Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes. …
Techniques of the Great Masters of Art
The disciplines of archaeology and art history came into being in colonial India, but were to be transformed over the …
В настоящее время понятно, что история искусства связана множеством нитей с самыми различными областями знаний, часто весьма далёкими от искусства. …
In this provocative book, Patricia Emison invites the reader to consider and reconsider how past thinkers—from Pliny and Alberti to …
"Most people outside of the art world view art as something that is foreign to their experiences and everyday lives. …
A collection of highly readable essays (1977-2023) that critically examine the ideologies and historical circumstances associated with American landscape painting, …
After the End of Art presents Danto's first full-scale reformulation of his original insight, showing how, with the eclipse of …
From prehistory to the present, the Indigenous peoples of the Andes have used a visual symbol system—that is, art—to express …
Early American Women Critics demonstrates that performances of various kinds - religious, political and cultural - enabled women to enter …
This is the first full-length study of five U.S. banking panics of the Great Depression. Professor Wicker reconstructs a close …
This unique collection looks at analytic philosophy in its historical context. Called into question are its self-image, its relationship with …
Spanning the entire history of the park, from its founding more than 50 years ago to the present, this fascinating …
'Drawing Physics' is a collection of 51 essays each one organized around a simple, informative, line drawing that conveys a …
First published in English in 1953, this important book from eminent philosopher Karl Jaspers deals with the philsophy of the …
Art That Changed the World tells the story of every major art style, movement by movement, giving art lovers a …
This book, aimed at general readers, covers the entirety of computing history from antiquity to the present, placing the story …
This agricultural history explores the transformation of the Santa Clara Valley over the past one hundred years from America's largest …
In the literature on English lexicography there have been few attempts at a systematic study of the history of popular …
This book is a historical account of how natural philosophers and scientists have endeavoured to understand the universe at large, …
This collection of fifteen new essays marks the centenary of the 1910 to 1913 publication of the monumental Principia Mathematica …
Winner of the 1983 National Book Award!"…a perfectly marvelous book about the Queen of Sciences, from which one will get …
Cosmology is an unusual science with an unusual history. This book examines the formative years of modern cosmology from the …
Presents a history of scientific ideas, written not by historians of science, but by practicing scientists.
Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is widely taken to be the starting point of the modern period of mathematics …
An absorbing narrative of the development of quantum physics and of the human endeavors of the scientists involved.
In The Mystery of Personality: A History of Psychodynamic Theories, acclaimed professor and historian Eugene Taylor synthesizes the field’s first …
This book provides a framework for thinking about foundational philosophical questions surrounding the use of deep artificial neural networks ("deep …
This original look at history profiles 30 children from different eras, inviting children of today to discover the lives of …
"At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate …
The US Naval Air Test Center at Pax River in Maryland is the key testing facility for all new fighter …
This text is intended for History of the English Language courses that are generally taken by linguistics and English majors …
