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Foundations in Comic Book Art
SCAD Creative Essentials (Fundamental Tools and Techniques for Sequential Artists)
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
A comprehensive guide to creating and developing comic book and graphic novel art, from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), one of the world's leaders in sequential arts instruction.
John Lowe, Dean of the School of Communication Arts at SCAD, presents an in-depth primer on the tools...
Seeing Through the Seventies
Essays on Feminism and Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
In recent years, Laura Cottingham has emerged as one of the most visible feminist critics of the so-called post-feminist generation. Following a social-political approach to art history and criticism that accepts visual culture as part of a larger social reality, Cottingham's writings investigate...
Timberland Voyage
Abstract Symmetry Tree Art Photography
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
“Timberland Voyage” uses the single aspect of trees as the core of the art photograph book. Each image within the book falls into three distinct and separate categories as to how it manipulates the woodland tree subject.
“Pure Tree Symmetry” uses reflection and symmetrical compositions...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This is the third volume in The Art Seminar, James Elkin's series of conversations on art and visual studies.
Is Art History Global? stages an international conversation among art historians and critics on the subject of the practice and responsibility of global thinking within the discipline....
For the Love of Beauty
Art History and the Moral Foundations of Aesthetic Judgment
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
For most of the last century the methodology of art history has followed a positivist approach, emphasizing form and style, fact and history as the means of studying works of art. By contrast the philosophical pursuit of truth, once central to the fine arts and humanities has largely been abandoned....
by Gottfried Richter, Konrad Oberhuber
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
This survey of western art from ancient Egypt to Picasso looks at visual art in a completely new and imaginative way. Gottfried Richters lively and penetrating observations will inspire and enthuse the novice, while breathing new life into the thinking of art critics and historians. Richter concerns...
The Frame in Classical Art
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
The frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to view framing devices as supplementary 'ornaments'. Likewise, classical archaeologists have often treated them as tools for taxonomic analysis. This book not only argues for...
by Michael Corris
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Diego Rivera, Dorothea Lange, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel: Art and activism have long been intertwined, and the political fallout has resulted in an artistic canon riddled with historical holes. One of the most glaring omissions from most listings of American art masters is Ad Reinhardt (1913–67). An...
The Art of Painting Sea Life in Watercolor
Master techniques for painting spectacular sea animals in watercolor
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
With helpful tips and easy-to-follow lessons, The Art of Painting Sea Life in Watercolor will teach readers everything they need to know to create beautiful works of art in watercolor. The Art of Painting Sea Life in Watercolor opens with a guide to essential information on the necessary tools and...
The Rape of the Masters
How Political Correctness Sabotages Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2005
Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball reveals in this witty and provocative book, the student is less likely to learn about the aesthetics of masterworks than to be told,...
Painting the Southern Coast
The Art of West Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Painting the Southern Coast: The Art of West Fraser is a stunning collection of the works of West Fraser, one of the nation's most respected painters of representational art. A mastery of his medium and the scope of work ensure his place in southern art history. A true son of the lowcountry, Fraser...
by Beth Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2004
Christian images have a long history within the Western art tradition from the narrative and devotional works of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, to the radical new interpretations of the twenty-first century. This fascinating new book explores the changing nature of the representation of key...
by Anne Dunlop
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The rise of the mendicant orders in the later Middle Ages coincided with rapid and dramatic shifts in the visual arts. The mendicants were prolific patrons, relying on artworks to instruct and impress their diverse lay congregations. Churches and chapels were built, and new images and iconographies...
by Hugo Munsterberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Zen & Oriental Art is an indispensable, beautifully illustrated introduction to the influences of Zen Buddhism on Oriental painting, folk art, and architecture, with a special section on the role of Zen in twentieth-century art and architecture in the West.
Author, Dr. Munsterberg quite...