Art History category: 15294 books
Chaos, Territory, Art
Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008
Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory...
Master Minds:Creativity in Picasso's & Husain's Paintings. Part 3
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, #3
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s & Husain’s Paintings The book, “Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s and Husain’s Paintings”, is a projection of master minds in the field of art. It reveals about the creative works of art that are not just show pieces to adorn rich homes, museums...
The Social Life of Inkstones
Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
An inkstone, a piece of polished stone no bigger than an outstretched hand, is an instrument for grinding ink, an object of art, a token of exchange between friends or sovereign states, and a surface on which texts and images are carved. As such, the inkstone has been entangled with elite masculinity...
Fully Exposed
The Male Nude in Photography
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Fully Exposed is a pioneering cultural history of the photography of the male nude which sets the photographer and the model within our cultural and historical perceptions and prejudices. This second edition extends the book's coverage so that the story from the beginnings of the medium to the present...
Art, Activism, and Oppositionality
Essays from Afterimage
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 1998
There is a common perception in the arts today that overtly activist art—often seen to sacrifice an aesthetic pleasure for a subversive one—is no longer in fashion. In bringing together sixteen of the most important essays on activist and community-based art from the pages of Afterimage—one...
by Harpal Sodhi
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s & Husain’s Paintings The book, “Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s and Husain’s Paintings”, is a projection of master minds in the field of art. It reveals about the creative works of art that are not just show pieces to adorn rich homes, museums...
The Art of Understanding Art
A Behind the Scenes Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
The Art of Understanding Art reveals to students and other readers new and meaningful ways of developing personal ideas and opinions about art and how to express them with confidence.
Offers an inquiry—unique among introductory art texts—into the learning process of understanding and appreciating...
Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Part treatise, part critique, part call to action, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice is a journey into the uncanny realities revealed to us in the great works of art of the past and present.
Received opinion holds that art is culturally-determined and relative. We are told that whether...
by Vladimir Lukonin, Anatoly Ivanov
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Housed in the Hermitage Museum along with other institutes, libraries, and museums in Russia and the republics of the former Soviet Union are some of the most magnificent treasures of Persian Art. For the most part, many of these works have been lost, but have been catalogued and published here for...
Visualizing Disease
The Art and History of Pathological Illustrations
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Visual anatomy books have been a staple of medical practice and study since the mid-sixteenth century. But the visual representation of diseased states followed a very different pattern from anatomy, one we are only now beginning to investigate and understand. With Visualizing Disease, Domenico Bertoloni...
The Art Prophets
The Artists, Dealers, and Tastemakers Who Shook the Art World
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
In The Art Prophets, Richard Polsky introduces us to influential late twentieth-century dealers and tastemakers in the art world. These risk takers opened doors for artists, identified new movements, and resurrected art forms that had fallen into obscurity. In this distinctive tour, Polsky offers...
by Gustave Doré
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Long regarded as the standard history of the subject, François Michaud's History of the Crusades, published in 1877, recorded over four centuries of passionate, bloody wars that brought the countries — and cultures — of Asia and Europe into conflict with one another. To illustrate Michaud's classic...
The De-Caff Camino
A 500 Mile Cycling Pilgrimage to Santiago De Compostela
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Charlies introduction to his blog put it best: A lifetime in marketing actually equips a man for very little... Now pushing 58, I realise with some horror that it is a full half century since I last took cycling remotely seriously. If this trip does not go well, I might leave it as long until my next...
London Art Worlds
Mobile, Contingent, and Ephemeral Networks, 1960–1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The essays in this collection explore the extraordinarily rich networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in and around London during the 1960s and ’70s, a period that saw an explosion of new media and fresh attitudes and approaches to making and thinking about art.
The...