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 well-known because the vintage remedy of the Renaissance large, delivering unprecedented perception into Leonardo's mind and imaginative and prescient at each degree of his creative occupation. Martin Kemp, one of many world's top professionals on Leonardo, takes us on a captivating trip in the course of the entire span of the good man's existence, portray an absolutely built-in photo of his creative, 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 track, paintings, and literature of the interval. however the broader present of modernism encompassed many routine, and the most specific and influential used to be a flip to classicism.   In Classicism of the Twenties, Theodore Ziolkowski deals a compelling account of that flow.

Baroque Science

In Baroque technological know-how, Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris current a greatly new standpoint at the clinical 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 technological know-how and the highbrow compromises that formed it and enabled its miraculous luck.

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 paintings and the mind's eye to unblock very important assets of which means. She additionally appreciates the method in which inventive acts counteract and remodel emotions of violence and melancholy.