Since architecture is generally conceived and built as stationary and sturdy, kinetic architecture exerts an special fascination. It can be described as the outcome of integrating movement into the built ...

This companion is a collection of newly-commissioned essays written by leading scholars in the field, providing a comprehensive introduction to British art history. * A generously-illustrated collection of newly-commissioned essays ...

Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS), or lidar, is an enormously important innovation for data collection and interpretation in archaeology. The application of archaeological 3D data deriving from sources including ALS, close-range ...

Fruit d'années de recherches, l'ouvrage en deux volumes d'Ariane James-Sarazin, archiviste, conservateur en chef du patrimoine et directrice des musées d'Angers, s'impose comme une étape décisive dans l'histoire de l'art ...

This breathtaking survey of French royal patronage features full-color illustrations of more than 100 objects, many so precious that they rarely leave the Louvre. French decorative arts reached their pinnacle ...

The absurdities of fashion, the perils of love, political machinations and royal intrigue were the daily subject matter of Thomas Rowlandson, one of the leading caricaturists of Georgian England. Rowlandson ...

One of the great artists of the Baroque, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-64) was perhaps the most innovative and technically brilliant Italian draftsman of his time. He practised as a painter, ...

Seeds of Freedom is a remarkable case study of liberating education in the remote Guatemalan Maya indigenous village of Santa Mar a Tzej in the four decades since it was ...

his volume, Earth, Brick and Terracotta, deals with fired and unfired clay products. It considers their technological evolution, the processes causing deterioration and how these should be assessed and the ...

Première partie : le papier, le plomb (I Le papier. II Les caracteres. III Identifier et dater) Deuxième partie : la fabrication du livre (I L'atelier de l'imprimeur : composition, ...

Gerhard Richter's oeuvre embraces in excess of three thousand individual works. Over a period of five decades he has created a stylistically heterogeneous, complex body of work that testifies to ...

Painting was one of the major achievements of the Classical world. This book examines the development of mural and panel painting in the Classical world from the earliest Minoan and ...

As they had during the Renaissance, ruins in the eighteenth century continued to serve as places of exchange between antiquity and modern times and between one architect and another. Rome ...

Le volume La maison Goupil et l'Italie. Le succès des artistas italiens à Paris... se propose de présenter les oeuvres des artistes italiens de la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle ...

Cuban studies is a highly dynamic field shaped by the country's distinctive political and economic circumstances. The Handbook of Contemporary Cuba is an up-to-date and comprehensive survey offering the latest ...

Esta es la terrible historia que un día aconteció a cierto niño. Era un chaval de aspecto enfermizo que odiaba la escuela más que nada en el mundo. Su hermano ...

What began as propaganda art to celebrate a rare Spanish victory in the Eighty Years' War with Holland, "The Surrender at Breda" is today recognized as Velazquez's narrative masterpiece. "Breda" ...

Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985) is one of the great artists of the last century. Bringing together more than sixty paintings and a selection of works on paper from across ...

Associated at various times with Dada, Constructivism and Surrealism, Schwitters produced paintings, collages, sound pieces, sculpture and installation works, as well as journalism, criticism, poetry and short stories. Forced to ...

Modern living typically represents the compromising of a diverse number of considerations in place of the practical. We make our dwellings conform to our lifestyles, but most in the end ...