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Inspirational Quotes Illustrated
Art and Words to Motivate
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
"Toss in a stone and begin your own ripple of influence." --Joy Cooper
Featuring more than 100 artists and 130 quotes, Lesley Riley has created the ultimate book of "quotespiration."
With quotes from artists, authors, philosophers and cultural icons, there are words...
Color, Facture, Art and Design
Artistic Technique and the Precisions of Human Perception
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Color, Facture, Art and Design seeks to understand art and design from the aspect of materials, construction and the senses. It contends that this element is omitted from art and design theory as a product of the division of labour and alienation as it operates within the realms of theory and art history.It...
Histories of Art and Design Education
Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
This Collection of fourteen essays by eleven different authors demonstrates the increasing breadth of enquiry that has taken place in art and design education history over the past two decades, and the expanding range of research models applied to the subject. The essays are grouped into six sections...
When Writing Met Art
From Symbol to Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Denise Schmandt-Besserat opened a major new chapter in the history of literacy when she demonstrated that the cuneiform script invented in the ancient Near East in the late fourth millennium BC—the world's oldest known system of writing—derived from an archaic counting device. Her discovery, which...
Eye of the Sixties
Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
In 1959, Richard Bellamy was a witty, poetry-loving beatnik on the fringe of the New York art world who was drawn to artists impatient for change. By 1965, he was representing Mark di Suvero, was the first to show Andy Warhol’s pop art, and pioneered the practice of “off-site” exhibitions and...
A Hunger for Aesthetics
Enacting the Demands of Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art. Collectively, these complaints have generated an anti-aesthetic stance prevalent in the contemporary art world. Yet if we examine the motivations for these critiques,...
The Global Work of Art
World's Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Global biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists’ engagement with large-scale international exhibitions has a much longer history that has influenced the present in important ways. Going back to the earliest world’s fairs in the nineteenth century, this book argues...
by Albert Jaquemart
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
From the Middle Ages to contemporary times, decorative art can be defi ned by the artistic materials, designs and objects used in both architecture and interior design. Similar to many art forms decorative art continues to evolve, originating with pieces as simple as a chair, noted for its utility,...
Art and the Artist in the Contemporary Israeli Novel
Aesthetic Israel
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Art and the Artist in the Contemporary Israeli Novel presents studies of eight contemporary works of Israeli fiction by eight major Israeli novelists. It deals with a society where drama, lived in reality but also in the mind, is a central moving force. What this book shows is the ways these texts...
Making Art History
A Changing Discipline and its Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Making Art History is a collection of essays by contemporary scholars on the practice and theory of art history as it responds to institutions as diverse as art galleries and museums, publishing houses and universities, school boards and professional organizations, political parties and multinational...
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...
Writing Back to Modern Art
After Greenberg, Fried and Clark
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2005
Here for the first time is a full-length study of the 'critical modernisms' of the three leading art writers of the second half of the twentieth century, which helps us build a better understanding of the development of modern art writing and its relation to the 'post-modern' in art and society since...
by Arthur D. Efland
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Arthur Efland puts current debate and concerns in a well-researched historical perspective. He examines the institutional settings of art education throughout Western history, the social forces that have shaped it, and the evolution and impact of alternate streams of influence on present practice.*A...
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...