Art category: 43213 books
Roy Lichtenstein
How Modern Art Was Saved by Donald Duck
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
A Penguin Special on Roy Lichtenstein by Alastair Sooke - read in 2 hours or less
'Why, Brad darling, this painting is a masterpiece! My, soon you'll have all of New York clamoring for your work!'
Roy Lichtenstein - architect of Pop art, connoisseur of the comic strip, master of irony...
by Thomas Gainsborough, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The portrait and landscape painter Thomas Gainsborough was the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the eighteenth century. Credited as a founder of the British landscape school, Gainsborough sought to change the artistic tastes of his day, establishing an original and innovative approach...
by Nexto Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
Nexto Contemporary Art is pleased to present an e-book “Early Sketches of Christopher KU”, whose works are from his early studying in Gray’s School of Art, Scotland between 1984 and 1988, with a view to offer a clue to trace the inspiration and the development process beyond Ku’s abstract...
L'ART au Domaine de TRÉVALLON
Habillage très touchant des bouteilles par René Dürrbach
Language: French
Release Date: March 19, 2015
L'ART au Domaine de TRÉVALLON
Une approche artistique originale, plus récente, en forme d'hommage, est réalisée par Éloi et Floriane Dürrbach et désormais assistés d'Ostiane et Antoine, leurs enfants, au Domaine de Trévallon à...
Bad New Days
Art, Criticism, Emergency
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
One of the world’s leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practice
Bad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency instilled...
Meanings of Abstract Art
Between Nature and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract art, in contrast, either adopts alternative modes of visual representation or reconfigures mimetic convention. This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature...
Redeeming Art
Critical Reveries
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2004
In essays culled from three decades of critical writing, Donald Kuspit explores the aesthetic developments of the twentieth century, from post-impressionism to the latest permutation of post-Modernism. Ranging from Willem de Kooning to Andy Warhol to Sue Coe, this provocative anthology chronicles...
Art Ninja
Pen Designs
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
In todays sometimes complicated and stressful world, people of all ages are seeking more ways to express themselves creatively. Simple pen drawingsor doodlesare one of the most basic forms of art and also a wonderful way to relax and find gratification.
Seasoned educator, Phyllis Miller, shares...
by Claude Monet, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A founder of French Impressionist painting and the most prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, Claude Monet created a large body of works, developing his own method of producing repeated studies of the same motif in a series, whilst changing...
by Jacques Maritain
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Originally titled Frontières de la Poésie (1935), this book by Jacques Maritain, whose philosophical writings read as interestingly as a novel, will be welcomed by all who are seeking a better understanding of the art of our time. The book delves into Maritain’s thoughts on the nature and subjectivity...
Where Is My Home?
The Art and Life of the Russian-Jewish Sculptor Mark Antokolskii, 1843-1902
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Where Is My Home?: The Art and Life of the Russian-Jewish Sculptor Mark Antokolskii, 1843–1902 is the first full-length study in English of the art and life of Mark Antokolskii, the widely recognized Russian and European sculptor of the late 19th century. An originator of novel trends in sculpture...
Art brut
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Partez à la découverte de l'art brut avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
L'art des « fous », ancêtre de l'art brut, a connu un bouleversement, dans son acception et son impact, que ses premières manifestations n'auguraient pas. Si l'expression du trouble mental a d'abord suscité un...
Art and Theory After Socialism
Art and Theory After Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Contemporary visual culture, art, theory and criticism shifted after the end of the Cold War, so that cultural production in both the East and the West underwent radical new challenges. Art and Theory After Socialism considers the new critical insights that are produced in the collisions of art theory...
Apprécier l'oeuvre d'art
Un guide
Language: French
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Qu'est-ce que l'art? À quoi sert-il? De Rembrandt à Cézanne, de Picasso à Riopelle, l'art fascine et déconcerte. Ce guide, accessible à tous, suggère des approches pour apprivoiser l'art: aller à sa rencontre et, peut-être, se laisser séduire. Art figuratif ou art abstrait, peinture ou sculpture,...