Kunstwissenschaften

The End of the American Avant Garde

Stuart D. Hobbs

<p>"By 1966, the composer Virgil Thomson would write, "Truth is, there is no avant-garde today." How did the avant garde dissolve, and why? In this thought-provoking work, Stuart...

Strong Arts, Strong Schools

the late Charles Fowler

Strong Arts, Strong Schools

the late Charles Fowler

Historic House Museums

Sherry Butcher-Younghans

Confessions of a Curator

Joan Murray

<p>In this witty and compelling defence of the art field itself, Joan Murray, one of the country’s most outspoken art historians, discusses the great figures of Canadian art and the rise o...

Century of Taste

George Dickie

Historik und Systematik

Heribert Schneider

Der Kunstkritiker und -theoretiker Friedrich Theodor Vischer war ein zu seiner Zeit vielgelesener und oft (manchmal heimlich) zitierter Autor. In diesem Jahrhundert ist er weitgehend in Vergessenh...

Künstlerentwurf und Firmenprodukt

Andrea Buddensieg

Die vorliegende Arbeit unternimmt es, die massenhafte Produktion von Gebrauchskeramik einer Firma zu untersuchen, die seit fast 200 Jahren als „Marktführer“ gilt. Seitdem die Forschung nicht ...

The Canadian Home

Marc Denhez

<p>Would you want to live in a factory-molded cube made of plastic, asbestos, and UFFI? With an "H-bomb shelter" and the nuclear furnace underneath? Or a house designed by God to har...

Light for a Cold Land

Peter Larisey

<p>Lawren Stewart Harris’ artistic career began in the first decade of our century. Well known for the nationalist-inspired landscapes that he painted between 1908 and 1932, Harris turned ...

A Future for Religion?

Few Acres of Snow

In 1759, Voltaire in Candide referred to Canada as "e;quelques arpents de neige."e; For several centuries, the image prevailed and was the one most frequently used by poets, writers, and i...

Art of the Spirit

Rich colours and arresting designs capture the mood of celebration and joy that characterizes this photographic record of contemporary religious works of art. Chosen for their excellence in design...

Visionary Experience In The Golden Age of Spanish Art

Victor I Stoichita

Catholic Religious Poets

Cousins Anthony D. Cousins

Free Play

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Thomas Eakins

Elizabeth Johns

The Consummate Canadian

Mary Willan Mason

<p>Samuel Edward Weir Q.C. (1898-1981), a man both loved and reviled with scorn, was born in London, Ontario. Descended from pioneer stock, with roots in both Ireland and Germany, Samuel Wei...

Modern Theories of Art 1

This is an analytical survey of the thought about painting and sculpture as it unfolded from the early eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. This was the period during which theories of the ...

Die geometrischen Pyxiden

Barbara Bohen