General Art category: 18772 books
Getting In!
The Ultimate Guide to Creating an Outstanding Portfolio, Earning Scholarships and Securing Your Spot at Art School
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The Definitive Guide to Creating with Passion, Getting Accepted to Art School, Earning Scholarships and Thriving as an Artist As an art educator, Nancy Crawford’s role is to help her students create authentic and meaningful works of art, get into art school, and earn scholarships to make that experience...
by Nigel Aston
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Eighteenth-century Europe witnessed monumental upheavals in both the Catholic and Protestant faiths and the repercussions rippled down to the churches’ religious art forms. Nigel Aston now chronicles here the intertwining of cultural and institutional turmoil during this pivotal century.
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Art After Appropriation
Essays on Art in the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Beginning with the first comprehensive account of the discourse of appropriation that dominated the art world in the late 1970s and 1980s, Art After Appropriation suggests a matrix of inflections and refusals around the culture of taking or citation, each chapter loosely correlated with one year of...
The Memory Arts in Renaissance England
A Critical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
This is the first critical anthology of writings about memory in Renaissance England. Drawing together excerpts from more than seventy writers, poets, physicians, philosophers and preachers, and with over twenty illustrations, the anthology offers the reader a guided exploration of the arts of memory....
Modern Theories of Art 2
From Impressionism to Kandinsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
In this volume, the third in his classic series of texts surveying the history of art theory, Moshe Barasch traces the hidden patterns and interlocking themes in the study of art, from Impressionism to Abstract Art.
Barasch details the immense social changes in the creation, presentation, and reception...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance art, and the links between Renaissance art and contemporary art and theory. This is the first discussion of its kind, involving not only questions within Renaissance scholarship,...
Nest
The art of birds
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
We tend to take birds for granted, in the landscape or in our neighbourhoods. The presence of birds communicates the health of a place. When they're gone, it's as though there's a hole in the sky, in the air, an absence of beauty and grace, and vivid chatter or haunting cries are replaced with eerie...
The Subject in Art
Portraiture and the Birth of the Modern
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2006
Challenging prevailing theories regarding the birth of the subject, Catherine M. Soussloff argues that the modern subject did not emerge from psychoanalysis or existential philosophy but rather in the theory and practice of portraiture in early-twentieth-century Vienna. Soussloff traces the development...
by W. G. Paulson Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Remarkably broad in its applications, this helpful reference covers a wide variety of plants. More than 100 precise drawings of flowers, leaves, buds, and growth patterns are provided for such plants as the anemone, arbutus, broad bean, bell-flower, briar rose, campanula, canterbury bell, dahlia, and...
by Paul Barolsky, Professor Thomas Crow, Gloria Kury
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Fictions of Art History, the most recent addition to the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, addresses art history’s complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art historians’ viewing practices and modes of writing....
The Arts
A Comparative Approach to the Arts of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Music and Drama
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Thomas Walters is an accomplished professional art educator and interdisciplinary humanities professor. His education includes a B.S. degree in Art Education from Atlantic Union College, where he concentrated in drawing, ceramics and art history. He also holds an M.A.T. degree in Art Education from...
by James Jackson Jarves
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
First published in 1876, when many considered Japanese art a mere curiosity, A Glimpse at the Art of Japan presents Jarves remarkable examination of the problems of Japanese aesthetics, offering a penetrating analysis of the historical, religious, and social influences on the development of art in...
Form as Revolt
Carl Einstein and the Ground of Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The German writer and art critic Carl Einstein (1885–1940) has long been acknowledged as an important figure in the history of modern art, and yet he is often sidelined as an enigma. In Form as Revolt Sebastian Zeidler recovers Einstein's multifaceted career, offering the first comprehensive intellectual...
by Ben Schachter
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Contemporary Jewish art is a growing field that includes traditional as well as new creative practices, yet criticism of it is almost exclusively reliant on the Second Commandment’s prohibition of graven images. Arguing that this disregards the corpus of Jewish thought and a century of criticism...