Art History category: 15294 books
by Raffaello Borghini
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the subject of the Counter-Reformation content of religious paintings. Despite its reputation as an art-historical text, this is the first English-language translation of Il Riposo to be published. A distillation...
Art in America 1945-1970 (LOA #259)
Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Experience the creative explosion that transformed American art, in the words of the artists, writers, and critics who were there: In the quarter century after the end of World War II, a new generation of painters, sculptors, and photographers transformed the face of American art and shifted the center...
The Perpetual Guest
Art in the Unfinished Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Leading art critic explores the connections between art’s past and present
Contemporary art sometimes pretends to have made a clean break with history. In The Perpetual Guest, poet and critic Barry Schwabsky demonstrates that any robust understanding of art’s present must also account for...
by Margaret Tali
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciously and unconsciously, while misrepresentation is an outcome of the absent perspectives and voices of minority community members which are rarely considered...
The Memory Factory
The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The Memory Factory introduces an English-speaking public to the significant women artists of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, each chosen for her aesthetic innovations and participation in public exhibitions. These women played important public roles as exhibiting artists, both individually...
by Babette Bohn, James M. Saslow
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modern history.
Presents a collection of original, in-depth...
50 Art Ideas
You Really Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
A visit to an art gallery can be a baffling experience - a bewildering parade of paintings, sculptures, artists and movements with little perspective on how they all fit together. 50 Art Ideas you Really Need to Know is here to help. For all those who don't know their Degas from Dali or their Monet...
Art 101
From Vincent van Gogh to Andy Warhol, Key People, Ideas, and Moments in the History of Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Explore the beautiful and complex world of art!
Too often, textbooks obscure the beauty and wonder of fine art with tedious discourse that even Leonardo da Vinci would oppose. Art 101 cuts out the boring details and lengthy explanations, and instead, gives you a lesson in artistic expression that...
by Guillaume Apollinaire, Dorothea Eimert
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon: five young women that changed modern art forever. Faces seen simultaneously from the front and in profile, angular bodies whose once voluptuous feminine forms disappear behind asymmetric lines - with this work, Picasso revolutionised the entire history of painting. Cubism...
by Kenyon Cox,Arthur B. Davies,Élie Faure
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2009
Collected here are the original publications from one of the most important exhibitions in the history of American art -- the 1913 Armory Show. Opening on February 17, 1913, in New York and traveling to Chicago and Boston, the Armory Show was meant to be a simple exhibition of the new abstract and cubist...
Giorgio Vasari
(Grove Art Essentials)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Giorgio Vasari, the "Father of Art History," first published his Vite in 1550. An instant sensation, the Vite was more than just a chronological sequence of biographies: it was the first critical history of artistic style. This fully illustrated Grove Art Essentials title delves into Giorgio...
Made in Naples & the Amalfi Coast: A Travel Guide To Cameos, Capodimonte, Coral Jewelry, Inlay, Limoncello, Maiolica, Nativities Papier-mâché, & More
Laura Morelli's Authentic Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Don't buy anything in Naples, Italy or the Amalfi Coast until you read this book!
Every trip needs a souvenir. When you encounter limoncello, handmade cameos, or the famous nativities of Naples, Italy, you'll be tempted to take a part of the this beautiful place home with you. But how do you...
Hold It Against Me
Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In Hold It Against Me, Jennifer Doyle explores the relationship between difficulty and emotion in contemporary art, treating emotion as an artist's medium. She encourages readers to examine the ways in which works of art challenge how we experience not only the artist's feelings, but our own. Discussing...
Fin-De-Siecle Vienna
Politics and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born.
"Not only is it a splendid exploration...