Art History category: 15294 books
Art of Suppression
Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This provocative study asks why we have held on to vivid images of the Nazis’ total control of the visual and performing arts, even though research has shown that many artists and their works thrived under Hitler. To answer this question, Pamela M. Potter investigates how historians since 1945 have...
A Culture of Stone
Inka Perspectives on Rock
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers sophisticated new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully integrated into Inka architecture, exquisitely worked masonry, and...
by María Fernández
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Since the colonial era, Mexican art has emerged from an ongoing process of negotiation between the local and the global, which frequently involves invention, synthesis, and transformation of diverse discursive and artistic traditions. In this pathfinding book, María Fernández uses the concept of...
Art from a Fractured Past
Memory and Truth-Telling in Post-Shining Path Peru
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission not only documented the political violence of the 1980s and 1990s but also gave Peruvians a unique opportunity to examine the causes and nature of that violence. In Art from a Fractured Past, scholars and artists expand on the commission's work, arguing for...
Surfaces
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Human beings are surrounded by surfaces: from our skin to faces, to the walls and streets of our homes and cities, to the images, books, and screens of our cultures and civilizations, to the natural world and what we imagine beyond. In this thought-provoking and richly textured book, Joseph A. Amato...
Revolutionary Horizons
Art and Polemics in 1950s Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Modernism in Havana reached its climax during the turbulent years of the 1950s as a generation of artists took up abstraction as a means to advance artistic and political goals in the name of Cuba Libre. During a decade of insurrection and, ultimately, revolution, abstract art signaled the country’s...
Make Art Not War
Political Protest Posters from the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
An extraordinarily visceral collection of posters that represent the progressive protest movements of the twentieth Century.
Two of the most recognizable images of twentieth-century art are Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” and the rather modest mass-produced poster by an unassuming illustrator,...
Orientalism's Interlocutors
Painting, Architecture, Photography
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2002
Until now, Orientalist art—exemplified by paintings of harems, slave markets, or bazaars—has predominantly been understood to reflect Western interpretations and to perpetuate reductive, often demeaning stereotypes of the exotic East. Orientalism's Interlocutors contests the idea that Orientalist...
The Modern Moves West
California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
In 1921 Sam Rodia, an Italian laborer and tile setter, started work on an elaborate assemblage in the backyard of his home in Watts, California. The result was an iconic structure now known as the Watts Towers. Rodia created a work that was original, even though the resources available to support...
Image and Myth
A History of Pictorial Narration in Greek Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece—but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? In Image and Myth, Luca Giuliani tells the stories behind the pictures, exploring how artists of antiquity had to determine which motifs or historical and...
The Root of Wild Madder
Chasing the History, Mystery, and Lore of the Persian Carpet
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Wisdom of a Turkmen proverb.
The Root of Wild Madder opens with an invitation that flows from the same ancient inspiration. "A carpet is poetry itself," an Iranian carpet merchant declares to author Brian Murphy. "You just have to learn to read them." So begins a journey. It follows Persian...
Art in the Hellenistic World
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
What was Hellenistic art, and what were its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? This textbook introduces students to these questions and offers a series of answers to them. Its twelve chapters and two 'focus' sections examine Hellenistic sculpture, painting, luxury arts, and architecture. Thematically...
Spirit of Wood
The Art of Malay Woodcarving
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
With dozens of beautiful photographs and extensive text, this Malaysian art book is a testament to the skill and spirituality of Malaysia's traditional woodcarvers.
Wood has always played a significant role in the Malay world, including the Malay Peninsula, as a means of shelter, livelihood,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2006
This book explores the fusion of myth, history and geography which leads to ideas of primitivism, and looks at their construction, interpretation and consumption in Western culture. Contextualized by Susan Hiller's introductions to each section, discussions range from the origins of cultural colonialism...