General Art category: 18772 books
Viewpoints
Mathematical Perspective and Fractal Geometry in Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
An undergraduate textbook devoted exclusively to relationships between mathematics and art, Viewpoints is ideally suited for math-for-liberal-arts courses and mathematics courses for fine arts majors. The textbook contains a wide variety of classroom-tested activities and problems, a series of essays...
by Rudolf Koch
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
This unusual collection of primitive and medieval symbols provides one of the most fertile single sources of decorative ideas available today. It is also a graphic history of the development of written communication and offers a singular insight into the psychology of the primitive mind.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Participatory design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use. Its central concern is how collaborative design processes can be driven by the participation of the people affected by the technology designed. Embracing a diverse collection of principles...
by Robin Hopper
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Robin Hopper is an internationally recognized potter, teacher, author, consultant, arts activist and garden designer. He has taught throughout Canada, and in England, U.S.A., Australia, New Zealand, China, Korea, Japan and Israel. His ceramic work is in public, corporate and private collections around...
Stolen, Smuggled, Sold
On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Stolen, Smuggled Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures tells the dark and compelling stories of iconic cultural objects that were stolen, smuggled or sold, and eventually returned back to their original owner.
There are many books about museum heists, Holocaust artwork, insider theft, trafficking...
Fashioning Professionals
Identity and Representation at Work in the Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
From artist to curator, couturier to fashion blogger, 'creative' professional identities can be viewed as social practices, enacted, performed and negotiated through the media, the public, and industry. Fashioning Professionals addresses what it means to be a creative professional, historically and...
Artwalks in New York
Delightful Discoveries of Public Art and Gardens in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2004
Completely updated, the new edition of this acclaimed guide brings us 33 tours of public art, covering the length of the island, from the Cloisters and Harlem in northern Manhattan, to Central Park and the museum mile, to Rockefeller Center and Chelsea, and all the way down to the southern tip at...
Art of the Deal
Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
Art today is defined by its relationship to money as never before. Prices have been driven to unprecedented heights, conventional boundaries within the art world have collapsed, and artists think ever more strategically about how to advance their careers. Art is no longer simply made, but packaged,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
A Companion to Public Art is the only scholarly volume to examine the main issues, theories, and practices of public art on a comprehensive scale.
Edited by two distinguished scholars with contributions from art historians, critics, curators, and art administrators, as well as artists themselves
Includes...
by Noel Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This stylish introduction to fashion drawing is aimed both at practicing designers who want to brush up their skills, and at wannabe designers and fashion enthusiasts who want to learn how to design, draw and illustrate fashion from scratch. User-friendly, accessible and stylish, this book is an ideal...
by Leona M Zastrow
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
American Indian art has a long history and a vibrant and active modern-day community, something that has long interested collectors, historians, and anthropologists. In My Tree of Life as an Appraiser of American Indian ArtMy Viewpoint, author Leona M. Zastrow offers an examination of the past and...
by Jennifer Barrett, Jacqueline Millner
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This unique book proposes a re-reading of the relationship between artists and the contemporary museum. In Australia in particular, the museum has played a significant role in the colonial project and this has generally been considered as the predominant mode of artists' engagement with such institutions...
Performativity in the Gallery
Staging Interactive Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This book coincides with an increase in the programming of live art elements in many galleries and museums. Traditional art history has, however, been wary of live art’s interdisciplinarity and its tendency to encourage increased formal and conceptual risk taking. Time-based performances have challenged...
The A-Z of the International Art Market
The Essential Guide to Customs, Conventions and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
It is estimated that there are over 300,000 companies involved in the world's art market, employing around 2.8 million people. But the art world carries a veneer of mystery and secrecy that many people find daunting, and the language used by market insiders can be alienating and confusing to those...