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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Nature in art, still life, landscapes & seascapes > General

The Human Animal in Western Art and Science (Hardcover): Martin Kemp The Human Animal in Western Art and Science (Hardcover)
Martin Kemp
R1,318 Discovery Miles 13 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From the lazy, fiddling grasshopper to the sneaky Big Bad Wolf, children's stories and fables enchant us with their portrayals of animals who act like people. But the comparisons run both ways, as metaphors, stories, and images--as well as scientific theories--throughout history remind us that humans often act like animals, and that the line separating them is not as clear as we'd like to pretend.
Here Martin Kemp explores a stunning range of images and ideas to demonstrate just how deeply these underappreciated links between humans and other fauna are embedded in our culture. Tracing those interconnections among art, science, and literature, Kemp leads us on a dazzling tour of Western thought, from Aristotelian physiognomy and its influence on phrenology to the Great Chain of Being and Darwinian evolution. We learn about the racist anthropology underlying a familiar Degas sculpture, see paintings of a remarkably simian Judas, and watch Mowgli, the man-child from Kipling's "The Jungle Book," exhibit the behaviors of the beasts who raised him. Like a kaleidoscope, Kemp uses these stories to refract, reconfigure, and echo the essential truth that the way we think about animals inevitably inflects how we think about people, and vice versa.
Loaded with vivid illustrations and drawing on sources from Hesiod to La Fontaine, Leonardo to P. T. Barnum, "The Human Animal in Western Art and Science" is a fascinating, eye-opening reminder of our deep affinities with our fellow members of the animal kingdom.

We are animals coloring book for kids - Easy, Simple Picture Coloring Books for kids, Kids Coloring book, Animal books, Animal... We are animals coloring book for kids - Easy, Simple Picture Coloring Books for kids, Kids Coloring book, Animal books, Animal Coloring Book, Animal Birthday Party Activity, Kids Birthday Party, toddler coloring books ages 2-4 4-6 (Paperback)
Abdel Krim
R189 Discovery Miles 1 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Art/Life - The Art of Heinz Zobel (Paperback): Heinz Zobel Art/Life - The Art of Heinz Zobel (Paperback)
Heinz Zobel
R651 Discovery Miles 6 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sultan's Garden (Paperback): Stefen Bernath Sultan's Garden (Paperback)
Stefen Bernath
R298 R279 Discovery Miles 2 790 Save R19 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Adult Coloring Book - Stress Relieving Designs Animals, Mandalas, Flowers, Paisley Patterns And So Much More (Paperback): Adult... Adult Coloring Book - Stress Relieving Designs Animals, Mandalas, Flowers, Paisley Patterns And So Much More (Paperback)
Adult Coloring Books, Coloring Books For Adults Relaxation, Coloring Books for Adults
R222 Discovery Miles 2 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The coloring book of fruits and vegetables (Paperback): Doina Panisin The coloring book of fruits and vegetables (Paperback)
Doina Panisin
R241 Discovery Miles 2 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Quiet World - Whispers of the Heart through Poetry and Photography (Paperback): Sheri Quintana A Quiet World - Whispers of the Heart through Poetry and Photography (Paperback)
Sheri Quintana
R543 Discovery Miles 5 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Frameables: Great Outdoors - 21 Prints for a Picture-Perfect Home (Paperback): Pascaline Boucharinc Frameables: Great Outdoors - 21 Prints for a Picture-Perfect Home (Paperback)
Pascaline Boucharinc
R220 Discovery Miles 2 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Introducing the first collection of art books with detachable prints to decorate your walls. Everything you need to create your own private gallery at home!

Each book contains a curated selection of twenty-one high-quality reproductions that can be easily removed from the book, framed in a standard-size frame, and displayed in the home. Step-by-step tips for grouping the works to create a harmonious gallery add an interior designer’s touch to the ensemble. Graphic, colourful, or abstract; paintings, engravings, or drawings―each work of art is explained on the back of the print. Interesting details about the style of painting, the particular work of art, and biographical information about the artist are accompanied by a “frameable fact” that helps you understand the context of that particular work in the history of art. In addition, suggestions for where you can go to see additional examples of the artists’ works allow the reader to expand their experience and learning.

A collection of landscapes and representations of nature from the tropical paradise of Le Douanier Rousseau’s jungle to Monet’s water lilies. Artists include: Hokusai, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gustav Klimt, Rembrandt, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, and Edward Hopper.

Mandala Coloring Pages - VIP Volt - Mandala coloring pages for adults (Calming and Soothing Coloring Book) (Paperback): Vip Volt Mandala Coloring Pages - VIP Volt - Mandala coloring pages for adults (Calming and Soothing Coloring Book) (Paperback)
Vip Volt
R198 Discovery Miles 1 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
James Prosek - Art, Artifact, Artifice (Hardcover): James Prosek James Prosek - Art, Artifact, Artifice (Hardcover)
James Prosek; Contributions by Edith Devaney
R971 Discovery Miles 9 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Works by Prosek and others are juxtaposed with natural objects in an illuminating interrogation of the artificial boundaries we create between art and nature Award-winning artist, writer, and naturalist James Prosek (b. 1975) has gained a worldwide following for his deep connection with the natural world, which serves as the basis for his art and numerous popular books. In this cross-disciplinary catalogue, Prosek poses the question, What is art and what is artifact-and to what extent do these distinctions matter? Drawing on the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Prosek places man- and nature-made objects on equal footing aesthetically, suggesting that the distinction between them is not as vast as we may believe. In more than 150 full-color plates, objects such as a bird's nest, dinosaur head, and cuneiform tablet are juxtaposed with Asian handscrolls, an African headdress, modern masterpieces, and more. Artists featured include Albrecht Durer, Helen Frankenthaler, Vincent van Gogh, Barbara Hepworth, Pablo Picasso, and Jackson Pollack, as well as Prosek himself, whose works depict fish, birds, and endangered wildlife. Also included are an incisive essay by Edith Devaney and texts by Prosek that explore the magnificent productions of our wondrous interconnected world.

Dawoud Bey - Two American Projects (Hardcover): Corey Keller, Elisabeth Sherman Dawoud Bey - Two American Projects (Hardcover)
Corey Keller, Elisabeth Sherman; Contributions by Torkwase Dyson, Steven Nelson, Imani Perry, …
R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With a powerful juxtaposition of portraiture and landscape photography, this book explores Dawoud Bey's vivid evocations of race, history, time, and place Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) is an American photographer best known for his large-scale portraits of underrepresented subjects and for his commitment to fostering dialogue about contemporary social and political topics. Bey has also found inspiration in the past, and in two recent series, presented together here for the first time, he addresses African American history explicitly, with renderings both lyrical and immediate. In 2012 Bey created The Birmingham Project, a series of paired portraits memorializing the six children who were victims of the Ku Klux Klan's bombing of Birmingham, Alabama's 16th Street Baptist Church, a site of mass civil rights meetings, and the violent aftermath. Night Coming Tenderly, Black is a group of large-scale black-and-white landscapes made in 2017 in Ohio that reimagine sites where the Underground Railroad once operated. The book is introduced by an essay exploring the series' place within Bey's wider body of work, as well as their relationships to the past, the present, and each other. Additional essays investigate the works' evocations of race, history, time, and place, addressing the particularities of and resonances between two series of photographs that powerfully reimagine the past into the present. Published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Schedule: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (February 15-October 12, 2020) High Museum of Art, Atlanta (November 7, 2020-March 14, 2021) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (April 16-October 3, 2021)

Rescue Tales - Rescue Dogs and their Beautiful Adoption Stories (Paperback): Cat Hendriks Rescue Tales - Rescue Dogs and their Beautiful Adoption Stories (Paperback)
Cat Hendriks; Photographs by Cat Hendriks
R637 Discovery Miles 6 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Summer IS My Love - Volume V of V (Paperback): Gabriel Mahia Summer IS My Love - Volume V of V (Paperback)
Gabriel Mahia
R502 Discovery Miles 5 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From the North to the South Pole - Latitude (Hardcover): Christer Loefgren From the North to the South Pole - Latitude (Hardcover)
Christer Loefgren
R3,623 Discovery Miles 36 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book of photographs by Swedish photographer Christer Loefgren explores the diverse and multifaceted world in which we live, from north to south. In comparing photographs of various cultures, diversity is more noticeable: the colours, clothes, and food point to the identity of each place. The further north or south of the equator you travel, colours are paler, and the food is milder and less spicy. The more extreme nature is, the more difficult the lifestyle. These vibrant photographs ask us to broaden our vision and grasp the complexity and beauty of the world as a global whole. This deluxe edition consists of three hardcover books in a slipcase.

Florals - An Adult Coloring Book (Paperback): Juliarna Haddock Florals - An Adult Coloring Book (Paperback)
Juliarna Haddock
R204 Discovery Miles 2 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Photography of Sky Boivin - Tuft's Branch Wildlife Sanctuary 2 (Paperback): Sky Boivin The Photography of Sky Boivin - Tuft's Branch Wildlife Sanctuary 2 (Paperback)
Sky Boivin; Sky Boivin
R774 Discovery Miles 7 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Claude Monet Daily Planner 2023 - Water Lilies Painting Artistic French Impressionism Art Flower Organizer (Paperback): Shy... Claude Monet Daily Planner 2023 - Water Lilies Painting Artistic French Impressionism Art Flower Organizer (Paperback)
Shy Panda Press
R332 Discovery Miles 3 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Glory of Toads - Coloring Book (Paperback): Lynn Carey The Glory of Toads - Coloring Book (Paperback)
Lynn Carey
R235 Discovery Miles 2 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Adult Coloring Book - Stress Relieving Designs Animals, Mandalas, Flowers, Paisley Patterns And So Much More (Paperback): Adult... Adult Coloring Book - Stress Relieving Designs Animals, Mandalas, Flowers, Paisley Patterns And So Much More (Paperback)
Adult Coloring Books, Coloring Books For Adults Relaxation, Coloring Books for Adults
R196 Discovery Miles 1 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Still-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy - Baschenis, Bettera and the Painting of Cultural Identity (Hardcover, 0): Ornat... Still-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy - Baschenis, Bettera and the Painting of Cultural Identity (Hardcover, 0)
Ornat Lev-Er
R5,007 Discovery Miles 50 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Still-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy centers on the still-life compositions created by Evaristo Baschenis and Bartolomeo Bettera, two 17th-century painters living and working in the Italian city of Bergamo. This highly original study explores how these paintings form a dynamic network in which artworks, musical instruments, books, and scientific apparatuses constitute links to a dazzling range of figures and sources of knowledge. Putting into circulation a wealth of cultural information and ideas and mapping a complex web of social and intellectual relations, these works paint a portrait of both their creators and their patrons, while enacting a lively debate among humanist thinkers, aristocrats, politicians, and artists. The unique contribution of this groundbreaking study is that it identifies for the first time these intellectually rich concepts that arise from these fascinating still-life paintings, a genre considered as "low". Engaging with literary blockbusters and banned books, theatrical artifice and music, and staging a war among the arts, Baschenis and Bettera capture the latest social intrigues, political rivalries, intellectual challenges, and scientific innovations of their time. In doing so, they structure an unstable economy of social, aesthetic, and political values that questions the notion of absolute truth, while probing the distinctions between life and artifice, meaningless marks and meaningful signs.

One-A-Week Animal Mandalas - Coloring Book with Inspirational Quotes (Paperback): Bibi LeBlanc, Beate Kumar One-A-Week Animal Mandalas - Coloring Book with Inspirational Quotes (Paperback)
Bibi LeBlanc, Beate Kumar
R226 Discovery Miles 2 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Adult Coloring Book - Stress Relieving Animal and Unicorn Designs: Bundle of over 60 Unique Images (Stress Relieving Designs)... Adult Coloring Book - Stress Relieving Animal and Unicorn Designs: Bundle of over 60 Unique Images (Stress Relieving Designs) (Paperback)
Coloring Books, Coloring Books for Adults, Coloring Books For Adults Relaxation
R222 Discovery Miles 2 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Adult Coloring Book - Stress Relieving Designs Animals, Mandalas, Flowers, Paisley Patterns And So Much More: Stress Relieving... Adult Coloring Book - Stress Relieving Designs Animals, Mandalas, Flowers, Paisley Patterns And So Much More: Stress Relieving Designs Animals, Mandalas, Flowers, Paisley Patterns And So Much More: Coloring Book For Adults: Coloring Book For Adults (Paperback)
Adult Coloring Books, Coloring Books for Adults, Adult Colouring Books
R169 Discovery Miles 1 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cute Kittens - Grayscale Coloring Book (Paperback): Mama Sweetea Cute Kittens - Grayscale Coloring Book (Paperback)
Mama Sweetea
R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Praying Athlete Photography Quote Book Vol. 3 (Paperback): Robert B Walker The Praying Athlete Photography Quote Book Vol. 3 (Paperback)
Robert B Walker
R290 Discovery Miles 2 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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