Art category: 43213 books
Art on Skin
Tattoos, Style, and the Human Canvas
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
A celebration of all things tattoo, this visually appealing wealth of tattoo knowledge will have you running for the nearest tattoo artist. The twenty-first century has seen a boom in tattooing, with millions of American’s-23 percent of them-boasting ink on their body. This popular pastime is not...
by Wassily Kandinsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
"I had the impression that here painting itself comes to the foreground; I wondered if it would not be possible to go further in this direction."Thus did the young Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) react to his first viewing of Monet's Haystack, included in an 1895 Moscow exhibit of...
The Awakening Artist
Madness and Spiritual Awakening in Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
The Awakening Artist: Madness and Spiritual Awakening in Art is an art theory book that explores the collision of human madness and spiritual awakening in art. It examines a condition of insanity that can be seen in most art movements throughout art history and contrasts that insanity with revelations...
by Richard Pooler
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Conceptual art in the Western world is in crisis. That is the view of many people who are disillusioned with what they regard as its attention-seeking antics, where artists themselves have proudly proclaimed 'the death of art'. Why has art been on this road to destruction, and how did it get there?...
Art and Agency
An Anthropological Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 1998
Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions of others. He argues that existing anthropological and aesthetic theories take an overwhelmingly passive point of view,...
by Marian Liebmann, Nancy Slater
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Art therapy enables the client and therapist to explore issues that may ordinarily be difficult to articulate in words; one such issue is the complexity of gender, which can be a subject of therapy in a range of ways. Gender identity is at the heart of our self-understanding. The contributors to this...
Endless Andness
The Politics of Abstraction According to Ann Veronica Janssens
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
In Endless Andness, Mieke Bal pioneers a new understanding of the political potential of abstract art which does not passively yield its meaning to the viewer but creates it anew - an art perceived not only through the retina but experienced viscerally. In this book, the third of her companion volumes...
Views of Albion
The Reception of British Art and Design in Central Europe, 18901918
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Views of Albion is the first comprehensive study of the reception of British art and design in Central Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. The author proposes a new map of European Art Nouveau, where direct contacts between peripheral cultures were more significant than the influence of Paris....
Social History of Art, Volume 3
Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details social and historical movements and sketches the...
Making Sense
Art Practice and Transformative Therapeutics
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Making Sense utilises art practice as a pro-active way of thinking that helps us to make sense of the world. It does this by developing an applied understanding of how we can use art as a method of healing and as a critical method of research. Drawing from poststructuralist philosophy, psychoanalysis,...
by Hans Maes
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably dispute about taste? What is the relation between aesthetic and moral evaluations? How to interpret a work of art? Can we learn anything from literature, film or opera? What is sentimentality? What...
The Artful Species
Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature. Our humanoid forerunners displayed aesthetic sensibilities hundreds of thousands of years ago and the art standing of prehistoric cave paintings is virtually uncontested....
Women Art Critics in Nineteenth-Century France
Vanishing Acts
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Over the past years, studies have begun not only to identify the factors that impeded the full participation of women artists in French cultural life, such as women’s limited access to professional art education, but also to bring to light the considerable artistic accomplishments of women occluded...
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Figure Drawing Pose Reference
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Draw, paint, sculpt the figure anytime and anywhere with this portable figure reference.This ebook shows you one pose photographed on a rotating platform with the photos making a complete 360-degree view around the figure. See 28 photos--one every 15 degrees as the models turn through a full circle,...