Art History category: 15294 books
Kente Cloth
History and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This book is about the history of an African clothing material known as Kente cloth. All relevant cultural aspects of the cloth have been explained in details with several pictorial illustrations. The book traces Kente history and how it has been used since its invention, about four hundred years...
by Robert Jensen, James Elkins, James Cutting
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2007
Whether it is being studied or critiqued, the art canon is usually understood as an authoritative list of important works and artists. This collection breaks with the idea of a singular, transcendent canon. Through provocative case studies, it demonstrates that the content of any canon is both historically...
by Peter Russell, James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2017
The American James Abbott McNeill Whistler was averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, establishing himself as a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". Finding a parallel between painting and music, Whistler entitled many of his paintings with musical names,...
The Day the Renaissance Was Saved
The Battle of Anghiari and da Vinci's Lost Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
It was a battle that change the course of history, and was immortalized in a massive painting by Leonardo da Vinci that was thought lost for centuries . . . until now.
On a sweltering day in June 1440, near the Tuscan town of Anghiari, the simmering conflict among Italy’s principal powers...
Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics
Argentine Art in the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007
The 1960s were heady years in Argentina. Visual artists, curators, and critics sought to fuse art and politics; to broaden the definition of art to encompass happenings and assemblages; and, above all, to achieve international recognition for new, cutting-edge Argentine art. A bestseller in Argentina,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This edited collection traces the impact of monographic exhibitions on the discipline of art history from the first examples in the late eighteenth century through the present. Roughly falling into three genres (retrospectives of living artists, retrospectives of recently deceased artists, and monographic...
Abstraction and Empathy
A Contribution to the Psychology of Style
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
Wilhelm Worringer's landmark study in the interpretation of modern art, first published in 1908, has seldom been out of print. Its profound impact not only on art historians and theorists but also for generations of creative writers and intellectuals is almost unprecedented. Starting from the notion...
Golden Age of Chinese Art
The Lively T'ang Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
For almost three hundred years the noble T'ang Dynasty fostered a period of artistic and intellectual endeavor which has never been equaled in the history of China. Sculpture, ceramics, glass, and textiles were some of the major artifacts that emerged from this glorious renaissance of Chinese taste...
New Tendencies
Art at the Threshold of the Information Revolution (1961 - 1978)
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
An account of a major international art movement originating in the former Yugoslavia in the 1960s, which anticipated key aspects of information aesthetics.
New Tendencies, a nonaligned modernist art movement, emerged in the early 1960s in the former Yugoslavia, a nonaligned country. It represented...
by Vivien Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Part art history, part detective story, this gripping insider’s account of the Papunya art movement-which was centered around the 1,000 small, painted panels created at the remote northern territory Aboriginal settlement of Papunya during 1971 and 1972-goes beyond a mere discussion of the astronomical...
Building Yanhuitlan
Art, Politics, and Religion in the Mixteca Alta since 1500
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Through years of fieldwork in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, art historian and archaeologist Alessia Frassani formulated a compelling question: How did Mesoamerican society maintain its distinctive cultural heritage despite colonization by the Spanish? In Building Yanhuitlan, she focuses on an imposing...
by Tatyana Fedulova
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
The Renaissance is a 9th chapter of the series containing:- Ancient Egypt- Ancient Mesopotamia- Cretan-Mycenaean- Ancient Greece- Ancient Rome- Byzantine architecture- Romanesque- Gothic architecture- The Renaissance- Baroque- Rococo- Classicism- Eclecticism- Modern- FunctionalismBrief guide...
Artists' SoHo
49 Episodes of Intimate History
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
During the 1960s and 1970s in New York City, young artists exploited an industrial wasteland to create spacious studios where they lived and worked, redefining the Manhattan area just south of Houston Street. Its use fueled not by city planning schemes but by word-of-mouth recommendations, the area...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Following on from « Ce Salon à quoi tout se ramène »: Le Salon de peinture et de sculpture, 1791–1890, published in 2010 as an earlier volume in this series, this volume contains a selection of the papers given at the first major international conference to be held on the post-1789 Paris Fine...