Konsthistoria och stilbildning

Finns det något svenskt kulturarv som väckt turisters och forskares fantasi på samma sätt som hällristningarna från bronsåldern? Fortfarande görs fynd i landskapet som väcker nya frågor och &o...

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In Swedish with English translation on every page. Vinnare av Svenska Designpriset 2016 i kategorin Bästa bok/print. Många känner till Josef Frank (1885-1967), den österrikiske arkitekten och formgivaren. Än idag är hans klassiska möbler, lampor o...

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En fin liten anteckningsbok (11,5 x 15,5 cm) i hårdomslag med en bra magnet som stänger boken. Omslaget är både präglat och folierat för att förhöja den fina och lyxiga känslan. Anteckningsboken innehåller 176 linjerade och svagt crèmefärgade sido...

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- THE RECORD-BREAKING, MULTIMILLION COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION - Discover the #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling thriller with a jaw-dropping twist that everyone is talking about - as seen on TikTok. Soon to be a major...

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I början av 1900-talet revolutionerades konsten och vetenskapen på samma gång. Modernismen som svepte genom litteraturen, musiken och bildkonsten sammanföll med den vetenskapliga omvälvning som kvantmekaniken och relativitetsteorin innebar. Gav ti...

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No German painter evokes such strong emotions as Caspar David Friedrich: his evening skies remain icons of longing, his mountain vistas testaments to the grandeur of nature. He inspired Samuel Beckett to write Waiting for Godot and Walt Disney to ...

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From ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, Sexual Personae explores the provocative connections between art and pagan ritual; between Emily Dickinson and the Marquis de Sade; between Lord Byron and Elvis Presley. It ultimately challenges t...

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Chanel's combination of tradition, originality and style has always made it the most seductive of brands. Here the House of Chanel opens its private archives, revealing a galaxy of brilliant designs created by Coco Chanel from the 1920s onwar...

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Wassily Kandinsky was a renowned Russian-born painter who is often regarded as one of the earliest pioneers of abstract art. This art calendar brings together some of his most striking works. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad ...

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" Boken är skriven ur ett promenadperspektiv, och flexbandet med mjuka pärmar gör den även lätt att stoppa ned i väskan och ta med på egna upptäcktsfärder. " Maria Bennmalm, BTJ-häftet Följ med på spaning efter portaler i Jugend och Art ...

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From the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of every agewhether the Egyptian, Greek, or Roman artists of Antiquity, or more recent famous names such as Rembrandt, Courbet, Degas, or Picassohave succumbed to their fantasies, obsessi...

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A 'Best Book of the Year 2023' in the New Statesman, Spectator and Waterstones 'Excellent' Ian Samson, TLS 'From plans for flying machines to philosophy - the remarkable joy of jotting things down' Guardian 'Surp...

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Art of the United States is a landmark volume that presents three centuries of US art through a broad array of historical texts, including writings by artists, critics, patrons, literary figures, and other commentators. Combining a wide-ranging se...

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** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ** A revelatory portrait of a great museum and the moving story of one guard's quest to find solace and meaning in art 'Who would have thought that the outstandi...

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I den mest uttömmande boken om Hilma af Klint som hittills getts ut, skriver 20 specialister inom modern konst, konsthistoria, idéhistoria och religionshistoria utifrån sin unika utgångspunkt och ger sin syn på af Klints konstnärskap. Ämnena rör s...

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Havet har alltid fascinerat människan. Det var havet som tog människor till nya kontinenter och det var havet som möjliggjorde handel och utveckling. Men det var också havet som hotade människor och liv, som var mörkt och stormigt. I dag uppfattar...

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Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love, 1850-1950 portrays the history of romantic love between men in hundreds of moving and tender vernacular photographs taken between the years 1850 and 1950. This visual narrative of astonishing sensitiv...

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A dazzling piece of Italian history of the infamous family that become one of the most powerful in Europe, weaving its history with Renaissance greats from Leonardo da Vinci to Galileo Against the background of an age which saw the rebirth of anci...

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Discover how scenes of daily life and delicate dabs of color shocked the art world establishment. In this TASCHEN Basic Art introduction to Impressionism, we explore the artists, subjects, and techniques that first brought the easel out of the stu...

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'FASCINATING' Guardian | 'WE LOVE THIS BOOK' Blackwells | 'THE BEST GIFT BOOK THERE IS' Independent A GUIDE TO LIVING IN DARK TIMES, FROM PEOPLE WHO REALLY DID Bursting with wisdom and artwork from the Middle Ages, th...

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Since its first publication this book has been hailed as the most comprehensive history of art ever published in a single volume. Presenting art history as an essential part of the development of humankind, it offers an authoritative, balanced and...

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A visual feast of eclectic artwork informed and inspired by spiritual beliefs, magical techniques, mythology and otherworldly experiences. Mystical beliefs and practices have existed for millennia, but why do we still chase the esoteric? From the ...

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Celebrate the epic journey of the LEGO minifigure. Features an orange spaceman minifigure! Enter the world of minifigures with this fully updated edition. The first minifigure was created in 1978, and today the entire minifigure population could c...

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Boken ger en inspirerande introduktion till konstvetenskap och ingår i vår nya serie med introduktioner till estetiska ämnen. I denna kortfattade och precisa bok ger Dana Arnold en introduktion till de frågor, debatter och föremål som tillsammans ...

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This book is an accessible introduction to the critical theories used in analysing art. It covers a broad range of approaches, presenting individual arguments, controversies and divergent perspectives. This edition has been updated to reflect rece...

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This invaluable guide enables students to get the most from their art history course. Written in an accessible style, the book introduces two basic art historical methods - formal analysis and contextual analysis. In this new edition revising auth...

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Whitney Chadwicks acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule, who transcended their sex to produce major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contribution to visual culture since...

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A look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning. Using comics to examine the medium itself, the author takes the form of a cartoon character and explains the structure, meaning, and appeal of comics, and provides a running analysi...

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”ett praktverk om fotografiets och fotograferandets historia. Hon har tillsammans med 15 andra experter sammanställt, producerat och redigerat vad som nog bör ses som ett svenskt standardverk för fotohistoria. Betyg 5” B...

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This book is an accessible introduction to the critical theories used in analysing art. It covers a broad range of approaches, presenting individual arguments, controversies and divergent perspectives. This edition has been updated to reflect rece...

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