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Whether Madonna, muse, or temptress, women have been a source of artistic inspiration throughout history. In the Reveries series, Parkstone pays tribute to the important contribution women have made to artists by uplifting their spirits and giving free reign to their...
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Parkstone International
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2024-10-20
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Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) was a master of drawing, painted glass and ceramic art. Little concerned with the details of daily reality, he probed medieval literature for new themes and produced works that idolize Victorian values and the Englishwoman.Burne-Jones...
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Parkstone International
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2024-10-20
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Centred in the city of Rome, the civilization of Ancient Rome ruled much of Europe for over 1000 years. The diverse phases of Roman art correspond to as many phases in the spiritual and political life of the Roman people. It has its origin in the national character and...
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Parkstone International
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2024-10-20
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In art history, the term Romanesque art distinguishes the period between the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 12th-century. This era showed a great diversity of regional schools each with their own unique style.In architecture as well as in sculpture, Romanesque...
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Parkstone International
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2024-10-20
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Arriving with a bang on the post-World War I scene, the Surrealists proclaimed a revolution of thought and creation, insisting on breaking away from the past and a world that had been left in ruins. This refusal to integrate into bourgeois society was also a leitmotiv...
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Parkstone International
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2024-10-20
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Jules Mordecai Pincas (1885–1930) was a Bulgarian artist who settled down in Paris in 1905, after a detour via Munich. There he started painting signing Pascin, and soon became part of the École de Montparnasse and its cosmopolitan blend of outstanding names.His...
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Parkstone International
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2024-10-20
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Influenced by Art Nouveau, this movement (created in 1897 by Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll, and Josef Hoffmann) was not an anonymous artistic revolution. Defining itself as a “total art”, without any political or commercial constraint, the Viennese Secession represented the...
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Parkstone International
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2024-10-20
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The Renaissance began at the end of the 14th-century in Italy and had extended across the whole of Europe by the second half of the 16th-century.The rediscovery of the splendour of ancient Greece and Rome marked the beginning of the rebirth of the arts following the...
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Parkstone International
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2024-10-20
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Romanticism was a reaction against the Neoclassicism that invaded the 19th-century, and marked a veritable intellectual rupture. Found in the writings of Victor Hugo and Lord Byron among others, its ideas are expressed in painting by Eugène Delacroix, Caspar David...
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Parkstone International
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2024-10-20
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Symbolism appeared in France and Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the 20th-century. The Symbolists, fascinated with ancient mythology, attempted to escape the reign of rational thought imposed by science. They wished to transcend the world of the visible...
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Parkstone International
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2024-10-20
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Born at the dawn of the 20th-century, Fauvism burst onto the artistic scene at the 1905 Salon d'Automne with great controversy by throwing bright, vibrant colours in the face of artistic convention. Fuelled by change, artists like Matisse, Derain, and Vlaminck searched...
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Parkstone International
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2024-10-20
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This book gathers a set of peer-reviewed works at the intersection between music, sound, and image research and practice. They are based on presentations contributed to the EIMAD–Meeting of Research in Music, Arts and Design conference, held at the Polytechnic...
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Springer
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2024-10-17
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Chinese embroidery, including its history, styles in different regions, patterns, techniques, and its appreciation. It serves as the first guidebook in the international community for scholars, students either at...
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Springer
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2024-10-15
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On Tropical Grounds develops a new approach to the avant-garde and Surrealism in Caribbean and Atlantic studies. The book examines how islands and their tropical associations figure in the cultural and political imaginaries of the Caribbean and the Atlantic, and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2024-10-11
Collection :
Critical South
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This book is open access.
International Conference of Science Technology and Social Sciences (ICONSTAS 2023)
ICONSTAS 2023 is organized by Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) in collaboration with Universitas Hasanuddin (UNHAS), Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), IPB...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-10-02
Collection :
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
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Kunst ist faszinierend: Sie ermöglicht neue Sichtweisen auf die Realität und macht deutlich, dass der Mensch nur einen kleinen Teil dieser Realität überhaupt erfasst. Die verschiedenen Bereiche derKunst verschaffen dem Betrachter sehr unterschiedliche Möglichkeiten, die...
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Springer
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2024-09-04
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This book presents methodological and empirical advancements in evaluating the accessibility, use demand and behavior, and equity of urban parks. A comparative analysis was conducted across four planning areas in Singapore, a renowned compact city. An innovated...
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Springer
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2024-07-19
Collection :
Urban Sustainability
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This is an open access book.
The 2024 International Conference on Urban Planning and Design (UPD 2024), originally scheduled for April 26-28, 2024, will be rescheduled for a video conference on Saturday, April 27, 2024. UPD 2024 aims to convene distinguished academics...
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Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-07-09
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This is an open access book. With the progress of social civilization, social science and its research are becoming more and more important. Theoretically and practically, the study of social phenomena and social problems and the development of prosperous social...
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Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-06-20
Collection :
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
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This volume explores the meaning of the architectural creative act, following the dynamics of the relationship between creator-creative act-creation and the way in which architecture is defined over time, as a creative act both material and symbolic. Two protagonists,...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-06-10
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