General Art category: 18772 books
Histories of Art and Design Education
Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
This Collection of fourteen essays by eleven different authors demonstrates the increasing breadth of enquiry that has taken place in art and design education history over the past two decades, and the expanding range of research models applied to the subject. The essays are grouped into six sections...
Art and Archaeology
Collaborations, Conversations, Criticisms
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This volume presents a collection of interdisciplinary collaborations between contemporary art, heritage, anthropological, and archaeological practitioners. Departing from the proceedings of the Sixth World Archaeological Congress’s ‘Archaeologies of Art’ theme and Ábhar agus Meon exhibitions,...
When Writing Met Art
From Symbol to Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Denise Schmandt-Besserat opened a major new chapter in the history of literacy when she demonstrated that the cuneiform script invented in the ancient Near East in the late fourth millennium BC—the world's oldest known system of writing—derived from an archaic counting device. Her discovery, which...
by Steve Rowley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Dealing in Aboriginal Dot Painting- Find out why this form of indigenous art is taking the art world by storm and giving amazing financial rewards to those who are investing their money wisely – A step by step guide to the most collectable, most valuable Aboriginal artists – Highly recommended...
Art in Zion
The Genesis of Modern National Art in Jewish Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2004
Art in Zion deals with the link between art and national ideology and specifically between the artistic activity that emerged in Jewish Palestine in the first decades of the twentieth century and the Zionist movement. In order to examine the development of national art in Jewish Palestine, the book...
Danish Modern
Between Art and Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Danish Modern explores the development of mid-century modernist design in Denmark from historical, analytical and theoretical perspectives. Mark Mussari explores the relationship between Danish design aesthetics and the theoretical and cultural impact of Modernism, particularly between 1930 and 1960....
by Edvard Munch, Peter Russell
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
The Norwegian painter Edvard Munch produced some of the most intensely evocative images of modern art. Building upon nineteenth century Symbolism and greatly influencing German Expressionism, masterpieces such as ‘The Scream’ have left a lasting impression on the history of art. Munch’s harrowing...
Paul Klee, un artiste majeur du Bauhaus
« L’art ne reproduit pas le visible, il rend visible »
Language: French
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Décryptez l’art de Paul Klee en moins d’une heure ! Membre actif du Bauhaus, Paul Klee marque profondément le début du XXe siècle en prenant part à l’avènement de l'art abstrait. Avec plus de 9 000 œuvres à son catalogue, l'artiste surprend le monde entier par son travail qui révèle...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
A Companion to American Art presents 35 newly-commissioned essays by leading scholars that explore the methodology, historiography, and current state of the field of American art history.
Features contributions from a balance of established and emerging scholars, art and architectural historians,...
Will Bradley's Graphic Art
New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Will Bradley (1868–1962) was among the first American artists to realize the immense possibilities creative design held for the business world. Experimenting with typefaces, decorative illustrations, layouts, and print, he produced posters, advertisements, book designs, and magazine covers that...
Entering the Picture
Judy Chicago, The Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
In 1970, Judy Chicago and fifteen students founded the groundbreaking Feminist Art Program (FAP) at Fresno State. Drawing upon the consciousness-raising techniques of the women's liberation movement, they created shocking new art forms depicting female experiences. Collaborative work and performance...
by Ian Chilvers
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Covering Western art from the ancient Greeks to the present day, this best-selling and authoritative dictionary is more wide-ranging than any comparable reference work. It contains over 2,500 clear and concise entries on styles and movements, materials and techniques, and museums and galleries. It...
Treasuring the Gaze
Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth-Century Eye Miniatures
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The end of the eighteenth century saw the start of a new craze in Europe: tiny portraits of single eyes that were exchanged by lovers or family members. Worn as brooches or pendants, these minuscule eyes served the same emotional need as more conventional mementoes, such as lockets containing a coil...
by David Carrier
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
David Carrier examines the history and practice of art writing and reveals its importance to the art museum, the art gallery, and aesthetic theory. Artists, art historians, and art lovers alike can gain fresh insight into how written descriptions of painting and sculpture affect the experience of...