Art category: 43213 books
by Stevie Mack, Kitty Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
The folk art inspired by Day of the Dead, celebrated in Mexico and around the world, including the American Southwest, powerfully communicates the cultural traditions of this joyous holiday. As a companion volume to the authors' Day of the Dead, this book focuses on the artistic imagery of Day of...
Spirituality and Art Therapy
Living the Connection
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001
Reflecting the increasing recognition of the importance of the spiritual in healing, Spirituality and Art Therapy is an exciting exploration of the different ways in which the spiritual forms an essential, life-enhancing component of a well-rounded therapeutic approach. The contributors are leading...
Outsider Art
From the Margins to the Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
The term outsider art has been used to describe work produced exterior to the mainstream of modern art by certain self-taught visionaries, spiritualists, eccentrics, recluses, psychiatric patients, criminals, and others beyond the perceived margins of society. Yet the idea of such a raw, untaught...
Postwar Italian Art History Today
Untying 'the Knot'
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Postwar Italian Art History Today brings fresh critical consideration to the parameters and impact of Italian art and visual culture studies of the past several decades. Taking its cue from the thirty-year anniversary of curator Germano Celant's landmark exhibition at PS1 in New York – The Knot...
Entry Points
The Vera List Center Field Guide on Art and Social Justice No. 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Providing a lively snapshot of the state of art and social justice today on a global level, Entry Points accompanies the inaugural Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics, launched at The New School on the occasion of the center’s twentieth anniversary. This book captures some of the most significant...
by Wu Hung
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
We might think the Egyptians were the masters of building tombs, but no other civilization has devoted more time and resources to underground burial structures than the Chinese. For at least five thousand years, from the fourth millennium B.C.E. to the early twentieth century, the Chinese have been...
by J.D. Harding
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Originally published in 1845 as The Principles & Practice of Art: With Illustrations Drawn and Engraved by the Author, this enduring guide is the work of an English painter and lithographer. J. D. Harding wrote several popular books on art instruction, and this volume constitutes one of his finest....
by Heidi C. Gearhart
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
In this study of the rare twelfth-century treatise On Diverse Arts, Heidi C. Gearhart explores the unique system of values that guided artists of the High Middle Ages as they created their works.
Written in northern Germany by a monk known only by the pseudonym Theophilus, On Diverse Arts is...
Time and Place
The Geohistory of Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Authors from Herodotus in antiquity to Vasari in the Renaissance related art and architecture to peoples, nations, regions, cities, and environments. Already with Winckelmann and the origins of discussion of art history in the eighteenth century geography was seen as a powerful determinant of art....
The Poster
Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860s–1900s
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The Poster: Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860s–1900s is a cultural history that situates the poster at the crossroads of art, design, advertising, and collecting. Though international in scope, the book focuses especially on France and England. Ruth E. Iskin argues that the avant-garde...
by Walter Pach
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Walter Pach was an artist, critic, lecturer, art adviser, and art historian who wrote extensively about modern art and championed the cause of modern art. Through his numerous books, articles, and translations of European art texts Pach brought the emerging modernist viewpoint to the American public....
Memory and Desire
Painting in Britain and Ireland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This title was first published in 2002. 'Memory and Desire' is a lavishly illustrated account of the art world in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. It calls upon rich resources of contemporary diaries, letters and art criticism, as well as the analysis of works of art to answer questions...
Art Labor, Sex Politics
Feminist Effects in 1970s British Art and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Contrary to critics who have called it the “undecade,” the 1970s were a time of risky, innovative art—and nowhere more so than in Britain, where the forces of feminism and labor politics merged in a radical new aesthetic. In Art Labor, Sex Politics Siona Wilson investigates the charged relationship...
REMEX
Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
REMEX presents the first comprehensive examination of artistic responses and contributions to an era defined by the North American Free Trade Agreement (1994–2008). Marshaling over a decade’s worth of archival research, interviews, and participant observation in Mexico City and the Mexico–US...