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Art History as Cultural History
Warburg's Projects
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book focuses on Aby Warburg (1866-1929), one of the legendary figures of twentieth century cultural history. His collection, which is now housed in the Warburg Institute of the University of London bears witness to his idiosyncratic approach to a psychology of symbolism, and explores the Nachleben...
by Dr Richard Warren
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Art Nouveau was a style for a new age, but it was also one that continued to look back to the past. This new study shows how in expressing many of their most essential concerns – sexuality, death and the nature of art – its artists drew heavily upon classical literature and the iconography of...
by J. Pedro Lorente
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Museums and public art have traditionally taken significantly different approaches to customer engagement, but throughout history they have also worked together in some urban contexts, notably as landmarks of so-called cultural districts. Public Art and Museums in Cultural Districts reviews their...
Running the City
Why Public Art Matters
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Leading Australian curator Felicity Fenner profiles activity-based and pop-up contemporary public art projects from Australia and around the globe. Running the City explores art projects that bring together diverse disciplines and cultures – including running, cycling, architecture, and guerilla...
BCNFreeArt 01
The Port and Barceloneta. A guide to free art in Barcelona
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Why free art in Barcelona?
The idea for these guides sprang from hard times. Whether in boom or recession, art remains fundamental. But while free art is a great idea, not all great art is free. So this guide takes you places where there is no admission fee.
BCN Free Art 01: The Port...
Art paléochrétien
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Partez à la découverte de l'art paléochrétien avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Que signifie l'expression d'« art chrétien » ? Consacrée par l'usage, elle est historiquement fausse. En effet, la définition d'un « art chrétien » repose sur l'idée d'une séparation entre les domaines...
Outsider Art in Texas
Lone Stars
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Texas looms large: big skies, vast plains, large cities. The Lone Star State often inspires a heightened sense of place in its citizens that rivals or surpasses that of New Yorkers. This is frequently reflected in the art of Texas—paintings of bluebonnet fields, longhorn cattle, and scenes from...
Crusade for Your Art
Best Practices for Fine Art Photographers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Crusade For Your Art: Best Practices for Fine Art Photographers gives you the tools to take your fine art photography career by the reins and thoughtfully and purposefully develop a plan to get you where you want to go. Learn how to tighten your work, develop your brand, identify goals and a plan...
The Aesthetics of Violence
Art, Fiction, Drama and Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Violence at an aesthetic remove from the spectator or reader has been a key element of narrative and visual arts since Greek antiquity. Here Robert Appelbaum explores the nature of mimesis, aggression, the effects of antagonism and victimization and the political uses of art throughout history. He...
Taking AIM!
The Business of Being an Artist Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Taking Aim! The Business of Being an Artist Today is a practical, affordable resource guide filled with invaluable advice for the emerging artist. The book is specially designed to aid visual artists in furthering
their careers through unfiltered information about the business practices and idiosyncrasies...
The Scientist and the Forger
Probing a Turbulent Art World
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
In The Scientist and the Forger: Probing a Turbulent Art World the author draws upon an enthralling range of case studies, from Botticelli to Leonardo, Campendonk to Pollock and Chagall to Freud, equipping the reader with a holistic understanding of an art world shaped by fast-moving trends, and increasingly...
Between Art and Artifact
Archaeological Replicas and Cultural Production in Oaxaca, Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Oaxaca is internationally renowned for its marketplaces and archaeological sites where tourists can buy inexpensive folk art, including replicas of archaeological treasures. Archaeologists, art historians, and museum professionals sometimes discredit this trade in “fakes” that occasionally make...
Kuna Art and Shamanism
An Ethnographic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Known for their beautiful textile art, the Kuna of Panama have been scrutinized by anthropologists for decades. Perhaps surprisingly, this scrutiny has overlooked the magnificent Kuna craft of nuchukana—wooden anthropomorphic carvings—which play vital roles in curing and other Kuna rituals. Drawing...
Yard Art and Handmade Places
Extraordinary Expressions of Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Relatively few people in America build their own homes, but many yearn to make the places they live in more truly their own. Yard Art and Handmade Places profiles twenty homemakers who have used their yards and gardens to express their sense of individuality, to maintain connections to family and...