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A comprehensive examination of the German city's leading role in the art of the Middle Ages.

This fascinating book explores the history, techniques, and cultural significance of medieval aquamanilia, cast metal objects used to pour water for hand washing in religious and secular contexts. Usually created in appealing animal or human forms, aquamanilia feature two openings, one for filling and the other for pouring. They represent the first emergence of hollow-cast vessels in Western Europe and a significant development in the history ...

Home to an extraordinary collection of treasured masterworks, including the famed Unicorn Tapestries, The Cloisters is devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. This guide, published to celebrate The Cloisters' seventy-fifth anniversary, richly illustrates and describes the most important highlights of its collection.

The exhibition catalog is the first survey of Gothic ivories in English. It contains essays by seven leading international scholars, including Peter Barnet (Gothic Sculpture in Ivory: An Introduction), Elizabeth Sears (Ivory and Ivory-Workers in Medieval Paris), Richard H. Randall, Jr. (Popular Romances Carved in Ivory), Harvey Stahl (Narrative Structure and Content in Some Gothic Ivories of the Life of Christ), Charles T. Little (Opera Franci...

Ce livre s'inscrit dans la mouvance de la relecture récente dont le surréalisme a fait l'objet. Le fil conducteur est une analyse de la subversion surréaliste au féminin, à travers les oeuvres de Lise Deharme, Joyce Mansour et Gisèle Prassinos. Tout en respectant les différences entre les oeuvres, cette étude révèle un curieux leitmotiv: les trois auteurs portent un accent nouveau sur l'ambiguïté de l'identité sexuelle et des rôles masculin-fé...