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Masterpieces of Western Art

A History of Art in 900 Individual Studies from the Gothic to the Present Day

By: Robert Suckale

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Masterpieces of Western Art

A History of Art in 900 Individual Studies from the Gothic to the Present Day

By: Robert Suckale

This volume traces the history of painting from medieval times to modern times with a focus on each era and its major artists. This volume traces the history of painting from medieval times to modern times with a focus on each era and its major artists.

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Taschen

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3822818259

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9783822818251

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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196

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Tamesis Books

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1855661438

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9781855661431

The Beribboned Bomb

The Image of Woman in Male Surrealist Art

By: Robert James Belton

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The Beribboned Bomb

The Image of Woman in Male Surrealist Art

By: Robert James Belton

Surrealism was ostensibly directed at the emancipation of the human spirit, but it represented only male aspirations and fantasies until a number of women artists began to redefine its agenda in the later 1930s. This book addresses the former, using a 'thick description' of the historically specific circumstances which required the male Surrealists to manufacture a sexual reputation of narcissism and misogyny. These circumstances were determined by 'hegemonic masculinity', an ideological construct which had little to do with individual masculinities. In male Surrealism, the 'beribboned bomb' signified something both attractive and volatile, a specific instance of the Surrealist principle of convulsive beauty. In hegemonic masculinity, similar devices served as metaphors of the sexuality all men were supposed to possess. The intersection of these two axes produced an imagery of unrepentant violence.

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University of Calgary Press

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1895176549

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9781895176544

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Masterpieces of Western Art

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