Product Description: Spanning four decades of radical political and social change in Italy, this interdisciplinary study explores photography's relationship with Italian painting, film, literature, anthropological research and international photography...read more

This text is a criticism of the Renaissance mind and its products. It examines art, philosophy and other aspects of the history of ideas and painting and sculpture as related, as it flows out of the widening cornucopia of the past.

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Product Description: This annually updated reader is a compilation of articles selected from magazines, newspapers, and journals. The articles cover topics on learning in school; early cognitive development and parenting and family issues. This title is supported by Dushkin Online (www...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: There is evidence of a sea-change in Western consciousness, which implies a fundamental rejection of the Arts of Humanism: cut off from society, from nature and the sacred. John Lane both celebrates the power and challenges the defects of this five hundred year old tradition, questioning among other matters the institution of the self-directed professional artist...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Shows the frescoes commissioned by Pope Julius II, and discusses the background of each painting

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An analysis of the art of social and political protest during the last two centuries, with emphasis on the twentieth century, considers the works of well-known artists, the drawings of prisoners in Nazi death camps, and examples of photojournalism