pages (All 5 volumes). The history of "history" - our changing perspectives on the act of narrating and trying to "recapture" the past - encompasses the most profound seismic shifts in modern consciousness. Once seemingly commonsensical, the science-aspiring ambition of historiography to recount the past "as it actually was" (to borrow Leopold von Ranke's famously misunderstood phase) now betrays anachronist...

Taruskin R. Oxford History of Western Music. Volume 5

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Oxford University Press, 2009. - 3856 Pages (All 5 volumes). The history of "history" - our changing perspectives on the act of narrating and trying to "recapture" the past - encompasses the most profound seismic shifts in modern consciousness. Once seemingly commonsensical, the science-aspiring ambition of historiography to recount the past "as it actually was" (to borrow Leopold von Ranke's famously misunderstood phase) now betrays anachronist...

Unger M.P. Historical Dictionary of Choral Music

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Scarecrow Press, 2010. - 584 pages. This book is an incredible accomplishment, successfully covering both familiar and lesser known individuals and repertoire, as well as the standard choral genres. It will prove useful for professionals and lay musicians alike, and will be particularly welcome in university graduate programs, which have long needed a resource of this type. (Donald Neuen ) The importance of Melvin Unger's new book, Historical...

Williamson B. Christian Art: A Very Short Introduction

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Oxford University Press, 2004. - 144 pages. This Very Short Introduction decodes the key themes, signs, and symbols found in Christian art: the Eucharist, the image of the Crucifixion, the Virgin Mary, the Saints, Old and New Testament narrative imagery, and iconography. It also explores the theological and historical background of Christian imagery, from the devotional works of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, to the twenty-first century....

Zirpolo L.H. Historical Dictionary of Renaissance Art

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The Scarecrow Press, 2008. - 517 pages. The Renaissance era was launched in Italy and gradually spread to the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, France, and other parts of Europe and the New World, with figures like Robert Campin, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht D?rer, and Albrecht Altdorfer. It was the era that produced some of the icons of civilization, including Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Last Supper and Michelangelo's Sistine...