Art History category: 15294 books
Museum Representations of Maoist China
From Cultural Revolution to Commie Kitsch
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The collection, interpretation and display of art from the People’s Republic of China, and particularly the art of the Cultural Revolution, have been problematic for museums. These objects challenge our perception of ’Chineseness’ and their style, content and the means of their production question...
by Adam Geczy, Jacqueline Millner
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Nominated for the 2016 Art in Literature: Mary Lynn Kotz Award, Library of Virginia
Owing to digitization, globalization and mass culture, what is deemed 'desirable' and 'of the moment' in art has increasingly followed the patterns of fashion. While in the past artistic styles were always inflected...
The Cry of Nature
Art and the Making of Animal Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The eighteenth century saw the rise of new and more sympathetic understanding of animals as philosophy, literature, and art argued that animals could feel and therefore possess inalienable rights. This idea gave birth to a diverse movement that affects how we understand our relationship to the natural...
by Eliane Strosberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Today, art and science are often defined in opposition to each other: one involves the creation of individual aesthetic objects, and the other the discovery of general laws of nature. Throughout human history, however, the boundaries have been less clearly drawn: knowledge and artifacts have often issued...
On Art and Painting
Vicente Carducho and Baroque Spain
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This book is a collection of fourteen essays on the Dialogues on Painting, published by the Florentine-born Spanish painter and art theorist Vicente Carducho (1568–1638) in 1633. This was the first treatise in Spanish on the art of painting, written as part of a campaign led by Carducho in collaboration...
The Age of the Avant-garde
1956-1972
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Hilton Kramer, well known as perhaps the most perceptive, courageous, and influential art critic in America, is also the founder and co-editor (with Roger Kimball) of The New Criterion. This comprehensive book collects a sizable selection of his early essays and reviews published in Artforum, Commentary,...
Art for a New Understanding
Native Voices, 1950s to Now
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Art for a New Understanding, an exhibition from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art that opened in October 2018, seeks to radically expand and reposition the narrative of American art since 1950 by charting a history of the development of contemporary Indigenous art from the United States and Canada,...
An Illustrated History of Islamic Art & Design
An Expert Introduction to Islamic Art, from Calligraphy, Tiles, Costumes and Carpets to Pottery, Woodcarvings and Metalwork
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
The Islamic world has created a wealth of art treasures, and this book explores that rich heritage. The diversity of decorative Islamic art forms is simply breath-taking, extending from the Arabic calligraphy of the early Qurans and the beautiful Fatimid woodcarvings of 12th- and 13th-centure Egypt to...
by William Farina
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Among the 12 disciples of Jesus, perhaps none has inspired more magnificent art—as well as political upheaval—than Saint James the Greater. Portrayed in the New Testament as part of Jesus’ inner circle, he was the first apostle to be martyred. Eight centuries later, Saint James, or Santiago,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The study of Roman sculpture has been an essential part of the disciplines of Art History and Classics since the eighteenth century. Famous works like the Laocoön, the Arch of Titus, and the colossal portrait of Constantine are familiar to millions. Again and again, scholars have returned to sculpture...
by Rolando Pérez
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Severo Sarduy never enjoyed the same level of notoriety as did other Latin American writers like García Márquez and Vargas-Llosa, and his compatriot, Cabrera-Infante. On the other hand, he never lacked for excellent critical interpretations of his work from critics like Roberto González Echevarría,...
by dennis broe
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2015
Cold War Expressionism is an expose of the art world after World War II where a new triumphalism and a growing conservatism on the part of the US helped bring to power a depoliticized art which went under the rubric of Abstract Expressionism and which functioned as an advertisement for American capitalism...
Unlimited action
The performance of extremity in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Unlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which artists have exposed, refused, or otherwise reshaped the horizon of aesthetics and of the practice of art, by way of performance art. It examines the ‘performance of extremity’ as practices at the limits of...
The Road to Parnassus: Artist Strategies in Contemporary Art
Rise and Success of Glasgow Artist Douglas Gordon and of the wider YBA generation
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
How can one become a successful artist? Where should one start a career in the art world? What are useful strategies to achieve recognition in the art system? Such questions hoard in students' minds ever since entering art school and they probably chase every kind of art professional who is at an...