yale university press mär 2008 (9 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Previously announced' Edouard Baldus (1813-1889) was the most important French architectural photographer of the mid-19th century. This book offers an in-depth exploration of one of his most intriguing projects--a remarkable series of views of the Chateau de La Faloise, in which his subject was not primarily the country house but the owner and his family at leisure on its grounds. James A. Ganz locates the photographs at a key moment in Baldus's career and during one of the most eventful decades in the history of French photography, showing that they stand at a crossroad between the English 'conversation piece' and the birth of Impressionist portraiture in the early paintings of Monet and Bazille.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When it was first released in 1962, 'The Shape of Time' presented a radically new approach to the study of art history. Drawing upon new insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, George Kubler replaced the notion of style as the basis for histories of art with the concept of historical sequence and continuous change across time. Kubler's classic work is now made available in a freshly designed edition. ''The Shape of Time' is as relevant now as it was in 1962. This book, a sober, deeply introspective, and quietly thrilling meditation on the flow of time and space and the place of objects within a larger continuum, adumbrates so many of the critical and theoretical concerns of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. It is both appropriate and necessary that it re-appear in our consciousness at this time.'--Edward J. Sullivan, New York University.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The china used by the First Families, both at the White House and in their private homes, reveals a fascinating story of culture and society as it has evolved in the United States since its early days. In this handsome book, which documents over 200 rare items in the remarkably comprehensive Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Collection, a beautiful display of tableware unfolds as readers learn of trends in taste, style, and modes of entertaining, from George Washington to Ronald Reagan. Among the featured objects are Washington's white-and-gold Sevres porcelain that he purchased from a French diplomat recalled at the outbreak of the French Revolution; James Monroe's gilt-edged French porcelain service, the first state service commissioned by the White House in 1817; and John F. Kennedy's understated Wedgwood creamware used at his Georgetown home. Collectors and historians will value the information on how the pieces were commissioned, designed, manufactured, and imported.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explores the works of American abstract painter and watercolourist Suzan Frecon (b 1941), critically acclaimed for her sensitive arrangement of colour, form, and texture, and for the philosophical resonance of her art. This book features ten oil paintings and thirty watercolours dating from the late 1990s to 2007.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How precisely has the American government practised financial statecraft How effective have these efforts been And how can they be made more effective This book answers these questions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This provocative volume explores the origins of the Jewish doctrine of the resurrection of the dead. Jon D. Levenson argues that, contrary to a very widespread misconception, the ancient rabbis were keenly committed to the belief that at the end of time, God would restore the deserving dead to life. In fact, Levenson points out, the rabbis saw the Hebrew Bible itself as committed to that idea.The author meticulously traces the belief in resurrection backward from its undoubted attestations in rabbinic literature and in the Book of Daniel, showing where the belief stands in continuity with earlier Israelite culture and where it departs from that culture. Focusing on the biblical roots of resurrection, Levenson challenges the notion that it was a foreign import into Judaism, and in the process he develops a neglected continuity between Judaism and Christianity. His book will shake the thinking of scholars and lay readers alike, revising the way we understand the history of Jewish ideas about life, death, and the destiny of the Jewish people.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Artspace critic Dave Hickey once identified the Fort Worth Circle as 'Texas' first indigenous group of consciously cosmopolitan and irrefutably modern artists.' Their work, he wrote, 'represents the fruit of a special time in the culture of the western United States.' This book chronicles the Circle's distinctive output during the 1940s.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this provocative and stimulating book, David Hopkins addresses the homosocial structures in Dada and Surrealist art with an eye to their relevance to current artistic and theoretical debate. Bestriding the book is the pivotal figure of the artist Marcel Duchamp, who was at the center of various groups of artistic and literary figures--predominantly male--in Europe and America. And at the heart of the investigation are Duchamp's relationships with these men, the various interactions of those within the groups, and the impact of this type of male camaraderie on the artworks they produced.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Discusses the expansion of state power (including such topics as surveillance) and the justifications for war made by American policy makers. This book offers essays in moral psychology, and comprises interpretations of major thinkers in the tradition of political thought, from Socrates to Arendt.