General Art category: 18772 books
Contemporary Art from the Middle East
Regional Interactions with Global Art Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
This timely book tackles ongoing questions about how 'local' perspectives on contemporary art from the Middle East are defined and how these perspectives intersect with global art discourses. Leading figures from the Middle Eastern art world, western art historians, art theorists and museum curators...
Entry Points
The Vera List Center Field Guide on Art and Social Justice No. 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Providing a lively snapshot of the state of art and social justice today on a global level, Entry Points accompanies the inaugural Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics, launched at The New School on the occasion of the center’s twentieth anniversary. This book captures some of the most significant...
by Wu Hung
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
We might think the Egyptians were the masters of building tombs, but no other civilization has devoted more time and resources to underground burial structures than the Chinese. For at least five thousand years, from the fourth millennium B.C.E. to the early twentieth century, the Chinese have been...
by J.D. Harding
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Originally published in 1845 as The Principles & Practice of Art: With Illustrations Drawn and Engraved by the Author, this enduring guide is the work of an English painter and lithographer. J. D. Harding wrote several popular books on art instruction, and this volume constitutes one of his finest....
by Heidi C. Gearhart
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
In this study of the rare twelfth-century treatise On Diverse Arts, Heidi C. Gearhart explores the unique system of values that guided artists of the High Middle Ages as they created their works.
Written in northern Germany by a monk known only by the pseudonym Theophilus, On Diverse Arts is...
Time and Place
The Geohistory of Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Authors from Herodotus in antiquity to Vasari in the Renaissance related art and architecture to peoples, nations, regions, cities, and environments. Already with Winckelmann and the origins of discussion of art history in the eighteenth century geography was seen as a powerful determinant of art....
The Poster
Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860s–1900s
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The Poster: Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860s–1900s is a cultural history that situates the poster at the crossroads of art, design, advertising, and collecting. Though international in scope, the book focuses especially on France and England. Ruth E. Iskin argues that the avant-garde...
by Walter Pach
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Walter Pach was an artist, critic, lecturer, art adviser, and art historian who wrote extensively about modern art and championed the cause of modern art. Through his numerous books, articles, and translations of European art texts Pach brought the emerging modernist viewpoint to the American public....
Memory and Desire
Painting in Britain and Ireland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This title was first published in 2002. 'Memory and Desire' is a lavishly illustrated account of the art world in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. It calls upon rich resources of contemporary diaries, letters and art criticism, as well as the analysis of works of art to answer questions...
by Florence Schatz
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART - THE FUN WAY provides the middle school-age reader, his/her teachers and parents, ancient Egyptian art in a historical context. The reader not only learns about the unique art of ancient Egypt but he/she also learns about the history surrounding the art. The student learns that...
Art Labor, Sex Politics
Feminist Effects in 1970s British Art and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Contrary to critics who have called it the “undecade,” the 1970s were a time of risky, innovative art—and nowhere more so than in Britain, where the forces of feminism and labor politics merged in a radical new aesthetic. In Art Labor, Sex Politics Siona Wilson investigates the charged relationship...
REMEX
Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
REMEX presents the first comprehensive examination of artistic responses and contributions to an era defined by the North American Free Trade Agreement (1994–2008). Marshaling over a decade’s worth of archival research, interviews, and participant observation in Mexico City and the Mexico–US...
Textile Nature
Textile techniques and inspiration from the natural world
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
An inspirational guide to using nature in textile art, with step-by-step projects Plants, flowers, gardens, insects and birds are a rich source of inspiration for artists and designers of all kinds. This beautiful guide demonstrates how to get the most out of your surroundings to create original and...
by Darwin Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Just about any type of art you can think of you can find at art auctions. All you have to do is a little research for areas near you that are holding auctions, find out when and if they will be having one for the type of art you are interested in and go! If you are more of the type of person that...