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The artist as reader on education and non-education of early modern artists /

Subjects: “…Artists Books and reading Europe History.…”
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Artists and intellectuals and the requests of power

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Behind the scenes of artistic creativity : processes of learning, creating and organising / by Chemi, Tatiana, Borup Jensen, Julie, 1968-, Hersted, Lone, 1969-

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Orientalism, gender, and the Jews : literary and artistic transformations of European national discourses /

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The Viennese secession by Carl, Klaus H.

Table of Contents: “…Vienna in the second half of the 19th century -- The World Fair of 1889 -- Art in England at the end of the century -- Art on the continent at the end of the century -- The precursors of the Viennes secession in Munich and Berlin -- Munich -- Berlin -- The Viennese Secession -- Vienna at the turn of the century -- The Kunstlerhaus -- The Secession I -- The Ver Sacrum magazine -- The Secession II -- The exhibition centre of the Viennese Secession -- The Beethoven frieze -- The Secession III -- Artists of the Viennese Secession -- Gustav Klimt -- Koloman Moser -- Alfred Roller -- Egon Schiele -- Other Viennese artists -- Wiener Werkstatte -- The most important artists of the Wiener Werkstatte -- Architecture in the second half of the 19th century. …”
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The metaphysical vision Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of art and life and Samuel Beckett's own way to make use of it / by Pothast, Ulrich

Table of Contents: “…Metaphysical vision -- Schopenhauer out of fashion : Beckett his student -- Intentions and limits -- Metaphysics of art and life -- On Schopenhauer's aesthetics and world view -- Premises from Schopenhauer's theory of knowledge and metaphysics -- Dissolution of self and creation of art -- The truly metaphysical activity of this life -- Idea and sensory perception -- Symbols trivial -- Realism vulgar -- Every thing beautiful -- Genius objective -- Bliss, not just pleasure -- Will-less, not just disinterested -- Music -- Tragedy and the vanity of life -- Denial of the will-to-live -- Affirmation of the will-to-live -- Happiness negative -- Suffering productive -- The metaphysical drama -- Timeless present, no ending - Life pensum, suicide no escape -- The primacy of nothingness -- Beckett's philosophical view of art and life in Proust -- True reality and caricature of reality -- Idea versus concept -- Causality, time, will -- Habit -- Two kinds of memory -- Vulgarity -- Death of habit: waking madness -- Purity, impurity -- The necessity of art -- Schopenhauer made use of -- Schopenhauer altered -- The proustian equation, the proustian solution -- Affirmation of the will, voluntarily tantalus -- Desert of loneliness, no morality -- Existence of the artist -- On some details in Beckett's literary work -- Murphy -- I am not of the big world, I am of the little world -- Vision -- Will-lessness, yearning for nothing -- Moran -- Remnants of a pensum -- A work which will subsist -- Finality without end -- Images of that kind the will cannot revive -- Dispossessed of self -- The unnamable -- What if we were one and the same after all -- There is no pronoun for me -- I have a pensum to discharge -- I'm all these words -- I am doing my best and failing : new thoughts about art and the artist -- Gogo and Didi, Hamm and Clov -- In a cage out of time and space -- In a single night -- You pollute the air -- Is it not time for my pain-killer? …”
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The Construction of Textual Authority in German Literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods /

Table of Contents: “…Stephen Jaeger -- Von der Rede zur Schrift: Konstituierung von Autorität in Predigt und Predigtüberlieferung / Rüdiger Schnell -- The city as text: the entry of Charles V into Nuremberg (1541) / Arthur Groos -- The reformation of the Bible and an artist: sacred philology and Albrecht Dürer / David Price -- Invoking the powers that be: types of authority and the production of the Theatrum de veneficis (1586) / Gerhild Scholz Williams -- Citational science: textuality and the authority of the "Scientific Fact" in early modern central Europe (Lohenstein's Cleopatra, 1680) / Jane O. …”
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The art of Kunst : selected poems, letters, and other writings / by Kunst, Thomas, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introducing Thomas Kunst -- Sources of the Art of Kunst Kunst's Poetic Art: The Poetry of Music and the Music of Poetry; The Artist's Vocation Kunst's Critique of Contemporary Poetry; Writing Women; The Sea, Islands, and Other Passageways -- A Word about the Selection of Poetry and the Glossary -- II. …”
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From the delta to the cataract : studies dedicated to Mohamed el-Bialy /

Table of Contents: “…A copy of a copy of a copy, or an imittion kamares-ware vessel from tell el-Dab'a -- Between Thebes and Elephantine: busy lives of Egyptian officials -- Three Christian Funerary stelae from Aswaf -- Linen Weaved in Year 2 of Amenhotep II -- Prospections dans le secteur est du Wadi Abu Subeira : Premiers résultats et perspectives -- Deux documents épars du temple d'Hathor à Philae -- The exceptional case of a lady's tomb in Qubbet el-Hawa at the end of the old kingdom -- Fire-setting in ancient quarries; ancient sources, new evidence and experiments -- Surveying work at Wadi Abu Subeira, season 2012 -- Die Kirchen von Nag el-Hagar -- Greek pottery from Syene -- Wine from Southern Gaul in Syene, the Southernmost town of the Roman Empire -- Les travaux de la mission archéologique espagnole de l'Institut détudes de l'ancienne Égypte-IEAE à Deir el Bahari (Saisons 2003-2008) -- The Repit Temple at Athribis after the worship of Repit -- A newly discovered “Soul House” in Assuan -- Images of power in Neferhotep's tomb: between tradition and renovation -- An authentication sealing of the "Ruler of Kush" from Elephantine -- Karakhamun's artists -- The Henket-ankh Temple of Thutmosis III in Luxor West Bank: five years of interventiof -- The Quay Walls of Nag el-Tawil revisited -- An acumulation of dirt: excavations at the Courtyard of the tomb of Senneferi at Thebes -- The false door of Senneferi, Theban tomb 99.…”
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Synesthetic design : handbook for a multisensory approach / by Haverkamp, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Holistic design : Cumulation of sensory contributions : Segregation or integration ; Perceptual conflicts -- The choice of customer-effective strategies : Assistance in decisions-making ; Examples of application ; Human-computer interaction -- Elementary forms : Basic forms of perception ; Elementary design -- Visualization of noise and music : Artistic and technical visualization ; Musical notation, graphics, and film -- Perception and emotion -- Future perspectives of synesthetic design : Design with all senses: for the senses ; Robustness ; Sustainability.…”
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