‘Hoe komt het dat we nog altijd barbaren zijn?’ Rond deze indringende vraag van Friedrich Schiller (1775) bepleit Francis Smets de actualiteit van het schone als een levensnoodzakelijke eenheidservaring. Schoonheid (of het gebrek eraan) staat niet los van het leven of de wereld. Wie haar vandaag opnieuw durft te verbinden met de zintuiglijke en spirituele, ethische en metafysische dimensies van het bestaan, ontdekt dat de schoonheid nog onverminderd een bron is van waarheid, vreugde en zi...

What is the role of the curator when organizing digital art exhibitions in offline and online spaces? Analyzing the influence and impact of curating digital art, the book focuses on how the experiments of curators, artists and designers opened the possibility to reconfigure traditional models and methods for presenting and accessing digital art. In the process, it addresses how web-based practices challenge certain established museological values and precipitate alternative ways of understand...

The real story behind the major motion picture The Monuments Men. The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve it.

From the Nazi purges of "Degenerate Art" and Goering's shopping sprees in occupied Paris to the perilou...

An introduction to the impressionist movement, highlighting the great artists, their masterpieces, and impressionism's enduring influence.

An updated edition of this hugely successful book, the most accessible history of world art ever assembled.

A fresh edition of the sustainable design pioneer Victor Papanek’s classic and ever-relevant book.

In the sixteenth century, the humanist values and admiration for classical antiquity that marked the early Renaissance spread from Italy throughout the rest of the continent. Part of the "Art through the Centuries" series, this volume is divided into three sections that discuss the important people, concepts, and artistic centres of this period.

A contemplation of the hotly-debated significance - and future - of anthropology museums, from a global expert