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Art History RSS FeedsThe Complete Cat - The Complete Book of Cats Online...Feed Source: Before Turannoi Were Tyrants: Rethinking a Chapter of Early Greek History - Abstract According to classical and postclassical sources, the early Greek turannoi were, by definition, illegitimate rulers who overturned existing political arrangements and installed rogue monarchic regimes in their place. And on this one fundamental point at least, modern observers of archaic turannides seem to have little quarrel with their ancient informants. To this day, it remains axiomatic that Cypselus, Peisistratus, and the rest were a... Iphigeneia in Philadelphia - Abstract A long-misinterpreted Roman provincial coin shows a mythological scene in order to make a remarkable claim: that Iphigeneia, Orestes, and Pylades fled from the land of the Taurians to Philadelphia in Lydia (modern Alaehir in Turkey), and there set up their stolen image, identified by the Philadelphians as their patron Artemis Anaitis. This Persianized goddess was generally depicted as an Anatolian image almost identical to the Artemis of... Parry in Paris: Structuralism, Historical Linguistics, and the Oral Theory - Abstract This paper investigates the origins of the Oral Theory as formulated by Milman Parry in Paris during the late 1920s by reexamining the scholarship on which it rests. Parry's Oral Theory compared the texts of oral performances in Yugoslavia with the Homeric texts in order to shed light on the presumed oral origins of the latter. His work integrated the work of the linguist and Indo-Europeanist Antoine Meillet, the linguist and scholar of ... Mimesis or Phantasia? Two Representational\\ Modes in Roman Commemorative Art - Abstract The commemorative forms of the Romans are marked by the ubiquity of two contrasting presentational modes: one essentially mimetic, rooted in the representational power of artistic forms, the other abstract and figurative, dependent on the presentation of cues for the summoning of absent yet necessary images. The mimetic mode was thoroughly conventional, and thus posed few problems of interpretation; the figurative knew no such orthodoxy ... Traces of a Freed Language: Horace, Petronius, and the Rhetoric of Fable - Abstract This paper investigates the status that the genre of fable acquires when it is employed in literature. In particular, it surveys Horace's treatment of fables in the Satires and Epistles and the carefully controlled circumstances in which zoomorphic language is allowed to emerge during the banquet at Trimalchio's in Petronius' Satyrica. The analysis of the distribution of fables in Horace shows that for the Roman literary public the act o... Agriculture, Writing, and Cato's Aristocratic Self-Fashioning - Abstract This article investigates the interplay of agriculture and writing in the elder Cato's aristocratic self-fashioning (both his individual self-representation, that is, and his construction of aristocracy more broadly). I argue that the De Agricultura represents Cato and his contemporaries as individual, small-plot farmers by making explicit the agricultural inflection of a more general masterly extensibility, i.e., that slaves were prosth... The picture history of painting from cave painting to modern times by H W Janson and Doro Jane Janson - Thames and Hudson, undated but believed circa 1960: hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 10 x 13 inches tall: 319 pages including index: over 500 illustrations, many full-page with 103 in colour. Synopsis: A comprehensively illustrated panorama of the art of painting through the ages. Contents: Part one. How painting began: images and imagination. The magic pictures of the cavemen. Pictures for the dead: E... English Children's Books 1600 to 1900 by Percy Muir - Batsford 1979: third impression of the 1954 first edition : hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 7.5 x 10 inches tall: 255 pages including index : black and white illustrations: six pages of colour plates. Synopsis: A scholarly and entertaining account of work published for children during a period of three centuries, with the emphasis on books written to entertain rather than inform. The author, Percy Muir details important childr... British book illustrators 1860 -- 1900 A bibliography First series by Charles Baker , Editor - Birmingham bookshop 1978: copy number 220 of 1000 limited copies: Brown cloth hardcover in dust jacket, with gilt lettering to spine : 186 pages: black and white illustrations( some full-page) throughout; 2 set-in colour plates, Dance-a -Baby by Francis D Bedford from Book of Nursery Rhymes, and From the Hind In The Wood by Walter Crane. Synopsis: The reasons for producing this book are listed on the fi... Architect and Sculptor in Classical Greece: (Wrightsman lectures) by Bernard Ashmole - Phaidon 1972 : hardcover in plastic covered dust jacket: black and white illustrations throughout. Synopsis: A scholarly examination of the architects and sculptors of the Greek "Golden Age" including Myron, Pheidias, Polycleitus, Cephisodotus, Praxiteles, Scopas and Lysipus. Professor Ashmole examines the sculpture executed for the adornment of architecture of the period, in particular that of the temple of Zeus at Olym... Sandro Botticelli by Julia Cartwright - London Duckworth and CO. 1914; green cloth hardcover with black decoration and lettering. 82 pages of text 32 good quality b/w full page photogravures. Contents: an in-depth history of the life and times of artist and those surrounding him . A detailed analysis and description of his art, technique,and skill. Condition: Binding loose,one illustration detached; some wear to cover edges and bumping to corners; overall very clean ... Phaidon dictionary of twentieth century art by Phaidon - 420 pages covering and detailing 1600 artists. clean and very good ... Victorian Paintings by Lionel Lambourne - Phaidon Press Ltd, 1999: first edition hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 10 x 2 x 12 inches tall: Black hardcover in dust jacket: gilt lettering to spine and front: 512 pages: colour illustrations through out: many full-page. Synopsis: A comprehensive, fully illustrated review of art produced in the time of Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom, The United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa, and including work by ... Memoirs of A Painter by Gilbert Spencer R A - 1974 edition: hardcover in dust jacket: used , with end papers foxed: overall clean and good. Immediate availability
... Australia; Aboriginal Paintings-Arnhem Land, Unesco World Art Series by Sir Herbert Read - New York graphic Society: White hardcover: approximately 13.5 x 19 inches tall : introductory summary of the history of aboriginal painting illustrated by black and white photographs followed by 32 full-page colour plates of rock and bark paintings with the following titles on verso: --.Rock paintings from Western Arnhem land:- 1) A group of Nalbidji spirit men and women, Unbalanya Hill. 2) Mimi Spirit people and a sea-going ... Ilya Repin Portfolio of reproductions by Ilya Repin - Moscow 1951; grey folio hardcover , with inset portrait of Ilya Repin to front, approx 12.5 x 17 inches tall containing 70 reproductions of the artist's work. Contents;70 unbound good quality reproductions, approx 50 in full colour 20 in black and white, featuring portraits, crowd scenes, and landscapes by Ilya Jefimovits Repin, Russian realist artist, 1844- 1930. Titles and descriptions written in the Russian Language.
Condition: some d... The Dutch painters 100 Seventeenth Century masters by Cristopher Wright - Orbis publishing 1978: hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 9 x 12 inches tall: decorative endpapers: 239 pages including index: colour illustrated throughout many full-page plates .
Synopsis: A copiously illustrated Encyclopaedia of the Dutch painters of the 17th century -- the most prolific painters of all time. The introduction details the history of Neverlandish painting, with its centres of activity and relationship between ... Musical Instruments and Their Decoration by Christopher Rueger - Seven Hills Books, 1986: first in this edition: slip cased hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 8 x 9 inches tall: 163 pages: colour and black and white illustration throughout, many full page plates. Synopsis: A survey of four centuries of European decorated musical instruments and the part played by cabinetmakers, painters, sculptors, inlay specialists, and instrument makers. Among the instruments described are harpsichords, cla... Furniture 700 -- 1700 The social history of the decorative arts by Eric Mercer - Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1969: first edition hardcover in dust jacket: decorative endpapers: 183 pages including index: Black and white and colour illustrations, some full-page. Synopsis: As part of a series examining the social history of the decorative arts in Europe and North America , this volume examines a thousand years of furniture history. The author, Eric Mercer, examines the links with social conditions; the effects of hous... Art Deco (Essential Art) by Iain Zaczek - Parragon 2000, first of this edition: hardcover in dust jacket: 234 pages: colour illustrated throughout. Synopsis: An examination of the Art Deco movement and the wide range of exquisitely designed objects of the period including architecture, furniture, paintings, posters, clocks, porcelain, pottery, and other decorative and utilitarian household objects. The book includes a detailed commentary on 120 specified works, and the text is sup... Copyright © 2008, The Complete Cat. All Rights Reserved. |