Art category: 43213 books
by Eric Mantle
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Eric Mantle presents the basics of classical theory in a clear and concise manner for all beginning drawing and painting students. His book features diagrams that illustrate every concept. Students will see the complexities of color theory and understand how to create the illusion of volume and...
by Harold Speed
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Much of the learning to practice as well as to appreciate art is concerned with understanding the basic principles. One of these principles is what Harold Speed calls "dither," the freedom that allows realism and the artistic vision to play against each other. Very important to any artist...
Zen Doodle
Tons of Tangles
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Bring on the doodles!
Zen doodle, that is! In Zen Doodle: Tons of Tangles, you'll find gorgeous images of the best doodle art from around the world. This collection of drawings and painted canvases from dozens of contributors features thousands of tangle patterns and doodle designs to inspire you...
Women Making Art
History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Women have been making art for centuries, yet their work has been seen as secondary or has gone unrecognized altogether. Women Making Art asks why this is so, and what it would take for us to realize the extent of women's extraordinary contribution to the arts.
Marsha Meskimmon mobilizes contemporary...
Systems We Have Loved
Conceptual Art, Affect, and the Antihumanist Turn
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
By the early 1960s, theorists like Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, Foucault, and Barthes had created a world ruled by signifying structures and pictured through the grids of language, information, and systems. Artists soon followed, turning to language and its related forms to devise a new, conceptual approach...
by Roni Grén
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This book examines the importance of the animal in modern art theory, using classic texts of modern aesthetics and texts written by modern artists to explore the influence of the human-animal relationship on nineteenth and twentieth century artists and art theorists. The book is unique due to its...
For Creative Geographies
Geography, Visual Arts and the Making of Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book provides the first sustained critical exploration, and celebration, of the relationship between Geography and the contemporary Visual Arts. With the growth of research in the Geohumanities and the Spatial Humanities, there is an imperative to extend and deepen considerations of the form...
The Enchantment of Poetry
A Collection of Drawings and Writings Celebrating the Amazing Fine Art of Kordis
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
The Enchantment of Poetry marks an intriguing collaboration between an artist and a poet. Dr Georgios D. Kordis, a professor, theologian, and important artist of his time, created the fine art drawings. A renowned, world-class iconographer in the Byzantine tradition, Kordis has introduced surrealistic...
The Art of the Roman Empire
AD 100-450
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the role of the visual arts, the great diversity...
by Justice Koolhaas
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Justice Koolhaas’s Essays on Modern Art are reproduced alongside at least one of each artist’s works that she owned. Unusually, these works were discards; even more unusually, she obtained them on condition that each artist signed a statement disowning them as artworks.Her theory work, a refusenikism...
by A. Clutton-Brock
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This collection of brief but insightful essays, though always returning to the author’s central conviction that the quality of artistic endeavour depends not on individuals of genius but on the attitude of the public towards art itself, examines a wide variety of unique but related issues: the relationship...
New Games
Postmodernism After Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Pamela M. Lee’s New Games revisits postmodernism in light of art history's more recent embrace of "the contemporary." What can the theories and practices associated with postmodernism tell us about the obsession with the contemporary in both the academy and the art world? In looking at...
Yaxchilan
The Design of a Maya Ceremonial City
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
As archaeologists peel away the jungle covering that has both obscured and preserved the ancient Maya cities of Mexico and Central America, other scholars have only a limited time to study and understand the sites before the jungle, weather, and human encroachment efface them again, perhaps forever....
Money, Trains, and Guillotines
Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
During the 1960s a group of young artists in Japan challenged official forms of politics and daily life through interventionist art practices. William Marotti situates this phenomenon in the historical and political contexts of Japan after the Second World War and the international activism of the...