SubjectsArt & Art History / General studies in art & art history
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ISSN 0923-0033
Transcultural Influences in Soviet and Post-Soviet Animation
Edited by Sabina Amanbayeva, Olga Blackledge and Elena Goodwin
The edited volume Transcultural Influences in Soviet and Post-Soviet Animation provides an innovative perspective on animation from the region as a transcultural phenomenon that was influenced by a complex interplay of international and internal processes. Covering the 1930s to the 2010s, it… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 19] 2026. xiii, 292 pp. + index
Decoding Movie Language through Multi-Dimensional Analysis and the Grammar of Graphics
Pierfranca Forchini
This book offers a comprehensive and refined account of movie discourse through the application of Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) to the American Movie Corpus, a collection of authentic, verified movie dialog transcriptions. Expanding on previous MDA-based research, it broadens both the scope of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 124] 2025. vii, 329 pp.
Louis-Adolphe Hervier 1817–1879: Biographie et Catalogue de l'œuvre gravé
Jan W. van den Noort
L’œuvre de Louis-Adolphe Hervier se caractérise par un goût marqué et un immense respect pour la vie des gens du peuple, des paysans et des pêcheurs. Les eaux-fortes et lithographies de ce peintre et graveur constituent, dans le domaine des arts graphiques français du XIXe siècle, une contribution… read more[Not in series - Erven Berserik, 1] 2023. 488 pp.
Photography in Children's Literature
Edited by Elina Druker and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Photography in Children’s Literature is the first international study that examines the wide array of artistic techniques, topics, and genres used within photographic books for children. Covering a time period from the 1870s to the 1980s, the collection offers multifaceted insights into changing… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 17] 2023. xv, 306 pp.
An Ecology of the Russian Avant-Garde Picturebook
Sara Pankenier Weld
An Ecology of the Russian Avant-Garde Picturebook takes a new approach to interpreting 1920s and 1930s picturebooks by prominent Russian writers, artists, and intellectuals by examining them within the ecological environment that, first, made them possible and, then, led to their demise. It argues… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 9] 2018. xiv, 236 pp.
Progress in Colour Studies: Cognition, language and beyond
Edited by Lindsay W. MacDonald, Carole P. Biggam and Galina V. Paramei
This volume presents authoritative and up-to-date research in colour studies by specialists across a wide range of academic disciplines, including vision science, psychology, psycholinguistics, linguistics, anthropology, onomastics, philosophy, archaeology and design. The chapters have been… read more[Not in series, 217] 2018. xx, 470 pp.
Where is Adaptation?: Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts
Edited by Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick
Where is Adaptation? Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts explores the vast terrain of contemporary adaptation studies and offers a wide variety of answers to the title question in 24 chapters by 29 international practitioners and scholars of adaptation, both eminent and emerging. From insightful… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 9] 2018. xix, 431 pp.
The Vindel Parchment and Martin Codax / O Pergamiño Vindel e Martin Codax: The Golden Age of Medieval Galician Poetry / O esplendor da poesía galega medieval
Edited by Alexandre Rodríguez Guerra and Xosé Bieito Arias Freixedo
This book offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date, multidisciplinary approach to the work of Galician jongleur Martin Codax and the Vindel Parchment. This medieval manuscript with the texts of seven cantigas de amigo by Martin Codax and the music score of six of them, is a philological gem that… read more[Not in series, 218] 2018. xvi, 343 pp.
Jacob Duck (c.1600–1667): Catalogue Raisonné
Jochai Rosen
The painter Jacob Duck (c.1600-1667) was active mainly in Utrecht, and his rise to success and recognition paralleled the phenomenon known as the Dutch Golden Age. His style of painting is a unique blend of the humor and eroticism found in the works of the Utrecht Caravaggisti with that of the… read more[OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 16] 2017. x, 294 pp., 120 bl/wh ills. + 151 full color ills.
Worldmaking: Literature, language, culture
Edited by Tom Clark, Emily Finlay and Philippa Kelly
In 1978, Nelson Goodman explored the relation of “worlds” to language and literature, formulating the term, “worldmaking” to suggest that many other worlds can as plausibly exist as the “world” we know right now. We cannot catch or know “the world” as such: all we can catch are the world versions -… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 5] 2017. xv, 235 pp.
Cornelis van Poelenburch (1594/5–1667): The paintings
Nicolette Sluijter-Seijffert
Cornelis van Poelenburch was one of the very few painters of the Dutch Golden Age to acquire international renown during his lifetime. Only three Dutch artists were honoured with mentions by all of the seventeenth-century biographers who included Netherlandish artists, the others being Rembrandt… read more[OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 15] 2016. xi, 408 pp., 176 bl/wh ills. + 195 full color ills.
Deep Locational Criticism: Imaginative place in literary research and teaching
Jason Finch
A lively series of spatial turns in literary studies since the 1990s give rise to this engaged and practical book, devoted to the question of how to teach and study the relationship between all sorts of literature and all sorts of location. Among the many concrete examples explored are texts… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 3] 2016. xiii, 249 pp.
Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde
Edited by Elina Druker and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Children’s Literature and the Avant-Garde is the first study that investigates the intricate influence of the avant-garde movements on children’s literature in different countries from the beginning of the 20th century until the present. Examining a wide range of children’s books from Denmark,… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 5] 2015. xii, 295 pp.
Rembrandt’s Rivals: History Painting in Amsterdam (1630–1650)
Eric Jan Sluijter
During the period of Rembrandt’s career the Amsterdam art market grew with breathtaking speed. Each painter had to secure a place professionally and make a living, which would have been no small matter. In what kind of paintings should he specialize? How could he distinguish his works from those of… read more[OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 14] 2015. x, 486 pp., 297 bl/wh ills. + 329 full color ills.
Moving Imagination: Explorations of gesture and inner movement
Edited by Helena De Preester
This volume brings together contributions by philosophers, art historians and artists who discuss, interpret and analyse the moving and gesturing body in the arts. Broadly inspired by phenomenology, and taking into account insights from cognitive science, the contribution of the motor body in… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 89] 2013. vi, 320 pp.
The Paintings of Dirck van Baburen (ca. 1592/93–1624): Catalogue Raisonné
Wayne Franits
Dirck van Baburen (1592/93–1624) ranks among the most influential Dutch followers of the famous Italian painter Caravaggio. After concluding his training in his native Utrecht, Van Baburen traveled to Italy where he would remain for about eight years. The young artist enjoyed great success there,… read more[OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 13] 2013. xx, 388 pp, 114 bl/wh ills. + 15 full-color ills.
Pieter Soutman: Life and œuvre
Kerry Barrett
While often cited for his relationship to Pieter Paul Rubens’s studio and his work for the courts of Sigismund III of Poland and the Orange court of Frederick Hendrik and Amalia van Solms, Pieter Soutman has never received critical study. Pieter Soutman: Life and œuvre is the first comprehensive… read more[OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 12] 2012. xxii, 383 pp, 182 b/w ills. + 22 full-color ills.
Gedanken als Wirkursachen: Francisco Suárez zur geistigen Hervorbringung
Michael Renemann
Francisco Suárez (1548–1617) sieht es als Problem an, dass nach dem traditionellen Modell der Kunstproduktion der Gedanke immer nur als Vorkonzeption und damit auf sehr vermittelte Weise in das Kunstwerk eingeht. Entsprechend wäre auch die Analyse von geistigen Hervorbringungen immer ein Prozess,… read more[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 49] 2010. ix, 173 pp.
The Auction of King William’s Paintings (1713): Elite international art trade at the end of the Dutch Golden Age
Koenraad Jonckheere
The collection of Stadholder-King William III went under the hammer in Amsterdam on 26 July 1713. Organised by the renowned art collector and agent Jan van Beuningen with the assistance of Jan Pietersz. Zomer, the foremost Amsterdam art broker, the auction was a virtual society event attended by a… read more[OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 11] 2008. 373 pp., 69 bl/wh ills. + 75 full-color ills.
The Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588–1629): Catalogue raisonné
Leonard J. Slatkes and Wayne Franits
The Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588–1629), is the first major study of this important early seventeenth-century master since Benedict Nicolson’s classic monograph of 1958. It comprises two chapters that explore ter Brugghen’s development as an artist and the reception of his work among… read more[OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 10] 2007. xx, 471 pp., 204 bl/wh ills. + 17 full color ills.
The Paintings of Karel du Jardin (1626–1678): Catalogue raisonné
Jennifer M. Kilian
The Paintings of Karel du Jardin (1626 Amsterdam–Venice 1678) is the first monograph devoted to this talented and versatile artist. It comprises six chapters outlining Du Jardin’s life, his reception, his patrons, portraits, history paintings and landscapes, followed by a conclusion, a list of… read more[OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 8] 2005. 498 pp., 229 bl/wh ills. + 32 full color ills.
Rembrandt: Portraits in print
Stephanie S. Dickey
Selected by CHOICE as Outstanding Academic Title 2004 in the Fine ArtsRembrandt: Portraits in Print is the first monograph devoted to Rembrandt's etched portraits of himself and his contemporaries. Between 1633 and 1665, Rembrandt etched less than two dozen formal portraits, yet this small body of… read more[OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 9] 2004. 367 pp., 172 bl/wh ills.
The Dual Muse: The Writer as Artist, the Artist as Writer: Papers from the International Writers Center Symposium, 7–9 Nov. 1997
Edited by Lorin Cuoco
For centuries an artist adept in one medium has found solace, encouragement, and inspiration in another, even to the point of merging them. Michelangelo put down his chisel to pick up his pen; Blake pictorialized his poetry; Max Ernst collaged narratives; Gertrude Stein adopted a cubist style. This… read more[Not in series, 90] 1999. 128 pp., 40 bl./wh. ill.
Jan van Bijlert (1597/98–1671): Catalogue raisonné
Paul Huys Janssen
Jan van Bijlert (1597/98-1671) is best known as one of the Utrecht Caravaggists and is often ranked with Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerard van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen. However, Van Bijlert is not primarily a Caravaggist painter, he is also a Classicist and a painter of ‘realistic’ Dutch genre… read more[OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 7] 1998. 400 pp. Incl. 305 bl/wh ill. + 8 color pl.
The Dual Muse: The Writer as Artist, The Artist as Writer: Catalogue of the Exhibition. Introduction by Cornelia Homburg
William H. Gass and Johanna Drucker
For centuries an artist adept in one medium has found solace, encouragement, and inspiration in another, even to the point of merging them. Michelangelo put down his chisel to pick up his pen; Blake pictorialized his poetry; Max Ernst collaged narratives; Gertrude Stein adopted a cubist style. This… read more[Not in series, 84] 1997. 144 pp., (38 pp. full color; 77 bl./wh. ill.)
International Postmodernism: Theory and literary practice
Edited by Hans Bertens and Douwe W. Fokkema †
Containing more than fifty essays by major literary scholars, International Postmodernism divides into four main sections. The volume starts off with a section of eight introductory studies dealing with the subject from different points of view followed by a section that deals with postmodernism in… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XI] 1997. xvi, 581 pp.
The Copy Turns Original: Vincent van Gogh and a new approach to traditional art practice
Cornelia Homburg
At St.-Rémy, in 1889-90, without his usual contacts and confined to a hospital, van Gogh produced a series of painted copies of work by other artists. We usually attribute these to therapy for his isolation and pass over them in considering his œuvre. Homburg's study, however, concentrates on this… read more[OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 6] 1996. vii, 250 pp., 9 color plates;89 bl/wh plates
The New Complete Van Gogh: Fully revised and enlarged edition of the Catalogue raisonné
Jan Hulsker
Seldom has an artist expressed himself as clearly and completely as Van Gogh in his letters and his art, and seldom has an artist found a scholar as devoted and knowledgeable as Dr. Jan Hulsker to collect, interpret, and synthesize the enormously varied sources of Van Gogh’s thoughts and work.… read more[Not in series, 77] 1996. 504 pp. 2040 bl/wh ill. + 100 color plates
The Fruit of Devotion: Mysticism and the imagery of love in Flemish paintings of the Virgin and Child, 1450–1550
Reindert L. Falkenburg
Against the background of the wide-spread 'love' spirituality of the late Middle Ages, the book takes as its central theme the 'taste' metaphor which appears in paintings featuring the Virgin and Child, belonging to the genre of the Andachtsbild. The first chapter describes the use of fruit and… read more[OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 5] 1994. x, 244 pp. 84 bl./wh. ills., bibl. index
The Mythology of Vincent van Gogh
Edited by Tsukasa Kōdera
Since his death in 1890, numerous myths have arisen about the life and person of Vincent van Gogh. The painter has variously been seen as a misunderstood genius, peintre maudit, martyr, or the tormented soul in search of truth. While some regarded him as an inspired madman, others credited Van Gogh… read more[Not in series, 67] 1993. 462 pp. 184 color plates/118 bl.wh.ills.
Rubens: The Garden of Love as Conversatie à la mode
Elise Goodman
This book is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of Rubens's celebrated painting in the Prado, popularly known as the Garden of Love, but more properly termed Conversatie à la mode or Conversatie van joffrs (young women). Goodman demonstrates that the Conversatie embodies ideas on manners,… read more[OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 4] 1992. x, 250 pp. 66 bl./wh. ills., bibl.,index
Dutch Literature in the Age of Rembrandt: Themes and ideas
Maria A. Schenkeveld
Dutch literature of the 17th century, while not as famous as other elements of the culture of the Dutch Golden Age, deserves independent focus, not only because of its own intrinsic worth, but also because of the evidence of strong social concern that it presents and the light it sheds on other… read more[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 28] 1991. x, 216 pp., 60 ills.
Hemel en Aarde: Werelden van verbeelding
Onder redactie van Sorin Alexandrescu, Herman Parret en Ton Quik
Hemel & Aarde, Werelden van Verbeelding is het begeleidend boek bij de gelijknamige tentoonstelling in het Bonnefantenmuseum te Maastricht, 23 november – 23 februari, 1992. Door de eeuwen heen heeft de mens getracht zich een voorstelling te maken van Hemel en Aarde, de twee grote onbekenden… read more[Not in series, 45] 1991. 312 pp., 200 ills.
Innovatie
Onder redactie van Douwe W. Fokkema † en Frans Ruiter
Deze bundel presenteert interdisciplinair onderzoek rond het thema innovatie. De krititische vragen die L.C. Brinkman, destijds minister van WVC, bij het begrip innovatie in de kunst stelt, worden beantwoord door de theater wetenschapper Henri Schoenmakers. De bijdragen op het gebied van muziek… read more[Not in series, 43] 1990. xiv, 162 pp. + 20 ills.
Vincent van Gogh: Christianity versus nature
Tsukasa Kōdera
This book analyzes the deeper meaning of recurring themes in van Goghs uvre, such as the sower, the sun and the sunflower, against the religious background of his time. It traces the conflict between Christianity and nature that underlies the process of substitution of natural for Christian… read more[OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 3] 1990. xii, 283 pp. 120 bl./wh.ills.,8 color il
Das Akademische Kunstmuseum der Universität Bonn unter der Direktion von Reinhard Kekulé
Wilfred Geominy
[Not in series - Grüner, 44] 1989. x, 253 pp., 16 ills.
Joachim Patinir: Landscape as an image of the Pilgrimage of Life
Reindert L. Falkenburg
The study of Patinir’s landscapes sets out to demonstrate that they are grounded in the moral and religious thought of his time and closely related to late Medieval devotional art. The first part demonstrates that the figural elements in Patinir’s landscapes are based on a type of ‘devotional image… read more[OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 2] 1988. vii, 226 pp. 50 bl./wh.ills.,bibl.,index
Saenredam: The art of perspective
Rob Ruurs
In this book three issues are discussed which all concern the history of perspective and pertain to the work of the 17th-century artist Pieter Saenredam, best known for his paintings of church interiors.The book opens with an introduction on central perspective, followed by a discussion of the… read more[OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 1] 1987. 228 pp., 37 bl/wh ills,bibl.,gloss.,index
The Liberal Arts and the Jesuit College System
Aldo Scaglione
The Jesuit educational system, with its successful applications in all parts of the world for several centuries, is one of the most durable, influential, and far-reaching experiments in the history of education. In this monograph Aldo Scaglione explores the complex genesis of the system, which it… read more[Not in series, 26] 1986. vii, 248 pp.
The early Venetian Paintings in Holland
H.W. van Os, J.R.J. van Asperen De Boer, C.E. de Jong-Jansen and C. Wiethoff
[Not in series, 8] 1978. 161 pp., 75 black-and-white photogr.,12 small
Ausgewählte Schriften: Band 4: Zur Musikwissenschaft, 1909–1960. Konzertkritiken, 1923–1933 und 1945–1952
Otto Weinreich
Durch die vorliegende Sammlung soll alles an entlegener Stelle Veröffentlichte vereinigt und alles nicht mehr Greifbare erneut vorgelegt werden, damit dieses Lebenswerk in seinem vollen Umfang zugänglich bleibt. Bestimmt sich damit die Auswahl der Beiträge nach dem äußeren Gesichtspunkt der… read more[Not in series - Grüner, WEINR 4] 1975. 606 pp.
Marques typographiques ou recueil des monogrammes , chiffres, ensiegnes, emblèmes, devises, rébus et fleurons des libraires et imprimeurs qui ont excercé en France, depuis l'introduction de l'imprimerie, en 1470, jusqu'à la fin du seizième siecle: A ces marques sont jointes celles des libraires et imprimeurs qui pendant la même période ont publié, hors de France, des livres en langue française. 1853-1867
Louis-Catherine Silvestre
[Not in series - Grüner, 100] 1971. xii, 745 pp.
Musica Romana: Die Bedeutung der Musik im Leben der Römer
Günther Wille
Vorliegende Arbeit, welche die Bedeutung der Musik im antiken Rom zum Gegenstand hat, versucht eine Zusammenschau hundertjähriger Einzelforschung verschiedener Disziplinen, um Altertums- und Musikwissenschaft durch Darstellung und Quellendokumentation zu neuem Verständnis und neuer Bewertung einer… read more[Not in series - Grüner, 115] 1967. 799 pp.