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Sensuous Surfaces
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Author : Jonathan Hay
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2010-06-25
Sensuous Surfaces written by Jonathan Hay and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-25 with Art categories.
With Sensuous Surfaces, Jonathan Hay offers one of the most richly illustrated and in-depth introductions to the decorative arts of Ming and Qing dynasty China to date. Examining an immense number of works, he explores the materials and techniques, as well as the effects of patronage and taste, that together have formed a loose system of informal rules that define the decorative arts in early modern China. Hay demonstrates how this system—by engaging the actual and metaphorical potential of surface—guided the production and use of decorative arts from the late sixteenth century through the middle of the nineteenth, a period of explosive growth. He shows how the understanding of decorative arts made a fundamental contribution to the sensory education of China’s early modern urban population. Enriching his study with 280 color plates, he ultimately offers an elegant meditation, not only on Ming and Qing art but on the importance of the erotic in the form and function of decorations of all eras.
Surfaces
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Author : Joseph A. Amato
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2013-05-08
Surfaces written by Joseph A. Amato and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-08 with Architecture categories.
In this book that interweaves history, anthropology, epistemology, and aesthetics, the author traces the human relationship with surfaces from human evolution up to the contemporary world.
Sensuous Surfaces
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Sensuous Surfaces written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
The Surface Of Things
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Author : Prita Meier
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2024-10-15
The Surface Of Things written by Prita Meier and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-15 with Art categories.
"The first history of photography from Africa's Swahili coast, revealing the images' complicated relationships to colonialism and global influence"--
Conchophilia
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Author : Marisa Anne Bass
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2023-05-16
Conchophilia written by Marisa Anne Bass and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-16 with Art categories.
"A history of shells in early modern Europe, and their rich cultural and artistic significance"--
The Literary Wittgenstein
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Author : John Gibson
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2004
The Literary Wittgenstein written by John Gibson and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
A stellar collection of articles relating the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) to core problems in the theory and philosophy of literature, written by the most prominent figures in the field.
Geographical Aesthetics
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Author : Elizabeth Straughan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03
Geographical Aesthetics written by Elizabeth Straughan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Architecture categories.
Geographical Aesthetics places the terms 'aesthetics' and 'geography' under critical question together, responding both to the increasing calls from within geography to develop a 'geographical aesthetics', and a resurgence of interdisciplinary interest in conceptual and empirical questions around geoaesthetics, environmental aesthetics, as well as the spatialities of the aesthetic. Despite taking up an identifiable role within the geographical imagination and sensibilities for centuries, and having what is arguably a key place in the making of the modern discipline, aesthetics remains a relatively under-theorized field within geography. Across 15 chapters Geographical Aesthetics brings together timely commentaries by international, interdisciplinary scholars to rework historical relations between geography and aesthetics, and reconsider how it is we might understand aesthetics. In renewing aesthetics as a site of investigation, but also an analytic object through which we can think about worldly encounters, Geographical Aesthetics presents a reworking of our geographical imaginary of the aesthetic.
Arts Of Allusion
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Author : Margaret S. Graves
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-31
Arts Of Allusion written by Margaret S. Graves and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-31 with Art categories.
The art of the object reached unparalleled heights in the medieval Islamic world, yet the intellectual dimensions of ceramics, metalwares, and other plastic arts in this milieu have not always been acknowledged. Arts of Allusion reveals the object as a crucial site where pre-modern craftsmen of the eastern Mediterranean and Persianate realms engaged in fertile dialogue with poetry, literature, painting, and, perhaps most strikingly, architecture. Lanterns fashioned after miniature shrines, incense burners in the form of domed monuments, earthenware jars articulated with arches and windows, inkwells that allude to tents: through close studies of objects from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries, this book reveals that allusions to architecture abound across media in the portable arts of the medieval Islamic world. Arts of Allusion draws upon a broad range of material evidence as well as medieval texts to locate its subjects in a cultural landscape where the material, visual, and verbal realms were intertwined. Moving far beyond the initial identification of architectural types with their miniature counterparts in the plastic arts, Margaret Graves develops a series of new frameworks for exploring the intelligent art of the allusive object. These address materiality, representation, and perception, and examine contemporary literary and poetic paradigms of metaphor, description, and indirect reference as tools for approaching the plastic arts. Arguing for the role of the intellect in the applied arts and for the communicative potential of ornament, Arts of Allusion asserts the reinstatement of craftsmanship into Islamic intellectual history.
Courtly Mediators
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Author : Leah R. Clark
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-08-03
Courtly Mediators written by Leah R. Clark and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-03 with Art categories.
In Courtly Mediators, Leah R. Clark investigates the exchange of a range of materials and objects, including metalware, ceramic drug jars, Chinese porcelain, and aromatics, across the early modern Italian, Mamluk, and Ottoman courts. She provides a new narrative that places Aragonese Naples at the center of an international courtly culture, where cosmopolitanism and the transcultural flourished, and in which artists, ambassadors, and luxury goods actively participated. By articulating how and why transcultural objects were exchanged, displayed, copied, and framed, she provides a new methodological framework that transforms our understanding of the Italian Renaissance court. Clark's volume provides a multi-sensorial, innovative reading of Italian Renaissance art. It demonstrates that the early modern culture of collecting was more than a humanistic enterprise associated with the European roots of the Renaissance. Rather, it was sustained by interactions with global material cultures from the Islamic world and beyond.
The Passions Of John Addington Symonds
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Author : Shane Butler
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022
The Passions Of John Addington Symonds written by Shane Butler and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Literary Criticism categories.
The first critical analysis to embrace a wide and representative selection of John Addington Symonds's work, beyond his famous essays. It explores Symonds as a complex thinker, with an ambitious vision of the queerness of the world itself, and follows his engagement with the art and literature of classical antiquity.