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Pub. Date
2000
Description
"Those Mingled Seas: The Poetry of W.B. Yeats, the Beautiful and the Sublime is a study of Yeats's ideas of art, history and culture. Through a combination of philosophy, literary theory, and close attention to poetic forms, Jefferson Holdridge links the most vital, daring aspects of Yeats's poetry and thought to contemporary issues of morality, politics and sexuality. This book, as elegant as it is audacious, will be central to the future of Yeats...
145) Embrace
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When Body Image Activist Taryn Brumfitt posted an unconventional before-and-after photo in 2013 it was seen by more than 100 million people worldwide and sparked an international media frenzy. The film follows Taryn's crusade as she explores the global issue of body loathing, inspiring us to change the way we feel about ourselves and think about our bodies.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Description
"Landscape and Western Art explores the myriad ideas and images of the natural world in Western art since the Renaissance. Implying that land is the raw material, and that art is created by turning land into landscape, which then becomes art, author Malcolm Andrews takes the reader on a thematic tour of the issues of landscape as art. The book covers the full spectrum of landscape art, including painting, gardening, panorama, poetry, photography,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
"Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting"--Jacket....