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"Arnason's History of Modern Art remains the definitive source of information on the art of the modern era from Modernism's mid-nineteenth-century European beginnings to today's divergent art trends. Now full color throughout, this Fifth Edition contains new headings, subheadings, and a glossary to help the reader navigate the material and quickly identify areas of interest. The entire text has been carefully edited for greater clarity, narrative...
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2022.
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1 online resource.
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The book proposes a reassessment of royal portraiture and its function in the Middle Ages via a comparative analysis of works from different areas of the Mediterranean world, where images are seen as only one outcome of wider and multifarious strategies for the public mise-en-scène of the rulers' bodies. Its emphasis is on the ways in which medieval monarchs in different areas of the Mediterranean constructed their outward appearance and communicated...
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"This intelligently argued overview is invaluable for the way in which it reveals and makes coherent sense of the often bewildering diversity of styles, forms, media, techniques and agendas that proliferate in contemporary art. Now revised and expanded, Michael Archer's acclaimed book is brought up to date with coverage of the comprehensive globalization of art since the mid-1990s, which has been reflected in the growth of the exhibition calendar...
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[2015]
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1 online resource.
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Art is often said to be timeless, but specific works of art always take place within time and maintain a dynamic balance between their conditions of production and reception. Art and Contemporaneity features contributions from leading scholars, including Alain Badiou and Alexander García Düttmann, who bring theories of aesthetic philosophy to bear on one of the most crucial questions about contemporary art: how do works of art come to...
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2019.
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"Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in Earth's continental crust. Perhaps because of its abundance, this iridescent, enigmatic material has captivated artists, religious leaders, monarchs, and healers across the world for more than six thousand years. Based on an exhibition organized by curator of contemporary art at Crystal Bridges, Lauren Haynes, and guest curator Joachim Pissarro, Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today catalogs the first show...
