14,376円 Following Stalin's death in 1953, during the period now known as the Thaw, Nikita Khrushchev opened up greater freedoms in cultural and intellectual life. A broad group of intellectuals and artists in Soviet Russia were able to take advantage of this, and in no realm of the arts was this perhaps ...

5,918円 The forced suicide of Seneca, former adviser to Nero, is one of the most tortured--and most revisited--death scenes from classical antiquity. After fruitlessly opening his veins and drinking hemlock, Seneca finally succumbed to death in a stifling steam bath, while his wife Paulina, who had attem...

2,958円 Barbara Novak is one of America's premier art historians, the author of the seminal books American Painting of the Nineteenth Century and Nature and Culture, the latter of which was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and was nominated for a National Book Critics Cir...

1,657円 Until now he has remained a mystery, leaving only a few sentences, the letters of his bankruptcy, a mistress's notarized complaint - and the most glorious, compassionate paintings ever to astonish the eye. The first pure biography of this enigmatic legend is a fascinating detective story in which...

109,394円 Since the second half of the last century art historians, realizing that the image of Rembrandt’s work had become blurred with time, have attempted to redefine the artist’s significance both as a source of inspiration to other artists and as a great artist in his own right. In order to carry on t...

10,280円 This book offers a timely discussion about the interventions and tensions between two contested and contentious fields, performance and phenomenology, with international case studies that map an emerging twenty-first century terrain of critical and performance practice. Building on the foundation...

10,280円 Written especially for professional artists and those studying the visual arts, Law for Artists is an accessible guide to those aspects of law that impact on artists and their work. It encompasses a comprehensive range of creative practices including fine art, photography, the graphic and plastic...

12,933円 First published in 1969. Critics have in the past described The Winter's Tale as a work of "haphazard structure". More recent criticism has defended the structure of the play and this work shows that the evidence points to the fact that Shakespeare took infinite pains with the choice and disposit...

10,943円 First published in 1937. This study argues that the plays of Shakespeare must be studied by comparison with each other and not as separate entities; that they must be related to one another, to the poems and to the Sonnets; that each individual play acquires a deeper significance from its setting...

1,500円 Décryptez l’art de Georges Seurat en moins d’une heure ! Mal connu du public, Georges Seurat est pourtant une figure centrale de la peinture française de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle : il parvient à donner un nouveau souffle à l’impressionnisme grâce à la technique du pointillisme. Seurat dev...

1,500円 Décryptez l’art de Fragonard en moins d’une heure ! Figure majeure de l'esthétique rococo à la française, Jean-Honoré Fragonard est l'auteur d'une œuvre synonyme de frivolité et de légèreté, en écho aux mœurs insouciantes des grands de son temps. Se réappropriant le genre de la fête galante cher ...

1,500円 Décryptez l’art de Sir John Everett Millais en moins d’une heure ! Comptant parmi les plus grands peintres de l'Angleterre victorienne, Sir John Everett Millais est à l'origine d'une avant-garde artistique majeure du XIXe siècle : le préraphaélisme. Puisant son inspiration dans la littérature ang...