Art History category: 15294 books
Dissonant Archives
Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
The 'archive' is often viewed as a collection of historical documents that records and orders information about people, places and events. This view nevertheless obscures a crucial point: the archive, whilst subject to the vagaries of time and history, can also determine the future. This point has...
Poland and Artistic Culture of Western Europe
14 th 20 th Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
In ten studies by Polish authors this book offers an overview of Polish artistic culture and its relation to Western European culture. Thematically, it ranges from fine arts, sculpture and architecture to music, drama and theatre, spanning seven centuries of European artistic culture. While forming...
Scandinavian Design
Alternative Histories
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Scandinavian design is still seen as democratic, functional and simple, its products exemplifying the same characteristics now as they have done since the 1950s. But both the essence and the history of Scandinavian design are much more complex than this. Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories...
by Dominic Lopes
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
What is computer art? Do the concepts we usually employ to talk about art, such as ‘meaning’, ‘form’ or ‘expression’ apply to computer art?
A Philosophy of Computer Art is the first book to explore these questions. Dominic Lopes argues that computer art challenges some of the...
Wives, Widows, Mistresses, and Nuns in Early Modern Italy
Making the Invisible Visible through Art and Patronage
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Through a visually oriented investigation of historical (in)visibility in early modern Italy, the essays in this volume recover those women - wives, widows, mistresses, the illegitimate - who have been erased from history in modern literature, rendered invisible or obscured by history or scholarship,...
Sacred Consumption
Food and Ritual in Aztec Art and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptural works, as well as indigenous and Spanish sixteenth-century texts, were filled with images of foodstuffs and food processing and consumption. Both gods and humans were depicted feasting, and food and eating clearly played a pervasive, integral role in Aztec rituals....
by Alison Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This title was first published in 2000: John Petts (1914-1991) is one of the outstanding wood-engravers of the twentieth century. His stunning prints featuring Welsh mountains and the people who live amongst them reflect his deep concern for the history of the land and are distinguished by his profound...
Treasuring the Gaze
Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth-Century Eye Miniatures
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The end of the eighteenth century saw the start of a new craze in Europe: tiny portraits of single eyes that were exchanged by lovers or family members. Worn as brooches or pendants, these minuscule eyes served the same emotional need as more conventional mementoes, such as lockets containing a coil...
by Jean-Claude Moineau
Language: French
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: September 22, 2016
«Le pire ennemi de l’art, ce n’est, contrairement à ce qu’a pu donner à croire la modernité, ni la vie ni le monde moderne ni la culture mass-médiatique moderne, autrement dit un hypothétique ennemi extérieur, c’est l’art lui-même, et ce pas seulement au sens où l’art aspirerait...
City of the Soul
Rome and the Romantics
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
City of the Soul critically examines how an international cast of visitors fashioned Rome’s image, visual and literary, in the century between 1770 and 1870—from the era of the Grand Tour to the onset of mass tourism. The Eternal City emerges not only as an intensely physical place but also as...
Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso's & Husain's Paintings. Part 5
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, #5
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s & Husain’s Paintings. Part 5 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...
by Jane Portal
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
Nuclear bombs and geopolitical controversy are often the first things associated with North Korea and its volatile leader Kim Jong-II. Yet behind the secretive curtain of this isolated nation also lies a little-known and slowly expanding world of art.
Art Under Control in North Korea is the...
by G. Woolliscroft Rhead
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1910. Lavishly illustrated. According to the Preface: "IT is, perhaps, a little singular that up to the present no work making any pretension to completeness has appeared in English dealing with that little instrument so intimately associated with both civil and religious life of the past, the Fan. "
The Rape of Europa
The Intriguing History of Titian's Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
'The Rape of Europa' is one of Titian's great masterpieces, a work charged with eroticism and classical mystique behind which lies a tale as compelling as the painting itself. Here Charles FitzRoy weaves a unique account of its history and the painting's movement following the rise and fall of the...