Art History category: 15294 books
The Heart of the Mission
Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
In The Heart of the Mission, Cary Cordova combines urban, political, and art history to examine how the Mission District, a longtime bohemian enclave in San Francisco, has served as an important place for an influential and largely ignored Latino arts movement from the 1960s to the present. Well before...
by Bert De Munck, Dries Lyna
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In contemporary society it would seem self-evident that people allow the market to determine the values of products and services. For everything from a loaf of bread to a work of art to a simple haircut, value is expressed in monetary terms and seen as determined primarily by the 'objective' interplay...
by Aleksandra Kaminska
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
From an Eastern nation on the global periphery to a European neoliberal democracy enmeshed in transnational networks, Poland has experienced a dramatic transformation in the last century. Polish Media Art in an Expanded Field uses the lens, and mirror, of media art to think through the politics...
Art Hats in Renaissance City
Reflections & Aspirations of Four Generations of Art Personalities
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Art Hats in Renaissance City is an anthology of the personal reflections and aspirations of four generations in the new ecostructure in Singapore, from those who help formulate policies to that of the individual artists, who have helped develop and build an exciting arts and cultural scene from scratch...
by Chloë N. Duckworth, Anne E. Sassin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The myriad ways in which colour and light have been adapted and applied in the art, architecture, and material culture of past societies is the focus of this interdisciplinary volume. Light and colour’s iconographic, economic, and socio-cultural implications are considered by established and emerging...
Socially Engaged Art after Socialism
Art and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The post-1989 period has seen artists in Central and Eastern Europe embrace socially engaged practices. Reclaiming public life from the ideologies of both communist regimes and neoliberalism, their projects have harnessed the politically subversive potential of social relations based on trust, reciprocity...
Art after Empire
From Colonialism to Globalisation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
This book explores the relationship between art and visual culture in Europe and the ‘wider world’ from the early twentieth century to the contemporary era of globalisation. Artists such as Pablo Picasso explored the art of the rest of world in ways that were increasingly challenged as Eurocentric...
Mah Jongg: The Art of the Game
A Collector's Guide to Mah Jongg Tiles and Sets
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
"I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Whether used as a reference or a beautiful keepsake, it's a very worthy addition to the world of Mah Jongg." —Ruth Unger, President, National Mah Jongg League
This is the first book to fully capture the story of the exotic and exciting game of Mahjong...
by Paul Bahn, Michel Lorblanchet
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Two of the greatest living authorities on Ice Age art delve hundreds of thousands of years into the human past to discover the earliest works of art ever made, drawing on decades of new research
Where is the world’s very first art located? When, and why, did people begin experimenting with...
by Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
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...
Framing Russian Art
From Early Icons to Malevich
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The notion of the frame in art can refer not only to a material frame bordering an image, but also to a conceptual frame. Both meanings are essential to how the work is perceived. In Framing Russian Art, art historian Oleg Tarasov investigates the role of the frame in its literal function of demarcating...
Shifting Grounds
Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
A distinctly Indigenous form of landscape representation is emerging in the creations of contemporary Indigenous artists from North America. For centuries, landscape painting in European art typically used representational strategies such as single-point perspective to lure viewers—and settlers—into...
Devastation and Laughter
Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s–1930s)
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
In Devastation and Laughter,Annie Gérin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, the circus, theatre, and cinema under Lenin and Stalin. Gérin traces the rise and decline of the genre and argues that the use of satire in official Soviet art and propaganda was neither marginal nor un-theorized....
Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
In 1911 Vasily Kandinsky published the first edition of ‘On the Spiritual in Art’, a landmark modernist treatise in which he sought to reframe the meaning of art and the true role of the artist. For many artists of late Imperial Russia – a culture deeply influenced by the regime’s adoption...