Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=6660&N=4+7177+4294324721 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=641181 Examines the portrayal of death in art, from ancient times to the post-World War II era. Sarcophagi, paintings, sculptures, funerary statuary, news photos, cinema, mixed media, and a living piet reveal the intricacies and nuances of rendering incidents of natural, accidental, and violent death, including Jesuss crucifixion. The impacts of Christianity on modern figurative painting and of historical watersheds such as the First World War and the Holocaust on old notions of death are explored as well. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=641197 One of a ten-part series on themes in Western art. This program traces the evolution of the landscape in art, from its function as a stylized setting to its employment as a realistic part of a scene, and the technical challenges of depicting a landscapes constituent parts. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=641182 Focuses mainly on depictions of sleeping women--clothed, partially bare, and totally nude--in paintings, sculptures, art photos, and film, from the medieval period to mid-20th century. Topics include the latent eroticism and voyeurism inherent in such subject matter, symbolism such as entantglement in bedding, the use of veils as backdrops and of curtains as dividers, the concept of sleep as a form of betrayal, and the technical challenge of depicting a dreamer and a dream within the same artistic space. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=641200 This program analyzes the lights that illuminate the night--from candles and street lights, to the moon, to Ingo Maurers hologram of a neon-rendered light bulb--and the way artists make use of them to create revealing contrasts and to direct the viewers gaze. Technical aspects of light manipulation in the visual arts, such as the use of chiaroscuro and sfumato in painting and the cinematic night effects by underexposing film, are considered as well. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=631456 Paintings of the painters studio are always stylized portrayal where what is not shown is just as important as what is. This program surveys a number of examples of this classic theme, drawing attention to some of the different approaches artists have used to convey the space in which they work. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=641199 Looks at duplication within works of art via mirrors, naturally reflective surfaces, and shadows and then at stylized repetition, whether it be through patterns integral to a work or through patterns that in themselves constitute the work. More esoteric aspects, such as implied and distorted reflections, the otherness of reflected images, the weightiness of shadows, the fear-inducing quality of doubled images, and repeating as a means of progressing, are also addressed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=641202 Physical metamorphosis as a theme in painting, sculpture, photography, and cinema reveals an ongoing fascination with all manner of transformations and distortions of the human form. This program presents zoomorphism; hybrids from mythology, the hells of Hieronymus Bosch, and the caricatures of Granville; botanomorphism, people as plants; treatments of body as landscape and landscape as body; the personification of genitalia; digital manipulation of images, to model bizarre new races of people; and engineered beings such as Frankenstein-type creatures and cyborgs.