6,717円 This volume focuses on the reception of antiquity in the performing and visual arts from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. It explores the tensions and relations of gender, sexuality, eroticism and power in reception. Such universal themes dictated plots and characters of myth and dram...

4,814円 With an in-depth exploration of rule by a single man and how this was seen as heroic activity, the title challenges orthodox views of ruling in the ancient world and breaks down traditional ideas about the relationship between so-called hereditary rule and tyranny. It looks at how a common heroic...

4,433円 The four centuries between the composition of the Homeric epics and the conquests of Alexander the Great witnessed an immensely creative period in Greek art, one full of experimentation and innovation. But time has taken its toll; damaged statues have lost their colour and wall paintings have bee...

5,636円 Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton. 'One of the greatest essays ever written on art.'– The Guardian Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever published. Whilst many ...

2,501円 Astronomical auction prices in the late 1990s first drew many people's attention to the phenomenon of the early Papunya boards, the thousand small painted panels created at the remote Northern Territory Aboriginal settlement of Papunya in 1971-72. Western Desert art expert Vivien Johnson looks at...

3,396円 A wry and beautifully observed memoir about coming of age in the era of conceptual art. Growing up in the suburbsーconfused about his sexuality, about his consumer-oriented world, about the death of his older brotherーBernard Cooper falls in love with Pop art and sets off for the California Insti...

2,786円 'The Rape of Europa' is one of Titian's great masterpieces, a work charged with eroticism and classical mystique behind which lies a tale as compelling as the painting itself. Here Charles FitzRoy weaves a unique account of its history and the painting's movement following the rise and fall of th...

1,060円 « Le père Pissarro », comme aimaient à l’appeler ses amis, était le plus sage des artistes impressionnistes. Peut être son âge, plus avancé que celui de ses camarades Monet, Sisley, Bazille et Renoir, ou plutot sa maturité, lui firent créer des œuvres sereines et sobres tant dans leur sujet que d...

1,060円 Paul Cézanne (Aix-en-Provence, 1839 – 1906) Depuis sa mort il y a deux siècles, Cézanne est devenu le peintre le plus célèbre du XIXe siècle. Il naquit à Aix-en-Provence en 1839, et la plus belle période de sa vie fut sa prime jeunesse en Provence, qu'il passa en compagnie de Zola, également d'or...

1,060円 Michel-Ange (Michelangelo Buonarroti) (Caprese, 1475 – Rome, 1564). Michel-Ange, comme Léonard de Vinci, avait plusieurs cordes à son arc et était à la fois sculpteur, architecte, peintre et poète. Il porta à leur apothéose le mouvement musculaire et l'effort, équivalents plastiques de la passion...

1,060円 Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Mondriaan werd geboren in Amersfoort op 7 maart 1872 en stierf in New York op 1 februari 1944. Hij was een Nederlandse kunstschilder en kunsttheoreticus, die echter een groot deel van zijn leven in het buitenland woonde en werkte. Mondriaan wordt algemeen gezien als een pio...

164円 74 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 4 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: "Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most Em...