The «Voyage D'Outremer»

The «Voyage D'Outremer»
Author: Bertrandon de La Brocquière
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1988
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

De la Broquière set off for the Holy Land in 1432 for the purpose of spying out the possibilities of a new crusade to be led by the Duke of Burgundy. He returned overland, through the Turkish Empire, alone. His observations of the land, the people, the rulers, the food and the customs make fascinating reading. There is also a long section on the organization and tactics of the Ottoman Army, and the ways that the Europeans can use to defeat it. De la Broquière is a highly competent spy and a very observant tourist.

Misia

Misia
Author: Arthur Gold
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1992
Genre: Arts
ISBN: 9780679741862

Sèvres Porcelain

Sèvres Porcelain
Author: Carl Christian Dauterman
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 263
Release: 1986
Genre: Porcelain
ISBN: 0870992279

Avant-Gardes and Partisans Reviewed

Avant-Gardes and Partisans Reviewed
Author: Fred Orton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1996
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780719043994

By addressing key issues in visual culture and the politics of representation, this book provides a reference and an analysis of the work of Orton and Pollock, internationally acknowledged as the leading exponents of the social history of art.

Rethinking Boucher

Rethinking Boucher
Author: Melissa Lee Hyde
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780892368259

"Unequivocally a modern, Francois Boucher (1703-70) defined the French artistic avant-garde throughout his career. Yet the triumph of modernist aesthetics - with its focus on the self-critical, the autonomous, and the intellectually challenging - has long discouraged art historians and other viewers from taking Boucher's playful and alluring works seriously. Rethinking Boucher revisits the cultural meanings and reception of his diverse oeuvre, inviting us to revise the interpretive cliches by which we have sought to tame this artist and his epoch."--BOOK JACKET.