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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Fifty Key Texts in Art History is an anthology of critical commentaries selected from the classical period to the late modern. It explores some of the central and emerging themes, issues and debates within Art History as an increasingly expansive and globalised discipline. It features an international...
Digital Art and Meaning
Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting a given piece and explaining how it operates, while scholars and critics remain unsure about how to...
The Elements of Creative and Expressive Artistry
A Philosophy for Creating Everything Artistic
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
THE ELEMENTS OF CREATIVE AND EXPRESSIVE ARTISTRY identifies the nine root elements common to all artistic disciplines. Whether you are a writer, visual artist, or a performer, learning the fundamental elements will help you unlock your full artistic potential and create art that is more expressive,...
After the Beautiful
Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility—the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel’s approach to art has been influential in a number of different contexts, but in...
Why Only Art Can Save Us
Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory of politics. But today the problem is not the crises that we do confront, which are often used by governments to legitimize themselves, but the ones that political...
Duty Free Art
Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
What is the function of art in the era of digital globalization?
How can one think of art institutions in an age defined by planetary civil war, growing inequality, and proprietary digital technology? The boundaries of such institutions have grown fuzzy. They extend from a region where the...
by Boris Groys
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The leading art theorist takes on art in the age of the Internet
In the early twentieth century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit. The notion of works of art as sacred objects was decried and subsequently they would be understood merely...
The Destruction of Art
Iconoclasm and Vandalism since the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Last winter, a man tried to break Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain sculpture. The sculpted foot of Michelangelo’s David was damaged in 1991 by a purportedly mentally ill artist. With each incident, intellectuals must confront the unsettling dynamic between destruction and art. Renowned art historian...
The Contemporaneity of Modernism
Literature, Media, Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
At a juncture in which art and culture are saturated with the forces of commodification, this book argues that problems, forms, and positions that defined modernism are crucially relevant to the condition of contemporary art and culture. The volume is attuned to the central concerns of recent scholarship...
A Companion to British Art
1600 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
This companion is a collection of newly-commissioned essays written by leading scholars in the field, providing a comprehensive introduction to British art history.
A generously-illustrated collection of newly-commissioned essays which provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of British...
God's Paintbrush
Prophetic Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
I have always enjoyed art. I began painting and drawing at a young age. I never dreamed that God could take this love of painting and turn it into a ministry. Prophetic art is simply communication with God through art. It is my form of worship. Several years ago God brought women into my life that would...
Art Models Zaza016
Figure Drawing Pose Reference
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Draw, paint, sculpt the figure anytime and anywhere with this portable figure reference. This clothed standing pose (see the cover image) provides a figure reference suitable for all ages. It includes 29 photos—one every 15 degrees as the female model turns through a full circle plus closeups and...
Art Models JohnyG023
Figure Drawing Pose Reference
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Draw, paint, sculpt the figure anytime and anywhere with this portable figure reference.This full body Pose gives you 24 photos—one every 15 degrees as the male model turns through a full circle. Choose your preferred view for 2D art, like painting, or see the whole figure for 3D art, like sculpture....
Art Models AnaIv429
Figure Drawing Pose Reference
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Draw, paint, sculpt the figure anytime and anywhere with this portable figure reference.
This full body pose gives you 25 photos—one every 15 degrees as the female model turns through a full circle, plus an overhead view. Choose your preferred view for 2D art, like painting, or see the whole...