Art History category: 15294 books
Emergency Noises
Sound Art and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Art history traditionally concentrates on the visual. Sound has either been ignored or has been appreciated in a highly selective manner within a different discipline: music. This book is about recent attempts by artists trained in (West) Germany to provoke listening experiences to awaken the senses....
Something All Our Own
The Grant Hill Collection of African American Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
Since 1990, Grant Hill has thrilled sports fans with his artistry on the basketball court, first as an All-American player at Duke University and then as a six-time NBA All-Star for the Detroit Pistons and the Orlando Magic. During these years, Hill has amassed a collection of art by African Americans...
Communities of Style
Portable Luxury Arts, Identity, and Collective Memory in the Iron Age Levant
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Communities of Style examines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200–600 BCE). In particular it focuses on how societies in flux came together around the material effects of art and style, and their role in collective memory.
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by Lisa Trentin
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
The subject of deformity and disability in the ancient Greco-Roman world has experienced a surge in scholarship over the past two decades. Recognizing a vast, but relatively un(der)explored, corpus of evidence, scholars have sought to integrate the deformed and disabled body back into our understanding...
by Mehmet-Ali Ataç
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Discussions of apocalyptic thought and its sources in the ancient Near East, particularly Mesopotamia, have a long scholarly history, with a renewed interest and focus in the recent decades. Outside Assyriological scholarship as well, studies of the apocalyptic give significant credit to the ancient...
After 1851
The material and visual cultures of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Echoing Joseph Paxton's question at the close of the Great Exhibition, 'What is to become of the Crystal Palace?', this interdisciplinary essay collection argues that there is considerable potential in studying this unique architectural and art-historical document after 1851, when it was rebuilt in...
Art of Memories
Curating at the Hermitage
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Once the home of Catherine the Great’s private art collection, Russia’s State Hermitage Museum became the largest museum in the Soviet Union and, since the collapse of the USSR, one of the most active museums in the world. The Hermitage is a global model for the collection and preservation of...
From Point to Pixel
A Genealogy of Digital Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
In this fiercely ambitious study, Meredith Anne Hoy seeks to reestablish the very definitions of digital art and aesthetics in art history. She begins by problematizing the notion of digital aesthetics, tracing the nineteenth- and twentieth-century movements that sought to break art down into its...
The Ragusa Pietà
History and restoration
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 23, 2015
This book tells the story of a painting that was recognized as carrying the signature of Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1868 by his greatest expert of the 19th century, Hermann Grimm. After being exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum in New York in 1886, attributed to the same painter, the painting then...
Iconoclastic Fervor
Sally Hazelet Drummond's Road to Abstraction
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Sally Hazelet Drummond is believed to be the first female graduate of the Hite Art Institute with a masters in painting in 1952. It was during her study at the University of Louisville that she further explored Abstract Expressionism, a style that started only a decade earlier in the 1940s. In 1953...
Da Vinci's Ghost
Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
In Da Vinci's Ghost, critically acclaimed historian Toby Lester tells the story of the world’s most iconic image, the Vitruvian Man, and sheds surprising new light on the artistry and scholarship of Leonardo da Vinci, one of history’s most fascinating figures.
Deftly weaving together art,...
The Dealer is the Devil
An Insiders History of the Aboriginal Art Trade
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Adrian Newsteads explosive memoir lifts the lid on what Robert Hughes once described as “the last great art movement of the 20th century.” After thirty years sitting round campfires with Aboriginal artists all over Australia, Newstead has produced the definitive expose of “the first great art movement...
by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Baroque master Caravaggio, famous for his masterful use of chiaroscuro, produced during his short and tragic life a body of works that would have a lasting impact on the history of Western art. Combining realistic observation of the human state with dramatic use of lighting, Caravaggio’s paintings...
by Lilian H. Zirpolo
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
The Renaissance era was launched in Italy and gradually spread to the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, France, and other parts of Europe and the New World, with figures like Robert Campin, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht DYrer, and Albrecht Altdorfer. It was the era that produced some of...