Download or read book Text and catalogue written by James H. Beck and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and lessons for the future. Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic pharmacology of those substances. From a consideration of the effect of stimulants, such as caffeine and nicotine, and the reasons and consequences of their sudden popularity in the seventeenth century, the book moves to a discussion of more modern stimulants, such as cocaine and ecstasy. In addition, Regan explains how we process memory, the nature of thought disorders, and therapies for treating depression and schizophrenia. Regan then considers psychedelic drugs and their perceived mystical properties and traces the history of placebos to ancient civilizations. Finally, Intoxicating Minds considers the physical consequences of our co-evolution with drugs--how they have altered our very being--and offers a glimpse of the brave new world of drug therapies.
Download or read book Donatello Michelozzo Text written by R. W. Lightbown and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Text written by Giorgio Vasari and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Text book of the History of Sculpture written by Allan Marquand and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Donatello and the Dawn of Renaissance Art written by A. Victor Coonin and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian sculptor known as Donatello helped to forge a new kind of art—one that came to define the Renaissance. His work was progressive, challenging, and even controversial. Using a variety of novel sculptural techniques and innovative interpretations, Donatello uniquely depicted themes involving human sexuality, violence, spirituality, and beauty. But to really understand Donatello, one needs to understand his changing world, marked by the transition from Medieval to Renaissance style and to an art that was more personal and representative of the modern self. Donatello was not just a man of his times, he helped shape the spirit of the times he lived in and profoundly influenced those that came after. In this beautifully illustrated book—the first thorough biography of Donatello in twenty-five years—A. Victor Coonin describes the full extent of Donatello’s revolutionary contributions, revealing how his work heralded the emergence of modern art.
Download or read book Donatello written by Alfred Gotthold Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Sculpture of Donatello Critical catalogue written by Horst Woldemar Janson and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Parte Guelfa Brunelleschi Donatello written by Diane Finiello Zervas and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing the Dead written by Armando Petrucci and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the world's leading paleographers, this book reconstructs the ways Western cultures have used writing—on tombstones, monuments, scrolls, books, posters—to commemorate the dead from the tombs of ancient Egypt to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Download or read book The Studio written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Architecture in Italy 1400 1500 written by Karl Heinrich Heydenreich and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brunelleschi - Ghiberti and Donatello - Alberti - Florence 1450-1480 - Urbino - Venice - Lombardy - Leonardo da Vinci.
Download or read book Donatello 1386 1466 written by Rolf C. Wirtz and published by Konemann. This book was released on 1998 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On life and works of Donatello
Download or read book Donatello Michelozzo Text written by R. W. Lightbown and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Donatello and His World written by Joachim Poeschke and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1993 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text on the latest research. While his central focus is on the work of Donatello, he also illuminates the beginnings of Renaissance sculpture in Florence, its further development in Tuscany and the rest of Italy, the new artistic goals and their theoretical formulation, and the relationships between patron and artist, convention and artistic freedom. The invaluable documentary section includes all the work of Donatello, as well as that of Ghiberti. Other important.
Download or read book The Medici Boy written by John L'Heureux and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While creating his famous bronze of David and Goliath, Donatello’s passion for his beautiful model and part time rent boy, Agnolo, ignites a dangerous jealousy that ultimately leads to murder. Luca, the complex and conflicted assistant, will sacrifice all to save Donatello, even his master’s friend--the great patron of art, Cosimo de’ Medici.
Download or read book Art Books written by Wolfgang M. Freitag and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997. For this second edition of Art Books: A Basic Bibliography of Monographs on Artists, the vast number of new books published since 1985 was surveyed and evaluated. This has resulted in the selection of 3,395 additional titles. These selections, reflective of the increase in the monographic literature on artists during the last ten years, are evidence of the activities of a larger number of art historians in more countries worldwide, of the increasingly diverse and ambitious exhibition programs of museums whose number has also increased dramatically, and also of a lively international art market and the attendant gallery activities. The selections of the first edition have been reviewed, errors have been corrected and important new editions and reprints have been noted. The second edition contains 278 names of artists not represented in the first edition.
