Art History category: 15294 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Texts—including essays, reviews, and statements by the artist—on the work of Sherrie Levine.
The artist Sherrie Levine (b. 1947) is best known for her appropriations of work by other artists—most famously for her rephotographs of canonical images by Edward Weston, Eliot Porter, and other...
by Jane Portal, Suhyung Kim
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Arts of Korea invites readers to explore one of the finest collections of Korean art outside East Asia, in an enhanced e-book that features 360-degree photographs of selected treasures that can be rotated with the touch of a finger. The MFA enjoys particularly superb holdings of ceramics, including...
Radical Traditionalism
The Influence of Walter Kaegi in Late Antique, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Radical Traditionalism: The Influence of Walter Kaegi in Late Antique, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies brings together scholars from fields and disciplines as diverse as medieval history, Byzantine history, Roman art history, and early Islamic studies. These scholars were students of Walter Kaegi,...
Enchanted Islands
Picturing the Allure of Conquest in Eighteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
In Enchanted Islands, renowned art historian Mary D. Sheriff explores the legendary, fictional, and real islands that filled the French imagination during the ancien regime as they appeared in royal ballets and festivals, epic literature, paintings, engravings, book illustrations, and other objects....
by Robert Stevick
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Dr. Robert Stevick’s Insular Art Forms: Their Essence and Construction emerges as the most innovative work of his long and illustrious career. Building on years of research into medieval manuscript design and construction, Stevick has produced a masterpiece examining the ingenious ways in which insular...
Odyssey of the Pueblo Indians
An Introduction to Pueblo Indian Petroglyphs, Pictographs, and Kiva Art Murals in the Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
William Eaton’s detailed guide to finding and interpreting Pueblo Indian petroglyphs, pictographs, and Kiva Art murals found in the states of Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado is a treasure for Pueblo Indians as well as anyone interested in Native American history and art. Includes many illustrations.
Collectors, Scholars, and Forgers in the Ancient World
Object Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Collectors, Scholars, and Forgers in the Ancient World focuses on the fascination which works of art, texts, and antiquarian objects inspired in Greeks and Romans in antiquity and draws parallels with other cultures and eras to offer contexts for understanding that fascination. Statues, bronze weapons,...
by Kurt Kristensen
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
History
of pussy
is an Original Book
on the History of Visual Organ female. The
author traces from prehistory
to today as the
man has represented the female sex, and what were the meanings related to
them. The topics
dealt with by the author follow a vast historical
and cultural framework that embraces...
Fleshing out surfaces
Skin in French art and medicine, 1650–1850
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Fleshing out surfaces is the first English-language book on skin and flesh tones in art. It considers flesh and skin in art theory, image making and medical discourse in seventeenth to nineteenth-century France. Describing a gradual shift between the early modern and the modern period, it argues that...
by Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840) ranks among the most highly regarded botanical illustrators in history. Known as the "Raphael of Flowers" for his meticulously accurate watercolors of roses, lilies, and other flowers, Redouté dominated botanical art from 1790 to 1830. The official court...
by Jean Wirth
Language: French
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: September 24, 2015
L'Album de Villard de Honnecourt est le seul document personnel que nous ait laissé un architecte du XIIIe siècle. Connu et exploité par les historiens de l'art et de l'architecture dès le XIXe siècle, il a été considéré comme l'œuvre d'un amateur depuis les années 1970. Jean Wirth reprend...
The Lady in Gold
The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Bloch-Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The spellbinding story, part fairy tale, part suspense, of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, one of the most emblematic portraits of its time; of the beautiful, seductive Viennese Jewish salon hostess who sat for it; the notorious artist who painted it; the now vanished turn-of-the-century...
Basquiat
A Quick Killing in Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
A New York Times Notable Book: This national bestseller is a vivid biography of the meteoric rise and tragic death of art star Jean-Michel Basquiat
Painter Jean-Michel Basquiat was the Jimi Hendrix of the art world. In less than a decade, he went from being a teenage graffiti artist to an international...
by Kassia St Clair
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
**The unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume
“Beautifully written . . . Full of anecdotes and fascinating research, this elegant compendium has all the answers.” —NPR, Best Books of 2017**
The Secret Lives...