It is no coincidence that a historical figure such as Patrice Emery Lumumba, independent Congo’s first prime minister, who was killed in 1961, has lived in the realm of the cultural imaginary and occupied an afterlife in the arts. After all, his project remained unfinished and his corpse unburied. The figure of Lumumba has been imagined through painting, photography, cinema, poetry, literature, theatre, music, sculpture, fashion, cartoons and stamps, and also through historiography and in p...

Carel Joseph Anton Begeer (1883-1956) was een veelzijdig ontwerper. Begeer kreeg een brede opleiding in binnen- en buitenland, op zowel het gebied van handel, als van kunst en techniek. In 1904 werd hij artistiek leider van het bedrijf van zijn vader, de Koninklijke Utrechtse Fabriek van Zilverwerken, waarvan hij in 1908 ook mede-vennoot werd en - na het overlijden van zijn vader - in 1910 directeur. In 1919 fuseerde zijn bedrijf met de firma J.M. Van Kempen & Zonen uit Voorschoten en de N.V ...

In dit boek worden de codes blootgelegd die aan het ontwerp van op een vaste plaats in de kerk aangebrachte orgels en orgelensembles tot ca. 1530 ten grondslag lagen – met speciale aandacht voor de relatie tussen het orgelensemble en het interieur van de kerk. Aan het ontwerp lagen getalsmatige, metrische en geometrische patronen en modellen ten grondslag. De relatie van het orgelensemble met het interieur was gebaseerd op adjunctie, wederzijdse toevoeging met behoud van beider zelfstandigh...

Queer Exhibition Histories comprises case studies highlighting the countless efforts, both large and small, of LGBTQIA+ artists and curators, centring on queer art exhibitions and their modes of documentation and archiving. Often, the legacy of these projects largely depends on personal archives, memories, and paraphernalia, with the overriding notion, or need, for public display. In these contexts, ‘public’ is relative in events that were either short-lived, held under the veil of domest...

This richly illustrated, four-colour textbook introduces the art and archaeology of ancient Greece, from the Bronze Age through to the Roman conquest. Suitable for students with no prior knowledge of ancient art, this textbook reviews the main objects and monuments of the ancient Greek world, emphasizing the context and function of these artefacts in their particular place and time. Students are led to a rich understanding of how objects were meant to be perceived, what 'messages' they transm...

The Short Story of Modern Art explains the how, why and when of modern art – who introduced certain things, what they were, where they were produced, and why they matter.

Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key works – from the realist painting of Courbet to a contemporary installation by Yayoi Kusama – and then links them to the most important movements, themes and techniques. Accessible, concise and richly illustrated, the book reveals the connections between different periods, ...

THE LOVE between man and woman has been told in story and poem since long before the days of Sappho. It forms, indeed, the subject of the great bulk of what we call literature. In music, love's domain is less extended. With the exception song and the opera, most of the greatest music has, in its title at least, no hint of the great heart historyof human kind.

In this respect the plastic arts are more allied to music than to literature. The masterpieces in painting and sculpture generally not ...

After the death of Stalin, a small group of art enthusiasts in the Soviet Union started to collect modernist artworks that were considered formalist or anti-revolutionary, and were therefore ignored by official art institutions.

By doing so, these collectors played a pivotal role in the preservation of a crucial and now globally celebrated period of Russian cultural history.

The Paleev collection is the last of these private art collections to remain intact and in the hands of the family. It...