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Book General Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975

Download or read book The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975 written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Frederick the Second

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ernst Kantorowicz
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-06-20
  • ISBN : 9781548217112
  • Pages : 740 pages

Download or read book Frederick the Second written by Ernst Kantorowicz and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FREDERICK THE SECOND is the story of the remarkable man whose power and sphere of influence straddled the worlds of Christendom and of Islam. The last of the Hohenstaufens, HolyRoman Emperor and King of Sicily and Jerusalem, Frederick II was an energetic and versatile ruler, a man of great ambition in whose lifetime the conflict between Emperor and Pope reached a newintensity. Excommunicated three times by the Church, he was an absolute monarch whose power, defended in almost continuous struggle, extended over much of Germany and Italy as well as the Holy Land. Frederick was a complex man of cultured tastes and licentious manners who had unusually wide intellectual interests. At his Sicilian court scholars of all religions were welcomed--Christian, Jewish, Mohammedan. He founded the University of Naples in 1224 and was a patron of the arts and sciences. The life of this dynamic man is fully explored in Ernst Kantorowicz's notable biography, filled with dramatic incident and absorbing detail, and written with style and scholarship.

Book The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art

Download or read book The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art written by Martha Buskirk and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005-02-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of transformations in the nature of the art object and artistic authorship in the last four decades. In this book, Martha Buskirk addresses the interesting fact that since the early 1960s, almost anything can and has been called art. Among other practices, contemporary artists have employed mass-produced elements, impermanent materials, and appropriated imagery, have incorporated performance and video, and have created works through instructions carried out by others. Furthermore, works of art that lack traditional signs of authenticity or permanence have been embraced by institutions long devoted to the original and the permanent. Buskirk begins with questions of authorship raised by minimalists' use of industrial materials and methods, including competing claims of ownership and artistic authorship evident in conflicts over the right to fabricate artists' works. Examining recent examples of appropriation, she finds precedents in pop art and the early twentieth-century readymade and explores the intersection of contemporary artistic copying and the system of copyrights, trademarks, and brand names characteristic of other forms of commodity production. She also investigates the ways that connections between work and context have transformed art and institutional conventions, the impact of new materials on definitions of medium, the role of the document as both primary and secondary object, and the significance of conceptually oriented performance work for the intersection of photography and the human body in contemporary art. Buskirk explores how artists active in the 1980s and 1990s have recombined strategies of the art of the 1960s and 1970s. She also shows how the mechanisms through which art is presented shape not only readings of the work but the work itself. She uses her discussion of the readymade and conceptual art to explore broader issues of authorship, reproduction, context, and temporality.

Book Litigation and Cooperation

Download or read book Litigation and Cooperation written by Lene Rubinstein and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syn�goroi are widely known in Athenian law to have served as supporting speakers and aids to the main prosecutors within a courtroom. Lene Rubinstein argues that these people were an important part of court practice and social and political litigation, though largely ignored in many previous studies of Athenian politics. Her study draws extensively on the speeches of syn�goroi , revealing their multi-functionality as witnesses, as co-speakers alongside the main prosecutor and as part of a collaborative legal team.

Book The First Pop Age

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hal Foster
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2014-02-23
  • ISBN : 0691160988
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book The First Pop Age written by Hal Foster and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-23 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who branded painting in the Pop age more brazenly than Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha? And who probed the Pop revolution in image and identity more intensely than they? This book presents an interpretation of Pop art through the work of these Pop Five.

Book The Fountain Drawings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mike Bidlo
  • Publisher : Tony Shafrazi Gallery/Gallery Bruno Bischofberger
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The Fountain Drawings written by Mike Bidlo and published by Tony Shafrazi Gallery/Gallery Bruno Bischofberger. This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the most infamous object in the history of 20th century art is Duchamp's Fountain. Rosetta stone to the avant-garde, Duchamp's 1917 urinal redefined, in one bold conceptual stroke, the possibilities of art forever after -- entering modern consciousness, and signifying the start of a counter-tradition of ready-mades, anti-art, and conceptualism that is 80 years old. It is therefore appropriate that artist Mike Bidlo, who has in the past made appropriations of legendary artworks (by Picasso, Man Ray, Brancusi, etc.), here focuses his attentive eye on Fountain. This book catalogues the surprising results of Bidlo's homage, and taken together, these 300+ drawings bring out both the totemic and painterly qualities of Fountain. The book includes an extensive discussion between Bidlo and critics Arthur Danto and Francis Naumann.

Book Legal Origins and Legal Change

Download or read book Legal Origins and Legal Change written by Alan Watson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Rome

Download or read book Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Rome written by Zvi Yavetz and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enormous numbers of slaves were absorbed into Roman society from the third century B.C. onwards. Mainly enslaved prisoners of war, they transformed the quality of life in the Roman Empire beyond recognition. In this anthology the author offers a complete collection of Greek and Latin sources in an English translation which deal with the great slave rebellions in the second and first centuries B.C. In a postscript Zvi Yavetz surveys the controversy on slaves and slavery from the French Revolution to our own days, with an emphasis on the debate between Marxists and non-Marxists. The book is intended for specialists and generalists alike, including those who have had no previous classical education, but could after delving in sources concern themselves with one of the most intriguing problems in world history. Zvi Yavetz holds the Lessing Chair of Roman History at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and is distinguished visiting professor at Queens College of the City University of New York. He is the author of many books in Hebrew, French and German on Roman history among which are Julius Caesar and His Public Image and Plebs and Princips.

Book Rome  the Pilgrim s Dream

Download or read book Rome the Pilgrim s Dream written by Gloria Fossi and published by Giunti Editore. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kelley Walker

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kelley Walker
  • Publisher : Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9780988997066
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book Kelley Walker written by Kelley Walker and published by Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis. This book was released on 2016 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With nods to artistic influences ranging from Andy Warhol to Jackson Pollock and Sigmar Polke, Walker?s work interrogates the ways a single image can migrate into a number of cultural contexts. Throughout his career, Walker has explored the manipulation and repurposing of images in order to destabilize issues of identity, race, class, sexuality, and politics. Often using such technologies as 3-D modeling software and laser-cutting, the artist works in a variety of media, including photography, painting, printmaking, collage, and sculpture. In an era of digital reproduction, Walker?s work draws attention to popular culture?s perpetual consumption and reuse of images. 00Exhibition: Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, United States (16.09. - 31.12.2016).

Book The World Encompassed

    Book Details:
  • Author : Geoffrey Vaughn Scammell
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1981-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520044227
  • Pages : 564 pages

Download or read book The World Encompassed written by Geoffrey Vaughn Scammell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of European exploration and colonization includes examinations of the expansion of the English, Spanish, Dutch, French, and Portuguese empires

Book Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire

Download or read book Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire written by K. R. Bradley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book is the first to show how the institution of slavery, one of the most characteristic and enduring features of Roman imperial society, was maintained over time and how, at the practical level, the lives of slaves in the Roman world were directly controlled by their masters. The author demonstrates, first, how the tensions generated between slaves and masters can be perceived in the ancient sources, and, second, how those tensions were dealt with, as masters treated their slaves with varying forms of generosity and punishment in order to elicit obedience from them. Special attention is given to the slaves' family lives, to their acquisition of freedom through manumission, and to the climate of violence that surrounded them. Emphasizing the harsh realities of Roman slavery in a new way, this important book will stir intense debate among scholars and students.

Book Methods and Perspectives in Intellectual Property

Download or read book Methods and Perspectives in Intellectual Property written by Graeme B. Dinwoodie and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diversity of methods used and perspectives displayed in intellectual property law scholarship is now quite vast. This book brings together scholars from around the globe to discuss these methods and provide insights into how they are best used.

Book Missionary Tropics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ines G. Županov
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780472114900
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book Missionary Tropics written by Ines G. Županov and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative contribution to the history of early modern Euro-Asian interactions that provides new perspectives on the encounter between Catholicism and Hinduism in India