Art History category: 15294 books
The Art of Looking
How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
A veteran art critic helps us make sense of modern and contemporary art
The landscape of contemporary art has changed dramatically during the last hundred years: from Malevich's 1915 painting of a single black square and Duchamp's 1917 signed porcelain urinal to Jackson Pollock's midcentury...
Claude Cahun
The Soldier with No Name
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Claude Cahun is the most important artist you've never heard of - until now. Writer, photographer, lesbian; revolutionary activist, surrealist, resistance fighter - Cahun witnessed the birth of the Paris avant-garde, lived through two World Wars and, as 'Der Soldat ohne Namen', risked death by inciting...
Art on the Block
Tracking the New York Art World from SoHo to the Bowery, Bushwick and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
A fascinating tour of the last five decades of contemporary art in New York City, showing how artists are catalysts of gentrification and how neighborhoods in turn shape their art--with special insights into the work of artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cindy Sherman, and Jeff Koons
Stories...
An Ideal Theater
Founding Visions for a New American Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
An Ideal Theater is a wide-ranging, inspiring documentary history of the American theatre movement as told by the visionaries who goaded it into being. This anthology collects over forty essays, manifestos, letters and speeches that are each introduced and placed in historical context by the noted...
Time’s Visible Surface
Alois Riegl and the Discourse on History and Temporality in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
Expands our understanding of Alois Riegl beyond his role as an art historian to a pivotal figure in cultural theory at large, while placing his interest in history and time within the intellectual world of fin-de-siècle Vienna.
by Spatio Temprey
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Matisse's profound impact on twentieth century art makes him essential to understanding the art of the present. His art conveys some of the most uplifting, life affirming imagery in western culture. At the same time it is among the most creative and influential.
This ebook povides an understanding...
Across the Art/Life Divide
Performance, Subjectivity, and Social Practice in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Martin Patrick explores the ways in which contemporary artists across media continue to reinvent art that straddles both public and private spheres. Examining the impact of various art movements on notions of performance, authorship, and identity, Across the Art/Life Divide argues that the most defining...
by Donald T. Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Imagine one of history's master artists placing hidden images in his paintings and never telling anyone he did so. Then imagine that no one noticed these hidden images for nearly a century after hes death. Now imagine that a best-selling author has written a truly groundbreaking and endlessly fascinating...
The Art of Understanding Art
A new perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Have we completely missed the point of the modern western revolution in the arts? Hugh Moss thinks so, and here he presents a refreshingly original and thought-provoking new approach to understanding art. It not only makes sense of western art over the past century or more, but applies equally to...
The Dream Colony
A Life in Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Art Forum's Best of the Year List
A panoramic look at art in America in the second half of the twentieth century, through the eyes of the visionary curator who helped shape it.
An innovative, iconoclastic curator of contemporary art, Walter Hopps founded his first gallery in L.A. at...
Unnatural Wonders
Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Arthur C. Danto's essays not only critique bodies of work but reflect upon art's conceptual evolution as well, drawing for the reader a kind of "philosophical map" indicating how art and the criteria for judging it has changed over the twentieth century. In Unnatural Wonders the renowned...
How to See the World
An Introduction to Images, from Self-Portraits to Selfies, Maps to Movies, and More
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Every two minutes, Americans alone take more photographs than were printed in the entire nineteenth century; every minute, people from around the world upload over 300 hours of video to YouTube; and in 2014, we took over one trillion photographs. From the funny memes that we send to our friends to...
Dark Water
Flood and Redemption in Florence--The City of Masterpieces
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces, Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement.
Now Robert Clark explores the Italian city’s greatest flood and...
by Jim Arndt, Mary Emmerling
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Emmerling and Arndt team up for their fifth book celebrating the art of things people love to collect. Here they bring us fabulous belt buckles from vintage collectibles, trophy buckles, beaded and bejeweled varieties, ranger sets, and classy contemporary designs, all celebrating the fascination with...