Art category: 43213 books
Art Forgery
The History of a Modern Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
With the recent advent of technologies that make detecting art forgeries easier, the art world has become increasingly obsessed with verifying and ensuring artistic authenticity. In this unique history, Thierry Lenain examines the genealogy of faking and interrogates the anxious, often neurotic, reactions...
Art for People's Sake
Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
In the 1960s and early 1970s, Chicago witnessed a remarkable flourishing of visual arts associated with the Black Arts Movement. From the painting of murals as a way to reclaim public space and the establishment of independent community art centers to the work of the AFRICOBRA collective and Black...
How to Do Things with Art
The Meaning of Art's Performativity
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Art has never been as culturally and economically prominent as it is today. How can artists themselves shape the social relevance and impact of their work? In How to Do Things with Art, German art historian Dorothea von Hantelmann uses four case study artists--Daniel Buren, James Coleman, Jeff Koons...
Time to Play
Action and Interaction in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
'Play art' or interactive art is becoming a central concept in the contemporary art world, disrupting the traditional role of passive observance usually assumed by audiences, allowing them active participation. The work of 'play' artists - from Carsten Höller's 'Test Site' at the Tate Modern to Gabriel...
The Engagement Aesthetic
Experiencing New Media Art through Critique
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Long after painting, sculpture, photography, and film developed along with their materials - canvas and panel, marble and bronze, and celluloid film - a new generation of art has emerged in which digital, electronic, architectural, and performative materials have offered new forms for creative expression...
by Isabella Alston
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The French poster, born of a basic utilitarian purpose, has developed with age into an admired and collected art form. Vintage posters command high prices at auction and curators specialize in their restoration. The earliest art-worthy posters appeared on the streets of Paris designed by French-born...
Modern Art in Pakistan
History, Tradition, Place
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Modern Art in Pakistan examines interaction of space, tradition, and history to analyse artistic production in Pakistan from the 1950s to recent times. It traces the evolution of modernism in Pakistan and frames it in a global context in the aftermath of Partition.
A masterful insight into...
Museum Representations of Maoist China
From Cultural Revolution to Commie Kitsch
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The collection, interpretation and display of art from the People’s Republic of China, and particularly the art of the Cultural Revolution, have been problematic for museums. These objects challenge our perception of ’Chineseness’ and their style, content and the means of their production question...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Anthropology and Art Practice takes an innovative look at new experimental work informed by the newly-reconfigured relationship between the arts and anthropology. This practice-based and visual work can be characterised as 'art-ethnography'. In engaging with the concerns of both fields, this cutting-edge...
Hokusai, le fou génial du Japon moderne
Essai sur l'art
Language: French
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Étude de l'œuvre d'un maître qui a influencé des générations d'artistes.Hokusai fut d’abord un homme d’école, le camarade et l’émule de ces délicats. Puis, son indépendance géniale lui fit abandonner les systèmes et les disciplines, et tenter toutes les expériences qui sollicitèrent...
Alternative Art Surfaces
Mixed-Media Techniques for Painting on More Than 35 Different Surfaces
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Indulge your creative curiosity and take your art off the canvas, off the board, and into the brave new world of Alternative Art Surfaces!
Mixed-media powerhouse duo Darlene Olivia McElroy and Sandra Duran Wilson, authors of the best-selling books Image Transfer Workshop, Surface Treatment Workshop...
by Gregory Mirow
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
If you are an artist or designer, craftworker or art student, the price of this volume may be the best investment you've ever made. It contains an incredibly rich collection of bright, modern design material that is immediately usable — all selected especially for this volume from historical periods...
The Art of Illustrated Maps
A Complete Guide to Creative Mapmaking's History, Process and Inspiration
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
While literally hundreds of books exist on the subject of "cartographic" maps, The Art of Illustrated Maps is the first book EVER to fully explore the world of conceptual, "imaginative" mapping. Author John Roman refers to illustrated maps as "the creative nonfiction of cartography," and his book...
by Megan Prelinger
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
A visual history of the electronic age captures the collision of technology and art—and our collective visions of the future.
A hidden history of the twentieth century’s brilliant innovations—as seen through art and images of electronics that fed the dreams of millions.
A rich...