Art category: 43213 books
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The art of birds
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
We tend to take birds for granted, in the landscape or in our neighbourhoods. The presence of birds communicates the health of a place. When they're gone, it's as though there's a hole in the sky, in the air, an absence of beauty and grace, and vivid chatter or haunting cries are replaced with eerie...
The Subject in Art
Portraiture and the Birth of the Modern
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2006
Challenging prevailing theories regarding the birth of the subject, Catherine M. Soussloff argues that the modern subject did not emerge from psychoanalysis or existential philosophy but rather in the theory and practice of portraiture in early-twentieth-century Vienna. Soussloff traces the development...
by Paul Barolsky, Professor Thomas Crow, Gloria Kury
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Fictions of Art History, the most recent addition to the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, addresses art history’s complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art historians’ viewing practices and modes of writing....
The Arts
A Comparative Approach to the Arts of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Music and Drama
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Thomas Walters is an accomplished professional art educator and interdisciplinary humanities professor. His education includes a B.S. degree in Art Education from Atlantic Union College, where he concentrated in drawing, ceramics and art history. He also holds an M.A.T. degree in Art Education from...
by James Jackson Jarves
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
First published in 1876, when many considered Japanese art a mere curiosity, A Glimpse at the Art of Japan presents Jarves remarkable examination of the problems of Japanese aesthetics, offering a penetrating analysis of the historical, religious, and social influences on the development of art in...
Form as Revolt
Carl Einstein and the Ground of Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The German writer and art critic Carl Einstein (1885–1940) has long been acknowledged as an important figure in the history of modern art, and yet he is often sidelined as an enigma. In Form as Revolt Sebastian Zeidler recovers Einstein's multifaceted career, offering the first comprehensive intellectual...
by Ben Schachter
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Contemporary Jewish art is a growing field that includes traditional as well as new creative practices, yet criticism of it is almost exclusively reliant on the Second Commandment’s prohibition of graven images. Arguing that this disregards the corpus of Jewish thought and a century of criticism...
Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs Fourth Revised Edition
A Comprehensive Handbook on Symbolism in Chinese Art Through the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Written with reader accessibility in mind, this comprehensive handbook of symbolism in Chinese art and culture will be an invaluable resource for any student of Eastern art history, Chinese arts and crafts, and anyone interested in commonly held Chinese beliefs and their origins.
In Chinese...
Art of Faith
A Guide to Understanding Christian Images
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Have you stood in front of a painting and thought, What does this mean? The Art of Faith answers this question again and again, with insight, wit, and verve, providing a thorough reference to Christian art through the centuries. Practical and easy to read, this book unfolds the ancient world of Christian...
The Arts and the Christian Imagination
Essays on Art, Literature, and Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Dr. Clyde Kilby was known to many as an early, long and effective champion of C. S. Lewis, and the founder of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College, IL, for the study of the works of Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and other members of the Inklings. Less known is that Dr. Kilby was also an apologist...
Art and Spiritual Transformation
The Seven Stages of Death and Rebirth
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
The primal role of art in awakening and liberating the soul of humanity
• Presents a seven-stage journey of transformation moving from the darkened soul to the light of spiritual illumination
• Provides a meditation practice to experience the spiritual energy embedded within art
•...
by Sandy Nairne
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
In 1994 two important paintings by J.M.W. Turner—then valued at twenty-four million pounds—were stolen from a German public gallery while on loan from Tate Britain. In this vivid, personal account, Sandy Nairne who was then Director of Programmes at the Tate and became centrally involved in the...
A Retired Art Teacher Tells All
One Hundred Simple Tips to Help Teachers Become Efficient, Inspiring, and Happy Educators
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
As a young art instructor, new on the block, Marlene Nall Johnt went looking for an instructive manual about successful art education techniques. To her dismay, she never found one. Now retired, Johnt realized what needed to be done: she needed to write just such a manual for the young teachers of...
by Bruce Azevedo
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
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With my eBook, How To Start An Art Business Online, I will show you everything you need to know to get your business started online. There are a total of 25 easy...