Art category: 43213 books
Sprezzatura
Concealing the Effort of Art from Aristotle to Duchamp
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The essence of art is to conceal art. A dancer or musician does not only need to perform with ability. There should also be a lack of visible effort that gives an impression of naturalness. To disguise technique and feign ease is to heighten beauty. To express this notion, Italian has a word with...
Art Is Every Day
Activities for the Home, Park, Museum, and City
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Art isn’t just what you find in a museum, a sculpture park, or a one-period-a-week elementary school curriculum-art is every day. Author and educator Eileen Prince offers projects for parents, grandparents, teachers, and others who want to bring meaningful, rich, and fun art experiences into children’s...
Art Lab for Kids: 52 Creative Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Paper, and Mixed Media-For Budding Artists
52 Creative Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Paper, and Mixed Media?For Budding Artists
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
"Susan Schwake's Art Lab for Kids is a well-thought-out guide, making it easy to introduce art into children's lives. Simple, clear explanations of technique, combined with inspiration from established artists, will enable children to feel successful and encouraged to explore art as a form of...
Public Art in Canada
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Arguably, public art is experienced daily by more people than most offerings in galleries, yet our notion of what constitutes public art is surprisingly limited. Public Art in Canada broadens the critical discussion by exploring public art's varied means of engaging with public space and the public...
Art Journal Art Journey
Collage and Storytelling for Honoring Your Creative Process
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Words--Color--Courage
Bravely document your life's journey with Art Journal Art Journey: Collage and Storytelling for Honoring Your Creative Process. Artist Nichole Rae is your creative companion and guide as you explore your art journaling journey in three easy steps.
Begin by putting...
Art, Activism, and Oppositionality
Essays from Afterimage
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 1998
There is a common perception in the arts today that overtly activist art—often seen to sacrifice an aesthetic pleasure for a subversive one—is no longer in fashion. In bringing together sixteen of the most important essays on activist and community-based art from the pages of Afterimage—one...
by Harpal Sodhi
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s & Husain’s Paintings The book, “Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s and Husain’s Paintings”, is a projection of master minds in the field of art. It reveals about the creative works of art that are not just show pieces to adorn rich homes, museums...
The Vienna School of Art History
Empire and the Politics of Scholarship, 1847–1918
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Matthew Rampley’s The Vienna School of Art History is the first book in over seventy-five years to study in depth and in context the practices of art history from 1847, the year the first teaching position in the discipline was created, to 1918, the collapse of Austria-Hungary. It traces the emergence...
The Art of Understanding Art
A Behind the Scenes Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
The Art of Understanding Art reveals to students and other readers new and meaningful ways of developing personal ideas and opinions about art and how to express them with confidence.
Offers an inquiry—unique among introductory art texts—into the learning process of understanding and appreciating...
History of Art
A Student's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This fully revised edition of the History of Art: A Student's Handbook introduces students to the kinds of practices, challenges, questions and writings they will encounter in studying the history of art.
Marcia Pointon conveys the excitement of Art History as a multi-faceted discipline addressing...
by Peter Russell, James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2017
The American James Abbott McNeill Whistler was averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, establishing himself as a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". Finding a parallel between painting and music, Whistler entitled many of his paintings with musical names,...
by Gayle A. Asch, Matt Curless
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
REA's Crash Course for the AP® Art History Exam - Gets You a Higher Advanced Placement® Score in Less Time 2nd Edition - Completely Revised for the New 2016 ExamCrash Course is perfect for the time-crunched student, the last-minute studier, or anyone who wants a refresher on the subject. Are you crunched...
The Art Instinct
Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The Art Instinct combines two of the most fascinating and contentious disciplines, art and evolutionary science, in a provocative new work that will revolutionize the way art itself is perceived. Aesthetic taste, argues Denis Dutton, is an evolutionary trait, and is shaped by natural selection. It's...
Digital Art Wonderland
Creative Techniques for Inspirational Journaling and Beautiful Blogging
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Set out on a digital adventure!
Come inside Digital Art Wonderland where digital art and art journaling embark together on a luscious visual journey. The daring crew of Angi Sullins and Silas Toball give you a personal tour through a digital art journaling world, showing you how to make your own wonderous...