General Art category: 18772 books
The Methodologies of Art
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Since the nineteenth century, when art history became an established academic discipline, works of art have been 'read' in a variety of ways. These different ways of describing and interpreting art are the methodologies of artistic analysis, the divining rods of meaning. Regardless of a work's perceived...
by Terry Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists, critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today’s multifaceted definition, Terry Smith brilliantly shows that an historical approach offers the best answer to the...
Art
Key Contemporary Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
The last few decades have witnessed an explosion in ideas and theories on art. Art itself has never been so topical, but much recent thinking remains inaccessible and difficult to use. This book assesses the work of those thinkers (including artists) who have had a major impact on making, criticizing...
The Hearing Eye
Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2009
The widespread presence of jazz and blues in African American visual art has long been overlooked. The Hearing Eye makes the case for recognizing the music's importance, both as formal template and as explicit subject matter. Moving on from the use of iconic musical figures and motifs in Harlem Renaissance...
by Doralba Picerno
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Tattoo Art showcases different types of subject matter, ranging from celebrity portraits to elaborate dot work. They all illustrate the skills and techniques of the artists and the range of design ideas available to tattoo enthusiasts today. Featuring an extensive gallery, arranged in imaginative sections...
Sharpie Art Workshop
Techniques and Ideas for Transforming Your World
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Bold and sharp, brilliant and vivid, Sharpie markers can be found in art, office, and stationery supply stores, drugstores, mass-market and crafts chains - almost anywhere writing utensils are sold. Sharpies can be used on virtually any surface, from the traditional (paper and canvas) to the unexpected...
by Samantha Baskind
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
On the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto staged a now legendary revolt against their Nazi oppressors. Since that day, the deprivation and despair of life in the ghetto and the dramatic uprising of its inhabitants have captured the American cultural imagination. The Warsaw...
The Taste of Art
Cooking, Food, and Counterculture in Contemporary Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The Taste of Art offers a sample of scholarly essays that examine the role of food in Western contemporary art practices. The contributors are scholars from a range of disciplines, including art history, philosophy, film studies, and history. As a whole, the volume illustrates how artists engage with...
American Art Deco
An Illustrated Survey
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
One of the most popular forms of twentieth-century design, the Art Deco style dominated the decorative arts in the 1920s and '30s. Championed by progressive architects and inspired by such diverse influences as the industrial age and Native American art, it became a form of artistic self-expression...
by Colin Platt
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
A sweeping, beautifully written history of artistic patronage from 1000 to the present day by a Wolfson Prize-winning historian. ‘Marks of Opulence’ is a magisterial survey of European art and artistic patronage from 1000 until the birth of modernism. Tracing the history from the discovery of...
What We Made
Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He suggests social cooperation as a meaningful way to think about this work and provides a framework for understanding its emergence and acceptance. In a series...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This important and welcome volume is the first English-language anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth century. The book includes some fifty seminal essays and documents-including statements, interviews, and manifestoes by artists-that encompass the broad diversity of this...
Art and Mourning
The role of creativity in healing trauma and loss
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Art and Mourning explores the relationship between creativity and the work of self-mourning in the lives of 20th century artists and thinkers. The role of artistic and creative endeavours is well-known within psychoanalytic circles in helping to heal in the face of personal loss, trauma, and mourning.
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by Donatello, Peter Russell
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2017
The greatest sculptor of the Italian Renaissance, Donatello produced both marble and bronze masterpieces. His revolutionary statues were lauded for their incredible realism, while he also developed his very own form of shallow bas-relief, known as ‘schiacciato’. Donatello possessed an extensive...