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Panoramas 1787-1900 - Texts And Contexts (Hardcover),9781848930155

First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. This new

Victorian-era designs for borders, wreaths, cushion squares, sprays, etc. Patterns for verbena, strawberry, lily, many more.

Pavis analyses the political and aesthetic consequences of cultures meeting at the crossroads of theatre, looking at productions including Brook's Mahabharata , Cixous/Mnouchkine's Indiande , and Barba's Faust.

This study looks at the drama that takes place within the world of opera and provides an insight into how opera has evolved and functions. It describes some of the ways that

Addressed to anyone with a serious interest in the arts, this philosophical theory of art has three main objectives: to shift the focus of aesthetics from the question "What is art?"; to

Considers the process through which architects sought to establish modernism as the dominant ideology in British architectural culture from the late 1920s onwards. This book documents, contextualizes and explains the emergence and