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This title contains book & 4 CDs. The three centuries covered in this series offer a broad range of artists and their works. Sometimes it is hard to find access and to maintain an overview. The Masterpieces Series offers an ideal package, which gives the reader a compact, comprehensible, and entertaining overview of the painting and the music of each century. This brand new concept is unique: each book presents and comments on the most important paintings of the respective century in chronological order. The Music: The four CDs offer the most important musical works of the accordant eras. An extensive preface presents and explains each century and its characteristics and provides explanations of the specific connections between the history of music and painting.

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9783940004758

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Dr. Karen Michels, art historian, studied in Bonn and Hamburg. Her dissertation was on Le Corbusier in 1987. Her academic work at the University of Hamburg history of art faculty concerned the reconstruction and supervision of the Warburg House. She has made lengthy research visits to Paris and the United States and taught at the universities of Jena, Halle, and Berlin (Humboldt) between 1998 and 2000. Her publications include 5 Minuten fA1/4r die Kunst (Knesebeck 2007), Aby Warburg: Im Bannkreis der Ideen (Beck 2007), Tagebuch der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Bibliothek Warburg (Akademie 2001), and Transplantierte Kunstwissenschaft (Akademie 1999).

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