Art History category: 15294 books
by Theo Servetas
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
War Paint: A Pictorial History of the 4th Marine Division At War in the Pacific - Volume One: The Marshall Islands (Roi & Namur) February, 1944.
This is Volume One of a four volume series. Volume Two will cover the invasion of the Mariana Islands at Saipan; Volume Three will finish the...
Leonardo's Lost Princess
One Man's Quest to Authenticate an Unknown Portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
How an oddly attributed $19,000 picture proved to be a $100 million work by Leonardo da Vinci—a true art-world detective story
In late 2010, art collector Peter Silverman revealed that a "German, early 19th century" portrait he had bought for $19,000 was, in fact, a previously unknown...
Modernism in Scandinavia
Art, Architecture and Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Scandinavia is a region associated with modernity: modern design, modern living and a modern welfare state. This new history of modernism in Scandinavia offers a picture of the complex reality that lies behind the label: a modernism made up of many different figures, impulses and visions. It places...
Scenic Impressions
Southern Interpretations from The Johnson Collection
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The radical changes wrought by the rise of the salon system in nineteenth-century Europe provoked an interesting response from painters in the American South. Painterly trends emanating from Barbizon and Giverny emphasized the subtle textures of nature through warm color and broken brush stroke. Artists’...
Critical Issues In American Art
A Book Of Readings
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
This anthology of essays on different critical approaches and methodologies for the analysis and interpretation of American art and artists is designed for students and teachers in American art history and American studies programs. It contains twenty selections from academic journals on American...
Gauguin’s Challenge
New Perspectives After Postmodernism
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Several decades have now passed since postcolonial and feminist critiques presented the art-historical world with a demythologized Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), a much-diminished image of the artist/hero who had once been universally admired as "the father of modernist primitivism.†? In this volume,...
José Clemente Orozco
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The artistic eminence of José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) is such that he has been called “the greatest painter the Americas have produced.” In his Autobiography he also attains literary distinction. He is a writer who recounts the history of his period from a personal point of view and yet scarcely...
The Legacies of Bernard Smith
Essays on Australian Art, History and Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
It has been widely asserted that Bernard Smith established the discipline of art history in Australia. He was the founding professor of contemporary art and the directory of the Power Institute at the University of Sydney, published the classic art text Australian Painting, three volumes on the art...
Pictures and Tears
A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
Art Does art leave you cold? And is that what it's supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to tears? Hemingway was reduced to tears in the midst of a drinking bout when a painting by James Thurber caught his eye. And what's bad about that? In Pictures and Tears, art historian James Elkins...
The Art of Joaquín Torres-García
Constructive Universalism and the Inversion of Abstraction
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Intertwining art history, aesthetic theory, and Latin American studies, Aarnoud Rommens challenges contemporary Eurocentric revisions of the history of abstraction through this study of the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García. After studying and painting (for decades) in Europe, Torres-García...
Negotiations in a Vacant Lot
Studying the Visual in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
At a moment when the discipline of Canadian art history seems to be in flux and the study of Canadian visual culture is gaining traction outside of art history departments, the authors of Negotiations in a Vacant Lot were asked: is "Canada" - or any other nation - still relevant as a category of inquiry?...
Since '45
America and the Making of Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Since ’45 details the collision of American history and modern art. Since World War II, New York has been the indisputable center of the art world, and as Katy Siegel shows, it has had a profound influence on the preoccupations that contemporary art would come to have. Tracing art history over...
Form as Revolt
Carl Einstein and the Ground of Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The German writer and art critic Carl Einstein (1885–1940) has long been acknowledged as an important figure in the history of modern art, and yet he is often sidelined as an enigma. In Form as Revolt Sebastian Zeidler recovers Einstein's multifaceted career, offering the first comprehensive intellectual...
David's Sling
A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Throughout Western history, the societies that have made the greatest contributions to the spread of freedom have created iconic works of art to celebrate their achievements. Yet despite the enduring appeal of these works-from the Parthenon to Michelangelo’s David to Picasso’s Guernica-histories...