Art category: 43213 books
by Weiwei Ai
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This collection of quotes demonstrates the elegant simplicity of Ai Weiwei's thoughts on key aspects of his art, politics, and life. A master at communicating powerful ideas in astonishingly few words, Ai Weiwei is known for his innovative use of social media to disseminate his views. The short quotations...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
In Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art, Andrew Sansom, a leading Texas conservationist, and William E. Reaves, an influential Texas art collector and historian, have teamed up to showcase some of the finest contemporary river art detailing the gorgeous traits of Texas landscapes. The featured artwork comes...
William Spratling, His Life and Art
Selected Essays in Economic and Social History
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
In this lavishly illustrated biography of silversmith and graphic artist William Spratling (1900--1967), Taylor D. Littleton reintroduces one of the most fascinating American expatriates of the early twentieth century. Best known for his revolutionary silver designs, Spratling influenced an entire...
Projected Art History
Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Biopics on artists influence the popular perception of artists' lives and work. Projected Art History highlights the narrative structure and images created in the film genre of biopics, in which an artist's life is being dramatized and embodied by an actor. Concentrating on the two case studies, Basquiat...
by Bradley Rubenstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
The Black Album: Writings on Art and Culture is a collection of writing by painter and writer Bradley Rubenstein. There was once a time when art, technology, science, and poetry collided with politics. Zola and Cézanne. Fénéon and Seurat. Balzac and Rodin. Jean Arp and Hans Arp. Anarchy and beauty...
I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon)
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
In early 2005, Richard Polsky decided to put his much-loved, hard-won Warhol Fright Wig, up for auction at Christie's. The market for contemporary art was robust and he was hoping to turn a profit. His instinct seemed to be on target: his picture sold for $375,000. But if only Polsky had waited ....
Selling Art without Galleries
Toward Making a Living from Your Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
“Not simply a how-to book, Selling Art without Galleries is a hands-on guidebook to daily life in the complex and sometimes murky world of the art market.” —Sculpture Magazine
The days in which artists must get their work into galleries in order to gain success and recognition are long over....
by Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
A symbol of modernity, the Viennese Secession was defined by the rebellion of twenty artists who were against the conservative Vienna Künstlerhaus' oppressive influence over the city, the epoch, and the whole Austro-Hungarian Empire. Influenced by Art Nouveau, this movement (created in 1897 by Gustav...
Art khmer
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Partez à la découverte de l'art khmer avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Par essence, l'art khmer est celui du Cambodge, mais l'expression est plus spécialement utilisée pour l'art d'une période, longue de quelque huit siècles, s'étendant de la fin du VIe siècle ou du début du VIIe...
Light for a Cold Land
Lawren Harris's Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1993
Lawren Stewart Harris’ artistic career began in the first decade of our century. Well known for the nationalist-inspired landscapes that he painted between 1908 and 1932, Harris turned resolutely in 1934 to the painting of abstractions. He continued to create works that reflected his own modernist...
by Michael Snow, Louise Dompierre
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Writing, for Michael Snow, is as much a form of “art-making” as the broad range of visual art activities for which he is renowned, including the “Walking Woman” series and the film Wavelength. Conversely, many of the texts included in this anthology are as significant visually as they are...
Art
Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Artists and Their Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Art introduces readers to 100 of the world's most important artists and their paintings, from the 13th century to the modern era. Works by artists including Caravaggio, Vermeer, van Gogh and Warhol are reproduced in superb high quality, arranged chronologically and set in their historical context...
Between the Black Box and the White Cube
Expanded Cinema and Postwar Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Today, the moving image is ubiquitous in global contemporary art. The first book to tell the story of the postwar expanded cinema that inspired this omnipresence, Between the Black Box and the White Cube travels back to the 1950s and 1960s, when the rise of television caused movie theaters to lose...
All About Process
The Theory and Discourse of Modern Artistic Labor
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic process itself. In this volume, Kim Grant analyzes this idea and traces its historical roots, showing how changing concepts of artistic process have played...