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On Alberti and the Art of Building

By: Robert Tavernor

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On Alberti and the Art of Building

By: Robert Tavernor

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72) - writer, painter and sculptor, mathematician and, most famously, architectural theorist and architect - came closer than anyone to the Renaissance ideal of the 'complete man'. Recognised by his contemporaries as an extraordinary person, he helped to shape, through his writings and his practical example in the arts, the way in which the natural and artificial world was perceived and represented during the Renaissance.

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Yale University Press

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0300076150

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9780300076158

From Romanticism to Surrealism

Seven Spanish Poets

By: Robert Havard

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From Romanticism to Surrealism

Seven Spanish Poets

By: Robert Havard

The book offers an in-depth, critical appreciation of seven major Spanish poets. Emphasis is on the modern period, with five of the poets being twentieth-century poets. It is argued that the roots of modern poetry are to be found in Romanticism's anguished search for meaning. The seven Spanish poets include Becquer, Rosalia de Castro, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, Garcia Lorca and Rafael Alberti.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0389208108

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9780389208105

The Spanish Eye

Painters and Poets of Spain

By: Robert Havard

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The Spanish Eye

Painters and Poets of Spain

By: Robert Havard

The guiding principle of this title is that the 'sister arts' of painting and poetry are mutually illuminating, their common currency being the visual image. Five masters - El Greco, Velazquez, Goya, Picasso and Dali - are discussed, with a view to distinguishing what is peculiarly Spanish in their way of looking at reality.

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Tamesis Books

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1855661438

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9781855661431

Acarology

Proceedings of the 10th International Congress

By: Robert Bruce Halliday,RB Halliday

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Acarology

Proceedings of the 10th International Congress

By: Robert Bruce Halliday,RB Halliday

Acarology: Proceedings of the 10th International Congress is a timely overview of the current international research mites and ticks. The outcome of a conference of leading acarologists, it presents major reviews of all current areas of research including: *advances in acarine biodiversity and systematics. *human and livestock diseases transmitted by ticks and other parasitic mites. *interactions between mites and their food plants. *mites as biological control agents. *use of genetic markers in mite population studies. *mites as bioindicators. *ecology and biology of soil mites. *mite evolutionary ecology and reproduction. *advances in acarine diversity and systematics. The 90 papers in the book represent some of the best research from leading international researchers from over 50 countries, and helps to establish priorities for future research. All papers have been peer reviewed and edited. Acarology is a comprehensive and important addition to the world literature on mites, and is an essential addition to all acarological and entomological reference collections.

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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0643066586

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9780643066588

Rome

A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History

By: Robert Hughes

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Rome

A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History

By: Robert Hughes

From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome—as a city, as an empire, and as an origin of Western art and civilization. Starting on a personal note, Hughes takes us to the Rome he first encountered as a hungry twenty-one-year-old fresh from Australia in 1959. From there, he goes back more than two thousand years to the city’s foundation, one mired in mythologies and superstitions that would inform Rome’s development for centuries. He explores in rich detail the formation of empire, the rise of early Christianity, the Crusades, the Renaissance, and takes us up to the present, through the rise and fall of Mussolini’s fascism. Equal parts idolizing, blasphemous, outraged, and awestruck, Rome is a portrait of the Eternal City as only Robert Hughes could paint it.

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Vintage

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0375711686

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9780375711688

Contract on the President

By: Robert T. Endicott

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Contract on the President

By: Robert T. Endicott

In the nation's brief history, three presidents have faced impeachment. Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and William Jefferson Clinton. Now there is a fourth. President John Simeon Andrews. He is in deep trouble with a hostile Congress. He used his high office for personal gain, and there is no way out. The House is certain to impeach President Andrews and the Senate is just as certain to convict. He will be the first president kicked out of office. Plagued by deep-seated paranoia, Andrews steadily slips toward insanity. He refuses to resign. He blames reporter Sam Matthews for pushing him to the edge of a political abyss. He plots the murder of Matthews and orders his own assassination to avoid leaving a muddy footprint in history. But he doesn't stop there.

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iUniverse

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059513288X

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9780595132881

Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro

Artist-brothers in Renaissance Rome

By: Julian Brooks,Peter M. Lukehart,Christina Strunck,Robert Williams

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Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro

Artist-brothers in Renaissance Rome

By: Julian Brooks,Peter M. Lukehart,Christina Strunck,Robert Williams

One of the most important series of drawings in late-sixteenth-century Italian art--the twenty large sheets by Federico Zuccaro (ca. 1541-1609) showing the early life of his older brother, Taddeo (1529-1566)--was acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1999. Never fully published, the series shows Taddeo's trials and tribulations as a young artist trying to achieve success in Renaissance Rome, and his eventual triumph. The drawings contain charming details of the life of a struggling artist and reveal much about the younger brother, Federico, a successful artist in his own right. This volume--published to coincide with an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum to be held from October 1, 2007, to January 6, 2008--presents Federico Zuccaro's twenty drawings and accompanying poems in their historical and artistic context and will be of interest to art historians and general readers alike. Of particular importance is its examination of the role of the copying of masterworks in the training of young Renaissance artists.

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Getty Publications

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0892369027

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9780892369027

"Michael Baxandall, Vision and the Work of Words "

By: Robert Williams

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"Michael Baxandall, Vision and the Work of Words "

By: Robert Williams

The most important art historian of his generation? is how some scholars have described the late Michael Baxandall (1933-2007), Professor of the Classical Tradition at the Warburg Institute, University of London, and of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Baxandall?s work had a transformative effect on the study of European Renaissance and eighteenth-century art, and contributed to a complex transition in the aims and methods of art history in general during the 1970s, ?80s and ?90s. While influential, he was also an especially subtle and independent thinker - occasionally a controversial one - and many of the implications of his work have yet to be fully understood and assimilated. This collection of 10 essays endeavors to assess the nature of Baxandall?s achievement, and in particular to address the issue of the challenges it offers to the practice of art history today. This volume provides the most comprehensive assessment of Baxandall?s work to date, while drawing upon the archive of Baxandall papers recently deposited at the Cambridge University Library and the Warburg Institute.

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Routledge

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1351558374

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9781351558372

Mediterranean Cities

Historical Perspectives

By: Robert L. Hohlfelder,Irad Malkin

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Mediterranean Cities

Historical Perspectives

By: Robert L. Hohlfelder,Irad Malkin

First published in 1988. This is a collection of works where the Mediterranean provides the context for all the cities which appear in this volume: all are (or have been) port cities, and as such their harbours played a significant role in shaping their histories. In essence, the question of ‘interaction between man and sea’ is one of the influence of the maritime position on the human communities constituting the ‘Mediterranean cities’: the connections between them, and the link of each city with its hinterland, as well as the influence of its position on the city’s internal development and character.

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Routledge

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1317845293

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9781317845294

Smoot's Ear

The Measure of Humanity

By: Robert Tavernor

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Smoot's Ear

The Measure of Humanity

By: Robert Tavernor

Measures are the subject of this unusual book, in which Robert Tavernor offers a fascinating account of the various measuring systems human beings have devised over two millennia. He discusses measures in our own time - when space travel presents to humankind a direct encounter with the unfathomable measure of the universe.

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Yale University Press

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0300124929

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9780300124927

Adorno on Music

By: Robert W. Witkin

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Adorno on Music

By: Robert W. Witkin

Adorno is one of the leading cultural thinkers of the twentieth century. This is the first detailed account of Adorno's texts on music from a sociological perspective. In clear, non-technical language, Robert Witkin guides the reader through the complexities of Adorno's argument about the link between music and morality and between musical works and social structure. It was largely through these works Adorno established the right of the arts to be acknowledged as a moral and critical force in the development of a modern society. By recovering them for non-musicologists, Witkin adds immeasurably to our appreciation of this giant of twentieth-century thought.

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Routledge

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1136215379

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9781136215377

Lighting the Shakespearean Stage, 1567 - 1642

By: Robert B. Graves

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Lighting the Shakespearean Stage, 1567 - 1642

By: Robert B. Graves

In Lighting the Shakespearean Stage, 1567–1642,R. B. Graves examines the lighting of early modern English drama from both historical and aesthetic perspectives. He traces the contrasting traditions of sunlit amphitheaters and candlelit hall playhouses, describes the different lighting techniques, and estimates the effect of these techniques both indoors and outdoors. Graves discusses the importance of stage lighting in determining the dramatic effect, even in cases where the manipulation of light was not under the direct control of the theater artists. He devotes a chapter to the early modern lighting equipment available to English Renaissance actors and surveys theatrical lighting before the construction of permanent playhouses in London. Elizabethan stage lighting, he argues, drew on both classical and medieval precedents.

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SIU Press

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0809386690

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9780809386697

Giants of Delft

Johannes Vermeer and the Natural Philosophers : the Parallel Search for Knowledge During the Age of Discovery

By: Robert D. Huerta

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Giants of Delft

Johannes Vermeer and the Natural Philosophers : the Parallel Search for Knowledge During the Age of Discovery

By: Robert D. Huerta

In a widely researched and deeply considered book, Huerta argues that Vermeer's use of the camera obscura and other instrumental adjuncts parallels van Leeuwenhoek's pursuit of the "optical way," and embodies a profound philosophical connection between these investigators. Analyzing Vermeer's work, Huerta shows that the artist's choices were the result of his personal response to contemporary scientific discoveries, and the work of men such as van Leeuwenhoek, Christiaan Huygens, and Galileo Galilei. Furthermore, Huerta compares Vermeer's program of informed observation to the methods used by van Leeuwenhoek and other scientists to accumulate and analyze instrument-mediated knowledge. This approach enabled Vermeer to confront the same issues as natural philosophers regarding the interpretation of unfamiliar images presented by instrumental systems."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838755380

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9780838755389

Technology as Symptom and Dream

By: Robert Romanyshyn

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Technology as Symptom and Dream

By: Robert Romanyshyn

Robert Romanyshyn's latest book shows how the development of linear perspective vision has altered our relationship with the world and led to our increasing alienation.

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Routledge

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1134985509

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9781134985500

African Traditional Religion in South Africa

An Annotated Bibliography

By: David Chidester,Chirevo Kwenda,Robert Petty,Judy Tobler,Darrel Wratten

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African Traditional Religion in South Africa

An Annotated Bibliography

By: David Chidester,Chirevo Kwenda,Robert Petty,Judy Tobler,Darrel Wratten

In a changing South Africa, recovering the meaning and power of African tradition is a matter of crucial importance. This work participates in that recovery by providing a comprehensive guide to research on the indigenous religious heritage of this dynamic country. Detailed reviews of over 600 books, articles, and theses are offered along with introductory essays and detailed annotations that define the field of study. This work plus two forthcoming volumes, Christianity in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography and Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography will become the standard reference work on South African religions. Scholars and students in Religious Studies, Social Anthropology, History, and African Studies will find this set particularly useful. This work organizes and annotates all the relevant literature on Khoisan, Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho-Tswana, Swazi, Tsonga, and Venda traditions. The annotations are concise yet detailed essays written in an engaging and accessible style and supported by an exhaustive index, which comprise a full and complex profile of African traditional religion in South Africa.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313032254

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9780313032257

Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

By: Alan Robert Woolley

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Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

By: Alan Robert Woolley

This text describes and provides ready access to the literature for all known occurrences of alkaline igneous rocks and carbonatites of Africa. Over 1000 occurrences are described from 40 countries. The descriptions include geographical co-ordinates and information of structure, general geology, rock types, petrography, mineralogy, ages, economic aspects and principal references. There are 348 geological and distribution maps and a locality index.

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Geological Society of London

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1862390835

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9781862390836

The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke

By: Robert Hooke

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The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke

By: Robert Hooke

Published in 1971: This book represents the Posthumous works of the author, as well as lectures on Philosophy, Astronomy, and Science.

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Routledge

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0429595247

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9780429595240

Robert Motherwell: the Complete Prints 1940-1991

Catalogue Raisonne

By: Siri Engberg,Joan Banach,Robert Motherwell

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Robert Motherwell: the Complete Prints 1940-1991

Catalogue Raisonne

By: Siri Engberg,Joan Banach,Robert Motherwell

A study of the prints of Robert Motherwell, covering the years 1943 to 1991. This fourth edition is based on research and scholarship. In addition to cataloguing more than 500 prints in virtually every medium, it includes an essay on Motherwell's print-making, an illustrated chronology, concordance, bibliography and exhibition history. 500 colour & 100 b/w illustrations

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450

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Hudson Hills

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1555951635

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9781555951634

Now and Then

The Poet's Choice Columns, 1997-2000

By: Robert Hass

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Now and Then

The Poet's Choice Columns, 1997-2000

By: Robert Hass

During his years as Poet Laureate, Robert Hass revived a popular 19th–century tradition: including poetry in our daily newspapers. "Poet's Choice" went on to appear as a nationally syndicated column across the country from 1997 to 2000. The column, which featured poems relevant to current headlines, serves as a symbol of the continuing importance of poetry in our daily lives. This collection contains well–known poets such as Wallace Stevens, Rita Dove, John Ashbery, and Robert Frost, as well as emerging and translated poets such as Jaime Sabines and Czeslaw Milosz. Also included are Hass's essays that accompanied the poems. Encapsulating a world before 9/11, this collection serves as both remembrance and reminder of a period in our history, and as a celebration of the poets whose works transcend time.

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Catapult

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1582434360

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9781582434360

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