Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man

This masterly account of Leonardo da Vinci and his imaginative and prescient of the realm has lengthy been famous because the vintage remedy of the Renaissance large, supplying exceptional perception into Leonardo's mind and imaginative and prescient at each level of his creative occupation. Martin Kemp, one of many world's major experts on Leonardo, takes us on a enchanting trip throughout the entire span of the good man's existence, portray a completely built-in photo of his inventive, medical, 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 tune, paintings, and literature of the interval. however the broader present of modernism encompassed many pursuits, and essentially the most detailed and influential was once a flip to classicism.   In Classicism of the Twenties, Theodore Ziolkowski bargains a compelling account of that move.

Baroque Science

In Baroque technological know-how, Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris current a appreciably new standpoint at the clinical revolution of the 17th century. rather than celebrating the triumph of cause and rationality, they examine the paradoxes and anxieties that stemmed from the recent technological know-how and the highbrow compromises that formed it and enabled its dazzling 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 facility of artwork and the mind's eye to unblock vital resources of that means. She additionally appreciates the method during which artistic acts counteract and remodel emotions of violence and melancholy.