Art category: 43213 books
Vermeer's Wager
Speculations on Art History, Theory, and Art Museums
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
Vermeer's Wager stands at the intersection of art history and criticism, philosophy and museology. Using a familiar and celebrated painting by Johannes Vermeer as a case study, Ivan Gaskell explores what it might mean to know and use a work of art. He argues that art history as generally practiced,...
by nai010 uitgevers/publishers
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Should artists be activists? Is activist art one of an artists primary responsibilities or a pointless sideshow on the fringes of serious politics? The philosopher, writer and art historian Lieven de Cauter, Ruben de Roo and Karel Vanhaesebrouck explore this theme in collaboration with other thinkers...
by Sonja Tanrisever, Esin Tanrisever
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2016
As the authors of Free Art Learning With Kids, our motto is: Children’s Creativity Should Definitely Not Get Restricted!“A child has a hundred languages but gets deprieved of 99!” Famous Italian Educator and Poet Loris MalaguzziSonja & Esin: “Children’s art is one of the unique...
by Quinn McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Meaning in life is made, not found.
In a raw-art journal, you don't need to know how to draw; you don't need to know how to write well. You don't need worry about messing up techniques you've never attempted before inside your raw-art journal. You just need to be you because raw art is you and it...
by Madelynn Dickerson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The major art pieces, most important artists, and significant artistic movements from 35,000 BCE to today are collected together in this easy to read resource on art history. Continuing in the tradition of the standout Handy Answer Book reference series, this book not only the covers the development...
by Rachel Shirley
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Ever had trouble with ellipses, perspectives, colour theory, skin tones, painting skies, reflections, water, eyes, fruit, glass, flowers and more? This bumper oil painting ebook problem-solver tackles 78 such painting ‘peeves’ with suggested solutions.The Ultimate Oil Painting Solution...
Image and Text in Conceptual Art
Critical Operations in Context
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
This book examines the use of image and text juxtapositions in conceptual art as a strategy for challenging several ideological and institutional demands placed on art. While conceptual art is generally identified by its use of language, this book makes clear exactly how language was used. In particular,...
Art Saves
Stories, Inspiration and Prompts Sharing the Power of Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Discover it for yourself.
Inside Art Saves, experience the stories of 20 artists who found that artistic expression and the artistic process is worth living for. Whether you are a calligraphy/graffiti artist like Lisa Engelbrecht, a metal artist like Michael DeMeng, or digital collage artist like...
The Psychology of Visual Art
Eye, Brain and Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
What can art tell us about how the brain works? And what can the brain tell us about how we perceive and create art? Humans have created visual art throughout history and its significance has been an endless source of fascination and debate. Visual art is a product of the human brain, but is art so...
Street Art
The Best Urban Art from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
From Banksy to Blek le Rat, JR to Futura, the street art phenomenon is sweeping the globe. With people turning up in their thousands to view the first street art exhibition at the Tate Modern in 2008, and with celebrity endorsements from the likes of Brad Pitt to Damon Albarn, street art has captured...
Crafting Gender
Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
This volume initiates a gender-based framework for analyzing the folk art of Latin America and the Caribbean. Defined here broadly as the "art of the people" and as having a primarily decorative, rather than utilitarian, purpose, folk art is not solely the province of women, but folk art...
Art, Nature, and Religion in the Central Andes
Themes and Variations from Prehistory to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
From prehistory to the present, the Indigenous peoples of the Andes have used a visual symbol system—that is, art—to express their sense of the sacred and its immanence in the natural world. Many visual motifs that originated prior to the Incas still appear in Andean art today, despite the onslaught...
Homemade Esthetics
Observations on Art and Taste
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2000
Thanks to his unsurpassed eye and his fearless willingness to take a stand, Clement Greenberg (1909 1994) became one of the giants of 20th century art criticism a writer who set the terms of critical discourse from the moment he burst onto the scene with his seminal essays Avant Garde and Kitsch (1939)...
Art at the Speed of Life
motivation + inspiration for making mixed-media art every day
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Offering terrific mixed-media art projects, as well as great tips for getting organized and inspired, Art at the Speed of Life is a treasure chest of ideas for the artist whose fiery enthusiasm for creating art goes up in smoke after that frantic pace of a long day. Author and mixed-media artist Pam...