“…Punto di arrivo, e allo stesso tempo divulgazione, di un importante percorso di studi di genere condotto con dedizione non solo dall’autrice ma anche da ricercatrici, giornaliste e storiche dell’arte, oltre che da associazioni di artiste di tutto il mondo. …”

“…Conçu pour un dialogue entre les disciplines (histoire, archéologie, histoire de l’art, et littérature), ce livre envisage de façon thématique, le récit de guerre comme « source et genre », expression de la « violence des soldats » et de la « place des civils » dans les guerres, de l’Antiquité à nos jours.-- Contracubierta…”

“…This lively and engaging work presents an entirely unique approach which shows the relevance of tragedy to today's world, and extends beyond drama and literature into visual art and everyday experience. Addressing questions about belief, blame, mourning, revenge, pain, and irony, noted scholar Adrian Poole demonstrates the age-old significance of our attempts to make sense of terrible suffering…”

“…Historical texts composed in Rome at this time have been considered secondary to the citys significance for the history of art. The Invention of Papal History corrects this distorting emphasis and shows how history-writing became part of a comprehensive formation of the image and self-perception of the papacy. …”

“…Educare, correggere, costruire: lungo i sentieri impervi della pace -- 1. L’arte dei fini -- 2. Sovranità e diritto delle genti -- 3. …”

“…Drawing on numerous examples of royal self-coronations, with a particular focus on European Kings of the Middle Ages, including Frederic II of Germany (1229), Alphonse XI of Castile (1328), Peter IV of Aragon (1332) and Charles III of Navarra (1390), Aurell draws on history, anthropology, ritual studies, liturgy and art history to explore royal self-coronations as privileged sites at which the frontiers and limits between the temporal and spiritual, politics and religion, tradition and innovation are encountered…”

“…This is traced back to the inheritance of the eighteenth century, enabling us to identify a distinctive 'spectacle of sympathy' in which sympathy seems inherently to entail public forms of expression whereby being 'on show' is both a condition of the authenticity of such affects and of their capacity to be masked and simulated - hence stimulating controversy, but also the exploration of the vicarious dimensions of modern experience so central to modern literature, art and culture. The implications of all this are further explored in the context of current debates over the display of trauma as the language of sympathetic engagement, and the alleged prevalence of 'compassion fatigue' in the era of media sensationalism. …”

“…Un affresco che interessa la politica, l’arte, il governo dello stato e della Chiesa, nonché il potere dei simboli in quello che è molto probabilmente l’ultimo processo a carico degli Hellenes, i seguaci dell’antica religione pagana --…”

“…It analyses the 'materialist' turn through wide-ranging textual, visual, aural, ritual, and spatial resources like eighteenth-century scribal literature in western India, art deco architecture in twentieth century Calcutta, contemporary urban spaces, early illustrated Bengali almanacs, circulating heads in Naga hills, football in Calcutta's politics, performance and film-making studies in south India, and Mayawati's monuments in Lucknow. …”
Sumario

“…The essays collected in this volume explore different aspects of nineteenth and twentieth-century world expositions from the perspective of social and political history, the history of literature and of the performing arts, the history of ethno-anthropology and cultural history in general. …”

“…Domenico Bilotti analizza i significati di una parola tanto potente quanto complessa che abbraccia i più disparati campi del sapere e della vita umana: dalla scienza alla politica, dalla filosofia alla letteratura e all'arte. Il volume è corredato da un'originale antologia commentata utile a leggere il fenomeno della rivoluzione attraverso le voci di filosofi, artisti e politici, passando per modelli epocali come la Cina di Mao e la Rivoluzione Islamica -- Contracubierta…”

“…The original contributions provide a state-of-the-art guide to the most recent thinking and research findings on the broad range of media-related topics addressed by economics research. …”

“…In historicizing and problematizing this binary, Jan Plamper opens emotions research beyond constructivism and universalism; he also maps a vast terrain of thought about feelings in anthropology, philosophy, sociology, linguistics, art history, political science, the life sciences - from nineteenth-century experimental psychology to the latest affective neuroscience - and history, from ancient times to the present day…”

“…Un'antologia rappresentativa di un paradigma filosofico capace di coniugare arte e filosofia, conoscenza e verità, interpretazione e trascendenza, e che avvicina alla proposta metafisica che Pareyson avanza rispetto ai dilemmi dell'uomo contemporaneo."…”

“…"Comprised of contributions from scholars across the globe, The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative is a state-of-the-art anthology, offering critical treatments of both the Bible's narratives and topics related to the Bible's narrative constructions. …”

“…Enviadas desde Buenos Aires, Nueva York o París, estas misivas son una muestra más de la lucidez de Pizarnik, quien mezcla los quehaceres más cotidianos con la alta reflexión literaria en unas cartas que son, en sí mismas, pequeñas obras de arte…”

“…Since its beginnings in the middle of the 19th century, fashion has been narrated through multiple media, both visual and verbal, and for such different purposes as marketing and advertising, art, costume history, social research and cultural dissemination. …”

“…His cultural focus includes not just literature and art, but topics such as propaganda films, clothing restrictions, and educational reform, with a particular emphasis on representations and ideas transmitted through mass media. …”

“…Custom-made shoes are also a work of art in leather, designed for the distinctive feet and the individual taste of the fashion-conscious gentleman. …”

“…The volume begins with an introduction to the research on and theories behind illusory contours and their applications to other areas of perception, cognitive science and art. The collection also features English language translations of the seminal papers by Schumann, Ehrenstein, and Kanizsa, the scientists who originally discovered and investigated the phenomenon. …”