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This fascinating new book explores the world of portraiture from a number of vantage points, and asks key questions about its nature. How has portrait...
Utopia and Despair
This work provides an introduction to the visual arts in Germany from the early years of German unification to World War II. The study is an analysis ...
This is a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of the history of art and architecture. Its structure combines over 4000 detailed A-Z entries with a series...
Sarah Siddons and her Portraitists
A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists brings together three engaging essays – by Robyn Asleson, Shelley Bennett and Mark Leo...
Art and Society in an Age of Uncertainty
""Fin de siècle" is a term that represents a cultural malaise deriving from the anxiety and uncertainty of a society approaching the end of a century...
Verbal and Visual Representation in the Age of Garrick and Kemble
The mistake of interpreting 18th-century theatrical portraits too literally has been made since the 19th-century when a different set of artistic code...
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This monograph contains a short discussion on Chagall's life, along with full color reproduction's of some of his most famous works....
The mistake of interpreting 18th-century theatrical portraits too literally has been made since the 19th century when a different set of artistic code...
Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons
Featuring a range of large-scale, public and more intimate portraits of actresses, The First Actresses provides a vivid spectacle of femininity, fashi...