Art History category: 15294 books
The History of Loot and Stolen Art
from Antiquity until the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
The author of this enthralling book aims to present a well-illustrated and documented alternative history of the Western World through graphic accounts of looting and art theft from the time of Sargon, ruler of Syria in 721 BC, to the present day. Almost all the principal players included appear on the...
by Theodore K. Rabb
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
How have artists across the millennia responded to warfare? In this uniquely wide-ranging book, Theodore Rabb blends military history and the history of art to search for the answers. He draws our attention to masterpieces from the ancient world to the twentieth century—paintings, sculpture, ceramics,...
Type
The Secret History of Letters
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2006
Type is the bridge between writer and reader, between thought and understanding. Type is the message bearer: an art-form that impinges upon every literate being and yet for most of its history it has conformed to the old adage that 'good typography should be invisible', it should not distract with...
by Daniel Magaziner
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
From 1952 to 1981, South Africa’s apartheid government ran an art school for the training of African art teachers at Indaleni, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal. The Art of Life in South Africa is the story of the students, teachers, art, and politics that circulated through a small school, housed...
Spirit and Art
Pictures of the Transformation of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As an art student in the late sixties, I recall how painfully dry and intellectual my art history classes were. I thought to myself, or rather felt to myself, There must be something more (Van James). Artist Van James offers that something more. This is a richly readable and lavishly illustrated text...
The Triumph of Modernism
India's Artists and the Avant-garde, 1922-47
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
The tumultuous last decades of British colonialism in India were catalyzed by more than the work of Mahatma Gandhi and violent conflicts. The concurrent upheavals in Western art driven by the advent of modernism provided Indian artists in post-1920 India a powerful tool of colonial...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
A critical overview of contemporary design and its place within the broader context of art history
A Companion to Contemporary Design since 1945 introduces readers to a collection of specially commissioned essays exploring the complex areas of design that emerged through the latter half of...
The Forge of Vision
A Visual History of Modern Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Religions teach their adherents how to see and feel at the same time; learning to see is not a disembodied process but one hammered from the forge of human need, social relations, and material practice. David Morgan argues that the history of religions may therefore be studied through the lens of...
The Art of Instruction
Vintage Educational Charts from the 19th and 20th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Large-scale wall charts were fundamental tools of classroom instruction throughout Europe in the mid-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Collected here for the first time in one deluxe volume are over 100 of these vintage educational posters now important relics in the history of science, art, and...
A Tragic Fate
Law and Ethics in the Battle Over Nazi-Looted Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The organized theft of fine art by Nazi Germany has captivated worldwide attention in the last twenty years. As much as any other topic arising out of World War Two, stolen art has proven to be an issue that simply will not go away. Newly found works of art pit survivors and their heirs against museums,...
by Jonathan Harris
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
The final installment in the critically-acclaimed trilogy on globalization and art explores the growing dominance of Asian centers of art
This book takes readers on a fascinating journey around five Asian centers of contemporary art and its myriad institutions, agents, forms, materials, and...
by Wu Hung
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
We might think the Egyptians were the masters of building tombs, but no other civilization has devoted more time and resources to underground burial structures than the Chinese. For at least five thousand years, from the fourth millennium B.C.E. to the early twentieth century, the Chinese have been...
by Heidi C. Gearhart
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
In this study of the rare twelfth-century treatise On Diverse Arts, Heidi C. Gearhart explores the unique system of values that guided artists of the High Middle Ages as they created their works.
Written in northern Germany by a monk known only by the pseudonym Theophilus, On Diverse Arts is...
The Poster
Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860s–1900s
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The Poster: Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860s–1900s is a cultural history that situates the poster at the crossroads of art, design, advertising, and collecting. Though international in scope, the book focuses especially on France and England. Ruth E. Iskin argues that the avant-garde...