The technique of icon painting

We have seen that the iconoclast council of 754 set forth an argument against the holy icons that St Theodore took very seriously. How is it possible to make a true image of the in...

Abstract The objective in this book is to show how poetry enables us cognitively to aesthetically access, experience, and identify with the visible and invisible “be...

This new biography of JFK offers a comprehensive analysis of the man, the leader, and the cultural icon. Mark White, the leading authority in Britain on JFK, draws on more than 30 ...

In The Aesthetics of Qiyun and Genius: Spirit Consonance in Chinese Landscape Painting and Some Kantian Echoes, Xiaoyan Hu provides an interpretation of the notion of qiyun, or spi...

Abstract From the middle of the nineteenth century, English artists and art writers argued that painting was a powerful, untapped vehicle of social reform. Art ha...