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Reality Through the Arts (7th Edition)
Author: Dennis J. Sporre
ISBN-10: 0205660487
ISBN-13: 9780205660483
Published: 2009-02-01
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Book Description:
Reality Through the Arts provides a comprehensive introduction that covers both arts history and aesthetic perception in western and non-western cultures by covering all the artistic disciplines: drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, architecture, theatre, music, dance, cinema, and literature. Reality Through the Arts is a brief text ideal for the one-semester introduction to humanities course. This is a successful text because of its unique organization, which makes it an excellent alternative to the standard chronological organization found in most other humanities text. The Introduction puts the humanities in perspective by discussing the arts and ways of knowing, art's main concerns, purposes, and functions, as well as artistic style and how to apply critical skills. Part I, “The Media of the Arts,” offers independent chapters on two dimensional art (drawing, painting, printmaking, and photography), sculpture, architecture, music, theatre, cinema, dance and literature. Part II, “The Styles of the Arts,” is a chronological history of the arts of Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, organized by artistic discipline andfocusing on styles rather than encyclopedic detail. The book is written at a level for students with little or no background in the arts.
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1
Author: Plutarch
ISBN-10: 1144555140
ISBN-13: 9781144555144
Published: 2010-02-16
Publisher: Nabu Press
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Book Description:
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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Dawn of Egyptian Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Author: Diana Patch
ISBN-10: 0300179529
ISBN-13: 9780300179521
Published: 2012-05-29
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Book Description:
The cultural icons of Pharaonic Egypt, from the Great Sphinx at Giza to the famous burial of Tutankhamun, are among the world's most renowned works of art. Less well known, but equally impressive, are the rare and ancient images of people, animals, and landscapes made by the Egyptians who lived prior to the age of the pharaohs, when the formal conventions of Egyptian art had not yet fully evolved. With illustrations of more than 180 objects created from about 4000 to 2650 BC, Dawn of Egyptian Art presents the art forms and iconography in which the early Egyptians recorded their beliefs about the land where they lived, the yearly events that took place there, and what they thought was important to the eternal survival of their world. Comprehensive texts explore the origins and early development of the culture of ancient Egypt while discussing the relationship between image and writing as well as the representation of the self and the universe.
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Greek Studies (A Series of Essays)
Author: Walter Horatio Pater
ISBN-10: 1404304630
ISBN-13: 9781404304635
Published: 2002-03-13
Publisher: IndyPublish
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Book Description:
"The essays fall into two distinct groups one dealing with the subjects of Greek mythology and Greek poetry the other with the history of Greek sculpture and Greek architecture. "
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Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece
Author: Noah Charney
ISBN-10: 1610390962
ISBN-13: 9781610390965
Published: 2012-04-03
Publisher: PublicAffairs
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Book Description:
Jan van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece is on any art historian’s list of the ten most important paintings ever made. It is also the most frequently stolen artwork of all time. Since its completion in 1432, this twelve-panel oil painting has been looted in three different wars, burned, dismembered, forged, smuggled, censored, hidden, attacked by iconoclasts, hunted by the Nazis and Napoleon, used as a diplomatic tool, ransomed, rescued by Austrian double-agents, and stolen a total of thirteen times. In this fast-paced, real-life thriller, art historian Noah Charney unravels the fascinating stories of each of these thefts. Charney also explores psychological dramas that lurk within the history of art crime—and the ideological, religious, political, and social motivations that have led many men to covet this one masterpiece above all others.
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The Agricola and The Germania
Author: Cornelius Tacitus
ISBN-10: 1420931628
ISBN-13: 9781420931624
Published: 2008-01-01
Publisher: Digireads.com
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Book Description:
"The Agricola and The Germania" are two important historical works by Cornelius Tacitus, an ancient Roman Senator and historian. The Agricola is a biography of the Roman general Gnaeus Julius Agricola as well as a geographic and ethnographic history of Ancient Britain. "The Germania" is an ethnographic study of the people believed by Tacitus to be part of the ancient Germanic tribes. While not as famous as Tacitus's "Annals" or "Histories", "The Agricola and The Germania" still remain as important first-hand documents of ancient history.
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Art History Portable Book 1: Ancient Art (4th Edition) (Art History Portable Edition)
Author: Marilyn Stokstad
ISBN-10: 0205790917
ISBN-13: 9780205790913
Published: 2010-07-09
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Book Description:
ART HISTORY provides students with the most student-friendly, contextual, and inclusive art history survey text on the market. These hallmarks make ART HISTORY the choice for instructors who seek to actively engage their students in the study of art. This new edition of ART HISTORY is the result of a happy and productive collaboration between two scholar-teachers (Marilyn Stokstad and Michael Cothren) who share a common vision that survey courses on the history of art should be filled with as much enjoyment as erudition, and that they should foster an enthusiastic, as well as an educated, public for the visual arts. Like its predecessors, this new edition seeks to balance formal and iconographic analysis with contextual art history in order to craft interpretations that will engage a diverse student population. Throughout the text, the visual arts are treated as part of a larger world, in which geography, politics, religion, economics, philosophy, social life, and the other fine arts are related components of a vibrant and cultural landscape. Art History Portable Edition offers exactly the same content as Art History, Fourth Edition but in smaller individual booklets for maximum student portability. The combined six segment set consists of four booklets that correspond to major periods in Western art and two that cover global art. Each book is available individually, making them ideal for courses focused on individual periods.
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The Art of Ancient Egypt: Revised Edition
Author: Gay Robins
ISBN-10: 0674030656
ISBN-13: 9780674030657
Published: 2008-09-15
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Book Description:
From the awesome grandeur of the Great Pyramids to the delicacy of a face etched on an amulet, the spellbinding power of ancient Egyptian art persists to this day. Spanning three thousand years, this beautifully illustrated history offers a thorough and delightfully readable introduction to the artwork even as it provides insight into questions that have long engaged experts and amateurs alike. In its scope, its detail, and its eloquent reproduction of over 250 objects, Gay Robins’s classic book is without parallel as a guide to the art of ancient Egypt. And her eagerly awaited new edition includes many new color photographs and a fully revised and updated bibliography.
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Religion and art in ancient Greece
Author: Ernest Arthur Gardner
ISBN-10: 1176940074
ISBN-13: 9781176940079
Published: 2010-08-06
Publisher: Nabu Press
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Book Description:
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261
Author:
ISBN-10: 0810965070
ISBN-13: 9780810965072
Published: 1997-04
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Book Description:
This splendid book is dedicated to the art of the Middle Byzantine period (843-1261), demonstrating its wide influence through a celebration of its most beautiful and meaningful works of art. The Glory of Byzantium accompanies a major exhibition on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in the spring of 1997.The magnificent religious and secular objects created in Byzantium had a profound impact on neighboring Christian and Islamic states and on the Latin West. In this volume more than 50 contributing scholars explore not only works from Byzantium proper but also those from beyond its borders, providing new insights into the cultures of Eastern Europe.The 17 essays are accompanied by descriptions and full-color reproductions of more than 400 objects as well as photographs of architectural sites and comparative illustrations.
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