General Art category: 18772 books
Twentieth Century Limited
Industrial Design In America 1925-1939
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
In the late 1920's "streamlined" became the term businessmen used to describe new models that were easier to produce as well as those that met with less sales resistance than older products. Illustrating this concept with streamlined objects from soup cans to the Chrysler building, Jeffrey...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Women artists of the Harlem Renaissance dealt with issues that were unique to both their gender and their race. They experienced racial prejudice, which limited their ability to obtain training and to be taken seriously as working artists. They also encountered prevailing sexism, often an even more...
Designing Disability
Symbols, Space, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Designing Disability traces the emergence of an idea and an ideal – physical access for the disabled – through the evolution of the iconic International Symbol of Access (ISA). The book draws on design history, material culture and recent critical disability studies to examine not only the development...
by Klaus Carl
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Mega Square Shoes focuses on the history of the shoe and elevates the shoe to the rank of a work of art. The author is a leading expert on the subject and curator of France‘s Shoe Museum, which holds the greatest shoe collection in the world, with 12,000 specimens.
by Blagoy Kiroff
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2015
Jacob Jordaens (1593 – 1678) was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting. Like Rubens, Jordaens painted altarpieces, mythological, and allegorical scenes, and after 1640—the year Rubens died—he...
The Art of the Sacred
An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Art and Belief
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2006
The field of 'art and religion' is fast becoming one of the most dynamic areas of religious studies. Uniquely, The Art of the Sacred explores the relationship between religion and the visual arts - and vice versa - within Christianity and other major religious traditions. It identifies and describes...
A Hunger for Aesthetics
Enacting the Demands of Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art. Collectively, these complaints have generated an anti-aesthetic stance prevalent in the contemporary art world. Yet if we examine the motivations for these critiques,...
Visual Time
The Image in History
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Visual Time offers a rare consideration of the idea of time in art history. Non-Western art histories currently have an unprecedented prominence in the discipline. To what extent are their artistic narratives commensurate with those told about Western art? Does time run at the same speed in all places?...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
Since the 1960s, British multi-media artist Peter Greenaway has shocked and intrigued audiences with his avant-garde approach to filmmaking and other artistic ventures. From early experimental films to provocative features, Greenaway has deployed strategies associated with structuralist cinema, only...
by Giles Winterborne
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
If you wanted to enjoy yourself back in 1968, and were so inclined, you might possibly think about going to Art College, perhaps in London, and spending your summer holidays wandering around the great galleries of Europe including the Louvre, the Prado and the Vatican, as well as visiting the Parthenon,...
The Global Work of Art
World's Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Global biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists’ engagement with large-scale international exhibitions has a much longer history that has influenced the present in important ways. Going back to the earliest world’s fairs in the nineteenth century, this book argues...
by Albert Jaquemart
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
From the Middle Ages to contemporary times, decorative art can be defi ned by the artistic materials, designs and objects used in both architecture and interior design. Similar to many art forms decorative art continues to evolve, originating with pieces as simple as a chair, noted for its utility,...
Universal Principles of Art
100 Key Concepts for Understanding, Analyzing, and Practicing Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
A follow-up to Rockport Publishers' best-selling Universal Principles of Design, a new volume will present one hundred principles, fundamental ideas and approaches to making art, that will guide, challenge and inspire any artist to make better, more focused art.Universal Principles of Art serves as...
Art Journal Your Archetypes
Mixed Media Techniques for Finding Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
It's true, isn't it? You have a burning desire to express yourself. But to be successful, confident and happy, you need to know yourself, your true self. That's where archetypes come in. An archetype is a symbolic representation of the repeated patterns of behavior that make you who you are, the driving...