General Art category: 18772 books
New Mythologies in Design and Culture
Reading Signs and Symbols in the Visual Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Taking as its point of departure Roland Barthes' classic series of essays, Mythologies, Rebecca Houze presents an exploration of signs and symbols in the visual landscape of postmodernity. In nine chapters Houze considers a range of contemporary phenomena, from the history of sustainability to the...
An Opening
Twelve love stories about art
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Artist and writer Stephanie Radok possesses a unique international perspective. For over twenty years she has written about and witnessed the emergence of contemporary Aboriginal art and the responses of Australian art to global diasporas. In "An Opening: Twelve love stories about art", Stephanie Radok...
The Legacies of Bernard Smith
Essays on Australian Art, History and Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
It has been widely asserted that Bernard Smith established the discipline of art history in Australia. He was the founding professor of contemporary art and the directory of the Power Institute at the University of Sydney, published the classic art text Australian Painting, three volumes on the art...
Black Box
Decoding the Art Work of Martin Gantman
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
In her foreword to the book, Black Box: Decoding the Art Work of Martin Gantman, the noted art historian and artist, Dr. Lise Patt, writes the following:
Martin Gantman grew his artistic bones during the last throes of modernism, when art’s autonomy had already been undermined and...
The Art of Transition
Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2001
The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what...
Pictures and Tears
A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
Art Does art leave you cold? And is that what it's supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to tears? Hemingway was reduced to tears in the midst of a drinking bout when a painting by James Thurber caught his eye. And what's bad about that? In Pictures and Tears, art historian James Elkins...
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True Stories from Top Creatives
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
63 top creatives speak out on art, inspiration, life, and random things that happened.
*"We watched as 60 yards away this man fought for his life. And I felt like a coward."
"The pole they have behind the spot in the parallel parking test? Yeah, I hit that."
"I pretty much punched...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics offers a thorough examination of the complex relationship between art and politics, and the many forms and approaches the engagement between them can take.
The contributors - a diverse assembly of artists, activists, scholars from around the world...
The Stakes of Exposure
Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
How would artistic practice contribute to political change in post–World War II Japan? How could artists negotiate the imbalanced global dynamics of the art world and also maintain a sense of aesthetic and political authenticity? While the contemporary art world has recently come to embrace some of...
by Giles Winterborne
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 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,...
Forged
Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
According to Vasari, the young Michelangelo often borrowed drawings of past masters, which he copied, returning his imitations to the owners and keeping originals. Half a millennium later, Andy Warhol made a game of "forging" the Mona Lisa, questioning the entire concept of originality....
Death in Modern Scotland, 18551955
Beliefs, Attitudes and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The period 1855 to 1955 was pivotal for modern Scottish death culture. Within art and literature death was a familiar companion, with its imagined presence charting the fears and expectations behind the public face of mortality. Framing new concepts of the afterlife became a task for both theologians...
by Natalia Brodskaya
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Manet es uno de los artistas más famosos de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, ligado por lo general a los impresionistas, aunque en realidad no era uno de ellos. Tuvo gran influencia en la pintura francesa, en parte por la elección de sus temas, que sacaba de la vida cotidiana, pero también por el...
by Arthur Zaidenberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Discover how to create realistic drawings of dogs, cats, and horses with this easy-to-follow guide. Written and illustrated by a noted creator of art instruction books, the manual emphasizes the importance of capturing your own distinctive vision to reveal the subject's special characteristics.
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