Art History category: 15294 books
by Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Offering a unique blend of thematic and chronological investigation, this highly illustrated, engaging text explores the rich historical, cultural, and social contexts of 3,000 years of Greek art, from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period.
Uniquely intersperses chapters devoted to major...
by John Charles Van Dyke
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
The origin of painting is unknown. The first important records of this art are met with in Egypt; but before the Egyptian civilization the men of the early ages probably used color in ornamentation and decoration, and they certainly scratched the outlines of men and animals upon bone and slate. Traces...
Study in Black and White
Photography, Race, Humor
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
In this volume, Tanya Sheehan takes humor seriously in order to trace how photographic comedy was used in America and transnationally to express evolving ideas about race, black emancipation, and civil rights in the mid-1800s and into the twentieth century.
Sheehan employs a trove of understudied...
Alberto Giacometti e Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Un dialogo sulla percezione. Fenomenologia dell'esperienza artistica
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Il libro analizza in modo approfondito le opere di Alberto Giacometti, uno dei protagonisti della storia dell'arte del XX secolo, accostandole al pensiero di un importante filosofo coevo, Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Ripercorrendo la sua vita e gli scambi culturali intrattenuti con gli intellettuali del...
Gli affreschi delle Palazze / The Palazze frescoes
Una storia tra Umbria e America / A Tale between Umbria and America
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Collana Chiaroscuro. Ricerche di storia e storia dell'arte diretta da Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri e Grazia Maria Fachechi n.1 Gli affreschi del monastero delle clarisse di S. Maria inter Angelos presso Spoleto, detto Le Palazze, staccati dalle pareti e ora conservati in vari musei, la maggior parte...
In Montmartre
Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in bohemian Paris in the first decade of the twentieth century
In Montmartre is a colorful history of the birth of Modernist art as it arose from one of the most astonishing collections of artistic...
The Art of Rivalry
Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists—Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon—whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights.
Rivalry is at the heart of some...
by Susan Jaques
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Ruthless and passionate, Catherine the Great is singularly responsible for amassing one of the most awe-inspiring collections of art in the world and turning St. Petersburg in to a world wonder. The Empress of Art brings to life the creation of this captivating woman's greatest legacy
An...
Rogues' Gallery
The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed, and Betrayals That Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
“Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.”
With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of...
by Leonardo da Vinci, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The genius of Leonardo da Vinci epitomises, more than that of any other figure, the Renaissance humanist ideal. The Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect and engineer produced some of the most influential masterpieces of Western art, which remain the most widely popular and influential paintings...
Strange Tools
Art and Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselves
In his new book, Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë raises a number of profound questions: What is art? Why do we value art as we do? What does...
by Nigel Spivey
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Ancient Greek sculpture seems to have a timeless quality – provoking reactions that may range from awe to alienation. Yet it was a particular product of its age: and to know how and why it was once created is to embark upon an understanding of its 'Classic' status. In this richly illustrated and...
by Mary Beard
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity.
Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to “How Do We Look” and “The Eye of Faith,” the famed Civilisations shows...
by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1883. 336 illustrations. This volume (the second of two) covers: Civil and Military Architecture, Methods of Construction, Sculpture, Painting, Industrial Art, and General Characterisitics of Egyptian Art.