Art History category: 15294 books
BCNFreeArt 01
The Port and Barceloneta. A guide to free art in Barcelona
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Why free art in Barcelona?
The idea for these guides sprang from hard times. Whether in boom or recession, art remains fundamental. But while free art is a great idea, not all great art is free. So this guide takes you places where there is no admission fee.
BCN Free Art 01: The Port...
Outsider Art in Texas
Lone Stars
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Texas looms large: big skies, vast plains, large cities. The Lone Star State often inspires a heightened sense of place in its citizens that rivals or surpasses that of New Yorkers. This is frequently reflected in the art of Texas—paintings of bluebonnet fields, longhorn cattle, and scenes from...
Walls of Empowerment
Chicana/o Indigenist Murals of California
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
Exploring three major hubs of muralist activity in California, where indigenist imagery is prevalent, Walls of Empowerment celebrates an aesthetic that seeks to firmly establish Chicana/o sociopolitical identity in U.S. territory. Providing readers with a history and genealogy of key muralists' productions,...
Excavating the Medieval Image
Manuscripts, Artists, Audiences: Essays in Honor of Sandra Hindman
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Medieval images, especially manuscript illuminations, have long been treated independently of the contexts in which they were created. These beautiful miniature paintings, frequently valued as keepers of documentary evidence or as curious artistic commodities, have only recently become the focus of...
Life and Death
Art and the Body in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
For all their ubiquity, life and death have not been fully explored as integral themes in many forms of contemporary Chinese art. Life and Death addresses that lacuna. Exploring the strategies employed by a variety of Chinese artists who do engage with these timeless concerns, Silvia Fok opens a new...
by Hsiu-Huei Wang
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Taiwan's specific situation in Asia is the source of its thorn past. Situated in the South East of China, Taiwan was at the crossroads of many maritime routes and squeezed between its neighbors, China and Japan. After centuries of foreign occupation, Taiwan has a unique history. Taiwan, Art and Civilization...
Experimental Beijing
Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
During the lead-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the censorious attitude that characterized China's post-1989 official response to contemporary art gave way to a new market-driven, culture industry valuation of art. Experimental artists who once struggled against state regulation of artistic expression...
Art Labor, Sex Politics
Feminist Effects in 1970s British Art and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Contrary to critics who have called it the “undecade,” the 1970s were a time of risky, innovative art—and nowhere more so than in Britain, where the forces of feminism and labor politics merged in a radical new aesthetic. In Art Labor, Sex Politics Siona Wilson investigates the charged relationship...
Wonderful Things: Byzantium through its Art
Papers from the 42nd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, 20-22 March 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The essays collected in this book were delivered at the XLII Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held in London in 2009 to accompany the exhibition Byzantium 330-1453, at the Royal Academy. The exhibition was one of the most ambitious and complex exhibitions ever mounted at the Royal Academy, as...
by Helene E. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Feminist Art Criticism
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
From the Preface:"The essays in Feminist Art Criticism are theoretical, and we selected them for several reasons. First, they show a diversity of concerns. These include spirituality, sexuality, the representation of women in art, the necessary inter-relationship of theory and action, women as...
Haunted Visions
Spiritualism and American Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Spiritualism emerged in western New York in 1848 and soon achieved a wide following due to its claim that the living could commune with the dead. In Haunted Visions: Spiritualism and American Art, Charles Colbert focuses on the ways Spiritualism imbued the making and viewing of art with religious...
The Expanding Discourse
Feminism And Art History
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
A sequel to the pioneering volume, Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, published in 1982, The Expanding Discourse contains 29 essays on artists and issues from the Renaissance to the present, representing some of the best feminist art-historical writing of the past decade. Chronologically...
Jean-Baptiste-Pierre LeBrun
In Pursuit of Art (1748–1813)
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Jean-Baptiste Pierre LeBrun's life was marked by his intense interest in art, first as an artist, and then from 1770 until his death in 1813, as an art dealer/connoisseur and as a participant in the transformation of the Louvre into a national museum during the French Revolution. He managed to accommodate...