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Wonderful Things: Byzantium through its Art
Papers from the 42nd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, 20-22 March 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The essays collected in this book were delivered at the XLII Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held in London in 2009 to accompany the exhibition Byzantium 330-1453, at the Royal Academy. The exhibition was one of the most ambitious and complex exhibitions ever mounted at the Royal Academy, as...
by Robin Cormack
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representations reflecting and promoting this society and its values in icons, illuminated manuscripts, and mosaics and wallpaintings placed in domed churches and public...
The Big Picture
Contemporary Art in 10 Works by 10 Artists
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Discover the compelling story of the evolution of contemporary art, its state today, and where it’s headed, through a sample of ten artworks created by ten artists over a span of fifteen years.
Written in an engaging, straightforward style by prominent art historian Matthew Israel, this book...
by Tanya Angelova
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Would you like to create monogram flower designs by using the nail art technique "Вензеля" (Venzelia)?
This is not a beginners guide, but rather an advanced nail art technique. It takes some time and good practice to create such monogram flowers. "Вензеля"...
Transcendental Realism
The Image-Art of Egoless Coincidence With Reality Itself
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Adi Da Samraj created art for over forty years with a single intention: the visual communication of truth, and the means to draw the viewer beyond separateness into the paradox of "indivisible unity". Adi Da began his first serious photographic work in the early 1960s. From the mid-'60s to the '90s he...
Brett Whiteley
Art, Life and the Other Thing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
When he died in 1992 Brett Whiteley left behind decades of ceaseless activity—some works bound to a particular place or time, others that are masterpieces of light and line.
Whiteley had arrived in Europe in 1960 determined to make an impression. Before long he was the youngest artist to...
Artistic Judgement
A Framework for Philosophical Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
Artistic Judgement sketches a framework for an account of art suitable to philosophical aesthetics. It stresses differences between artworks and other things; and locates the understanding of artworks both in a narrative of the history of art and in the institutional practices of the art world. Hence...
Jean-Baptiste-Pierre LeBrun
In Pursuit of Art (1748–1813)
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Jean-Baptiste Pierre LeBrun's life was marked by his intense interest in art, first as an artist, and then from 1770 until his death in 1813, as an art dealer/connoisseur and as a participant in the transformation of the Louvre into a national museum during the French Revolution. He managed to accommodate...
The Complete Book of Mixed Media Art
More than 200 fundamental mixed media concepts and techniques
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Featuring a wide variety of mixed media techniques, including drawing and painting, stamping, stitching, ephemera, encaustics, collaging, journaling, and more, The Complete Book of Mixed Media Art is the perfect resource for artists exploring the many ways they can expand their artistic horizons with...
Wet
On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 1997
Taking aim at the mostly male bastion of art theory and criticism, Mira Schor brings a maverick perspective and provocative voice to the issues of contemporary painting, gender representation, and feminist art. Writing from her dual perspective of a practicing painter and art critic, Schor’s writing...
by John D Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
“Timberland Voyage” uses the single aspect of trees as the core of the art photograph book. Each image within the book falls into three distinct and separate categories as to how it manipulates the woodland tree subject.
“Pure Tree Symmetry” uses reflection and symmetrical compositions...
Little Windows into Art Therapy
Small Openings for Beginning Therapists
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004
Newly qualified art therapists often feel daunted by the challenge of actually being face-to-face with a client and are unsure how to progress after the first image has been created. In this honest and encouraging book, Deborah Schroder explains how art can provide openings into therapeutic relationships...
The Postconceptual Condition
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Tracking the postconceptual dimensions of contemporary art
If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, “it is the function of artistic form … to make historical content into a philosophical truth” then it is the function of criticism to recover and to complete that truth. Contemporary art makes this...
Inner Journeying Through Art-Journaling
Learning to See and Record your Life as a Work of Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2005
Inner Journeying Through Art-Journaling introduces a holistic journaling process that combines art, art therapy, design theory and spiritual direction in order to attain personal balance, awareness of one's own inner processes, resolution of internal conflicts and enhanced wellness.
The book...