Altarpieces and Their Viewers in the Churches of Rome from Caravaggio to Guido Reni (Visual Culture in Early Modernity)
by Pamela M. Jones
from Ashgate
A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America
by Thomas M. Allen
from The University of North Carolina Press
The development of the American nation has typically been interpreted in terms of its expansion through space, specifically its growth westward. In this innovative study, Thomas Allen posits time, not space, as the most significant territory of the young nation. He argues that beginning in the nineteenth century, the actual geography of the nation became less important, as Americans imagined the future as their true national territory.
Allen explores how transformations in the perception of time shaped American conceptions of democratic society and modern nationhood. He focuses on three ways of imagining time: the romantic historical time that prevailed at the outset of the nineteenth century, the geological "deep time" that arose as widely read scientific works displaced biblical chronology with a new scale of millions of years of natural history, and the technology-driven "clock time" that became central to American culture by century's end. Allen analyzes cultural artifacts ranging from clocks and scientific treatises to paintings and literary narratives to show how Americans made use of these diverse ideas about time to create competing visions of American nationhood.
O'Keeffe At Abiquiu
by Myron Wood
from Harry N. Abrams
Art nouveau and Alphonse Mucha (Large picture book)
De Tentoonstelling Van Fantin-Latour Tot Picasso Wordt Georganiseerd Door K. En O. En Leids Academisch Kunstcentrum - 14 October - 29 November 1950
Aubrey Beardsley (Large picture books;no.32)
Aubrey Beardsley : exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1966 : catalogue of the original drawings, letters, manuscripts,...
Henry Moore, O.M: A memorial address
ART NOUVEAU AND ALPHONSE MUCHA (VICTORIA ALBERT MUSEUM. LARGE PICTURE BOOKS,NO.18)
THE HERMAN MILLER COLLECTION: FURNITURE DESIGNED BY GEORGE NELSON AND CHARLES EAMES, WITH OCCASIONAL PIECES BY ISAMU NOGUCHI, PETER HVIDT AND O.M. NIELSEN
by THE HERMAN) (NELSON, GEORGE) (EAMES, CHARLES). Foreword and Preface to the Second Edition By Nelson, George (MILLER FURNITURE CO.
from The Herman Miller Furniture Co.
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