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American Graffiti
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95Depuis le début des années 1970, les graffeurs décorent l?extérieur des rames de métro avec des tags toujours plus grands et toujours plus élaborés. Dans le schéma primitiviste, les graffeurs, en tant qu?artistes en marge, offraient de nouvelles perspectives à la société américaine. Ils tendaient un miroir à la culture hégémonique. Les références aux... more...
American Grafitti
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95Das vorliegende Buch präsentiert eine neue Analyse der Verbindungen zwischen dem Kunstgenre Graffiti und dem Werk Jean-Michel Basquiats und spricht insofern sicherlich ein breites Publikum an. Es gibt gegenwärtig nur äußerst wenige Studien zu dieser Thematik, was diese originelle Analyse umso wichtiger macht. Der Autor analysiert den vergleichbaren... more...
Christ in Art
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95Since the dawn of Christianity, artists have been fascinated and stirred by the figure of Christ. His likeness appears in frescoes on the walls of catacombs that date from Roman times; he is featured in the stained glass windows of Gothic churches; and he can be found in various forms in today?s pop culture. The Biblical Saviour is not a static, immaterial... more...
Rivera
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95?I was aware of Diego Rivera, the Mexican muralist, long before I encountered the many other ?Diego Riveras? that roamed the world between the beginning of the twentieth century and the late 1950s. [?] While his easel paintings and drawings constitute a large body of both his early and late work, his unique murals explode off walls in virtuoso performances... more...
Rivera
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95« Je connaissais Diego Rivera, le muraliste mexicain, bien avant de découvrir les nombreux autres « Diego Rivera » qui hantèrent le monde du début du XXe siècle à la fin des années 1950. [?] Si ses peintures de chevalet et ses dessins forment une grande part de ses oeuvres de jeunesse comme de la maturité, ses peintures murales uniques font exploser... more...
Diego Rivera
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95?Als Freskenmaler war mir der Mexikaner Diego Rivera schon ein Begriff, lange bevor ich die vielen anderen ?Riveras? zu Gesicht bekam, die vom Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts bis in die späten Fünfzigerjahre hinein weltweit in Umlauf waren. [?] Während seine Staffeleibilder und Zeichnungen sowohl einen Großteil seines Früh- als auch seines Spätwerks bilden,... more...
Erscheinungsformen höfischer Kultur und ihre Träger im Mittelalter
De Gruyter 2002; US$ 147.00Among the testimonies of medieval courtly culture that have come down to us, mural art is the only form to be located precisely where it was conceived, realized, and needed. At the very least, we know the sites where such art materialized. Accordingly, these testimonies provide a direct link to the proponents of that culture and enable us to include... more...
Ornamental Wall Painting in the Art of the Assyrian Empire
BRILL 2004; US$ 136.00This study provides the archaeological record and pictorial documentation of ornamental wall painting produced for Assyrian royal residences. It examines the changing trends in the decorative designs and selection of motifs, some with symbolic meaning. Many illustrations are from the excavation reports. more...
Illuminating the Border of French and Flemish Manuscripts, 1270-1310
Routledge 2006; US$ 70.00This study first examines the marginal repertoire in two well-known manuscripts, the Psalter of Guy de Dampierre and an Arthurian Romance, within their material and codicological contexts. This repertoire then provides a template for an extended study of the marginal motifs that appear in eighteen related manuscripts, which range from a Bible to illustrated... more...
Frida Kahlo
Infobase Publishing 2003; US$ 30.00The immense emotional and physical wounds Kahlo suffered in her difficult life, due in part to a tragic streetcar accident and marriage to fellow Mexican artist Diego Rivera, inspired her paintings. more...









