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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Arcadian Waters and Wanton Seas	Arne Neset	The nineteenth century was the great age of landscape painting in Europe and America. In an era of rapid industrialization and transformation of landscape, pictures of natural scenes were what people…	OL11825884W
The sinister side	James Hall	"The Sinister Side is the first book to detail the richness and subtlety of left-right symbolism since the Renaissance, and to show how it was a catalyst for some of the greatest works of visual art …	OL12049056W
Myths and symbols in Indian art and civilization	Heinrich Robert Zimmer	This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India's legend, myth, and folklore, taken directly from the Sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an…	OL1215967W
Edvard Munch	Gerd Woll,Carla Lathe,Reinhold Heller,Dieter Buchhart,Frank Hoifodt,Iris Müller-Westermann,Albrecht Schröder,Albertina Wien,Christoph Asendorf,Edvard Munch,Arne Eggum,Marian Bisanz-Prakken,Antonia Hoerschelmann	Während eines achtmonatigen Aufenthalts in dem Sanatorium von Dr. Daniel Jacobsen in Kopenhagen verwandelt Munch sein Krankenzimmer in ein Atelier und entwickelt einen neuen extrovertierteren und exp…	OL136192W
Arnulf Rainer	Arnulf Rainer,Gabriele Wimmer,John Sailer	Seine in den 1950er Jahren entwickelten Überarbeitungen machten den 1929 in Baden bei Wien geborenen Künstler Arnulf Rainer weltweit bekannt. In Kooperation mit der Albertina in Wien würdigt das Muse…	OL1738893W
Kabbalah In Art And Architecture	Alexander Gorlin	The Kabbalistic idea of creation, as expressed through light, space and geometry, has left its unmistakable mark on our civilization. Drawing upon a wide array of historical materials and images of c…	OL17507546W
Symbolism	N. V. BrodskaiŁa	Symbolism appeared in France and Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the 20th century. The Symbolists, fascinated with ancient mythology, attempted to escape the reign of rational thought i…	OL18080701W
Iconologie par figures	Hubert François Gravelot	This book is one of the most eminent examples of iconology in revolutionary France. Published in 1791, two years after Frenc Revolution, takes elements from Ripa´s Iconology in a new context: the bir…	OL185971W
Grafismo indígena	Lux Boelitz Vidal,Anne-Marie Pessis	"Beautifully illustrated and well-organized collection of 15 articles by Brazilian ethnologists and specialists deals with such questions as interpretation of prehistoric rock art, artistic expressio…	OL18826243W
The Sistine secrets	Roy Doliner,Benjamin Blech	Five hundred years ago Michelangelo began work on a painting that became one of the most famous pieces of art in the world-the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Every year millions of people come to see Michel…	OL1950532W
Dime stories	Tony Fitzpatrick	A collection of weekly columns written from March 2012 through January 2014 for the Chicago free alternative newspaper Newcity, each accompanied by an original work of art by the author.	OL20012875W
As above, so below	Lynne Adele	"There is an inspiring and wacky solemnity in these organizations high values reinforced through pageantry and performance in an ecumenical social setting which deep down must also have been a whole …	OL20022016W
Hubris	Jean Clair	"L'art moderne s'est souvent voué à la laideur. Anatomies difformes, palettes outrées, compositions incongrues, volonté de surprendre et de heurter : qui oserait encore parler de beauté ? Faute de po…	OL22577711W
Stars and stripes	Paul S. D'Ambrosio,Deborah Harding	"As a burgeoning nation that had fought hard for its independence, late eighteenth-century America was quick to develop visual symbols to represent the newfound freedom and unity of its citizens - th…	OL23789800W
Egyptian symbols	Heike Owusu	"Symbolic symbols played an important role in Egyptian culture because ancient Egyptians believed that, through ceremony, one could influence the gods and the otherworld."--Cover.	OL27019394W
The stone and the thread	César Paternosto	"Shows that precolumbian tectonic forms (especially as found in sculpture and weaving) appear to be an overlooked source, or anticipation, of much of the art of the 20th century. Second part of book …	OL2933147W
A Needle in the Right Hand of God	R. Howard Bloch	The Bayeux Tapestry is the world's most famous textile--an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of history's most …	OL3941670W
The bird, the banner, and Uncle Sam	Elinor Lander Horwitz	Discusses the patriotic symbols and heroes of the American people and their use in past and present art and craft objects.	OL6295712W
Dream States	Jennifer L. Shaw	"Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) was a towering figure in late nineteenth-century France. The country's greatest public painter, he created murals that decorated museums in Amiens, Rouen, and L…	OL8684165W
The Iconography of Sculptured Statue Bases in the Archaic and Classical Periods (Wisconsin Studies …	Angeliki Kosmopoulou	"This is the only systematic study to date of all known Greek relief statue bases, both surviving and cited in literary sources. It identifies and analyzes the distinct iconographic and technical cha…	OL9380927W