Marc Chagall a, toute sa vie durant, entretenu une relation forte avec l'écrit. Des manuscrits yiddish aux illustrations pour des livres, son úuvre se développe au fil des mots, au ...

Conservators' prolonged proximity to paintings makes them ideally placed to notice anything unusual or surprising which might arise during examination or treatment. Ensuing investigations, often aided by technical analysis, include ...

La mostra, ospitata nelle sale di Palazzo Reale, è un omaggio alla figura femminile nelle arti russe dal Rinascimento al Novecento. Le opere, prestate in occasione di una collaborazione esclusiva ...

A new generation of Chinese landscape architects, that has hardly been registered outside China, is emerging: innovative, optimistic, radical, yet rooted in local context and tradition. Thanks to their international ...

«Mira como una mujer y pinta como un hombre.» Eso decían de la vanguardista francesa Émilie Charmy en pleno siglo XX, o de la española Elena Brockman, una de las ...

Social and Community Development Practice makes a persuasive case for employing a social development approach to community development practice at local and village levels. Towards this end, the book offers ...

Ce Dictionnaire historique des restaurateurs de peintures et dúuvres sur papier apporte un éclairage nouveau sur lhistoire de lart, en mettant en lumière la place essentielle du restaurateur : cest ...

The fact that most ancient marble portraits were once intentionally polychrome has always been lurking at the corners of art historical and archaeological research. Despite the fact, that the colours ...

This volume integrates a conceptual framework with participatory methodologies to understand the complexities of dryland socio-ecological systems, and to address challenges and opportunities for stewardship of future drylands and climate ...

When life (in a global pandemic) imitates art . . . Van Gogh's Starry Night made out of spaghetti? Cat with a Pearl Earring? Frida Kahlo self-portraits with pets and ...

Annie Holt identifies the roots of contemporary Euro-American practices of costume design, in which costumes are an integrated part of the dramaturgy rather than a reflection of an individual performers ...

The history of art in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance has generally been written as a story of elites: bankers, noblemen, kings, cardinals, and popes and their artistic ...

This book is devoted to a reexamination of modern art from the point of view of the artist's approach to the object. It chronicles the complex, changing relationship between art ...

This book is a study of the complex relationship between matter and idea that shaped the nineteenth-century culture of art, and that in turn determined the course of still-current accounts ...

Bonding over matters of taste and style, the 'Mods of late 1950s London recognised in one another shared affinities for Italian-style suits, tidy haircuts, espresso bars, Vespa scooters and the ...

What happens when the past'or, more specifically, a piece of cultural heritage'is fabricated? From 50 replica Eiffel Towers located around the world to Saddam Husseins reconstructions of ancient cities, examples ...

The Bloomsbury Group was a loose collective of forward-thinking writers, artists, and intellectuals in London, with Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, and E. M. Forster among its esteemed members. The ...

Point William is a place in Ontario Canada that has been occupied by First Nations for thousands of years. It is land that is part of the ancient pre-Cambrian shield ...