A Picture Book Of Ancient British Art
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Author | : Stuart Piggott |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2011-04-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780521176408 |
This 1951 book contains seventy-three pictures of treasures found in Britain - things that have survived from ancient prehistoric times.
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Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 104 |
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Author | : Matthi Forrer |
Publisher | : Prestel Pub |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 379131131X |
Hokusai was one of the great masters of the Japanese woodblock print. His exquisite compositions and dynamic use of color set him apart from other printmakers, and his unequalled genius influenced both Japanese and a whole generation of Western artists. Now available for the first time in paperback, this book reproduces the artist's finest works in plates that convey the full variety of his invention, each of which is provided with an informative commentary. In his introduction, Hokusai expert Matthi Forrer traces the artist's career and defines his place in relation to his contemporaries and to the history of Japanese art. Examining all genres of the artist's prolific output -- including images of city life, maritime scenes, landscapes, views of Mount Fuji, bird and flower illustrations, literary scenes, waterfalls and bridges -- Hokusai, Prints and Drawings provides a detailed account of the artist's genius.
Author | : Timothy Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2017-05 |
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ISBN | : 9780500094068 |
A major publication on Hokusai's remarkable late work, incorporating fresh scholarship on the sublime paintings and prints the artist created in the last thirty years of his life
Author | : Ambrose Lansing |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2015-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
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This picture book features images of Ancient Egyptian Jewelry covering works from Pre-dynastic shell necklaces to intricately designed gold earrings of the Roman period. A brief introductory essay discusses the history of jewelry and the evolution of Ancient Egyptian jewelry craftsmanship.
Author | : James Fox |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2015-07-30 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1107105870 |
Overturning decades of scholarly orthodoxies, James Fox makes a bold new argument about the First World War's cultural consequences.
Author | : Francis Klingender |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1039 |
Release | : 2019-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429557752 |
Originally published in 1971, Animals in Art and Thought discusses the ways in which animals have been used by man in art and literature. The book looks at how they have been used to symbolise religious, social and political beliefs, as well as their pragmatic use by hunters, sportsmen, and farmers. The book discusses these various attitudes in a survey which ranges from prehistoric cave art to the later Middle Ages. The book is especially concerned with uncovering the latent, as well as the manifest meanings of animal art, and presents a detailed examination of the literary and archaeological monuments of the periods covered in the book. The book discusses the themes of Creation myths of the pagan and Christian religion, the contribution of the animal art of the ancient contribution of the animal art of the ancient Orient to the development of the Romanesque and gothic styles in Europe, the use of beast fables in social or political satire, and the heroic associations of animals in medieval chivalry.
Author | : Andrew Meirion Jones |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 511 |
Release | : 2019-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1789251893 |
The visual imagery of Neolithic Britain and Ireland is spectacular. While the imagery of passage tombs, such as Knowth and Newgrange, are well known the rich imagery on decorated portable artefacts is less well understood. How does the visual imagery found on decorated portable artefacts compare with other Neolithic imagery, such as passage tomb art and rock art? How do decorated portable artefacts relate chronologically to other examples of Neolithic imagery? Using cutting edge digital imaging techniques, the Making a Mark project examined Neolithic decorated portable artefacts of chalk, stone, bone, antler, and wood from three key regions: southern England and East Anglia; the Irish Sea region (Wales, the Isle of Man and eastern Ireland); and Northeast Scotland and Orkney. Digital analysis revealed, for the first time, the prevalence of practices of erasure and reworking amongst a host of decorated portable artefacts, changing our understanding of these enigmatic artefacts. Rather than mark making being a peripheral activity, we can now appreciate the central importance of mark making to the formation of Neolithic communities across Britain and Ireland. The volume visually documents and discusses the contexts of the decorated portable artefacts from each region, discusses the significance and chronology of practices of erasure and reworking, and compares these practices with those found in other Neolithic contexts, such as passage tomb art, rock art and pottery decoration. A contribution from Antonia Thomas also discusses the settlement art and mortuary art of Orkney, while Ian Dawson and Louisa Minkin contribute with a discussion of the collaborative fine art practices established during the project.
Author | : Christopher Gosden |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2014-08-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1782976582 |
The ancient Celtic world evokes debate, discussion, romanticism and mythicism. On the one hand it represents a specialist area of archaeological interest, on the other, it has a wide general appeal. The Celtic world is accessible through archaeology, history, linguistics and art history. Of these disciplines, art history offers the most direct message to a wider audience. This volume of 37 papers brings together a truly international group of pre-eminent specialists in the field of Celtic art and Celtic studies. It is a benchmark volume the like of which has not been seen since the publication of Paul Jacobsthal’s Early Celtic Art in 1944. The papers chart the history of attempts to understand Celtic art and argue for novel approaches in discussions spanning the whole of Continental Europe and the British Isles. This new body of international scholarship will give the reader a sense of the richness of the material and current debates. Artefacts of rich form and decoration, which we might call art, provide a most sensitive set of indicators of key areas of past societies, their power, politics and transformations. With its broad geographical scope, this volume offers a timely opportunity to re-assess contacts, context, transmission and meaning in Celtic art for understanding the development of European cultures, identities and economies in pre- and proto-history. Nominated for Current Archaeology Book of the Year 2016.
Author | : Stuart Piggott |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 418 |
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ISBN | : 0202364186 |