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A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, Vol. IV: Self-PortraitsAuthor:
Ernst van de WeteringPages:
690Format:
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1402032803Since 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 the work started by previous generations, a group of leading Dutch art historians from the university and museum world joined forces in the late 1960s in order to study afresh the paintings usually ascribed to the artist. The researchers came together in the Rembrandt Research Project which was established to provide the art world with a new standard reference work which would serve the community of art historians for the nearby and long future.They examined the originals of all works attributed to Rembrandt taking full advantage of today’s sophisticated techniques including radiography, neutron activation autoradiography, dendrochronology and paint sample analysis — thereby gaining valuable insight into the genesis and condition of the paintings.The result of this meticulous research is laid down chronologically in the following Volumes:A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, Volume I, which deals with works from Rembrandt’s early years in Leiden(1629-1631), published in 1982.A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, Volume II, covering his first years in Amsterdam (1631-1634), published in 1986.A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, Volume III, goes into his later years of reputation (1635-1642), published in 1990.Volume IV of A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings deals uniquely with the self-portraits of Rembrandt. In a clearly written explanatory style the head of the Rembrandt Research Project and Editor of this Volume, Ernst van de Wetering, discusses the full body of work of paintings and etchings portraying Rembrandt. He sets the different parameters for accepting or rejecting a Rembrandt self-portrait as such, whilst also discussing the exact working environment of Rembrandt and his apprentices. This workshop setting created a surroundings where apprentices could be involved in working on Rembrandt paintings making it more difficult to determine the hand of the master. Van de Wetering, who is one of the Rembrandt experts of our day and age, goes down to great detail to explain how the different self-portraits are made and what techniques Rembrandt uses, also giving an overview of which paintings are to be attributed to the Dutch Master and which not.
In the additional catalogue the self-portraits are examined in detail. In clear and accessible explanatory text the different paintings are discussed, larded with immaculate images of each painting. Details are shown where possible, as well as the results of modern day technical imaging like X-radiography.
This work of art history and art research should be part of every serious art historical institute, university or museum. Nowhere in the art history have all Rembrandt’s self portraits been discussed in such detailed and comparative manner by an authority such as Ernst van de Wetering. This is a standard work for decades to come. 
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The Art Direction Handbook for FilmAuthor:
Michael RizzoPages:
352Format:
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0240806808"This book is the ultimate guide for anyone who wants to work in the design aspect of the film and television industry." - Black Filmmaker"Mike Rizzo is a first rate talent; an artist and a craftsman. His writing is insightful, and provocative. He is uniquely suited to write a book like this, which fuses the wisdom of traditional filmmaking to the power and hope of the digital possibilities of 21st century filmmkaing." --John Gray, Helter Skelter, Martin and LewisFull-color how-to book from a Hollywood insider
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Western Art History (SparkCharts)Author:
SparkNotes EditorsPages:
6Format:
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1411400534SparkChartsTM - 2004 - created by Harvard students for students everywhere serve as study companions and reference tools that cover a wide range of college and graduate school ..
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Jewish Comedy Stars: Classic to Cutting EdgeAuthor:
Norman H. FinkelsteinPages:
96Format:
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0822599422From vaudeville to viral comedy on the web, here are more than 40 short biographies of Jewish comedians who heavily influenced the entertainment industry in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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Arcimboldo: Visual Jokes, Natural History, and Still-Life PaintingAuthor:
Thomas DaCosta KaufmannPages:
136Format:
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0226426866In Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s most famous paintings, grapes, fish, and even the beaks of birds form human hair. A pear stands in for a man’s chin. Citrus fruits sprout from a tree trunk that doubles as a neck. All sorts of natural phenomena come together on canvas and panel to assemble the strange heads and faces that constitute one of Renaissance art’s most striking oeuvres. The first major study in a generation of the artist behind these remarkable paintings, Arcimboldo tells the singular story of their creation.Drawing on his thirty-five-year engagement with the artist, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann begins with an overview of Arcimboldo’s life and work, exploring the artist’s early years in sixteenth-century Lombardy, his grounding in Leonardesque traditions, and his tenure as a Habsburg court portraitist in Vienna and Prague. Arcimboldo then trains its focus on the celebrated composite heads, approaching them as visual jokes with serious underpinnings—images that poetically display pictorial wit while conveying an allegorical message. In addition to probing the humanistic, literary, and philosophical dimensions of these pieces, Kaufmann explains that they embody their creator’s continuous engagement with nature painting and natural history. He reveals, in fact, that Arcimboldo painted many more nature studies than scholars have realized—a finding that significantly deepens current interpretations of the composite heads.Demonstrating the previously overlooked importance of these works to natural history and still-life painting, Arcimboldo finally restores the artist’s fantastic visual jokes to their rightful place in the history of both science and art.
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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's TragediesAuthor:
Janette DillonPages:
176Format:
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0521674921Macbeth clutches an imaginary dagger; Hamlet holds up Yorick's skull; Lear enters with Cordelia in his arms. Do these memorable and iconic moments have anything to tell us about the definition of Shakespearean tragedy? Is it in fact helpful to talk about 'Shakespearean tragedy' as a concept, or are there only Shakespearean tragedies? What kind of figure is the tragic hero? Is there always such a figure? What makes some plays more tragic than others? Beginning with a discussion of tragedy before Shakespeare and considering Shakespeare's tragedies chronologically one by one, this book seeks to investigate such questions in a way that highlights both the distinctiveness and shared concerns of each play within the broad trajectory of Shakespeare's developing exploration of tragic form.
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Optical Illusion Magic: Visual Tricks & AmusementsAuthor:
Michael A. DispezioPages:
80Format:
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0806966270You won't believe your eyes, and perhaps you shouldn't. Once you read this book, you'll understand how your perception can be skewed by the way your brain processes certain input. Using information learned from previous experiences, your brain tries quickly to make order out of what you're seeing. Page after page of illusions will have you reaching for a ruler to see if lines really are the same length or if the sides of that square are straight or bowed. Author DiSpezio presents many classics, such as the ambiguous drawing that might be a vase and might be two faces, as well as some less familiar ones. There are even directions on how to make some of your own magic. A few pages are a little confusing where a busy background interferes with an illusion or the layout makes the text difficult to follow, but it is worth the extra effort to read carefully, because you won't want to miss any of these visual tricks.
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Polymer Clay Mixed Media Jewelry: Fresh Techniques, Projects and InspirationAuthor:
Shirley RufenerPages:
128Format:
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0896896897Polymer clay is one of the most versatile craft projects on the market -- you can cut, carve, stamp, mold, sculpt and add texture, all to create individualized jewelry. With easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions, and the author's "can do" attitude, success is a sure bet. Shirley Rufener will guide you through basic techniques and 25 projects. Discover how to simulate the look of glass, enamel, fine porcelain and chalked ceramics, without the use of an expensive kiln. As a bonus, techniques include creating your own homemade, translucent, custom rubber stamps to use on clay and for traditional rubber-stamping.
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Sources of Value: A Practical Guide to the Art and Science of ValuationAuthor:
Simon WoolleyPages:
642Format:
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0521737311Sources of Value is a comprehensive guide to financial decision making suitable for beginners as well as experienced practitioners. It treats financial decision making as both an art and a science and proposes a comprehensive approach through which companies can maximise their value. Beginners will benefit from its initial financial foundation section which builds strong basic skills. Practitioners will enjoy the new insights which the eponymous Sources of Value technique offers - where values come from and why some companies can expect to create it while others cannot. The book also introduces several other techniques which, together, spell out how to combine strategy with valuation and an understanding of accounts to make a fundamental improvement in the quality of corporate financial decision taking. Sources of Value is written in a readable conversational style and will appeal to those already working in companies as well as those studying on a business course.
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The Drawings of Michelangelo and his Followers in the Ashmolean MuseumAuthor:
Paul JoannidesPages:
508Format:
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0521551331This volume comprises the fullest and most detailed catalogue of the drawings by and after Michelangelo in the Ashmolean Museum. It is one of the most important collections of drawings by this artist, which also includes drawings after his own by contemporaries that shed light on lost works as well as the artist's reputation and influence during the sixteenth century. The introduction provides a history of Michelangelo's drawings generally and also surveys the various types of drawing practiced by Michelangelo and an account of his development as a draughtsman.
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Art and the Early Greek StateAuthor:
Michael ShanksPages:
256Format:
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0521602858Michael Shanks has written a challenging contribution to recent debates on the emergence of the Greek city states in the first millennium BC. He interprets the art and archaeological remains of Korinth to elicit connections among new urban environments, foreign trade, warfare, and the ideology of male sovereignty. His interdisciplinary perspective draws on an anthropologically informed archaeology, ancient history, art history, material culture studies and structural approaches to the classics, and raises large questions about the links between design and manufacture, political and social structure, and culture and ideology.
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Jews and the Making of Modern German TheatreAuthor:
Jeanette R. Malkin and Freddie RokemPages:
336Format:
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1587298686While it is common knowledge that Jews were prominent in literature, music, cinema, and science in pre-1933 Germany, the fascinating story of Jewish co-creation of modern German theatre is less often discussed. Yet for a brief time, during the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic, Jewish artists and intellectuals moved away from a segregated Jewish theatre to work within canonic German theatre and performance venues, claiming the right to be part of the very fabric of German culture. Their involvement, especially in the theatre capital of Berlin, was of a major magnitude both numerically and in terms of power and influence. The essays in this stimulating collection etch onto the conventional view of modern German theatre the history and conflicts of its Jewish participants in the last third of the nineteenth and first third of the twentieth centuries and illuminate the influence of Jewish ethnicity in the creation of the modernist German theatre.The nontraditional forms and themes known as modernism date roughly from German unification in 1871 to the end of the Weimar Republic in 1933. This is also the period when Jews acquired full legal and trade equality, which enabled their ownership and directorship of theatre and performance venues. The extraordinary artistic innovations that Germans and Jews co-created during the relatively short period of this era of creativity reached across the old assumptions, traditions, and prejudices that had separated people as the modern arts sought to reformulate human relations from the foundations to the pinnacles of society.The essayists, writing from a variety of perspectives, carve out historical overviews of the role of theatre in the constitution of Jewish identity in Germany, the position of Jewish theatre artists in the cultural vortex of imperial Berlin, the role played by theatre in German Jewish cultural education, and the impact of Yiddish theatre on German and Austrian Jews and on German theatre. They view German Jewish theatre activity through Jewish philosophical and critical perspectives and examine two important genres within which Jewish artists were particularly prominent: the Cabaret and Expressionist theatre. Finally, they provide close-ups of the Jewish artists Alexander Granach, Shimon Finkel, Max Reinhardt, and Leopold Jessner. By probing the interplay between “Jewish” and “German” cultural and cognitive identities based in the field of theatre and performance and querying the effect of theatre on Jewish self-understanding, they add to the richness of intercultural understanding as well as to the complex history of theatre and performance in Germany.
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Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic ProseAuthor:
Tim MilnesPages:
292Format:
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0521035953This ambitious study sheds new light on the way the English Romantics dealt with the basic problems of knowledge. Kant complained that the failure of philosophy in the eighteenth-century to respond to empirical scepticism had produced a culture of "indifferentism." Tim Milnes explores the tension between this epistemic indifference and a perpetual compulsion to know. The tension is most clearly evident in the prose writing of the period, in works such as Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Hazlitt's Essay on the Principles of Human Action, and Coleridge's Biographia Literaria.
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Friendship OrigamiAuthor:
Katherine GleasonPages:
40Format:
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0439626226Who are your best friends? Do they know how much they mean to you? Would you like to make them each something special? Inside you will learn how to make 10 awesome origami gifts - a Fortune-teller, a Rose, an Eight-petaled Flower, a Gift Box, a Friendship Ring, a Classic Crane, an Iris, a Star Bracelet, a Puffy Heart and a Heart in Bloom.
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Complete Origami: An A-Z of Facts and Folds, with Step-by-Step Instructions for Over 100 ProjectsAuthor:
Eric KennewayPages:
192Format:
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0312008988Complete Origami by Eric Kenneway is not a typical origami book. This book contains information regarding many aspects of origami. It's an ABC of the art of origami. Each topic is discussed briefly with historical references and accompanying diagrams to demonstrate the topic at hand. This book is ideal for people who want to know more about origami and not simply how to fold origami. That being said, this book does have instructions to make over 100 projects. In many respects, Complete Origami has lots of information and has diagrams.Topics discussed include:1. Action Models, Aeroplanes, Ane-Sama Ningyo, Applique, Architecture, Art
2. Bangers, Bases, Blintz, Boats, Booklet, Box Pleating, Butterflies
3. Catalogue Folding, Chapeaugraphy, Chinese Tradition, Circular Origami, Computer Origami, Consequences, Cookery, Corner Fasteners, Cross Pleating, Crumpling Paper, Cup
4. Diagramming, Diploma, Disaster Situations
5. Electronic Origami, Envelope Folding, Exhibitions,
6. Fans, Flexagons, Flowers, Foil, Frogs
7. Geometry, Greeting Cards
8. Handkerchief Folding, Hats, Headscarf Folding, Hina
9. Itajime-Shibori
10. Japanese Tradition, Juan Escudiro
11. Kasane-Origami, Kirigami, Kirikomi Origami, Kites, Kline-Fogleman Aerofoil, Knife, Knots, Koi-Nobori, Kusudama
12. Laminating Paper, Lampshades, Large-Scale Models, Laundry Folding, Leaf Folding, Lindbergh Case, Loin Cloth
13. Map Folding, Mizuhiki, Mobiles, Modular Origami, Money Folding, Multi-Piece Models,
14. Napkin Folding, Nappy Folding, Newspaper Folding, No-Sew Cushion Covers, Noshi
15. Offset-Center Bases, One-Fold Origami, Origami, Origamians and Origamists
16. Pajarita, Paper, Performance Art, Pictorial Origami, Picture Frame, Playground Folds, Postage Stamps, Printed Paper Folding, Pure Origami, Puzzles
17. Quilling
18. Resin, rules, Rupert Annuals
19. Salt Cellar, Scenic Route, Sembazuru, Shape and Surplus, Small-Scale models, Societies, Sound-Producing Origami, Square, Stars, Stretching
20. Tape Folding, Tato, Teaching, Therapy, Thumbnail Folding, Ticket Folding, Tissue Folding, Triangles, Troublewit, Twist Folding,
21. Umbrellas, Unibasic Form
22. Valentine, Visiting Cards
23. Waterbomb, Washi, Waxing Models, Western Tradition, Wet Folding, Wrapping
24. X-ray Cover Sheets
25. Yakko-San
26. Zen
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Layers: Inspired Collage for Paper Projects with MeaningAuthor:
Shari CarrollPages:
128Format:
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1581807848Cutting-edge skills for sophisticated paper art designs!
*A primer on the hottest techniques that will appeal to scrapbookers, cardmakers, rubberstampers, and all papercrafters
*Allows crafts to create amazing effects using collage, torn papers, embellishments, and cherished photos and quotes
*Hundreds of tips and tricks reveal how to get remarkable results every time Today’s paper art magazines showcase intricate layered pieces yet give little instruction on how to do it.Finally, Layers teaches papercrafters the skills they need to make these stylish projects. Expert designer Shari Carroll provides simple step-by-step directions for the latest paper techniques, including distressing, sewing, transfers, and much more.Readers receive a variety of ideas ranging from a wall hanging scrapbook page and an art journal to a collage book and CD book cover. Included are stunning examples of Carroll’s own collage work, each of which feature unique and personal messages. She first shares details on what inspired each piece, then offers readers suggestions for customizing their own pieces.
