Art History category: 15294 books
by Nicolas Rothwell
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
A spellbinding meditation on art and life that travels from Eastern Europe to Northern Australia, from World War II to the present.
Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, 2014
Elegiac and seductive, Belomor is the frontier where truth and invention meet, where fragments...
Women Making Art
History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Women have been making art for centuries, yet their work has been seen as secondary or has gone unrecognized altogether. Women Making Art asks why this is so, and what it would take for us to realize the extent of women's extraordinary contribution to the arts.
Marsha Meskimmon mobilizes contemporary...
The Art of the Roman Empire
AD 100-450
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the role of the visual arts, the great diversity...
New Games
Postmodernism After Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Pamela M. Lee’s New Games revisits postmodernism in light of art history's more recent embrace of "the contemporary." What can the theories and practices associated with postmodernism tell us about the obsession with the contemporary in both the academy and the art world? In looking at...
Yaxchilan
The Design of a Maya Ceremonial City
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
As archaeologists peel away the jungle covering that has both obscured and preserved the ancient Maya cities of Mexico and Central America, other scholars have only a limited time to study and understand the sites before the jungle, weather, and human encroachment efface them again, perhaps forever....
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Why is it important to go back to the past? Maybe because you want to understand the present and even foresee the future. It could also be because you want to see the struggles and experience the victories the past generations have seen. These, and more reasons, are cleverly written in the pages of this educational book for kids. Buy a copy today!
Paris Without End
On French Art Since World War I
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
“[A] tour de force . . . As one critic’s demonstration of what he considers the best in art and the best way to write about it, this book sets a high standard” (Roberta Smith).
This brilliant blend of history, biography, and criticism explores the seminal figures of twentieth-century French...
Portable Borders
Performance Art and Politics on the U.S. Frontera since 1984
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
After World War II, the concept of borders became unsettled, especially after the rise of subaltern and multicultural studies in the 1980s. Art at the U.S.-Mexico border came to a turning point at the beginning of that decade with the election of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Beginning with a political...
The Recording Machine
Art and Fact during the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
A revealing look at the irrevocable change in art during the 1960s and its relationship to the modern culture of fact This refreshing and erudite book offers a new understanding of the transformation of photography and the visual arts around 1968. Author Joshua Shannon reveals an oddly stringent realism...
by Edward Fry, Francesco Bonami, Alexandra Munroe
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The Guggenheim Reader Series: Modern Asian Art is the second installment in an ongoing series collecting out-of-print and hard-to-find essays from past Guggenheim publications and lectures to illuminate focused topics in art history. Much like last fall’s Russia reader, Modern Asian Art examines five...
Inadvertent Images
A History of Photographic Apparitions
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
As an artistic medium, photography is uniquely subject to accidents, or disruptions, that can occur in the making of an artwork. Though rarely considered seriously, those accidents can offer fascinating insights about the nature of the medium and how it works. With Inadvertent Images, Peter Geimer...
A Big Important Art Book (Now with Women)
Profiles of Unstoppable Female Artists--and Projects to Help You Become One
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Celebrate 45 women artists, and gain inspiration for your own practice, with this beautiful exploration of contemporary creators from the founder of The Jealous Curator.
Walk into any museum, or open any art book, and you'll probably be left wondering: where are all the women artists? A Big...
Painting Culture
The Making of an Aboriginal High Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2002
Painting Culture tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic "dot" paintings of central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art, eagerly sought by upscale galleries and collectors. Since the early 1970s, Fred R. Myers has studied—often...
From Castle to Teahouse
Japanese Architecture of the Momoyama Period
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
The Momoyama period of Japanese art history, at the turn of the 16th century, is perhaps best known to the West through the resplendent paintings of the Kano masters and their fellow artists. Yet this same period offers such a variety of architectural pleasures that, in at least one of its many facets,...