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  • Mindprints

    Thoreau's Material Worlds

    de Ivan Gaskell ...
    A rediscovery of Thoreau's interactions with everyday objects and how they shaped his thought.Though we may associate Henry David Thoreau with ascetic renunciation, he accumulated a variety of tools, art, and natural specimens throughout his life as a homebuilder, surveyor, and collector. In some of these objects, particularly Indigenous artifacts, Thoreau perceived the presence of their original ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Vermeer’s Wager

    Speculations on Art History, Theory and Art Museums

    de Ivan Gaskell ...
    Series series Essays in Art and Culture
    Vermeer’s Wager stands at the intersection of art history and criticism, philosophy and museology. Using a familiar and celebrated painting by Johannes Vermeer as a case study, Ivan Gaskell explores what it might mean to know and use a work of art. He argues that art history as generally practised, while successfully asserting certain claims to knowledge, fails to take into account aspects of the ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Paintings and the Past

    Philosophy, History, Art

    de Ivan Gaskell ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Aesthetics
    This book is an exploration of how art—specifically paintings in the European manner—can be mobilized to make knowledge claims about the past. No type of human-made tangible thing makes more complex and bewildering demands in this respect than paintings. Ivan Gaskell argues that the search for pictorial meaning in paintings yields limited results and should be replaced by attempts to define the ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Tangible Things

    Making History through Objects

    de Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Ivan Gaskell, Sara Schechner, Samantha van Gerbig, Sarah Anne Carter ...
    In a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things are once again making history. Tangible Things invites readers to look closely at the things around them, ordinary things like the food on their plate and extraordinary things like the transit of planets across the sky. It argues that almost any material thing, when examined closely, can be a link between present and past. The authors of this ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Marginalized & The Socially Broken – 4 Classic Tragedy Fiction Novels

    Enriched edition. Ruth, Eugenie Grandet, Marianela, The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories

    de Elizabeth Gaskell, Honoré de Balzac, Benito Pérez Galdós, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Chloe Brennan ...
    In 'The Marginalized & The Socially Broken – 4 Classic Tragedy Fiction Novels,' readers are invited into a compelling exploration of human frailty and societal critique through four masterful narratives. This anthology distills the essence of tragedy fiction, with each novel offering a unique lens on the theme of marginalization. Within these pages, the varied literary styles—from Gaskell's ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture

    Edición de Ivan Gaskell, Sarah Anne Carter ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Most historians rely principally on written sources. Yet there are other traces of the past available to historians: the material things that people have chosen, made, and used. This book examines how material culture can enhance historians' understanding of the past, both worldwide and across time. The successful use of material culture in history depends on treating material things of many kinds ... Leer más

    $154.99 USD

  • Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 1

    de H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Katherine Mansfield, Jack London, Guy de Maupassant, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Susan Glaspell, Kate Chopin, Laura E. Richards, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Mark Twain, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elizabeth Gaskell, Herman Melville, James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, Ivan Turgenev, Joseph Conrad, Aleksander Pushkin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert E. Howard, G. K. Chesterton, Edgar Wallace, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, Talbot Mundy, Abraham Merritt, Zane Grey, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells, Washington Irving, August Nemo ...
    Series Libro 1 - Best Short Stories Omnibus
    This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - H.P. Lovecraft, - Edgar Allan Poe, - Arthur Conan Doyle, - Katherine Mansfield, - Jack London, - Guy de Maupassant, - Virginia Woolf, F. - Scott Fitzgerald ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Audiolibro

    Top 10 Short Stories, The - The 1850's

    The top ten Short Stories written from 1850 - 1859

    de Herman Melville, Jules Verne, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ivan Turgenev, James Fenimore Cooper, Louisa May Alcott, Wilkie Collins ...
    Narrado por Richard Mitchley, Eric Meyers, Ghizela Rowe ...

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    10 hora 46 minutos

    Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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    Toward a New Aesthetics

    de David Shapiro ...
    In this acclaimed art anthology, a prestigious group of artists, critics, and literati offer their incisive reflections on the questions of beauty, past, present, and future, and how it has become a domain of multiple perspectives.Here is Meyer Schapiro’s skeptical argument on perfection . . . contributions from artists as profound as Louise Bourgeois and Agnes Martin . . . and reflections of ... Leer más

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  • Partisan Canons

    de Robert Jensen, James Elkins, James Cutting, Paul Duro ...
    Whether it is being studied or critiqued, the art canon is usually understood as an authoritative list of important works and artists. This collection breaks with the idea of a singular, transcendent canon. Through provocative case studies, it demonstrates that the content of any canon is both historically and culturally specific and dependent on who is responsible for the canon’s production and ... Leer más

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  • The Cultures of Collecting

    Edición de Roger Cardinal, John Elsner ...
    Series series Critical Views
    with essays by Jean Baudrillard, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Nicholas Thomas, Mieke Bal, John Forrester, John Windsor, Naomi Schor, Susan Stewart, Anthony Alan Shelton, Jaś Elsner, Roger Cardinal and an interview with Robert Opie.This book traces the psychology, history and theory of the compulsion to collect, focusing not just on the normative collections of the Western canon, but also on ... Leer más

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  • After Modern Art

    1945-2017

    de David Hopkins ...
    Series series Oxford History of Art
    Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2015, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the relationship between American and European art, and challenges previously held views about the origins of some of the most innovative ideas in art of ... Leer más

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