Art History category: 15294 books
Wicked Intelligence
Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists. Magnified fly-eyes drawn with the aid of microscopes, apparitions cast on laboratory walls by projection machines, cut-paper figures revealing the “exact proportions” of sea monsters—all...
The Medici Conspiracy
The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museum
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the vases, however, is the discovery of the smuggler's...
History of St. Philip’S Episcopal Church
San Antonio, Texas 1895 - 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Dr. Milbrew Davis wrote the first history of St. Philips Church, San Antonio, Texas, 1895-1985. He researched extensively St. Philips Church documents and documents in the archives of the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas. He knew personally a number of the first members and clergy of the church and...
by Steven Bigham
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
This book is a collection of studies on the general theme of Orthodox icons. 1) As the title of the book indicates, the first article deals with the similarity between religious images of the Romanesque period (900-1200) in Western Europe and Orthodox icons. As the difference between icons and later...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Collaboration in the arts is no longer a conscious choice to make a deliberate artistic statement, but instead a necessity of artistic survival. In today’s hybrid world of virtual mobility, collaboration decentralizes creative strategies, enabling artists to carve new territories and maintain practice-based...
Visualizing Modern China
Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
This book is a teaching textbook for both lower and upper level courses on modern Chinese history and/or modern visual culture. With fourteen chapters of well-illustrated original scholarship and a supplemental website providing resources for hundreds of images, the book introduces key themes of modern...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
"Looking for a good book? Treasury of American Pen & Ink Illustration 1881-1938 is a coffee-table-style book of outstanding black and white art that is magnificent to look through and should be in every art lover's home." — Rushford Public Library
A combination of technological advances...
Wolf Tracks
Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Popular art is a masculine and working-class genre, associated with Panama's black population. Its practitioners are self-taught, commercial painters, whose high-toned designs, vibrant portraits, and landscapes appear in cantinas, barbershops, and restaurants. The red devil buses are popular art's...
The Situationist International in Britain
Modernism, Surrealism, and the Avant-Garde
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This book tells, for the first time, the story of the Situationist International’s influence and afterlives in Britain, where its radical ideas have been rapturously welcomed and fiercely resisted. The Situationist International presented itself as the culmination of the twentieth century avant-garde...
Girl Reading
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
This stunningly original, kaleidoscopic novel is an inspired celebration of women reading and the artists who have caught them in the act—“a vivid portrait of a timeless subject” (Minneapolis Star Tribune).
A young orphan poses for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena. A servant girl...
Baroque Horrors
Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
"David Castillo takes us on a tour of some horrific materials that have rarely been considered together. He sheds a fantastical new light on the baroque."
---Anthony J. Cascardi, University of California Berkeley
"Baroque Horrors is a textual archeologist's dream, scavenged from...
by Nancy Marie Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with...
Art by the Book
Painting Manuals and the Leisure Life in Late Ming China
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Sometime before 1579, Zhou Lujing, a professional writer living in a bustling commercial town in southeastern China, published a series of lavishly illustrated books, which constituted the first multigenre painting manuals in Chinese history. Their popularity was immediate and their contents and format...
Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress
As seen on TV
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Companion to the major new BBC documentary series CIVILISATIONS, presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon Schama
Oscar Wilde said 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.' Was he right? In Civilisations, David Olusoga travels the world to piece together the shared histories...