Art category: 43213 books
The Art of Paint Pouring
Tips, techniques, and step-by-step instructions for creating colorful poured art in acrylic
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Learn the creative, innovative technique of making art by pouring paint with The Art of Paint Pouring! Featuring easy step-by-step projects, practical tips, and beautiful art from an established paint-pouring expert, this book will help artists of any skill level make colorful, textured art by pouring...
The Art Abandonment Project
Create and Share Random Acts of Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Art sharing at its sneakiest!Art sharing at its sneakiest!
The Art Abandonment Project is your guide to expressing yourself through random acts of art! Create something for the joy of making it, and then leave it for an unsuspecting person to find--be it on a shelf at the library, a park bench,...
New Tendencies
Art at the Threshold of the Information Revolution (1961 - 1978)
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
An account of a major international art movement originating in the former Yugoslavia in the 1960s, which anticipated key aspects of information aesthetics.
New Tendencies, a nonaligned modernist art movement, emerged in the early 1960s in the former Yugoslavia, a nonaligned country. It represented...
by Jean-Claude Moineau
Language: French
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: September 22, 2016
«Le pire ennemi de l’art, ce n’est, contrairement à ce qu’a pu donner à croire la modernité, ni la vie ni le monde moderne ni la culture mass-médiatique moderne, autrement dit un hypothétique ennemi extérieur, c’est l’art lui-même, et ce pas seulement au sens où l’art aspirerait...
Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso's & Husain's Paintings. Part 5
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, #5
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s & Husain’s Paintings. Part 5 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...
The Vatican Art Deck
100 Masterpieces
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This one-of-a-kind array of 100 art masterpieces, quality printed on handsome card stock, brings together the finest works from the magnificent spiritual and artistic collection of the Vatican.
The Vatican is one of the most popular destinations in the world, with more than 5 million visitors...
Classical Art
A Life History from Antiquity to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious, richly illustrated...
by Andrew Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
What is the work of art? How does art work as art? Andrew Benjamin contends that the only way to address these questions is by developing a radically new materialist philosophy of art, and by rethinking the history of art from within that perspective.
A materialist philosophy of art starts...
How Folklore Shaped Modern Art
A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed relevance of what were previously considered "outsider" art practices, the emphasis...
Artistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
This volume examines the motives behind rejections of beauty often found within contemporary art practice, where much critically acclaimed art is deliberately ugly and alienating. It reflects on the nature and value of beauty, asking whether beauty still has a future in art and what role it can play...
by Jane Portal
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
Nuclear bombs and geopolitical controversy are often the first things associated with North Korea and its volatile leader Kim Jong-II. Yet behind the secretive curtain of this isolated nation also lies a little-known and slowly expanding world of art.
Art Under Control in North Korea is the...
Art and the Market
Roger Fry on Commerce in Art, Selected Writings, Edited with an Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Roger Fry, a core member of the Bloomsbury Group, was involved with all aspects of the art market as artist, critic, curator, historian, journalist, advisor to collectors, and gallery operator. He is especially remembered as the person who introduced postimpressionist art to Britain.
Reprinted...
Changing Pictures
Rock Art Traditions and Visions in the Northernmost Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
This volume derives from a workshop held at the University of Kalmar (now Linnaeus University), Sweden between the 20-24 of October 2008. The aim of this gathering was to provide a forum for rock art researchers from different parts of northern Europe to discuss traditional as well as current interpretative...
Stealing History
Art Theft, Looting, and Other Crimes Against our Cultural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
When compared to terrorism, drugs and violent crimes that occupy the news today art is not considered as important. But, as it turns out, art and cultural crime is currently ranked as the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world. What exactly is art crime? Why does art matter? And what is law...