Art category: 43213 books
by Dueep Jyot Singh
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016
Table of ContentsLearn the Art of Natural DyeingTable of ContentsIntroductionIntroductionTie-Dye TipsSteps for DyeingPreparation of Your FabricBleaching Your GoodsTying before DyeingPleatingKnottingSun BurstMarbled EffectTwistingPreparing the DyesDifferent Types of Natural DyesColoring Wool...
Art Therapy and Social Action
Treating the World's Wounds
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
Art Therapy and Social Action is an exciting exploration of how professionals can incorporate the techniques and approaches of art therapy in their work to address social problems. Examining the expanding role of art practitioner as social activist, leading art therapists and other professionals show...
Strengthening Emotional Ties through Parent-Child-Dyad Art Therapy
Interventions with Infants and Preschoolers
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2002
Parent-child-dyad art therapy is an interesting and innovative art therapy, in which parent and child share the production of an artwork. Aiming to reinforce or re-establish bonds between children and parents, it provides a space where parents' early unresolved conflicts and children's developmental...
Art for Equality
The NAACP's Cultural Campaign for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation's oldest civil rights organization, having dedicated itself to the fight for racial equality since 1909. While the group helped achieve substantial victories in the courtroom, the struggle for civil rights extended...
Dominican Women and Renaissance Art
The Convent of San Domenico of Pisa
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Starting from an inventory and other documents, Ann Roberts has identified some 30 works of art that originated from the convent of San Domenico of Pisa. She here examines those objects commissioned for and made by the nuns during the fifteenth century; some of the objects included have never before...
Space and Time in Artistic Practice and Aesthetics
The Legacy of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
When the Enlightenment thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing wrote his treatise Laocoön: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry in 1766, he outlined the strengths and weaknesses of each art. Painting was assigned to the realm of space; poetry to the realm of time. Space and Time in Artistic Practice...
by Richard Wollheim
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Richard Wollheim's classic reflection on art considers central questions regarding expression, representation, style, the significance of the artist's intention and the essentially historical nature of art. Presented in a fresh series livery for the twenty-first century, with a specially commissioned...
by Allan Brandon Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Show Me Don't Tell Me eBooks are designed to be the digital version of traditional coffee table books. Their modest purpose is to commemorate the work of accomplished artists without excessive verbal commentary; to serve as a handy reference and guide in the intelligent use of color, line, form and...
by Allan Brandon Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Show Me Don't Tell Me eBooks are designed to be the digital version of traditional coffee table books. Their modest purpose is to commemorate the work of accomplished artists without excessive verbal commentary; to serve as a handy reference and guide in the intelligent use of color, line, form and...
Darwin's Camera
Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Darwin's Camera tells the extraordinary story of how Charles Darwin changed the way pictures are seen and made. In his illustrated masterpiece, Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1871), Darwin introduced the idea of using photographs to illustrate a scientific theory--his was the first...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This volume aims to question, challenge, supplement, and revise current understandings of the relationship between aesthetic and political operations. The authors transcend disciplinary boundaries and nurture a wide-ranging sensibility about art and sovereignty, two highly complex and interwoven dimensions...
Playing with Earth and Sky
Astronomy, Geography, and the Art of Marcel Duchamp
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Playing with Earth and Sky reveals the significance astronomy, geography, and aviation had for Marcel Duchamp—widely regarded as the most influential artist of the past fifty years. Duchamp transformed modern art by abandoning unique art objects in favor of experiences that could be both embodied...
Collective Situations
Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art, 1995–2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In Collective Situations scholars, artists, and art collectives present a range of socially engaged art practices that emerged in Latin America during the Pink Tide period, between 1995 and 2010. This volume's essays, interviews, and artist's statements—many of which are appearing in English for...
More Travels:
Adventures in India, Africa and Australia in Art and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
More Travels: India, Africa and Australia in Art and Poetry. Returning from overseas and still searching for direction, Julie Vincent heads north and explores the wonders of Australias top end before heading to India and Africa.
This book follows on from Travels Within: Art and Poetry, which...