Sanat Tarihi

This is without question the best book ever written on O”Keeffe” New Yorker Born on a wheat farm in Wisconsin in 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia O”Keeffe had her eyes wide open to the …

To what extent did mythological figures such as Circe and Medea influence the representation of the powerful ”oriental” enchantress in modern Western art? What role did the ancient gods and heroes …

The main themes of this volume are the identification of ”visions”, ”messages”, and ”meanings” in various facets of Byzantine culture and the possible differences in the perception of these vis …

The Printed and the Built explores the intricate relationship between architecture and printed media in the fast-changing nineteenth century. Publication history is a rapidly expanding scholarly fiel …

This volume brings together philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on improvisation. The contributions connect the theoretical dimensions of improvisation with different viewpoints on its p …

An Illustrated Guide to Furniture History provides upper-level students and instructors with an alternative visual analytical approach to learning about furniture history from Antiquity to Postmodern …

Francis L. Hawks’s "The Adventures of Daniel Boone" is an interesting biographical tale about the well-known lifestyles and adventures of Daniel Boone, a crucial American frontiersman. Hawk …

"Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II" is a significant historical anthology written by Francis W. Halsey. This work of literature is part of a larger series aiming at providing reader …

Pliny sketches a theory of advancing moral decline and extravagance, in the course of which he gives a detailed account of six centuries of classical art and a fascinating sketch of the world of the …

This book brings together the surviving texts of the 113 talks on art and architecture that we know of, given by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner on radio and television between 1945–1977. It …