General Art category: 18772 books
Erotic Art
(Grove Art Essentials)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Derived from eros, the Greek word for human, physical love, the term 'Erotic Art' encompasses the artistic expression of sexuality throughout human history. In this fully illustrated volume, Grove Art Essentials presents a global survey of erotic art from ancient civilizations to the Western art historical...
by Piotr Piotrowski
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
When the Iron Curtain fell in 1989, Eastern Europe saw a new era begin, and the widespread changes that followed extended into the world of art. Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe examines the art created in light of the profound political, social, economic, and cultural transformations that...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
The group of young painters and writers who coalesced into the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the middle years of the nineteenth century became hugely influential in the development not only of literature and painting, but also more generally of art and design. Though their reputation has fluctuated over...
Art and the Artist in the Contemporary Israeli Novel
Aesthetic Israel
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Art and the Artist in the Contemporary Israeli Novel presents studies of eight contemporary works of Israeli fiction by eight major Israeli novelists. It deals with a society where drama, lived in reality but also in the mind, is a central moving force. What this book shows is the ways these texts...
Visual Vitriol
The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation is a vibrant, in-depth, and visually appealing history of punk, which reveals punk concert flyers as urban folk art. David Ensminger exposes the movement's deeply participatory street art, including flyers, stencils,...
by Richard Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
In 1903 Alaska governor John Brady collected fifteen old totem poles for preservation at Stika National Historical Park, creating one of the most famous collections of totem poles in the world. One pole became separated, and its fate remained a mystery for nearly ninety years. This revised edition...
The Language of Art
Reggio-Inspired Studio Practices in Early Childhood Settings
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007
Incorporate inquiry-based practices into your early childhood classroom or family child care program. Inspired by an approach to teaching and learning born in Reggio Emilia, Italy, The Language of Art emphasizes investigation anchored by drawing, painting, and other art activities. It provides:advice...
Fashion's Front Line
Fashion Show Photography from the Runway to Backstage
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Before the live streaming of international fashion shows and the instant publication of runway images online, the collections were strictly 'invitation only'. It was the photographer, runway's unsung hero, who allowed us a glimpse of an exclusive and fascinating spectacle.
A visual journey...
Fashion Installation
Body, Space, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2019
Gone are the days when fashion relied on a runway launch with coinciding press promotions to show a couturier's new range. Today, design houses are thinking beyond traditional methods of display to stimulate interest in their collections, such as to the internet, fashion film and, more recently, fashion...
by Edward Winkleman, Patton Hindle
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
“A comprehensive guide.” —Artspace
Aspiring and new art gallery owners can find everything they need to plan and operate a successful art gallery with How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery. This new edition has been updated to mark the changes in market and technology over the...
by LarsGöran Boström
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Learning is a challenge. To design a workable learning experience is even more challenging. It is like moving art with a well-defined purpose and goals. This book is intended to work as practical guide to improve the prospects for you to succeed with your learning design project. It includes four...
Art as Extraordinary Science
A paradigm for the 21st century
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Art education has gone through a number of paradigms since its origins in the medieval guilds. Yet ever since joining the university system in the 1970s, art departments have struggled to articulate a contemporary paradigm which accurately reflects what they do, to the extent that it often seems more...
Aboriginal Art and Australian Society
Hope and Disenchantment
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
This book is an investigation of the way the Aboriginal art phenomenon has been entangled with Australian society’s negotiation of Indigenous people’s status within the nation. Through critical reflection on Aboriginal art’s idiosyncrasies as a fine arts movement, its vexed relationship with...
A Tragic Fate
Law and Ethics in the Battle Over Nazi-Looted Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The organized theft of fine art by Nazi Germany has captivated worldwide attention in the last twenty years. As much as any other topic arising out of World War Two, stolen art has proven to be an issue that simply will not go away. Newly found works of art pit survivors and their heirs against museums,...