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Central to Their Lives
Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Looking back at her lengthy career just four years before her death, modernist painter Nell Blaine said, “Art is central to my life. Not being able to make or see art would be a major deprivation.” The Virginia native’s creative path began early, and, during the course of her life, she overcame...
More Than a Likeness
The Enduring Art of Mary Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
More Than a Likeness: The Enduring Art of Mary Whyte is the first comprehensive book on the life and work of one of today’s most renowned watercolorists. From Whyte’s earliest paintings in rural Ohio and Pennsylvania, to the riveting portraits of her southern neighbors, historian Martha R. Severens...
by James Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
A vivid excursion into London's nineteenth century art world, evoking the famed personalities, social changes, and technological advances that sparked a revolution in art commerce.
Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence...
Broad Strokes
15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 female artists from around...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
German Expressionism was an extraordinarily vivid presence in the art of the early twentieth century, its violent colors and often distorted, stylized forms reflecting not only the rebellious spirit of its participants, but the revolutionary mood of the new century itself. One of the most popular...
Hermann Goring and the Nazi Art Collection
The Looting of Europe's Art Treasures and Their Dispersal After World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
During World War II, the Nazis plundered from occupied countries millions of items of incalculable value estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Spearheaded by Hermann Göring the looting program quickly created the largest private art collection in the world, exceeding the collections amassed...
by Elsa Bethanis, Peter Bethanis
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
What kind of artists put a mustache on the Mona Lisa? Enter a urinal in an art competition? Declare their own independent republic? Hijack a ship?
Dadas!
And what happens in such a movement? With Dada, many of the artists declared their own “Pope” and continued their journey (with...
LE MAS BERNARD - La famille MAEGHT, les Arts et les Artistes
Galerie d'Art sur Bouteilles 2
Language: French
Release Date: June 24, 2014
LE MAS BERNARD - La famille MAEGHT, les Arts et les Artistes
Une autre approche de l'Art et du Vin vous est décrite dans ce livre sur la célèbre famille de galeristes parisiens qui a développé depuis 1936 et trois générations des contacts très...
A Place to Know
Aesthetic Meaning in Recent Visual Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
To engage with the aesthetic is to watch yourself watching—and what you see cannot be reached, for all that exists is the reflection of the vision performed by you. The aesthetic experience offers insights into the consciousness that are both ancient and linked to creative inventions in present-day...
William Blake, le peintre des ténèbres
Un romantique tourné vers l'invisible
Language: French
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Décryptez l'art de William Blake en moins d'une heure !Dans les soubresauts révolutionnaires qui agitent l’Europe à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, William Blake crée un art sans précédent. Unique, l’univers de Blake l’est sans le moindre doute : il se sert des visions qui l’habitent depuis l’enfance...
The Belly Art Project
Moms Supporting Moms
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The Belly Art Project is a celebration of one of humanity’s greatest gifts: motherhood! Created by Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx and the Sara Blakely Foundation, this beautiful, happy book features photographs of over 100 women who came together and used unlikely canvases - their bellies -...
The Museums of Contemporary Art
Notion and Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Where, how, by whom and for what were the first museums of contemporary art created? These are the key questions addressed by J. Pedro Lorente in this new book. In it he explores the concept and history of museums of contemporary art, and the shifting ways in which they have been imagined and presented....
Gauguin’s Challenge
New Perspectives After Postmodernism
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Several decades have now passed since postcolonial and feminist critiques presented the art-historical world with a demythologized Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), a much-diminished image of the artist/hero who had once been universally admired as "the father of modernist primitivism.†? In this volume,...
Airbrush Art
An Introductory Guide to Airbrushing, How to Airbrush, Airbrush Nail Art, Airbrush Painting, and Airbrushing Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
In this absolute beginner's guide discover everything you need to know about airbrush art, how to airbrush, airbrush nail art, airbrushing, airbrush painting and airbrushing techniques.