From Berlin to the Burdekin

From Berlin to the Burdekin
Author: David Robert Walker
Publisher: UNSW Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1991
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Papers on Ludwig Becker, Eugene von Guerard, Carl Strehlow , the Frobenius Institute and the representation of Aborigines annotated separately.

A Companion to Epistemology

A Companion to Epistemology
Author: Jonathan Dancy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 824
Release: 2010-02-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1405139005

With nearly 300 entries on key concepts, review essays on central issues, and self-profiles by leading scholars, this companion is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume reference guide to epistemology. Epistemology from A-Z is comprised of 296 articles on important epistemological concepts that have been extensively revised to bring the volume up-to-date, with many new and re-written entries reflecting developments in the field Includes 20 new self-profiles by leading epistemologists Contains 10 new review essays on central issues of epistemology

Critical Essays on Michel Foucault

Critical Essays on Michel Foucault
Author: Peter Burke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1992
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

An anthology of responses to the ideas of Michel Foucault. These responses are concentrated in the English world, but they try to reveal the full range of reaction and to assess Foucault's achievement and his place in intellectual history.

Baiae

Baiae
Author: Giovanni Gioviano Pontano
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2006
Genre: Baiae (Extinct city)
ISBN: 9780674021976

Pontano was the most innovative, versatile Latin poet of Quattrocento Italy. His Two Books of Hendecasyllables, subtitled Baiae, are the elegant offspring of Pontano's leisure, written to celebrate love, good wine, friendship, nature, and all the pleasures of life to be found at the seaside resort of Baiae on the Bay of Naples.

Ancient Sculptural Copies in Miniature

Ancient Sculptural Copies in Miniature
Author: Elizabeth Bartman
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9789004095328

In-depth case studies of individual statuary types form the core of this analysis of sculptural copying in antiquity. By examining the popular genre of the copy, the book illuminates broad questions of Roman sculptural production and the methodological limitations of traditional approaches to the subject.

The Language of the Muses

The Language of the Muses
Author: Miranda Marvin
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780892368068

Since the Renaissance, it has been generally accepted that almost all Roman sculptures depicting ideal figures were copies of Greek originals. This text traces the origin of this idea to the academic belief in the mythical perfection of now-lost Greek art.