Art History category: 15294 books
Siting Michelangelo
Spectatorship, Site Specificity & Soundscape
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Michelangelo's originality as an artist lay not only in ideas about perfection and beauty, but also in his unique approach to the artistic process and art's site specificity. Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel and the sculptures of the Medici chapel and Julius II's tomb should all be understood...
by Valerie Cumming, C. W. Cunnington, P. E. Cunnington
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
- What is an Apollo knot?
- Who wore a Welch wig?
- When were Zouave jackets the height of fashion?
This new edition of The Dictionary of Fashion History further updates the landmark work of C. Willett Cunnington, Phillis Cunnington and Charles Beard. Featuring over 60 new and revised entries...
The Total Work of Art
Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
For two centuries, Gesamtkunstwerk—the ideal of the “total work of art”—has exerted a powerful influence over artistic discourse and practice, spurring new forms of collaboration and provoking debates over the political instrumentalization of art. Despite its popular conflation with the work...
Hidden Thunder
Rock Art of the Upper Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
In Hidden Thunder, renowned watercolor artist Geri Schrab and archaeologist Robert "Ernie" Boszhardt give readers an up-close-and-personal look at rock art. With an eye toward preservation, Schrab and Boszhardt take you with them as they research, document, and interpret at the ancient petroglyphs...
by Michael Andrew Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Features more than thirty articles by Michael Andrew Law in the proposal of iEgoism - an artistic viewpoint article, in order to use our history to make [the Hong Kong original style art tradition] and [the high-context translation to low-context] concept to the creation of thought process to Pale...
The Unfinished Exhibition
Visualizing Myth, Memory, and the Shadow of the Civil War in Centennial America
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
The Centennial decade was an era of ambivalence, the United States still unresolved about the incomprehensible damage it had wrought over four years of Civil War, and why. Philadelphia’s 1876 Centennial Exhibition -- a spectacular international event celebrating one hundred years of American strength,...
Art and Social Movements
Cultural Politics in Mexico and Aztlán
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Art and Social Movements offers a comparative, cross-border analysis of the role of visual artists in three social movements from the late 1960s through the early 1990s: the 1968 student movement and related activist art collectives in Mexico City, a Zapotec indigenous struggle in Oaxaca, and the...
Atlas of Emotion
Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
An award-winning cultural history of how we experience the world through art, film and architecture
Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavor to map the cultural terrain of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative blend of words and pictures, Giuliana Bruno emphasizes the connections between...
New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies
The Arts and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
Following the more theoretical first installment of New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies devoted to Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices, the second volume of New Perspectives deals with practicing cultural studies by offering articles that are valuable for both scholars of Italian...
by Barbara H. Rosenwein
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Barbara H. Rosenwein's bestselling survey text continues to stand out by integrating the history of three medieval civilizations (European, Byzantine, and Islamic) in a lively narrative that is complemented beautifully by 70 full-color plates, 46 maps, and 13 genealogies, many of them new to this...
The Brain-Eye
New Histories of Modern Painting
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
A detailed and inventive study of the thinking at work in modern painting, drawing on a formidable body of scholarly evidence to challenge modernist and phenomenological readings of art history, The Brain-Eye presents a series of interlinked ‘case studies’ in which philosophical thought encounters...
Fashion in European Art
Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1925
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Fashion reveals not only who we are, but whom we aspire to be. From 1775 to 1925, artists in Europe were especially attuned to the gaps between appearance and reality, participating in and often critiquing the making of the self and the image. Reading their portrayals of modern life with an eye to...
Vladimir Markov and Russian Primitivism
A Charter for the Avant-Garde
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Hailed as a brilliant theoretician, Voldemārs Matvejs (best known by his pen name Vladimir Markov) was a Latvian artist who spearheaded the Union of Youth, a dynamic group championing artistic change in Russia, 1910-14. His work had a formative impact on Malevich, Tatlin, and the Constructivists...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
A landmark historical work, written at the cusp of modernity in the early nineteenth century, Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan was Lieutenant Colonel James Tod's classic tribute to this grand desert region of India. Tod - mesmerized by this region and its inhabitants, the Rajpoots - dedicated himself...