The artist and the warrior : military history through the eyes of the masters /

How have artists across the millennia responded to warfare? In this uniquely wide-ranging book, Theodore Rabb blends military history and the history of art to search for the answers. He draws our attention to masterpieces from the ancient world to the twentieth century--paintings, sculpture, cerami...

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Tác giả chính: Rabb, Theodore K.
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2011]
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=411186
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword: Boundaries
  • Chapter One: The Ancient World: Assyria and Greece
  • Chapter Two: Rome and the Middle Ages
  • Chapter Three: A New Vigor: War and Art in Feudal Japan
  • Chapter Four: The Persistence of Tradition in the Early Renaissance
  • Chapter Five: Traditions Transformed: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
  • Chapter Six: War as Decoration: Suleyman, Palladio, and Akbar
  • Chapter Seven: David Versus Goya
  • Chapter Eight: The Pity of War: Modern Times
  • Afterword: Film
  • Bibliography
  • Index