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Amplified Art
Dynamic Techniques for High-Impact Pages
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Create art with a visual impact!
Discover how to express yourself loud and proud with the help of Amplified Art. In this fiercely fun technique book, you'll learn to create art journal pages that pop, using step-by-step instruction for adding arresting color, high contrast graphic elements...
The Future of Art in a Digital Age
From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
This book develops the thesis that the transition from premodernism to postmodernism in art of the digital age represents a paradigm shift from the Hellenistic to the Hebraic roots of Western culture. Semiotic and morphological analysis of art and visual culture demonstrate the contemporary confluence...
by Sheri Klein
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This is the first book to take seriously - though not too seriously - the surprisingly neglected role of humour in art.
'Art and Laughter' looks back to comic masters such as Hogarth and Daumier and to Dada, Surrealism and Pop Art, asking what makes us laugh and why. It explores the use of...
Art vidéo
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Partez à la découverte de l'art vidéo avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
On peut définir l' art vidéo comme une télévision faite par des artistes : il s'agit de productions privées, parfois rudimentaires, qui visent moins à la distraction qu'à des buts esthétiques communs à d'autres...
Thresholds and Boundaries
Liminality in Netherlandish Art (1385-1530)
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Although liminality has been studied by scholars of medieval and seventeenth-century art, the role of the threshold motif in Netherlandish art of the late fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries -- this late medieval/early ‘early modern’ period -- has been much less fully investigated. Thresholds...
Aesthetics at Large
Volume 1: Art, Ethics, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgment, Thierry de Duve argues in the first volume of Aesthetics at Large, is as relevant to the appreciation of art today as it was to the enjoyment of beautiful nature in 1790. Going against the grain of all aesthetic theories situated in the Hegelian tradition, this...
Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting
Kano Hogai and the Search for Images
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
The Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world’s fairs and export shops catapulted Japanese art to new levels of international popularity. With that popularity, however, came criticism, as Western writers began to lament a perceived end to pure Japanese art and a rise in...
Authentically African
Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Together, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and the Institut des Musées Nationaux du Zaire (IMNZ) in the Congo have defined and marketed Congolese art and culture. In Authentically African, Sarah Van Beurden traces the relationship between the possession, definition, and display...
Imagine
A Vision for Christians in the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Imagine art that is risky, complex, and subtle. Imagine music, movies, books, and paintings of the highest quality. Imagine art that permeates society, challenging conventional thinking and standard morals to their core. Imagine that it is all created by Christians! This is the bold vision of Steve...
Incite 4
Relax Restore Renew
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Slow down... let go... recharge...
The process of art-making has long been known to have meditative and healing effects on the mind, body and soul. In Incite 4: Relax, Restore, Renew, 120 artists from around the globe share the most restorative and revitalizing aspects of their art-making through...
by Relja & Vida Penezic
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
ART FOR HOTELS paints a stunning picture of a migrant mind, through a unique and innovative blend of art and story-telling. Word HOTELS in the title is not used literally but as a symbol of a place where one stays when one is not at home. “A collection of 108 images and 4 written pieces,” explain...
Yoruba Art and Language
Seeking the African in African Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Yoruba was one of the most important civilizations of sub-Saharan Africa. While the high quality and range of its artistic and material production have long been recognized, the art of the Yoruba has been judged primarily according to the standards and principles of Western aesthetics. In this book,...
Unlimited action
The performance of extremity in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Unlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which artists have exposed, refused, or otherwise reshaped the horizon of aesthetics and of the practice of art, by way of performance art. It examines the ‘performance of extremity’ as practices at the limits of...
Joan of Arc in French Art and Culture (1700�855)
From Satire to Sanctity
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In her meticulous and wide-ranging study, Nora M. Heimann follows the metamorphosis of Joan of Arc's posthumous representation during the years in which her image ascended from relative obscurity as a minor provincial figure in the middle ages through her treatment as a figure of political satire...