Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020 features artists Lauren Fensterstock, Timothy Horn, Debora Moore, and Rowland Ricketts. Nature provides a way for these invited artists to ask what it means to be human in a world increasingly chaotic and divorced from our physical landscape. Representing craft media from fiber to mosaic to glass and metals, these artists approach the long history of art's engagement with the natural world through unconventional and highly personal perspectives.Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020 is the ninth installment of the Renwick Invitational. Established in 2000, this biennial showcase highlights midcareer and emerging makers who are deserving of wider national recognition. The featured artists work in a wide variety of media, from Lauren Fensterstock, who creates detailed, large-scale installations using intensive modes of making drawn from the decorative arts, including paper quilling and mosaic, and from whom SAAM has commissioned a site-specific work--inspired in part by the illustrated renaissance German manuscript The Book of Miracles ---that will transform an entire gallery at the Renwick, to Timothy Horn, who creates exaggerated adornments that combine natural and constructed worlds, taking inspiration from objects as varied as baroque jewellery patterns and Victorian era detailed studies of lichen, coral, and seaweed, from bronze and glass, as well as unusual materials like crystalized rock sugar, to evoke the extravagant Amber Room in the Catherine the Great's palace of Tsarskoye Selo; and from Debora Moore, known for her exquisitely detailed glass renderings of orchids, and who is represented in this volume in her new series, Arboria (2018), in which Moore focuses less on realism and more on capturing an intensely personal experience of beauty and wonder, to Rowland Ricketts who creates immersive installations using handwoven and hand-dyed cloth, starting on his farm, where he cultivates the indigo plants he uses to colour his artwork, fully linking his material and process with the finished product. Participatory engagement from non-artists, forms a major part of Rickett's work, emphasizing the relationship between nature, culture, the passage of time, and everyday life.
Discover the best Italy has to offer from spectacular trekking routes through the Apennines to cities rich with centuries of art and ancient ruins. With places to stay for every budget, insider tips on the best Italian cuisine, a full-color arts and architecture section, and complete details on transportation. color. 114 maps.
Milan, known worldwide as the economic and fashion capital of Italy, is one of the most advanced cities in the world which, in its completely urbanized area of almost 181.76km², includes also wonderful shops and a great social life, besides, of course, art, a university culture, excellent food and traditions recognizable in everyday life and in daily habits; for example, the rediscovery of the small markets as a place to meet and have a chat, or going for a walk with the family in the streets of the centre. It is not at all easy to determine what is in the name “Milan”: first of all, it refers to a municipality with about 1,300,000 inhabitants, but also to an urban area with about 3,900,000 inhabitants also known as the “Greater Milan” and finally, to a metropolitan area of 7,400,000 inhabitants. Nevertheless, the city is identified by its symbols, and our intention is to introduce you to every aspect of the city of Milan through virtual photographs, texts and some curiosities. It is worth visiting Milan to learn the many realities that surround this city, from the entrepreneurial vocation to the connection with tradition: only by knowing the richness of the past can we confront the present. Enjoy your visit!
Questo libro ricco di fantastiche immagini a colori e in bianco e nero, è il primo di due volumi dedicati al fantastico mondo della cavalleria e al suo esercizio per antonomasia: il torneo o la giostra. Durante tutto il periodo medievale e per buona parte di quello rinascimentale, l’arte del torneare raggiunge il culmine della notorietà e del successo. I cavalieri vi aderiscono con entusiasmo: del resto i valori (e i premi) in gioco sono molto seducenti ed esercitano sui partecipanti un’attrazione magnetica ed irresistibile. È un’epopea ben narrata nei famosi romanzi cavallereschi, come quelli che hanno per protagonisti Ivanhoe, Lancillotto, Re Artù e tutti gli altri cavalieri della tavola rotonda.
Eugenio principe di Savoia-Carignano, conte di Soissons. Generale a soli 24 anni, feldmaresciallo a 27, Eugenio è stato il più grande comandante della storia dell’esercito di Casa d’Austria e dalle cancellerie europee, per l’abilità dimostrata anche in diplomazia, fu considerato ‘l’imperatore segreto’. Dopo il rifiuto da parte di Luigi XIV al suo ingresso nell’esercito, il principe fuggì in Austria e in quel paese iniziò la sua sfolgorante carriera, culminata con l’ascesa ai vertici della macchina militare asburgica, condotta nella duplice veste di combattente e instancabile riformatore. In questa serie di tre volumi viene analizzata la storia, la direzione dell’esercito e la sua organizzazione, compreso l’equipaggiamento e le uniformi della fanteria imperiale al tempo del grande capitano italiano.
L’idea di completare questo lavoro sulla fanteria imperiale, non poteva prescindere dalla compilazione delle storie reggimentali e le relative filiazioni avvenute nelle diverse unità, esaminate nell’arco degli anni nei quali agì il grande capitano italiano. Non potevano altresì mancare i rimandi uniformologici, solo in parte già noti e che durante la ricerca si fecero sempre più dettagliati, fino ad aprire un‟ampio spiraglio sulla conoscenza delle prime uniformi dell’esercito di Casa d’Austria. Sicuramente un volume utile agli appassionati di storia militare e di uniformologia.
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