General Art category: 18772 books
Make It Now!
Creative Inspiration and the Art of Getting Things Done
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
'If you’re stuck for an idea, have a big decision to handle or need a new perspective on a problem, here are some approaches for thinking, communicating and creativity. An upbeat guide that anyone can use to help with the big and small challenges we face every day.’ Anthony Burrill
A life-affirming...
Critical Issues In American Art
A Book Of Readings
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
This anthology of essays on different critical approaches and methodologies for the analysis and interpretation of American art and artists is designed for students and teachers in American art history and American studies programs. It contains twenty selections from academic journals on American...
by Bart Beaty
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
On the surface, the relationship between comics and the ‘high’ arts once seemed simple; comic books and strips could be mined for inspiration, but were not themselves considered legitimate art objects. Though this traditional distinction has begun to erode, the worlds of comics and art continue...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the relationship between art and design, which led to the creation of 'pop'. Challenging accepted boundaries and definitions, the authors seek out various commonalities and points of connection between these two exciting areas.
Confronting the...
Art in America 1945-1970 (LOA #259)
Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Experience the creative explosion that transformed American art, in the words of the artists, writers, and critics who were there: In the quarter century after the end of World War II, a new generation of painters, sculptors, and photographers transformed the face of American art and shifted the center...
The Arts in Canada
The Last Fifty Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
In this volume a baker's dozen of creative Canadians make personal responses to the state of the arts in Canada: Northrop Frye and Guy Rocher write on general cultural trends; Hugh MacLennan and Gérard Bessette on fiction; Ralph Gustafson and Michèle Lalonde on poetry; Robertson Davies and Gratien...
The Immortal Comedy
The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
Immortal Comedy is the first book to 'think' philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general. Although author Agnes Heller had written a book that is both deeply scholarly and meditative on the subject of the comic form in film, literature, and life her writing is eminently approachable. In...
by François Quiviger
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
During the Renaissance, new ideas progressed alongside new ways of communicating them, and nowhere is this more visible than in the art of this period. In The Sensory World of Italian Renaissance Art, François Quiviger explores the ways in which the senses began to take on a new significance in the...
by Andreas Broeckmann
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
An investigation of artists' engagement with technical systems, tracing art historical lineages that connect works of different periods.
“Machine art” is neither a movement nor a genre, but encompasses diverse ways in which artists engage with technical systems. In this book, Andreas Broeckmann...
Graphic Design Discourse
Evolving Theories, Ideologies, and Processes of Visual Communication
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
If the aim of graphic design is to communicate meaning clearly, there's an irony that the field itself has struggled between two contradictory opposites: rote design resulting from a rigorous, fixed set of rules, and eccentric design that expresses the hand of the artist but fails to communicate with...
Art 101
From Vincent van Gogh to Andy Warhol, Key People, Ideas, and Moments in the History of Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Explore the beautiful and complex world of art!
Too often, textbooks obscure the beauty and wonder of fine art with tedious discourse that even Leonardo da Vinci would oppose. Art 101 cuts out the boring details and lengthy explanations, and instead, gives you a lesson in artistic expression that...
by Giles Winterborne
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
If you wanted to enjoy yourself back in 1968, and were so inclined, you might possibly think about going to Art College, perhaps in London, and spending your summer holidays wandering around the great galleries of Europe including the Louvre, the Prado and the Vatican, as well as visiting the Parthenon,...
by Lisa Mayfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
What is Creativity?Unfortunately, very few people truly understand the meaning of the word "creative". Most think it's synonymous with the word "artistic", and that you must have some innate or learned artistic talent or skill, or even a degree in traditional media and artistic techniques....
by Kenyon Cox,Arthur B. Davies,Élie Faure
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2009
Collected here are the original publications from one of the most important exhibitions in the history of American art -- the 1913 Armory Show. Opening on February 17, 1913, in New York and traveling to Chicago and Boston, the Armory Show was meant to be a simple exhibition of the new abstract and cubist...