Art category: 43213 books
Imperfect Fit
Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Imperfect Fit: Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950 is an expansive and incisive examination of the patterns of connectedness in contemporary art and poetry. Allen Fisher—a highly accomplished poet, painter, critic, and art historian as well as a key figure in...
Framing Russian Art
From Early Icons to Malevich
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The notion of the frame in art can refer not only to a material frame bordering an image, but also to a conceptual frame. Both meanings are essential to how the work is perceived. In Framing Russian Art, art historian Oleg Tarasov investigates the role of the frame in its literal function of demarcating...
Psychoanalytic Studies of Creativity, Greed, and Fine Art
Making Contact with the Self
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Throughout the history of psychoanalysis, the study of creativity and fine art has been a special concern. Psychoanalytic Studies of Creativity, Greed and Fine Art: Making Contact with the Self makes a distinct contribution to the psychoanalytic study of art by focusing attention on the relationship...
Interpreting Visual Art
A Survey of Cognitive Research About Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Interpreting Visual Art explores the psychological and cognitive mechanisms that underlie one's interpretation of art. After the brain encodes visual information, this encoding is then processed by perceptual mechanisms to identify objects and depth in pictures. The brain incorporates many factors...
Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
In 1911 Vasily Kandinsky published the first edition of ‘On the Spiritual in Art’, a landmark modernist treatise in which he sought to reframe the meaning of art and the true role of the artist. For many artists of late Imperial Russia – a culture deeply influenced by the regime’s adoption...
A Whakapapa of Tradition
One Hundred Years of Ngato Porou Carving, 1830-1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
From the emergence of the chapel and the wharenui in the nineteenth century to the rejuvenation of carving by Apirana Ngata in the 1920s, Maori carving went through a rapid evolution from 1830 to 1930. Focusing on thirty meeting houses, Ngarino Ellis tells the story of Ngati Porou carving and a profound...
Art Studio: Horses & Ponies
More than 50 projects and techniques for drawing and painting horses and ponies in pencil, acrylic, watercolor, and more!
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Art Studio: Horses & Ponies makes the art of drawing and painting this evergreen art subject accessible and easy for everyone.
Including more than 50 step-by-step projects of a wide range of horses and ponies, beginning artists will learn the basics of working with graphite and colored...
Art Workshop for Children
How to Foster Original Thinking with more than 25 Process Art Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Art Workshop for Children is not just another book of straightforward art projects. The book's unique child-led approach provides a framework for cultivating creative thinking and encourages the wonder that comes when children are allowed to freely explore the creative process and their materials.
As...
Philosophy, Art, and Religion
Understanding Faith and Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
At a time when religion and science are thought to be at loggerheads, art is widely hailed as religion's natural spiritual ally. Philosophy, Art, and Religion investigates the extent to which this is true. It charts the way in which modern conceptions of 'Art' often marginalize the sacred arts, construing...
by Ann Lee Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
This new edition of The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists has been fully revised and updated as well as including dozens of new entries offering an insightful and informative view of America's artistic heritage. An indispensable biographical and critical guide to American art from colonial...
North Meets South
Theoretical Aspects on the Northern and Southern Rock Art Traditions in Scandinavia
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
This latest volume in the Swedish Rock Art series bridges the gap between analysis and interpretation of rock art imagery, location and chronology in the northern and southern regions of Scandinavia. Long viewed as belonging to distinctive regional traditions, there are many underlying similarities,...
Rock Art Through Time
Scanian rock carvings in the Bronze Age and Earliest Iron Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
As in many other areas in south Scandinavia, the region surrounding the city of Simrishamn in south-east Scania has a great many Bronze Age mounds that are still visible in the landscape, and records from the museums demonstrate that the area is rich in bronze metalwork. Nevertheless, it is the figurative...
Celtic Art in Europe
Making Connections
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
The ancient Celtic world evokes debate, discussion, romanticism and mythicism. On the one hand it represents a specialist area of archaeological interest, on the other, it has a wide general appeal. The Celtic world is accessible through archaeology, history, linguistics and art history. Of these...
Experiencing the Unconventional
Science in Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
This book introduces art projects that resulted from unconventional explorations, curious experiments and their creative translations into sensorial experiences. Using electronic and digital art, bioart, sculpture and installations, sound and performance, the authors are removing boundaries between...