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by Sergio Kokis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
Where is reality to be found: at the surface of things or behind it?
Max Willem, a young art student in Montreal at the end of the 1960s, becomes obsessed with outward appearances - with makeup, costume, and masks of all kinds. For him, outward reality, and in particular that of the opposite...
Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force
Mapping a Chicano/a Art History
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
The Royal Chicano Air Force produced major works of visual art, poetry, prose, music, and performance during the second half of the twentieth century and first decades of the twenty-first. Materializing in Sacramento, California, in 1969 and established between 1970 and 1972, the RCAF helped redefine...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Place plays a fundamental role in the structuring of the discipline of Art History. And yet, place also limits the questions art historians can ask and impairs analysis of objects and locations in the interstices of established, ossified categories. The chapters in this interdisciplinary volume investigate...
by John Boardman
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
“One of the very best short histories of Greek Art.” — The Financial Times
John Boardman, one of the best known and acknowledged scholars of the classical Greek world, has updated his definitive survey of its arts, the most influential and widely known historic artistic tradition of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
This groundbreaking collection from scholars and artists on the legacy of Beckett in contemporary art provides readers with a unique view of this important writer for page, stage, and screen. The volume argues that Beckett is more than an influence on contemporary art—he is, in fact, a contemporary...
Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity
Orthodox Theology and the Aesthetics of the Christian Image
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity presents a critical, interdisciplinary examination of contemporary theological and philosophical studies of the Christian image and redefines this within the Orthodox tradition by exploring the ontological and aesthetic implications of Orthodox ascetic and mystical...
by Jean-Claude Moineau
Language: French
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Œuvre-produit, consommation et production culturelle, marché et valeur, artiste-marque : cet essai s’intéresse aux liens complexes entre art et économie pour en révéler les enjeux et les systèmes de domination. Le théoricien de l’art Jean-Claude Moineau interroge le statut de l’artiste...
Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba
Ife History, Power, and Identity, c. 1300
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
In this book, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the intersection of art, risk and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife and the striking ways that ancient Ife artworks inform society, politics, history and religion. Yoruba art offers a unique lens into one of Africa's most important...
Repainting the Walls of Lunda
Information Colonialism and Angolan Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Repainting the Walls of Lunda chronicles the publication and dissemination of an anthropology book, Paredes Pintadas da Lunda (Painted Walls of Lunda), which was published in Portuguese in 1953. The book featured illustrations of wall murals and sand drawings of the Chokwe peoples of northeastern Angola....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Build a Successful Art Career!
2014 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market is the must-have reference guide for any artist who wants to establish or expand a career in fine art, illustration or graphic design. Thousands of successful artists have relied on us to help develop their careers and navigate...
3D Art Lab for Kids
32 Hands-on Adventures in Sculpture and Mixed Media - Including fun projects using clay, plaster, cardboard, paper, fiber beads and more!
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
An inspiring collection of ideas and projects for encouraging an artistic spirit in children! 3D Art Lab for Kids includes 36 kid-friendly fine art projects in paper, clay, textiles, sculpture, and jewelry. Each project is inspired by the work of a prominent artist and is illustrated with step-by-step...
by W. M. Flinders Petrie
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This present handbook is intended to aid in the understanding of Egyptian art, and the illustrations and descriptions are selected for that purpose only. The history of the art would require a far greater range of examples, in order to illustrate the growth and decay of each of the great periods;...
by Jessica Schwarzenbach, Paul Hackett
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Once the US was the only country in the world to offer a doctorate for studio artists, however** **the PhD in fine art disappeared after pressures established the MFA as the terminal degree for visual artists. Subsequently, the PhD in fine art emerged in the UK and is now offered by approximately...
Sacred Art
Catholic Saints and Candomble Gods in Modern Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Sacred art flourishes today in northeastern Brazil, where European and African religious traditions have intersected for centuries. Professional artists create images of both the Catholic saints and the African gods of Candomblé to meet the needs of a vast market of believers and art collectors.
Over...