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What is art? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities from eras of history utterly remote from ourselves....

Postmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly engaging introduction, the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are unraveled, casting a critical light upon the way we live now....

Plutarchs's (46-120 A.D.) epic chronicle of the lives of great Grecians and Romans....

Award-winning historian Mark Braude illuminates for the first time Kiki de Montparnasse's seminal influence not only on Man Ray's art, but on the culture of 1920s Paris and beyond....

Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued a crucial Roman philosophical text from certain oblivion....

A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind and how mind and brain relate to art....

Are art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel demonstrates how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning....

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images, which are continually inserted between experience and reality....

In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object beautiful and examining how we can compare differing judgments of beauty when it is evident all around us that our tastes vary so widely....

The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was forty-four years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained to produce a body of radical, abstract works the likes of which had never been seen before....

No se puede hablar del arte románico sin haber pa­seado antes un poco por los pasillos del feudalismo. La aristocracia feudal del Medievo es la clase social creadora del arte románico, tanto en sus manifestacio­nes religiosas como civiles.

There is no doubt that Michelangelo is one of the most influential artists of all time, together with some other Renaissance geniuses. Michelangelo had a vision, a dream, and the talent to carry out those imaginations. His life, in our perspective, is a compilation of great works....

Celebrated painter Duncan Hannah arrived in New York City from Minneapolis in the early 1970s as an art student hungry for experience, game for almost anything, and with a prodigious taste for drugs, girls, alcohol, movies, rock and roll....

In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile....

Al arte pictórico le fueron planteados, con harta frecuencia, problemas de índole ornamental, y así, en cierto modo, se volvió al gusto por el ondulamiento de las figuras, que el gótico había sido el primero en practicar.

Stories of "The American West" often rely on tired tropes of tough cowboys, but real history is much less straight and narrow and way more interesting.

This is the beautifully told story of charismatic and unconventional pop artist Martin Sharp, from his lonely privileged childhood to the heady days of the underground magazine Oz....

El arte es el lenguaje universal. Esta certeza nos hace conscientes del rol del arte para conectarnos y hacer que sintonicemos, entre nosotros y con los demás, teniendo como puente la creatividad que ha acompañado a la historia de la humanidad...

Joining the best sellers Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, a lively and intriguing tale of two artists whose competitive spirit brought to life one of the world’s most magnificent structures and ignited the Renaissance....

In Paris at the start of a radically new century, the most famous face in the history of art stepped out of her frame and into a sensational mystery....