Art category: 43213 books
ART/WORK
Everything You Need to Know (and Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
The definitive, must-have guide to pursuing an art career—the fully revised and updated edition of Art/Work, now in its fourteenth printing, shares the tools artists of all levels need to make it in this highly competitive field.
Originally published in 2009, Art/Work was the first practical...
What Are You Looking At?
The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
For skeptics, art lovers, and the millions of us who visit art galleries every year—and are confused—What Are You Looking At? by former director of London’s Tate Gallery Will Gompertz is a wonderfully lively, accessible narrative history of Modern Art, from Impressionism to the present day.
What...
The Intrepid Art Collector
The Beginner's Guide to Finding, Buying, and Appreciating Art on a Budget
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Ready to upgrade your artwork from framed Monet posters but intimidated by what you see in galleries?
In The Intrepid Art Collector, Lisa Hunter shows you how to start a fine art collection without spending a fortune. This accessible, jargon-free resource contains up-to-date information on...
by Dana Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2004
This clear and concise new introduction examines all the major debates and issues using a wide range of well-known examples. It discusses the challenge of using verbal and written language to analyse a visual form. Dana Arnold also examines the many different ways of writing about art, and the changing...
Basquiat
A Quick Killing in Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
A New York Times Notable Book: This national bestseller is a vivid biography of the meteoric rise and tragic death of art star Jean-Michel Basquiat
Painter Jean-Michel Basquiat was the Jimi Hendrix of the art world. In less than a decade, he went from being a teenage graffiti artist to an international...
by Michelle Facos
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Using the tools of the "new" art history (feminism, Marxism, social context, etc.) An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art offers a richly textured, yet clear and logical, introduction to nineteenth-century art and culture. This textbook will provide readers with a basic historical framework...
by Grant Pooke, Diana Newall
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
Art History: The Basics is a concise and accessible introduction for the general reader and the undergraduate approaching the history of art for the first time at college or university.
It will give you answers to questions like:
What is art and art history?
What are the main methodologies...
by Kelly Grovier
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
An extensive, accessible guide to the most groundbreaking and influential art from 1989 to the present
The years since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 have seen the rise of a new freedom to define art—Who makes it? Where can it be found? What is its commercial value?—and,...
Art on the Block
Tracking the New York Art World from SoHo to the Bowery, Bushwick and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
A fascinating tour of the last five decades of contemporary art in New York City, showing how artists are catalysts of gentrification and how neighborhoods in turn shape their art--with special insights into the work of artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cindy Sherman, and Jeff Koons
Stories...
After Modern Art
1945-2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2015, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the relationship between American and European art, and...
by Spatio Temprey
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Matisse's profound impact on twentieth century art makes him essential to understanding the art of the present. His art conveys some of the most uplifting, life affirming imagery in western culture. At the same time it is among the most creative and influential.
This ebook povides an understanding...
Jerry Bywaters
A Life in Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
As an artist, art critic, museum director, and art educator, Jerry Bywaters reshaped the Texas art world and attracted national recognition for Texas artists. This first full-scale biography explores his life and work in the context of twentieth-century American art, revealing Bywaters' important role...
Across the Art/Life Divide
Performance, Subjectivity, and Social Practice in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Martin Patrick explores the ways in which contemporary artists across media continue to reinvent art that straddles both public and private spheres. Examining the impact of various art movements on notions of performance, authorship, and identity, Across the Art/Life Divide argues that the most defining...
Selling Art Without Galleries
Toward Making a Living from Your Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
The first guide to selling art independently. This comprehensive resource shows artists how to make a living from their art-without relying on galleries. Through interviews with a range of successful artists, readers will learn how to write about their own work, how to arrange and curate exhibits,...