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This book presents recent research on ancient Silk Road wall paintings, providing an up-to-date analysis of their coloring materials and techniques, and of developments in efforts to preserve them. The destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 encouraged international collaboration between conservation research institutes to study and protect the Silk Road’s painted heritage. The collaborations led to exciting new discoveries of the rich materials used in wall painting, including diverse pigments and colorants, and various types of organic binding media. In addition, comparative research across the region revealed shared painting practices that indicate the sophisticated exchange of techn...
In Picturing Space, Displacing Bodies, Lyle Massey argues that we can only learn how and why certain kinds of spatial representation prevailed over others by carefully considering how Renaissance artists and theorists interpreted perspective. Combining detailed historical studies with broad theoretical and philosophical investigations, this book challenges basic assumptions about the way early modern artists and theorists represented their relationship to the visible world and how they understood these representations. By analyzing technical feats such as anamorphosis (the perspectival distortion of an object to make it viewable only from a certain angle), drawing machines, and printed diagr...
English edition of key essays on Japanese art history History of Japanese Art after 1945 surveys the development of art in Japan since WWII. The original Japanese work, which has become essential reading for those with an interest in modern and contemporary Japanese art and is a foundational resource for students and researchers, spans a period of 150 years, from the 1850s to the 2010s. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific period and written by a specialist. The English edition first discusses the formation and evolution of Japanese contemporary art from 1945 to the late 1970s, subsequently deals with the rise of the fine-art museum from the late 1970s to the 1990s, and concludes with an ...
?사랑은 어떻게 그림이 되었고,? 그림은 또 어떻게 사랑을 가르쳐왔을까?? 서양 미술로 엿보는, 달콤하고 위험한 사랑과 연애의 모든 것? 한 사람의 인생을 넘어 인류 역사에서 가장 큰 비중을 차지하는 영원한 테마, 사랑! 수많은 예술가가 사랑의 마음과 대상을 화폭에 담아 기록을 남겨왔으니, 식자율이 낮았던 시절 사람들은 이들 사랑의 그림을 통해 사랑에 눈 뜨고, 연애의 기술을 익혀왔다. 르누아르의 그림 속 소녀 ‘이레느’를 사랑했던 서양미술사가 이케가미 히데히로는 자신처럼 작품과 사랑에 빠진 화가들을 비롯해 ...
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Le livre paru en 1955 sous le titre d’Anamorphoses ou perspectives curieuses, a été suivi de deux éditions révisées en 1969 et en 1984, la dernière augmentée de chapitres portant sur les miroirs et sur l’interprétation des anamorphoses au XXe siècle. Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Anamorphoses ou Thaumaturgus Opticus - Les perspectives dépravées de Jurgis Baltrusaitis Chaque fiche de lecture présente une œuvre clé de la littérature ou de la pensée. Cette présentation est couplée avec un article de synthèse sur l’auteur de l’œuvre. A propos de l’Encyclopaedia Universalis : Reconnue mondialement pour la qualité et la fiabilité incomparable de ses publications, Encyclopaedia Universalis met la connaissance à la portée de tous. Écrite par plus de 7 400 auteurs spécialistes et riche de près de 30 000 médias (vidéos, photos, cartes, dessins...), l’Encyclopaedia Universalis est la plus fiable collection de référence disponible en français. Elle aborde tous les domaines du savoir.
In Japanese culture, oni are ubiquitous supernatural creatures who play important roles in literature, lore, and folk belief. Characteristically ambiguous, they have been great and small, mischievous and dangerous, and ugly and beautiful over their long history. Here, author Noriko Reider presents seven oni stories from medieval Japan in full and translated for an English-speaking audience. Reider, concordant with many scholars of Japanese cultural studies, argues that to study oni is to study humanity. These tales are from an era in which many new oni stories appeared for the purpose of both entertainment and moral/religious edification and for which oni were particularly important, as they...
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