Art for Art`s Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Art

Автор: Aesthetics
Название: Art History
ISBN: 0300097891 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300097894
Издательство: Wiley yUP
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Описание: Art history, aesthetics and visual studies today find themselves in contested new philosophical and institutional circumstances. This study explores the connections and differences between these three methods of investigating visual representation. What are the dominant aesthetic assumptions underlying art historical inquiry? How have these assumptio s been challenged by visual studies? Are questions of quality, form, content, meaning and spectatorship culturally specific? Can we still define the parameters of what should properly constitute the objects of the history of art? Fifteen scholars answer these and other questions, critically examining the relationships among these three scholarly fields from their founding moments through to their contemporary practices.

Название: Art Nouveau: The French Aesthetic
ISBN: 1901092372 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781901092370
Издательство: Antique Collectors Club Ltd
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Описание: Art Nouveau was a creative whirlwind that blew through the cobwebs of French historicism in the decorative arts, transforming the look of the final decades of the nineteenth century, and bringing a fresh, new, bright approach to creativity. Based on Nature, as seen through the sophisticated form of Japonism, it proclaimed a cult of beauty based on the feminine imperative, which contained within itself all that was good and all that was wicked. This volume, by one of the world's leading experts, traces that road, cuts down the undergrowth of misunderstanding, and examines aspects of the style in a witty, entertaining and informative narrative complemented by a comprehensive set of detailed biographies and lavish colour illustrations of the most striking creations of Art Nouveau.

Автор: Dan King
Название: Japanese Military Sake Cups 1894-1945
ISBN: 0764318810 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780764318818
Издательство: Schiffer
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Описание: This new book is the first in English on this fascinating and increasingly popular military collectible. The main purpose of this book is to provide the reader with accurate information to aid in translating, determining the origin, value and history of the Japanese military Sake cups. Sake cups were commissioned by naval troops, pilots, tank crews, supply crews, infantrymen, cavalrymen, telegraph and railroad engineers with an innumerable variation of colors and designs. Each cup is a mini time capsule with the owners name and regiment inscribed, enabling the collector to search for the background and history of the soldier who once drank a victory toast, or a farewell toast with these very cups. It is hoped the book will foster a greater understanding and appreciation for this little known field of Japanese militaria/art collecting.