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by Jerry Inked
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2013
This book covers several topics including:
1. INTRODUCTION TO THE BODY ART a. An Overview of Body Art b. History of Body Art c. Various Types of Body Art 2. HENNA : A UNIQUE BODY ART a. Henna- Introduction to a New Type of Body Art b. Production- Cultivation Areas with Specific Temperate...
by Jane Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1994
Whose Art Is It? is the story of sculptor John Ahearn, a white artist in a black and Hispanic neighborhood of the South Bronx, and of the people he cast for a series of public sculptures commissioned for an intersection outside a police station. Jane Kramer, telling this story, raises one of the most...
Law and Art
Justice, Ethics and Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
In engaging with the full range of 'the arts', contributors to this volume consider the relationship between law, justice, the ethical and the aesthetic. Art continually informs the ethics of a legal theory concerned to address how theoretical abstractions and concrete oppressions overlook singularity...
One and Five Ideas
On Conceptual Art and Conceptualism
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
In One and Five Ideas eminent critic, historian, and former member of the Art & Language collective Terry Smith explores the artistic, philosophical, political, and geographical dimensions of Conceptual Art and conceptualism. These four essays and a conversation with Mary Kelly—published between...
Life and Death
Art and the Body in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
For all their ubiquity, life and death have not been fully explored as integral themes in many forms of contemporary Chinese art. Life and Death addresses that lacuna. Exploring the strategies employed by a variety of Chinese artists who do engage with these timeless concerns, Silvia Fok opens a new...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Exploring the history of art in China from its earliest incarnations to the present day, this comprehensive volume includes two dozen newly-commissioned essays spanning the theories, genres, and media central to Chinese art and theory throughout its history.
Provides an exceptional collection...
Experimental Beijing
Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
During the lead-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the censorious attitude that characterized China's post-1989 official response to contemporary art gave way to a new market-driven, culture industry valuation of art. Experimental artists who once struggled against state regulation of artistic expression...
Abstraction in Reverse
The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin American Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
During the mid-twentieth century, Latin American artists working in several different cities radically altered the nature of modern art. Reimagining the relationship of art to its public, these artists granted the spectator an unprecedented role in the realization of the artwork. The first book to...
by Francisco Capelo
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
This book tries to summarize all the things you will need – from art history to the conceptual shift, but always with a practical view, in order to be your best beginner- artist- guide.
Francisco Capelo is a 46 year old portuguese sociologist, art tutor and writer. He has written diverse...
Transformations
Art and the City
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Critically challenging the notion of cities as hegemonic spaces, Transformations: Art and the City explores interactions between the human subject and their urban surroundings through site-specific art and creative practices, tracing the ways in which Chapters include case-studies raging from corporate-...
Art's Teachings, Teaching's Art
Philosophical, Critical and Educational Musings
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
This volume examines the interface between the teachings of art and the art of teaching, and asserts the centrality of aesthetics for rethinking education. Many of the essays in this collection claim a direct connection between critical thinking, democratic dissensus, and anti-racist pedagogy with...
by Jose Hutto
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Art collection is a very stimulating and inspiring hobby for all. It isn’t just for the rich and famous, but even regular everyday people too. There are various forms of art that you can choose from, especially since art’s definition can greatly vary from one person to another. However, it doesn't...
L'Art
entretiens réunis par Paul Gsell (édition intégrale & entièrement illustrée suivi de Combats esthétiques : Auguste Rodin, par Octave Mirbeau)
Language: French
Release Date: March 11, 2019
« Au-dessus du hameau du Val-Fleury qui dépend de Meudon, un groupe de pittoresques constructions couronnent une colline.
On devine qu’elles appartiennent à un artiste, car elles ravissent les regards.
C’est là en effet qu’Auguste Rodin a fixé son séjour. »
La sculpture...
An Illustrated History of Islamic Art & Design
An Expert Introduction to Islamic Art, from Calligraphy, Tiles, Costumes and Carpets to Pottery, Woodcarvings and Metalwork
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
The Islamic world has created a wealth of art treasures, and this book explores that rich heritage. The diversity of decorative Islamic art forms is simply breath-taking, extending from the Arabic calligraphy of the early Qurans and the beautiful Fatimid woodcarvings of 12th- and 13th-centure Egypt to...