General Art category: 18772 books
The Art of ZenDoodle: How to ZenDoodle Your Way to Inner Peace! A Guide with Illustrations!
Tangle Patterns & Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Have you heard of the terms Zentangle and Zendoodle?
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Then look no further! The different between Zentangle and Zendoodle is simply the fact that Zentangle is a trademarked term. Zendoodle...
Paracuellos 7
Hombres del mañana
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Paracuellos 7. Hombres del mañana es el esperado regreso de Carlos Giménez a su serie más magistral.
Paracuellos es la gran obra-río de Carlos Giménez y un exponente magistral del cómic autobiográfico. En el séptimo álbum de la serie, a la que regresa el autor tras una pausa de casi...
by Lena Jonson
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
The Pussy Riot protest, and the subsequent heavy handed treatment of the protestors, grabbed the headlines, but this was not an isolated instance of art being noticeably critical of the regime. As this book, based on extensive original research, shows, there has been gradually emerging over recent...
by Boyan Stanimorov
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (1837–1887) was a Russian painter and art critic. He was an intellectual leader of the Russian democratic art movement in 1860-1880.
Kramskoi came from an impoverished petit-bourgeois family. From 1857 to 1863 he studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts; he...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Fifty Key Texts in Art History is an anthology of critical commentaries selected from the classical period to the late modern. It explores some of the central and emerging themes, issues and debates within Art History as an increasingly expansive and globalised discipline. It features an international...
When the Machine Made Art
The Troubled History of Computer Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Considering how culturally indispensable digital technology is today, it is ironic that computer-generated art was attacked when it burst onto the scene in the early 1960s. In fact, no other twentieth-century art form has elicited such a negative and hostile response. When the Machine Made Art examines...
Digital Art and Meaning
Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting a given piece and explaining how it operates, while scholars and critics remain unsure about how to...
by Walter Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
This book contains a teacher's manual for an introductory course on technical drawing and drafting. Written in clear, plain language and profusely illustrated, this volume will be of considerable utility to teachers and instructors of technical drawing. Contents include: "General Directions for...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Writing Material Culture History examines the methodologies currently used in the historical study of material culture. Touching on archaeology, art history, literary studies and anthropology, the book provides history students with a fundamental understanding of the relationship between artefacts...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Philosophy of art is traditionally concerned with the definition, appreciation and value of art. Through a close examination of art from recent centuries, Art and Phenomenology is one of the first books to explore visual art as a mode of experiencing the world itself, showing how in the words of Merleau-Ponty...
Why Only Art Can Save Us
Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory of politics. But today the problem is not the crises that we do confront, which are often used by governments to legitimize themselves, but the ones that political...
Duty Free Art
Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
What is the function of art in the era of digital globalization?
How can one think of art institutions in an age defined by planetary civil war, growing inequality, and proprietary digital technology? The boundaries of such institutions have grown fuzzy. They extend from a region where the...
Development of Modern Art Criticism in India after Independence
Post Independence Indian Art Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Any artistic creation, be it a painting or sculpture, initiates a reaction within us, invoking within us a desire to analyse or evaluate it. The criticism of art definitely has its presence. But the question is—in what form and of what relevance is it?
Art criticism is exclusively presented in the...
Perspectives On Western Art
Source Documents And Readings From The Renaissance To The 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This anthology of readings related to Western art history explains specific works of art illustrated in Janson's History of Art and De la Croix and Tansey's Gardner's Art Through the Ages in terms of the ideas, beliefs, and concerns of the people and cultures who created the art. It brings a new understanding...