Art History category: 15294 books
Michelangelo's David
Florentine History and Civic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
This book takes a new look at the interpretations of, and the historical information surrounding, Michelangelo's David. New documentary materials discovered by Rolf Bagemihl add to the early history of the stone block that became the David and provide an identity for the painted terracotta colossus...
Ornament and European Modernism
From Art Practice to Art History
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
These in-depth, historical, and critical essays study the meaning of ornament, the role it played in the formation of modernism, and its theoretical importance between the mid-nineteenth century and the late twentieth century in England and Germany. Ranging from Owen Jones to Ernst Gombrich through...
Chinese Jade Throughout Ages
A Review of its Characteristics, Decoration, Folklore, and Symbolism
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
This classic guide to Chinese jade is of great interest to art collectors and casual readers alike.
First published in 1936 and since then a collector's item of increasing rarity, Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages comprises a review of the characteristics, decorations, folklore, and symbolism...
by Antoinette K. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Assembled by an anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History, this work features an informative overview of the intrinsic relationship of Buddhist deities to Tibetan art and a lavish assortment of well-captioned illustrations: temple paintings, books, wood blocks, ritual objects, robes, masks, metal work, more. 92 black-and-white illustrations.
Here/There
Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
An examination of telepresence technologies through the lens of contemporary artistic experiments, from early video art through current “drone vision” works.
"Telepresence” allows us to feel present—through vision, hearing, and even touch—at a remote location by means of real-time...
by James Henry Duveen
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
This book provides an exciting portrayal of the history of the Duveen family in the art business up to 1939.
“THOUGH MANY REASONS have contributed to impel me to write this hook, the chief one is the memory of my uncle Joel Joseph Duveen. On the death of my father at the untimely age of twenty-nine,...
Ghost-haunted land
Contemporary art and post-Troubles Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 — the formal end-point of the thirty-year modern ‘Troubles’ — contemporary visual artists have offered diverse responses to post-conflict circumstances in Northern Ireland. In Ghost-Haunted Land — the first book-length examination of...
The Sexual Perspective
Homosexuality and Art in the Last 100 Years in the West
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
First published in 1986 to wide critical acclaim, The Sexual Perspective broke new ground by bringing together and discussing the painting, sculpture and photography of artists who were gay/lesbian/queer/bisexual. The lavishly illustrated new edition discusses the greater lesbian visibility within...
Cezanne and the End of Impressionism
A Study of the Theory, Technique, and Critical Evaluation of Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Drawing on a broad foundation in the history of nineteenth-century French art, Richard Shiff offers an innovative interpretation of Cézanne's painting. He shows how Cézanne's style met the emerging criteria of a "technique of originality" and how it satisfied critics sympathetic to symbolism...
Celluloid Blackboard
Teaching History with Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
This volume advocates for including feature films in secondary history classrooms through examining the ways in which films can promote students’ historical understanding while also addressing the potential drawbacks to using film. In part one the essays explore three frameworks for the analysis...
by Mustafa AYDIN
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
In Andalusia, scientific and cultural activities increased when the political unity was obtained. There were remarkable progress in history, literature, law, philosophy, and religion. Particularly, Cordoba had become one of the most striking scientific centers of the world. In a period of retrogression...
by Ilan Stavans, Jorge J. E. Gracia
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
The essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans and the analytic philosopher Jorge J. E. Gracia share long-standing interests in the intersection of art and ideas. Here they take thirteen pieces of Latino art, each reproduced in color, as occasions for thematic discussions. Whether the work at...
Wolf Tracks
Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 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 Mobility of Modernism
Art and Criticism in 1920s Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Many Latin American artists and critics in the 1920s drew on the values of modernism to question the cultural authority of Europe. Modernism gave them a tool for coping with the mobility of their circumstances, as well as the inspiration for works that questioned the very concepts of the artist and the...