A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography ...
Continue Reading →Yngve Holen’s fourth ETOPS magazine “Headache” is concentrated on neuroscience and has been edited together with Matthew Evans. Technologies that enable humans to travel, to ...
Continue Reading →This influential work of 1818 by dilettante and critic Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824) has stood the test of time. The study investigates the ...
Continue Reading →The first edition had been published in 1747 (after lengthy preparation – Spence had assembled preparatory material during his first visit to Italy). ...
Continue Reading →In the 1790s and early 1800s, the art world experienced two big events: First came the military confiscation of masterpieces from Italy and ...
Continue Reading →Although the work of Pierre Francastel (1900-1970) has long carried the label “sociology of art,” it bears little resemblance to anything conventionally sociological. ...
Continue Reading →Art historians have in the past narrowly defined primitivism, limiting their inquiry to examples of direct stylistic borrowing from African, Oceanic, or Native ...
Continue Reading →Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired ...
Continue Reading →The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in France were an epoch of spectacular artistic activity, exemplified by the chateaux of the Loire valley, the ...
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