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Islamic art is not the art of a nation or of a people, but that of a religion: Islam. Spreading from the Arabian Peninsula, the proselyte believers conquered, in a few centuries, a territory spreading from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. Multicultural and multi-ethnical, this polymorphic and highly...

Mapping Modernisms brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists. Expanding the contours of modernity and its visual products, the contributors illustrate how these artists engaged with ideas of Primitivism through visual...

Art Glass Nouveau is an exploration of the magnificent beauty of colored glass art. This art book contains many unique pieces that were produced extensively in the United States, Great Britain, and other European countries during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when this fine art was...

Nature, a topic central to art history, is concurrently a dominant concept in contemporary art, art theory and its related disciplines such as cultural theory, philosophy, aesthetic theory and environmental studies. The project Naturally Hypernatural questions lines of tradition and predetermined...

Stencil Wars: The Ultimate Book on Star Wars Inspired Street Art collects fantastic Star Wars inspired Street Art from all over the world. Be inspired and fascinated by the combination of the ironic, political and sarcastic expression of the urban art form of Street Art with one of the most well known pop-cultural phenomenon of our time, the Star Wars Universe.

En interrogeant le comment plutôt que le pourquoi, l'historiographie a bien souvent permis d'étoffer la connaissance que nous pouvions avoir d'une discipline intellectuelle. Éminemment précieuse, cette méthodologie s'empare encore trop peu du vaste corpus de l'histoire de l'art et ne publie que...

The Reverend Howard Finster (1916–2001) was called the "backwoods William Blake" and the "Andy Warhol of the South," and he is considered the godfather of contemporary American folk and visionary art. This book is the first interpretive analysis of the intertwined artistic and...

« L’Industrie Culturelle grandissant, l’artiste se voit toujours plus dominé par un impératif : celui de se rendre perceptible. Dans une époque qui demande d’apparaître toujours davantage, contre la bonne morale, je souhaiterais défendre la notion de "pratique élitiste de l’art". J’ai...

Have you heard of gradient nails? Well, the name is pretty self-explanatory. In this short guide, you'll learn how to create beautiful gradient nail art decorations. If you wonder how to create this "gradient effect," you are on the right place. The concept of gradient nail art is...

The map, as it appears in Gilles Deleuze's writings, is a concept guiding the exploration of new territories, no matter how abstract. With the advent of new media and digital technologies, contemporary artists have imagined a panoply of new spaces that put Deleuze's concept to the test. Deleuze's...

These critical essays on art and artists by T.G. Rosenthal, chosen by the author from his considerable output over more than fifty years of writing and reviewing, focus mainly on what has come to be known as ‘Modern British’ art - art from the 20th century. Rosenthal knew many of his subjects personally...

Ce livre s'adresse tout particulièrement aux jeunes qui s'interrogent sur le rôle de la peinture, son sens, et bien évidemment à ceux qui se consacreront à l'art. Ce texte est une argumentation passionnée autour de la nature et la dignité de l'art comme acte d'attention. L'argumentation maintient...

Les bouleversements au cours du XXe siècle dans l'histoire mondiale vont provoquer une incroyable métamorphose de l'art occidental. Une création artistique foisonnante et révolutionnaire va se répandre dans un monde dorénavant sans frontières. Elle laisse libre cours à une extraordinaire prolifération...

Create Beautiful Paintings With Dimension Forge a bold creative path by adding hand-sculpted elements to your two-dimensional work. Discover an entirely fresh and fun approach for creating fine art with paper clay, developed by artist and teacher Rogene Mañas. This all-new bas-relief art form...