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The Best 'A Man Walks into a Bar' Jokes
Allen & Unwin 2009; US$ 15.44A collection of more than 200 of the best (or should that be worst?) jokes about 'men' walking into bars. more...
Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context
BRILL 2007; US$ 214.00Covers topics such as: palatial and temple architecture, royal sculpture, gender in the ancient Near East, and interdisciplinary studies that range from fourth millennium BCE to modern ethnography and cover Sumer, Assyria, Babylonia, Iran, Syria, Urartu, and the Levant. more...
Discoveries in Western Tibet and the Western Himalayas
BRILL 2007; US$ 105.00Archaeological discoveries and scientific research focused on western Tibet and the western Himalayas have resulted in a redefinition of the historical and cultural processes of the entire Indo-Tibetan civilization. This title presents the proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the Iats, 2003. more...
Facts and Artefacts - Art in the Islamic World
BRILL 2007; US$ 278.00The scholarly search on the art of the object is of enduring interest and enjoys a new renaissance in the last few years. This book mainly explores the art and craft of Islamic artefacts and presents to the reader a diverse range of approaches. Despite this variety, in which also artefacts of the pre-Islamic, period as well as 'orientalized'... more...
Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter
University of California Press 2006; US$ 39.96Pieter Bruegel (ca. 1525?1569), generally considered the greatest Flemish painter of the sixteenth century, was described in 1604 by his earliest biographer as a supremely comic artist, few of whose works failed to elicit laughter. Today, however, we approach Bruegel?s art as anything but a laughing matter. His paintings and drawings are thought to... more...
Winckelmann und die Mythologie der Klassik
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 105.00The contributions from a German-Italian conference on the subject of descriptions of art at the time of Winckelmann and his successors are collected in these bilingual proceedings.They deal with the theoretical foundations as well as the literary-aesthetic effects of a radically new approach to classical ancient art and its mythological context. The... more...
SOHO IN OTTAKRING: Whats up? Was ist hier los? (German and English Edition)
Springer 2008; US$ 39.95Als Jubiläumspublikation zum 10-jährigen Bestehen bietet das Buch einen reich illustrierten Einblick in die Vielfalt des Kunstprojektes SOHO IN OTTAKRING. Der Spielort im Wiener Bezirk Ottakring ist exemplarischer Ort globaler gesellschaftlicher Transformationen durch Migration und �konomisierung. Das Leitthema der Publikation sind die Möglichkeiten... more...
Memoirs of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries
The Floating Press 1913; US$ 6.99This early travelogue gives readers a fascinating glimpse into European life and customs in the Renaissance and early modern periods. The book recounts author Albrecht Durer's travels in and observations of Italy and the Netherlands on the cusp of the sixteenth century. more...
Romantik / Romanticism
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 84.00For a long time Romanticism stood in the shadow of German Idealism. Hegel's criticisms were particularly decisive. Lately, Romanticism has been rehabilitated, above all as a philosophically independent alternative to the systematic thought of Idealism, and has been revealed to be a source for modern thought which has yet to be exhausted.Against... more...
Clement Greenberg Between the Lines
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 17.00Clement Greenberg (1909–1994), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism—of Pollock, Miró, and Matisse—has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the twentieth century, and possibly the greatest art critic of all time. This volume, a lively reassessment of Greenberg’s writings,... more...









