Art History category: 15294 books
by David Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this groundbreaking book David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Revolution. The total work of art is usually understood as the intention to reunite the arts into the one integrated whole, but it is also tied from the...
The Total Work of Art
From Bayreuth to Cyberspace
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
The Total Work of Art provides a broad survey that incorporates many canonical artists into a single narrative. With particular attention to the influence of the Total Work of Art on modern theatre and performance, this brief introduction will also be of interest to students in such fields as film studies, music history, history of art, cultural studies, and modern European literatures.
Leonardo's Brain
Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal...
Michelangelo
An icon of Western art history
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Keen to learn but short on time? Find out everything you need to know about the life and work of Michelangelo in just 50 minutes with this straightforward and engaging guide!
Michelangelo is one of the most influential artists in Western art history, and his works, including his famed sculpture...
Boom
Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
The meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world-for contemporary art-is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers. They can make and break careers and fortunes.
The contemporary art market is an international juggernaut, throwing off multimillion-dollar...
Fear and the Muse Kept Watch
The Russian Masters-from Akhmatova and Pasternak to Shostakovich and Eisenstein-Under Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
In this dazzling exploration of one of the most contradictory periods of literary and artistic achievement in modern history, journalist Andy McSmith evokes the lives of more than a dozen of the most brilliant artists and writers of the twentieth century. Taking us deep into Stalin’s Russia, Fear...
The Museum of the Senses
Experiencing Art and Collections
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Traditionally sight has been the only sense with a ticket to enter the museum. The same is true of histories of art, in which artworks are often presented as purely visual objects. In The Museum of the Senses Constance Classen offers a new way of approaching the history of art through the senses,...
Brazilian Art under Dictatorship
Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Brazilian Art under Dictatorship is a sophisticated analysis of the intersection of politics and the visual arts during the most repressive years of Brazil's military regime, from 1968 until 1975. Raised in Rio de Janeiro during the dictatorship, the curator and art historian Claudia Calirman describes...
Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora
Setting the Tent Against the House
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
As an island—a geographical space with mutable and porous borders—Cuba has never been a fixed cultural, political, or geographical entity. Migration and exile have always informed the Cuban experience, and loss and displacement have figured as central preoccupations among Cuban artists and intellectuals....
Global Interests
Renaissance Art Between East and West
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Looking outward for confirmation of who they were and what defined them as "civilized," Europeans encountered the returning gaze of what we now call the East, in particular the attention of the powerful Ottoman Empire. Global Interests explores the historical interactions that arose from...
Theory for Art History
Adapted from Theory for Religious Studies, by William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Theory for Art History provides clear and concise introductions to thirty key figures of contemporary theory: four essential predecessors – Freud, Marx, Nietzsche, and Saussure – and twenty-six major moderns from Adorno to Spivak. This book includes key concepts, biography, survey of work,...
The Duke of Wellington, Kidnapped!
The Incredible True Story of the Art Heist That Shocked a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
One of art history’s most notorious crimes is solved in this true caper that reads “like a finely tuned suspense thriller” (Publishers Weekly).
In 1961, a thief broke into London’s National Gallery and committed the most sensational art heist in British history by stealing the museum’s...
Anywhere or Not at All
Philosophy of Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. But what kind of discourse can open it up effectively to critical analysis? Anywhere or Not at All is a major philosophical intervention in art theory that challenges the terms of established positions through a new approach at...
From a Nation Torn
Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history's understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within art history, the aesthetic practices and theories that emerged in France from the late 1940s into the 1960s are demarcated...