Art History category: 15294 books
by Saloni Mathur
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Art and NYC
A Complete Guide to New York City Art and Artists
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Art + NYC is an art-lover's guide to New York City that combines a crash course in 20th- and 21st-century art history with in-depth bios of ten celebrated New York City artists: Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Yoko Ono, Mark Rothko, Jeff Koons, Donald Judd, Roy Lichtenstein,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
In Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art, Andrew Sansom, a leading Texas conservationist, and William E. Reaves, an influential Texas art collector and historian, have teamed up to showcase some of the finest contemporary river art detailing the gorgeous traits of Texas landscapes. The featured artwork comes...
The Art of the Con
The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Art scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from the business of authentication and forgery, and with good reason. Art scams are increasingly convincing and involve incredible sums of money. The cons perpetrated...
The Art of Transition
Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2001
The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what...
by Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
According to the defined canons of art technique, a portrait should be, above all, a faithful representation of its model. However, this gallery of 1000 portraits illustrates how the genre has been transformed throughout history, and has proven itself to be much more complex than a simple imitation...
by Michael Snow, Louise Dompierre
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Writing, for Michael Snow, is as much a form of “art-making” as the broad range of visual art activities for which he is renowned, including the “Walking Woman” series and the film Wavelength. Conversely, many of the texts included in this anthology are as significant visually as they are...
Art
Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Artists and Their Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Art introduces readers to 100 of the world's most important artists and their paintings, from the 13th century to the modern era. Works by artists including Caravaggio, Vermeer, van Gogh and Warhol are reproduced in superb high quality, arranged chronologically and set in their historical context...
by Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
In art history, the term ‘Romanesque art’ distinguishes the period between the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 12th century. This era showed a great diversity of regional schools each with their own unique style. In architecture as well as in sculpture, Romanesque art is marked by raw...
West of Center
Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
In the heady and hallucinogenic days of the 1960s and ’70s, a diverse range of artists and creative individuals based in the American West—from the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains and the Southwest—broke the barriers between art and lifestyle and embraced the new, hybrid sensibilities of the...
The Great Chinese Art Transfer
How So Much of China's Art Came to America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This book tells the story of how and why millions of Chinese works of art got exported to collectors and institutions in the West, in particular to the United States. As China’s last dynasty was weakening and collapsing from 1860 into the early years of the twentieth century, China’s internal...
by Dorothea Eimert
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The 20th century was a revolutionary period in art history. In the span of a few short years, Modernism exploded into being, disrupting centuries of classical figurative tradition to create something entirely new. This astoundingly thorough survey of art's modern era showcases all of the key artistic...
Pop Art
A Colourful History
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Pop Art by the BBC's Alastair Sooke - an essential but snappy new guide to our favourite art movement
Pop Art is the most important 20th-century art movement. It brought Modernism to the masses, making art sexy and fun with coke cans and comics. Today, in our age of selfies and social networking,...
Critical Shift
Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
American Civil War–era art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that have become fundamental to our modern periodization of the art of the nineteenth century. In Critical Shift, Karen Georgi rereads many of their well-known...