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  • DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect

    by R. Bruce Elder ...
    Series series Film and Media Studies
    This book deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and especially artists of the first decades of the twentieth century responded to its advent. While the idea persists that early writers on film were troubled by the cinema’s lowly form, this work proposes that there was another, largely unrecognized, strain ... Read more

    $49.69 USD

  • Cubism and Futurism

    Spiritual Machines and the Cinematic Effect

    by R. Bruce Elder ...
    Series series Film and Media Studies
    Cubism and futurism were related movements that vied with each other in the economy of renown. Perception, dynamism, and the dynamism of perception—these issues passed back and forth between the two. Cubism and Futurism shows how movement became, in the traditional visual arts, a central factor with the advent of the cinema: gone were the days when an artwork strived merely to lift experience out ... Read more

    $49.69 USD

  • Image and Identity

    Reflections on Canadian Film and Culture

    by R. Bruce Elder ...
    Series series Film and Media Studies
    What do images of the body, which recent poets and filmmakers have given us, tell us about ourselves, about the way we think and about the culture in which we live?In his new book A Body of Vision, R. Bruce Elder situates contemporary poetic and cinematic body images in their cultural context.Elder examines how recent artists have tried to recognize and to convey primordial forms of experiences. ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

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  • Gauguin

    by Jp. A. Calosse ...
    Paul Gauguin was first a sailor, then a successful stockbroker in Paris. In 1874 he began to paint at weekends as a Sunday painter. Nine years later, after a stock-market crash, he felt confident of his ability to earn a living for his family by painting and he resigned his position and took up the painter’s brush full time. Following the lead of Cézanne, Gauguin painted still-lifes from the very ... Read more

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  • Rembrandt

    by Klaus Carl ...
    Rembrandt is completely mysterious in his spirit, his character, his life, his work and his method of painting. What we can divine of his essential nature comes through his painting and the trivial or tragic incidents of his unfortunate life; his penchant for ostentatious living forced him to declare bankruptcy. His misfortunes are not entirely explicable, and his oeuvre reflects disturbing ... Read more

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  • Michelangelo

    by Sandra Forty ...
    Series series Minibooks
    Michelangelo is considered by many art experts to be the greatest Renaissance artist, surpassing even Leonardo da Vinci. Not only was he an exceptional sculptor but also a formidable painter, architect, and poet. Michelangelo’s primary material was marble and the results of his talent and work speak for themselves: Can anything compare to his statue of David or the Pietà he carved at the age of 24 ... Read more

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  • Francesco Guardi: 72 Drawings

    by Narim Bender ...
    Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (1712 – 1793) was a Venetian painter of veduta (a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, actually more often print, of a cityscape or some other vista), a member of the Venetian School. His early vedutas show influence both from Canaletto and Luca Carlevarijs. Francesco Guardi's most important later works include the Doge's Feasts, a series of twelve canvases ... Read more

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  • John Singer Sargent and His Muse

    Painting Love and Loss

    by Daniel Williman, Karen Corsano ...
    This sensitive and compelling biography sheds new light on John Singer Sargent’s art through an intimate history of his family. Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman focus especially on his niece and muse, Rose-Marie Ormond, telling her story for the first time. In a score of paintings created between 1906 and 1912, John Singer Sargent documented the idyllic teenage summers of Rose-Marie and his own ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • From Light to Byte

    Toward an Ethics of Digital Cinema

    by Markos Hadjioannou ...
    Cinema has been undergoing a profound technological shift: celluloid film is being replaced by digital media in the production, distribution, and reception of moving images. Concerned with the debate surrounding digital cinema’s ontology and the interrelationship between cinema cultures, From Light to Byte investigates the very idea of change as it is expressed in the current technological ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Van Dyck and artworks

    by Natalia Gritsai ...
    From the time he set up his first studio at the tender age of sixteen, Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) was a legend in the art world. Rubens, whom he studied with as a child, said that he was his most talented pupil, and he went on to spectacularly fulfill this promise with a career as a celebrated court painter in England and Spain. Historians, scholars, and art lovers alike continue to ... Read more

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  • Wassily Kandinsky and artworks

    by Mikhaïl Guerman ...
    Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian painter credited as being among the first to truly venture into abstract art. He persisted in expressing his internal world of abstraction despite negative criticism from his peers. He veered away from painting that could be viewed as representational in order to express his emotions, leading to his unique use of colour and form. Although his works ... Read more

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  • Tales of Magic and Mischief | Children's European Folktales

    by Baby Professor ...
    Did you know that folktales are more than just stories? They are powerful traditions that can influence perceptions, behavior and attitude. They are stories of magic and powerful emotions that change the lives of the heroes involved. Of course, there are villains too and from them, your child will learn about mischief and ill-will. Allow your child to weight the good versus the good. He/she will ... Read more

    $3.99 USD