General Art category: 18772 books
Art & Language International
Conceptual Art between Art Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
In Art & Language International Robert Bailey reconstructs the history of the conceptual art collective Art & Language, situating it in a geographical context to rethink its implications for the broader histories of contemporary art. Focusing on its international collaborations with dozens...
Fundación del muralismo mexicano
Textos inéditos de David Alfaro Siqueiros
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 5, 2013
El muralismo mexicano es uno de los movimientos artísticos de mayor impacto y trascendencia en América Latina, y marca un periodo fundacional en la cultura mexicana. Este sentido fundacional aparece desde sus inicios, pues cuando el filósofo José Vasconcelos es nombrado Secretario de Instrucción...
Celestial Sleuth
Using Astronomy to Solve Mysteries in Art, History and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
For a general audience interested in solving mysteries in art, history, and literature using the methods of science, 'forensic astronomy' is a thrilling new field of exploration. Astronomical calculations are the basis of the studies, which have the advantage of bringing to readers both evocative...
by Bruce Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In 1948, the world-renowned book designer Bruce Rogers wrote a brief text that documented and illustrated his creation of the Centaur typeface several decades earlier: The Centaur Types. The book was privately printed by Rogers himself under the name of his design studio, October House. This limited...
by Abd al-Razzaq Moaz, Yasser Tabbaa, Zina Takieddine
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now with Location Index!This new MWNF Travel Book was conceived not long before the war started. All texts refer to the pre-war situation and are our expression of hope that Syria, a land that witnessed the evolution of civilisation since the beginnings of human history, may soon become a place of...
by Léon Tolstoï
Language: French
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Un essai rare, vif et passionné du grand romancier Léon Tolstoï.
Contenu du livre:
AVANT-PROPOS DU TRADUCTEUR
INTRODUCTION
Chapitre I. — Le problème de l’art
Chapitre II. — La beauté
Chapitre III. — Distinction de l’art et de la beauté
Chapitre IV. — Le rôle propre...
by Judith Gura, Sarah Falls
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2020
An Essential Resource for Interior Designers, Students, and Design Teachers
The Interior Design Reader is an essential source for the interior designer or design student, incorporating excerpts of key works on design theory from the ancient world to the twenty-first century. By documenting the ideas...
Experimental Fashion
Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication Award
Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between fashion and performance art, from Lady Gaga's raw meat dress to Leigh Bowery's performance style....
Becoming a Design Entrepreneur
How to Launch Your Design-Driven Ventures from Apps to Zines
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Any designer who runs a studio, office, or firm is entrepreneurial. In fact, anyone with a studio already has an infrastructure for entrepreneurial content development, and with the technological developments over the last few decades, there are more opportunities now than ever. The use of computers...
Painter 11 Creativity
Digital Artist's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Jeremy Sutton is one of the world's premier Painter artists (www.JeremySutton.com and www.PaintboxJ.com), and in this brand new edition of his best-selling Painter Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook, he shows you the methods and techniques he's developed over the years to perfect his art and earn...
Grasping Shadows
The Dark Side of Literature, Painting, Photography, and Film
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
What's in a shadow? Menace, seduction, or salvation? Immaterial but profound, shadows lurk everywhere in literature and the visual arts, signifying everything from the treachery of appearances to the unfathomable power of God. From Plato to Picasso, from Rembrandt to Welles and Warhol, from Lord of...
Sloppy Craft
Postdisciplinarity and the Crafts
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Sloppy Craft: Postdisciplinarity and the Crafts brings together leading international artists and critics to explore the possibilities and limitations of the idea of 'sloppy craft' – craft that is messy or unfinished looking in its execution or appearance, or both. The contributors address 'sloppiness'...
by Peter Gergov
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Alexey Petrovich Bogolyubov (1824 – 1896) was a Russian landscape painter.
Bogolyubov was born in the Pomeranie village of Novgorod Gubernia. His father was retired colonel Pyotr Gavriilovich Bogolyubov. Bogolyubov's maternal grandfather was the well-known philosopher and social critic Alexander...
Leonardo da Vinci
An Account of His Development as an Artist [Revised Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Sir Kenneth Clark made his name as a scholar of Leonardo da Vinci by a Critical Catalogue of Leonardo’s drawings at Windsor Castle, published in 1935, which was recognized as establishing the subject on a firmer chronological basis. Four years later he produced this short book on Leonardo as an...