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Jean-Baptiste-Pierre LeBrun

In Pursuit of Art (1748–1813)

by Bette W. Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018

Jean-Baptiste Pierre LeBrun's life was marked by his intense interest in art, first as an artist, and then from 1770 until his death in 1813, as an art dealer/connoisseur and as a participant in the transformation of the Louvre into a national museum during the French Revolution. He managed to accommodate...
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The Complete Book of Mixed Media Art

More than 200 fundamental mixed media concepts and techniques

by Walter Foster Creative Team
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018

Featuring a wide variety of mixed media techniques, including drawing and painting, stamping, stitching, ephemera, encaustics, collaging, journaling, and more, The Complete Book of Mixed Media Art is the perfect resource for artists exploring the many ways they can expand their artistic horizons with...
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Incite 4

Relax Restore Renew

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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016

Slow down... let go... recharge... The process of art-making has long been known to have meditative and healing effects on the mind, body and soul. In Incite 4: Relax, Restore, Renew, 120 artists from around the globe share the most restorative and revitalizing aspects of their art-making through...
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by Relja & Vida Penezic
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011

ART FOR HOTELS paints a stunning picture of a migrant mind, through a unique and innovative blend of art and story-telling. Word HOTELS in the title is not used literally but as a symbol of a place where one stays when one is not at home. “A collection of 108 images and 4 written pieces,” explain...

Wet

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Wet

On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture

by Mira Schor
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 1997

Taking aim at the mostly male bastion of art theory and criticism, Mira Schor brings a maverick perspective and provocative voice to the issues of contemporary painting, gender representation, and feminist art. Writing from her dual perspective of a practicing painter and art critic, Schor’s writing...
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Yoruba Art and Language

Seeking the African in African Art

by Rowland Abiodun
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The Yoruba was one of the most important civilizations of sub-Saharan Africa. While the high quality and range of its artistic and material production have long been recognized, the art of the Yoruba has been judged primarily according to the standards and principles of Western aesthetics. In this book,...
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Little Windows into Art Therapy

Small Openings for Beginning Therapists

by Deborah Schroder
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004

Newly qualified art therapists often feel daunted by the challenge of actually being face-to-face with a client and are unsure how to progress after the first image has been created. In this honest and encouraging book, Deborah Schroder explains how art can provide openings into therapeutic relationships...
Cover of Joan of Arc in French Art and Culture (1700�855)
by Nora M. Heimann
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017

In her meticulous and wide-ranging study, Nora M. Heimann follows the metamorphosis of Joan of Arc's posthumous representation during the years in which her image ascended from relative obscurity as a minor provincial figure in the middle ages through her treatment as a figure of political satire...
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by Peter Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018

Tracking the postconceptual dimensions of contemporary art If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, “it is the function of artistic form … to make historical content into a philosophical truth” then it is the function of criticism to recover and to complete that truth. Contemporary art makes this...
Cover of The Art of Deception
by Sergio Kokis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002

Where is reality to be found: at the surface of things or behind it? Max Willem, a young art student in Montreal at the end of the 1960s, becomes obsessed with outward appearances - with makeup, costume, and masks of all kinds. For him, outward reality, and in particular that of the opposite...
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Inner Journeying Through Art-Journaling

Learning to See and Record your Life as a Work of Art

by Marianne Hieb
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2005

Inner Journeying Through Art-Journaling introduces a holistic journaling process that combines art, art therapy, design theory and spiritual direction in order to attain personal balance, awareness of one's own inner processes, resolution of internal conflicts and enhanced wellness. The book...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

Place plays a fundamental role in the structuring of the discipline of Art History. And yet, place also limits the questions art historians can ask and impairs analysis of objects and locations in the interstices of established, ossified categories. The chapters in this interdisciplinary volume investigate...
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by Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Language: French
Release Date: May 10, 2014

Terme entré dans l’usage courant au cours de la première moitié du XIXe siècle, l’art roman distingue, en histoire de l’art, la période qui s’étend entre le début du XIe siècle jusqu’à la fin du XIIe siècle. Révélant une grande diversité d’écoles régionales, chacune démontrant...
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by Nicolas Whybrow
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010

Henri Lefebvre predicted that the future of art was urban. Art and the City adopts this statement as its cue, taking into account the performative and relational 'turns' of art in more recent times. The book portrays what may be at stake in the emerging triangulation of art, the city and the rights...
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