Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man

This masterly account of Leonardo da Vinci and his imaginative and prescient of the area has lengthy been well-known because the vintage therapy of the Renaissance significant, providing unprecedented perception into Leonardo's mind and imaginative and prescient at each degree of his creative profession. Martin Kemp, one of many world's top specialists on Leonardo, takes us on a captivating trip in the course of the entire span of the good man's lifestyles, portray a completely built-in photograph of his creative, clinical, and technological achievements.

Classicism of the Twenties: Art, Music, and Literature

The triumph of avant-gardes within the Twenties has a tendency to dominate our discussions of the track, paintings, and literature of the interval. however the broader present of modernism encompassed many activities, and some of the most targeted and influential was once a flip to classicism.   In Classicism of the Twenties, Theodore Ziolkowski deals a compelling account of that circulation.

Baroque Science

In Baroque technology, Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris current a appreciably new standpoint at the medical revolution of the 17th century. rather than celebrating the triumph of cause and rationality, they learn the paradoxes and anxieties that stemmed from the recent technology and the highbrow compromises that formed it and enabled its remarkable good fortune.

Head Cases: Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed Times (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts)

Whereas philosophy and psychoanalysis privilege language and conceptual differences and distrust the picture, the thinker and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva acknowledges the ability of artwork and the mind's eye to unblock very important assets of which means. She additionally appreciates the method by which inventive acts counteract and rework emotions of violence and melancholy.