Art History category: 15294 books
Surveying the Avant-Garde
Questions on Modernism, Art, and the Americas in Transatlantic Magazines
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Surveying the Avant-Garde examines the art and literature of the Americas in the early twentieth century through the lens of the questionnaire, a genre as central as the manifesto to the history of the avant-garde.
Questions such as “How do you imagine Latin America?” and “What should...
In the Footsteps of the Old Masters
The Myth of Golden Age Holland in 19 th Century Art and Art Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
The author presents a broad phenomenon known under the term of «Hollandism» as present in the European culture. Investigating various areas of 19th century painting, art criticism and literature, the author explains interpretation clichés attached to the culture of the Golden Age (e.g. its bourgeois...
The Riddle of the Image
The Secret Science of Medieval Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
From monumental church mosaics to fresco wall-paintings, the medieval period produced some of the most impressive art in history. But how, in a world without the array of technology and access to materials that we now have, did artists produce such incredible works, often on an unbelievably large...
by Dr Rosemary Barrow, Michael Silk
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Gender and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture offers incisive analysis of selected works of ancient art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory from gender studies, body studies, art history and other related fields. The book raises important questions about ancient sculpture and the contrasting...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Rock art is one of the most visible and geographically widespread of cultural expressions, and it spans much of the period of our species' existence. Rock art also provides rare and often unique insights into the minds and visually creative capacities of our ancestors and how selected rock outcrops...
An Introduction to Greek Art
Sculpture and Vase Painting in the Archaic and Classical Periods
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The four centuries between the composition of the Homeric epics and the conquests of Alexander the Great witnessed an immensely creative period in Greek art, one full of experimentation and innovation. But time has taken its toll; damaged statues have lost their colour and wall paintings have been...
Paintings and the Past
Philosophy, History, Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
This book is an exploration of how art—specifically paintings in the European manner—can be mobilized to make knowledge claims about the past. No type of human-made tangible thing makes more complex and bewildering demands in this respect than paintings. Ivan Gaskell argues that the search for...
Antimodernism and Artistic Experience
Policing the Boundaries of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
Antimodernism is a term used to describe the international reaction to the onslaught of the modern world that swept across industrialized Western Europe, North America, and Japan in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century. Scholars in art history, anthropology, political science, history,...
Museums in the German Art World
From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2000
Combining the history of ideas, institutions, and architecture, this study shows how the museum both reflected and shaped the place of art in German culture from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. On a broader level, it illuminates the origin and character of the museum's...
Time in the History of Art
Temporality, Chronology and Anachrony
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Addressed to students of the image--both art historians and students of visual studies--this book investigates the history and nature of time in a variety of different environments and media as well as the temporal potential of objects. Essays will analyze such topics as the disparities of power that...
by Tatyana Fedulova
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Eclecticism is just 13th 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...
by Tatyana Fedulova
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Brief Guide to the History of Architectural Styles is a full-color illustrated edition of the classic study of the history of architecture.This handbook has been written by Tatyana Fedulova - Russian art critic, lecturer and popularizer of history of Fine Arts, the expert in the History of Art and...
Palaeoartist's Handbook
Recreating prehistoric animals in art
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Extinct worlds live again in palaeoart: artworks of fossil animals, plants and environments carefully reconstructed from palaeontological and geological data. Such artworks are widespread in popular culture, appearing in documentaries, museums, books and magazines, and inspiring depictions of dinosaurs...
Learning from Madness
Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Throughout the history of European modernism, philosophers and artists have been fascinated by madness. Something different happened in Brazil, however, with the “art of the insane” that flourished within the modernist movements there. From the 1920s to the 1960s, the direction and creation of...