General Art category: 18772 books
Zhang Hongtu
Expanding Visions of a Shrinking World
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
In this book, leading art experts, art historians, and critics review the life, career, and artistic development of New York based Chinese artist Zhang Hongtu. A pioneer in contemporary Chinese art, Zhang created the first example of "China Pop" art, and his oeuvre is as diverse, intellectually...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
In Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art, Andrew Sansom, a leading Texas conservationist, and William E. Reaves, an influential Texas art collector and historian, have teamed up to showcase some of the finest contemporary river art detailing the gorgeous traits of Texas landscapes. The featured artwork comes...
Citizen Spectator
Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In this richly illustrated study, the first book-length exploration of illusionistic art in the early United States, Wendy Bellion investigates Americans' experiences with material forms of visual deception and argues that encounters with illusory art shaped their understanding of knowledge, representation,...
Venus in Exile
The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-century Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2001
Whereas previous eras had celebrated beauty as the central aim of art, the modernist avant-garde were deeply suspicious of beauty and its perennial symbols, woman and ornament, preferring instead the thrill and alienation of the sublime. They rejected harmony, empathy, and femininity in a denial still...
by Giorgio Vasari
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Giorgio Vasari's biographical collection "The Lives of the Artists" is one of the most frequently cited art history books since the 16th century. It is also the first comprehensive book on art history ever created. In the work, Vasari brings together facts, knowledge, and sometimes gossip...
by Giorgio Vasari
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Giorgio Vasari's biographical collection "The Lives of the Artists" is one of the most frequently cited art history books since the 16th century. It is also the first comprehensive book on art history ever created. In the work, Vasari brings together facts, knowledge, and sometimes gossip...
by Giorgio Vasari
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Giorgio Vasari's biographical collection "The Lives of the Artists" is one of the most frequently cited art history books since the 16th century. It is also the first comprehensive book on art history ever created. In the work, Vasari brings together facts, knowledge, and sometimes gossip...
William Spratling, His Life and Art
Selected Essays in Economic and Social History
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
In this lavishly illustrated biography of silversmith and graphic artist William Spratling (1900--1967), Taylor D. Littleton reintroduces one of the most fascinating American expatriates of the early twentieth century. Best known for his revolutionary silver designs, Spratling influenced an entire...
The Contemporaries
Travels in the 21st-Century Art World
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
It's been nearly a century since Marcel Duchamp exhibited a urinal and called it art. Since then, painting has been declared dead several times over, and contemporary art has now expanded to include just about any object, action, or event: dance routines, slideshows, functional hair salons, seemingly...
Projected Art History
Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Biopics on artists influence the popular perception of artists' lives and work. Projected Art History highlights the narrative structure and images created in the film genre of biopics, in which an artist's life is being dramatized and embodied by an actor. Concentrating on the two case studies, Basquiat...
by Victoria Charles
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
From ancient Sumerian pottery to Tiffany stained glass, decorative art has been a fundamental part of the human experience for generations. While fine art is confined to galleries and museums, decorative art is the art of the every day, combining beauty with functionality in objects ranging from the...
by Bradley Rubenstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
The Black Album: Writings on Art and Culture is a collection of writing by painter and writer Bradley Rubenstein. There was once a time when art, technology, science, and poetry collided with politics. Zola and Cézanne. Fénéon and Seurat. Balzac and Rodin. Jean Arp and Hans Arp. Anarchy and beauty...
Selling Art without Galleries
Toward Making a Living from Your Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
“Not simply a how-to book, Selling Art without Galleries is a hands-on guidebook to daily life in the complex and sometimes murky world of the art market.” —Sculpture Magazine
The days in which artists must get their work into galleries in order to gain success and recognition are long over....
by Paul Gauguin, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin is now recognised for his experimental use of colour and synthetist style, seeking to achieve a “primitive” expression of spiritual and emotional states in his work. Gauguin is particularly well known for his creative relationship with Vincent van Gogh as well...