Princeton University Press, 1992. — 332 p. — (Bollingen Series 35.38). How ornamentation enables a direct and immediate encounter between viewers and art objects Based on universal motifs, ornamentation occurs in many artistic traditions, though it reaches its most expressive, tangible, and unique form in the art of the Islamic world. The Mediation of Ornament shares a veteran...
Skira, 2005. — 289 p. Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini, detto Fra' Carnevale, fu figura di grande rilevanza tra coloro che furono chiamati a realizzare i lavori del nucleo più antico del palazzo, corrispondente al cosiddetto Appartamento della Jole. Il volume, che accompagna la mostra urbinate (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, 20 luglio - 14 novembre 2005), è incentrato sulla...
Prestel, 2019. — 466 p. Catalog of the great Dürer exhibition in the Albertina, Vienna, 2019 Albrecht Dürer: A biography Dürer, the draftsman From Albrecht Dürer’s legacy Catalogue Dürer’s nude self-portrait The early Dürer Dürer, the observer The ideal of classical antiquity The second journey to Venice Dürer, the painter The master of the line Dürer and Maximilian Travels in...
RMN, 2009. — 224 p. Adoptant un point de vue unique ainsi qu'une approche esthétique et iconographique inédite, Oleg Grabar nous offre un panorama complet de l'art de la peinture de miniatures en terres d'Islam, du Xe au XVIIe siècle. Il nous en dévoile toute la richesse: des truculentes peintures du Levant aux chefs-d'oeuvre de la cour perse de Shah Tahmasp, sans oublier les...
Skira, 1977. — 201 p. «Peinture Arabe»: voici un titre qui ne peut manquer d'éveiller la curiosité, et le doute aussi. Cette peinture inconnue, existe-t-elle bien? Qu'attendre d'elle? Malgré une présence arabe à sa naissance, l'immense empire suscité par l'apparition d'une religion nouvelle, l'Islam, dans la péninsule arabique proprement dite, devra sa civi lisation non...
Royal Academy of Arts/Prestel, 1989. — 476 p. This is the third volume to appear in conjunction with the series of exhibitions of twentieth-century art organized by the Royal Academy of Arts, London. This book is the first in Englsih to discuss in detail the painting and sculpture of the Fascist period, the `Novecento` movement and the relationship between the regime and Italian.
DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2010. — 257 p. This dazzling collection of one hundred works by the masters of nineteenth-century French painting tells the story of the beloved Impressionist movement, focusing on the tumultuous period of the 1860s and 1870s and the emergence of the New Painting out of the Paris Salon. Lavish reproductions of masterpieces of French painting from the...
DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2010. — 256 p. In this book beloved examples of Post-Impressionism from one of the world's premier art museums provide a splendid overview of innovations ushered in by the popular movement. Representing a pivotal moment in the history of European art, the Post-Impressionists created some of the most recognizable and stylistically inventive paintings of...
Prestel, 2010. — 568 p. This book on the Pritzker Prizewinning architect Tadao Ando explores his recent work, which embodies principles of sustainability, site sensitivity, and craftsmanship. Entirely self-educated, Tadao Ando is considered Japan's leading architect and his sublime buildings are located all over the world. This book profiles ninety of Ando s projects across the...
Prestel, 2024. — 334 p. 250 years after the painter’s birth, this luxurious exhibition catalog offers glimpses into the mystery of Friedrich’s largely posthumous popularity as well as the latest research into his training and techniques. Largely ignored during his lifetime, Caspar David Friedrich was a meticulous painter of emotionally evocative landscapes, often featuring...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 198 S. Herausgegeben, kommentiert und eingeleitet von Eduard Kögel Der deutsche Architekt und Chinaforscher Ernst Boerschmann besuchte 1933 für drei Monate die Städte Hongkong, Macau und Kanton (heute Guangzhou). Gerade Kanton wandelte sich in dieser Zeit von einer traditionellen zu einer funktional gegliederten Großstadt. Boerschmanns bislang unpublizierte...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 200 S. Herausgegeben, kommentiert und eingeleitet von Eduard Kögel Der deutsche Architekt und Chinaforscher Ernst Boerschmann besuchte 1933 für drei Monate die Städte Hongkong, Macau und Kanton (heute Guangzhou). Gerade Kanton wandelte sich in dieser Zeit von einer traditionellen zu einer funktional gegliederten Großstadt. Boerschmanns bislang unpublizierte...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 592 p. Ernst Boerschmann was the most influential foreign architectural researcher in China in the first half of the twentieth century. This book concerns his three-year research expedition through the Chinese Empire (1906–1909). He was the first Westerner to systematically document China’s religious architecture, returning from his travels with thousands of...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 592 p. Ernst Boerschmann was the most influential foreign architectural researcher in China in the first half of the twentieth century. This book concerns his three-year research expedition through the Chinese Empire (1906–1909). He was the first Westerner to systematically document China’s religious architecture, returning from his travels with thousands of...
Brill, 2015. — 373 p. Ancient Chinese halls are celebrated for their majestic rooflines. Their finish and visual mass have evolved to meet the tastes of patrons and to signal the role of their occupants, whilst of course ensuring structural robustness. However, the visual impact of these structures comes chiefly from their ceramic ornament. Indeed, travellers through the...
LST Publishing House, 2012. — 257 p. Urban Landscapes selects 28 outstanding landscape projects.Through comprehensive presentation of pictures, detailed analysis of technical drawings and text descriptions, this book fully reveals the panorama of contemporary landscapes in China. With a unique perspective and rich contents, the book will bring inspiration for landscape designers.
University of Hawaii Press, 2013. — 209 p. — (Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture). Although modernization in Korea started more than a century later than in the West, it has worked as a prominent ideology throughout the past century—in particular it has brought radical changes in Korean architecture and cities. Traditional structures and ways of life...
University of Hawaii Press, 2021. — 292 p. — (Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture). “Utopia” is a word not often associated with the city of Bangkok, which is better known for its disorderly sprawl, overburdened roads, and stifling levels of pollution. Yet as early as 1782, when the city was officially founded on the banks of the Chao Phraya river as the...
University of Hawaii Press, 2005. — 476 p. — (Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture). Drawing on the work of leading scholars in the fields of anthropology, architecture, art, art history, geography, and history, House Home Family explores and analyzes the functional, social, and symbolic attributes of Chinese dwellings. It goes beyond generalization to...
University of Hawaii Press, 2013. — 177 p. — (Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture). A 108-meter high Eiffel Tower rises above Champs Elysées Square in Hangzhou. A Chengdu residential complex for 200,000 recreates Dorchester, England. An ersatz Queen’s Guard patrols Shanghai’s Thames Town, where pubs and statues of Winston Churchill abound. Gleaming...
University of Hawaii Press, 2014. — 496 p. — (Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture). Between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the year 600, more than thirty dynasties, kingdoms, and states rose and fell on the eastern side of the Asian continent. The founders and rulers of those polities represented the spectrum of peoples in North, East, and...
University of Hawaii Press, 1997. — 516 p. Liao Architecture is a study of Buddhist halls, tombs, and pagodas built primarily through the patronage of Northeast Asian lords of Qidan nationality from the mid-tenth through the first decades of the twelfth century. During those years, North China was part of a larger Qidan empire known as the Liao dynasty. The Qidan, in the ninth...
Prestel, 2006. — 144 p. Focusing on buildings designed by Bauhaus members from 1919 to 1933, this book features some 65 famous and lesser-known building projects in Germany, Vienna, Barcelona, Prague and Budapest by architects including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Arranged chronologically, "Bauhaus" offers informative commentary and site plans...
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979. — 371 p. In spite of the wealth it has to offer, the art of the Pacific Islands remains perhaps the least known of the world’s art to the modern audience. Throughout this mass of islands there existed hundreds of cultures, many of them sustained by only a few hundred people. The cultures developed into richly disparate modes with...
Harry N. Abrams, 2001. — 191 p. This volume traces the evolution of eclectic European style from their roots in the Renaissance through the early 20th century. The 265 beautiful color photographs by Barbara and RenT Stoeltie and the text by Sigrid Sangl (furniture and woodwork department, Bavarian National Museum) illustrate and describe rooms in private houses throughout...
Prestel, 2021. — 331 p. This book sheds light on the fascinating ways Rembrandt and other Golden Age painters were influenced by Eastern culture. In the 17th century, Amsterdam was a vibrant hub of the burgeoning European trade with Asia, Africa, and the Levant, importing copious amounts of foreign items that powerfully stimulated the imagination of numerous Dutch artists. This...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2025. — 313 p. This book provides a comprehensive examination of the architectural evolution of China from antiquity to the early modern, modern, and contemporary ages. A comprehensive examination of the evolution of Chinese architecture is presented in nine chapters, offering a penetrating survey of the subject matter for both learners and professionals....
Ouest-France, 2010. — 125 p. La France est le berceau de l'architecture romane. La naissance de celle-ci, à la charnière des deux premiers millénaires, est contemporaine de celle du royaume capétien. L'art roman participe ainsi, dès les origines, à l'identité profonde de notre pays. Il témoigne de la vigueur inventive d'une jeune civilisation, mais aussi de sa ferveur...
Prestel, 2022. — 257 S. Das Standardwerk über sein Leben und Werk in einer aktualisierten Neuausgabe Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) gilt als der bedeutendste Künstler der deutschen Romantik. Viele seiner Gemälde sind fest im allgemeinen Bildgedächtnis verankert. Dennoch werfen sie immer wieder die Frage auf, vor welchen persönlichen, religiösen oder politischen...
Springer, 2000. — 233 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 50). Though centered on Italian, cross-linguistic analysis is extensively provided: data from languages as diverse as English, Hungarian, Modern Greek, Hausa, Chichewa, Serbo-Croatian and Somali are used to show that despite surface variations, the interface interpretation of Focus and Topic lies in...
Abrams ComicArts, 2012. — 236 p. Throughout his 25-year career, alternative cartoonist/screenwriter Daniel Clowes has always been ahead of artistic and cultural movements. In the late 1980s his groundbreaking comic book series Eightball defined indie culture with wit, venom, and even a little sympathy. With each successive graphic novel (Ghost World, David Boring, Ice Haven,...
Abrams ComicArts, 2012. — 236 p. Throughout his 25-year career, alternative cartoonist/screenwriter Daniel Clowes has always been ahead of artistic and cultural movements. In the late 1980s his groundbreaking comic book series Eightball defined indie culture with wit, venom, and even a little sympathy. With each successive graphic novel (Ghost World, David Boring, Ice Haven,...
Prestel, 2019. — 311 p. From its birth in the seventh century through modern times, the Islamic religion has inspired glorious works of art. This stunning book includes more than four hundred reproductions of treasures of Islamic art that span the world: from southern Europe, along the entire Mediterranean basin to sub-Saharan Africa through the Middle East, India, and Central...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 205 p. — (BAR International Series 2751). Studies of social complexity increasingly recognize the role of maritime communities in the development of large sociopolitical systems. The Central Andes present an ideal region for understanding maritime aspects of ancient social complexity, due to oneof the most productive sea biomasses in the world. In this...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 181 p. — (BAR International Series 2752). En suma, este libro se propone presentar y desarrollar un estudio que fundamentado en las Admoniciones de Ipuwer, de cuenta de la literatura política y la sociedad del Reino Medio y de cómo las expresiones sobre lo político y lo ideológico contenidas en dicho texto y en otras fuentes literarias del período se...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 169 p. — (BAR International Series 2753). This book is the result of a large-scale research undertaking Trade Routes of the Near East, examining Egyptian-Levantine interaction in the 4th Millennium BC. Chapters explore many issues related to copper and trade in the long period covering the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages, but also Roman period, with a...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 99 p. — (BAR International Series 2754). Torres Strait lies at a crucial point both geographically and conceptually between Australia and the Pacific. This book examines methodologies used in both regions for examining bounded archaeological communities. It applies a model of social archaeologyand regionalisation to identify the settlement history of...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 135 p. — (BAR International Series 2755/Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 90). This monograph examines Swahili plant subsistence and food production patterns through the analysis of macrobotanical remains from four archaeological sites on Pemba Island, Tanzania, dating to A.D. 700-1600. Specifically towns and villages are compared before and...
I.B.Tauris, 2011. — 263 p. — (Library of Middle East History). The most enduring testament to the Mamluk Sultanate is its architecture. Not only do Mamluk buildings embody one of the most outstanding medieval architectural traditions, Mamluk architecture is actually a key to the social history of the period. Analysing Mamluk constructions as a form of communication and...
Thames & Hudson, 2023. — 219 p. — (World of Art). Derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture in antiquity, the classical style has long dominated the history of western architecture from the Renaissance to the present. Sir John Summersons timeless text, as relevant today as it was when first published, distils the visual language of architecture into its core...
Harry N. Abrams, 1991. — 344 p. In Classical Architecture Robert Adam traces the history of classical design to the present day and provides examples of virtually every one of its applications. He shows how the style of classical architecture has been echoed, adapted, and refined in subsequent schools, including those as diverse as Hellenistic, Romanesque, and Baroque. Adam...
C.H.Beck, 2025. — 128 S. Wer sich in der Schule gefragt hat, weshalb man sich heute noch mit Latein beschäftigen sollte, findet die Antwort in diesem kompakten Büchlein. Anschaulich und zugänglich führt Martin Korenjak darin die überragende Bedeutung der lateinischen Sprache für die Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Europas von der Antike bis heute vor Augen.
Sidestone Press, 2025. — 282 p. — (OSPA: Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology 6). In the 5th millennium BCE, the first farming societies in the Western Alps developed unique burial practices characterized by Chamblandes-type graves. These box-shaped graves, constructed from stone slabs or wooden planks, have intrigued archaeologists since the 19th century, particularly around...
Springer, 1999. — 283 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 43). This volume contains thirteen studies on various aspects of Greek syntax, as well as a general introduction by the editors. In recent years, the study of Greek has become important for the development of generative theory. The various contributions to this volume demonstrate clearly how much the...
Springer, 1998. — 352 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 42). Incomplete Category Fronting is a detailed investigation of the syntax of incomplete category fronting in German, carried out from a cross-linguistic perspective. The study presents a wealth of empirical evidence involving unbound traces created by remnant topicalization, wh-movement, scrambling,...
Springer, 1999. — 241 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 44). The Mandarin VP deals with a number of constructions in Mandarin Chinese which involve the main verb and the material following it, like the object NPs, resultative phrases, durative expressions and other elements. The basis claim defended in this book is that all elements that follow the main...
Springer, 1991. — 257 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 24). This book represents the culmination of an extended period of field work on the Palauan language, carried out while I was a graduate student at the University of California at San Diego. The book was born as a short term paper written in 1982; from a forgettable infancy, that paper grew and grew,...
Springer, 1990. — 279 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20). The articles collected in this book are concerned with the issues of restrictiveness and learnability within generative grammar, specifically, within Chomsky's 'Extended Standard Theory'. These issues have been central to syntactic research for decades and they are even more central now as...
Springer, 1987. — 250 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 8). This book is a considerable revision and extension of my thesis for The Ohio State University completed in 1981: A Phrase Structural Analysis of the Japanese Language (Gunji 1981a). The book discusses some of the major grammatical constructions of Japanese in a version of phrase structure grammar...
Springer, 1994. — 213 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 30). Case, Scope, and Binding investigates the relation between syntax and semantics within a framework which combines the syntactic Government-Binding theory with a novel cross-linguistic theory of case and semantics. It is argued that case assignment, agreement, syntactic binding relations, as well...