Art History category: 15294 books
Modern Art on Display
The Legacies of Six Collectors
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Modern Art on Display: The Legacies of Six Collectors is structured as a sequence of case studies that pair collectors of modern art with artists they particularly favored: Duncan Phillips and Augustus Vincent Tack; Albert Barnes and Chaim Soutine; Albert Eugene Gallatin and Juan Gris; Lillie Bliss...
by Dr Michael Nott
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
From amateur experiments in scrapbooks and stereographs to contemporary photobook collaborations between leading practitioners, poets and photographers have created an art form that continues to evolve and deserves critical exploration. Photopoetry 1845-2015, a Critical History represents the first...
In Space We Read Time
On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
History is usually thought of as a tale of time, a string of events flowing in a particular chronological order. But as Karl Schlögel shows in this groundbreaking book, the where of history is just as important as the when. Schlögel relishes space the way a writer relishes a good story: on a quest...
Strolling Through Rome
The Definitive Walking Guide to the Eternal City
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Rome, the Eternal City - birthplace of western civilisation and soul of the ancient world - has a history that stretches back two thousand five hundred years. It is also one of the most-visited places in the world, but where does one begin to delve into two millennia of history, culture, art and architecture,...
Time to Play
Action and Interaction in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
'Play art' or interactive art is becoming a central concept in the contemporary art world, disrupting the traditional role of passive observance usually assumed by audiences, allowing them active participation. The work of 'play' artists - from Carsten Höller's 'Test Site' at the Tate Modern to Gabriel...
by John A. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1990
An essential overview as well as a theoretical critique for all students of design history. Walker studies the intellectual discipline of Design History and the issues that confront scholars writing histories of design. *BR**BR*Taking his approach from a range of related fields, he discusses the problems...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Art historians have long been accustomed to thinking about art and artists in terms of national traditions. This volume takes a different approach, suggesting instead that a history of art based on national divisions often obscures the processes of cultural appropriation and global exchange that shaped...
by J. F. Loubat
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to the Introduction: "Medals, by means of the engraver's art, perpetuate in a durable form and within a small compass which the eye can embrace at a glance, not only the features of eminent persons, but the dates, brief accounts, and representations (direct or emblematical) of events; they...
Art Systems
Brazil and the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
From currency and maps to heavily censored newspapers and television programming, Art Systems explores visual forms of critique and subversion during the height of Brazilian dictatorship, drawing sometimes surprising connections between artistic production and broader processes of social exchange during...
The Premise of Fidelity
Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
The Premise of Fidelity puts forward a new history of Japanese visuality through an examination of the discourses and practices surrounding the nineteenth century transposition of "the real" in the decades before photography was introduced. This intellectual history is informed by a careful...
Yoruba Art and Language
Seeking the African in African Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Yoruba was one of the most important civilizations of sub-Saharan Africa. While the high quality and range of its artistic and material production have long been recognized, the art of the Yoruba has been judged primarily according to the standards and principles of Western aesthetics. In this book,...
Repainting the Walls of Lunda
Information Colonialism and Angolan Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Repainting the Walls of Lunda chronicles the publication and dissemination of an anthropology book, Paredes Pintadas da Lunda (Painted Walls of Lunda), which was published in Portuguese in 1953. The book featured illustrations of wall murals and sand drawings of the Chokwe peoples of northeastern Angola....
by Gloria A Austin
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
The "Golden Carriage" is the pinnacle of Gloria Austin’s carriage collection. This book reflects the history, majesty and details of the carriage. From its creation by the Armbruster company to its full restoration and presentation. Gloria follows the carriages...
by Emile Mâle
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
The art in medieval cathedrals, in addition to its profound aesthetic appeal, told unlettered churchgoers a series of morality tales. From divine creation to the lives of the saints, the stone sculpture and stained glass windows provided dramatic illustrations of the key elements of Christian doctrine....