Art History category: 15294 books
by Alex Grey
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This is an inspirational book about art's power to bring about personal catharsis and spiritual awakening. Alex Grey's reflections combine his extensive knowledge of art history and his own first-hand experiences in creating art on the boundaries of consciousness. Included are practical techniques...
India’s Biennale Effect
A politics of contemporary art
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
India’s Kochi-Muziris Biennale has been described as one of the most significant newly emergent biennales, alongside Shanghai, Sharjah and Dakar. However, there have been few sustained and critical studies of these events as specific sites of production and reception of contemporary art.
This...
Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350–1530
Experience, Authority, Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Illuminated here are the relationships between visual culture, faith, and gender in the courtly, monastic, and urban spheres of the early modern Burgundian Netherlands. By examining works by artists such as the Master of Mary of Burgundy, Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, and Bernard van Orley, author Andrea...
Views of Albion
The Reception of British Art and Design in Central Europe, 18901918
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Views of Albion is the first comprehensive study of the reception of British art and design in Central Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. The author proposes a new map of European Art Nouveau, where direct contacts between peripheral cultures were more significant than the influence of Paris....
The Destruction of Art
Iconoclasm and Vandalism since the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Last winter, a man tried to break Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain sculpture. The sculpted foot of Michelangelo’s David was damaged in 1991 by a purportedly mentally ill artist. With each incident, intellectuals must confront the unsettling dynamic between destruction and art. Renowned art historian...
The Contemporaneity of Modernism
Literature, Media, Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
At a juncture in which art and culture are saturated with the forces of commodification, this book argues that problems, forms, and positions that defined modernism are crucially relevant to the condition of contemporary art and culture. The volume is attuned to the central concerns of recent scholarship...
Winckelmann's Images from the Ancient World
Greek, Roman, Etruscan and Egyptian
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Compiled by the father of modern art history, this landmark 1767 publication boasts more than 200 outstanding engravings of ancient monuments. Johann Joachim Winckelmann, an eighteenth-century scholar who devoted his life to the study of ancient art, was the first to outline the distinctions between...
Contemporary Art and Memory
Images of Recollection and Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2007
Whether exploring the intimate recollections which make up the artist's own life history or questioning the way the gallery and museum present public memory, contemporary art, it would seem, is haunted by the past. 'Contemporary Art and Memory' is the first accessible survey book to explore the subject...
In Senghor's Shadow
Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960–1995
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
In Senghor’s Shadow is a unique study of modern art in postindependence Senegal. Elizabeth Harney examines the art that flourished during the administration of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegal’s first president, and in the decades since he stepped down in 1980. As a major philosopher and poet...
by Luis Camnitzer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Artist, educator, curator, and critic Luis Camnitzer has been writing about contemporary art ever since he left his native Uruguay in 1964 for a fellowship in New York City. As a transplant from the "periphery" to the "center," Camnitzer has had to confront fundamental questions about making art in...
The Thiri Rama
Finding Ramayana in Myanmar
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
The Thiri Rama – or the Great Rama – was written for court performance and is the only known illustrated version of the Ramayana story in Myanmar. Based on palm-leaf manuscripts and scenes carved on over 300 sandstone plaques at a mid-nineteenth-century Buddhist pagoda west of Mandalay in Myanmar,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
An innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture...
The Transformation of Athens
Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
How remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek culture
Why did soldiers stop fighting, athletes stop competing, and lovers stop having graphic sex in classical Greek art? The scenes depicted on Athenian pottery of the mid-fifth century BC are very...
Theater of Cruelty
Art, Film, and the Shadows of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
Ian Buruma is fascinated, he writes, “by what makes the human species behave atrociously.” In Theater of Cruelty the acclaimed author of The Wages of Guilt and Year Zero: A History of 1945 once again turns to World...