General Art category: 18772 books
Democratic Art
The New Deal's Influence on American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Throughout the Great Recession American artists and public art endowments have had to fight for government support to keep themselves afloat. It wasn’t always this way. At its height in 1935, the New Deal devoted $27 million—roughly $461 million today—to supporting tens of thousands of needy...
Soft is Fast
Simone Forti in the 1960s and After
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
An innovative analysis of Simone Forti's interdisciplinary art, viewing her influential 1960s “dance constructions” as negotiating the aesthetic strategies of John Cage and Anna Halprin.
Simone Forti's art developed within the overlapping circles of New York City's advanced visual art,...
Art History for Filmmakers
The Art of Visual Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche to describe visual things. But there is another way of looking at film, and that is through its relationship with the visual arts – mainly painting,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
The “biennale culture” now determines much of the art world. Literature on the worldwide dissemination of art assumes nationalism and ethnic identity, but rarely analyzes it. At the same time there is extensive theorizing about globalization in political theory, cultural studies, postcolonial...
Out of Sight
The Los Angeles Art Scene of the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
A social and cultural history of Los Angeles and its emerging art scene in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s
The history of modern art typically begins in Paris and ends in New York. Los Angeles was out of sight and out of mind, viewed as the apotheosis of popular culture, not a center for serious art.
Out...
Since '45
America and the Making of Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Since ’45 details the collision of American history and modern art. Since World War II, New York has been the indisputable center of the art world, and as Katy Siegel shows, it has had a profound influence on the preoccupations that contemporary art would come to have. Tracing art history over...
West of Center
Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
In the heady and hallucinogenic days of the 1960s and ’70s, a diverse range of artists and creative individuals based in the American West—from the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains and the Southwest—broke the barriers between art and lifestyle and embraced the new, hybrid sensibilities of the...
by Mark Hinchman, Elyssa Yoneda
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Interior Design Masters contains 300 biographical entries of people who have significantly impacted design. They are the people, historical and contemporary, that students and practitioners should know. Coverage starts in the late Renaissance, with a focus on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries....
by Graham Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 1998
English artists have made a unique contribution to the art of watercolor painting. In no other Western country has this very attractive medium been used so consistently, or for works of such stature, as in England between 1750 and the present day. In this general survey of the whole period, Graham...
by Dorothea Eimert
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The 20th century was a revolutionary period in art history. In the span of a few short years, Modernism exploded into being, disrupting centuries of classical figurative tradition to create something entirely new. This astoundingly thorough survey of art's modern era showcases all of the key artistic...
Pop Art
A Colourful History
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Pop Art by the BBC's Alastair Sooke - an essential but snappy new guide to our favourite art movement
Pop Art is the most important 20th-century art movement. It brought Modernism to the masses, making art sexy and fun with coke cans and comics. Today, in our age of selfies and social networking,...
A People?s Art History of the United States
250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Most people outside of the art world view art as something that is foreign to their experiences and everyday lives. A People’s Art History of the United States places art history squarely in the roughandtumble of politics, social struggles, and the fight for justice from the colonial era through...
Critical Shift
Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
American Civil War–era art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that have become fundamental to our modern periodization of the art of the nineteenth century. In Critical Shift, Karen Georgi rereads many of their well-known...
Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting
A New Translation and Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most important humanist scholars of the Italian Renaissance. Active in mid-fifteenth-century Florence, he was an architect, theorist, and author of texts on perspective and painting. Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting is a cardinal work that revolutionized Western...