William Tyndale's 16th-century translation of the New Testament into English from its original Greek resulted in his being hunted down and burnt at the stake for blasphemy. This work of pioneering scholarship formed the basis of all subsequent bibles until after World War I.
Looks at the work of influential women artists and at the import of feminism in their practices. Examining painters Lee Lozano (1930-1999), Sylvia Plimack Mangold (b 1938), and Joan Semmel (b 1932), this work sets the historical and social context, and analyzes the private endeavour of the artist alongside the critical reception of their art.
An introduction to the design, production and use of luxury embroideries in medieval England (c. 1200-1530).
Helps you in understanding the history of late ancient and medieval Christianity and the history of Christian piety. This title reveals highly developed devotion to Mary's compassionate suffering at the Crucifixion, anticipating by several centuries an influential medieval style of devotion known as affective piety.
Handsomely designed and produced, this stunning book highlights sensual paintings from the Spanish royal collections of the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Many of the featured artists were court painters under sovereigns whose tastes influenced the art world of the 16th and 17th centuries. This superb selection of twenty-eight paintings includes works by Jan Breughel, Guercino, Peter Paul Rubens, Titian, and Diego Velázquez. Included is Titian’s Reclining Venus with Cupid and a Musician , probably painted by the artist for Charles V, and several works by Rubens, who painted a considerable number of works for the Spanish court. Informative catalogue entries accompany an essay by Javier Portús on the Spanish royal taste in collecting and the role of painting within European politics of the day and a contemporary response to understanding the nude in Renaissance and Baroque painting by Jill Burke.Distributed for the Clark Art InstituteExhibition Clark Art Institute06/11/16–10/10/16
A comprehensive bilingual representation of French poetic achievement in the twentieth century, from the turn-of-the-century poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire to the high modernist art of Samuel Beckett to the contemporary verse of scourge Michel Houellebecq.
Josef Albers (1888–1976) and Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), artists and teachers at the Bauhaus, were exiled from Germany when the school was forced to close in the early 1930s. The 46 letters in this volume document the intimate exchange between these two friends in a period when the world was coming apart. Despite the tumult, each wrote to the other of his continuous creative evolution, while also providing rich impressions of his new world. For Kandinsky, this was Paris where he navigated a new avant-garde scene. For Albers, it was the United States where he and his wife Anni began teaching at the recently founded Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Kandinsky’s and Albers’s correspondence reveals their warmth and humor, their strength in coping with unexpected circumstances, and above all their conviction in the resilience and power of art. Archival photographs, artwork, and ephemera accompany the collection, which brings together the artists’ full extant correspondence for the first time in English and German. Distributed for the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
An anthology of Ancient Egyptian literature, revised to offer fresh translations of all the texts as well as some 25 new entries, including writings from the late literature of the Demotic period at the end of classical Egyptian history. It also includes an extensive bibliography.
Suitable for theatre artists and students alike, this anthology includes the full texts of sixteen important examples of avant-garde drama from the most daring and influential artistic movements of the first half of the twentieth century, including Symbolism, Futurism, Expressionism, Dada, and Surrealism.
Hat ein Sohn mehr Einblick in das Werk seines Vaters als Außenstehende? Diese Frage steht im Mittelpunkt des Buches von Christopher Rothko über die Kunst seines Vaters. Rothko, der 1970 durch Freitod starb, hinterließ einen Sohn, der damals erst sechs Jahre alt war. Das Buch ist eine Suche nach dem verlorenen Vater und gleichzeitig eine tiefgehende Auseinandersetzung mit dessen Werk. Der Autor nutzt das reiche Familienarchiv und den Briefwechsel mit Freunden, um ein vielschichtiges Bild zu zeichnen. Zudem beleuchtet er die oft unbekannten Vorstudien zu Rothkos großen Gemälden. Es entsteht eine Kombination aus persönlicher Liebeserklärung und wissenschaftlicher Analyse, durchzogen von Erinnerungen an einen Vater, der schon zu Lebzeiten nur halb präsent war. Rothkos Werk entfaltet sich durch langsame, konzentrierte Betrachtung und Meditation. Die klugen Erklärungen des Autors bieten neue Perspektiven auf diesen Jahrhundertkünstler, dessen Schöpfungen viele anziehen, während sein Leben und Wesen oft rätselhaft bleiben. Christopher Rothko eröffnet neue Denk- und Sehwege zu einem Künstler, der auch sein Vater war. Das Buch erscheint zur großen Mark-Rothko-Retrospektive im Kunsthistorischen Museum, Wien.
