Art History category: 15294 books
Blindness
The History of a Mental Image in Western Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2001
This is a remarkable study of how Western culture has represented blindness, especially in that most visual of arts, painting. Moshe Barasch draws upon not only the span of art history from antiquity to the eighteenth century but also the classical and biblical traditions that underpin so much of artistic representation: Blind Homer, the healing of
by Vernon James Knight, Jr
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
This book offers an overview of iconographic methods and their application to archaeological analysis. It offers a truly interdisciplinary approach that draws equally from art history and anthropology. Vernon James Knight, Jr begins with an historiographical overview, addressing the methodologies...
An Anthropology of Contemporary Art
Practices, Markets, and Collectors
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Drawing on the exciting developments that have occurred in the anthropology of art over the last twenty years, this study uses ethnographic methods to explore shifts in the art market and global contemporary art. Recognizing that the huge diversity of global phenomena requires research on the ground,...
The Artist's Guide to Public Art
How to Find and Win Commissions (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
“What artists don’t know—but need to know.” —Jack Becker, Public Art Review
A Comprehensive Guide to the Complex World of Public Art
Learn how to find, apply for, compete for, and win a public art commission. First-hand interviews with experienced public artists and arts administrators...
Frog in the Well
Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793–1841
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
Frog in the Well is a vivid and revealing account of Watanabe Kazan, one of the most important intellectuals of the late Tokugawa period. From his impoverished upbringing to his tragic suicide in exile, Kazan's life and work reflected a turbulent period in Japan's history. He was a famous artist,...
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Studies in the History of An Idea
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1992
Over the centuries, European debate about the nature and status of images of God and sacred figures has often upset the established order and shaken societies to their core. Out of this debate, an identifiable doctrine has emerged of the image in general and of the divine image in particular. This...
The Dignity of Every Human Being
New Brunswick Artists and Canadian Culture between the Great Depression and the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
“The Dignity of Every Human Being” studies the vibrant New Brunswick artistic community which challenged “the tyranny of the Group of Seven” with socially-engaged realism in the 1930s and 40s. Using extensive archival and documentary research, Kirk Niergarth follows the work of regional artists...
AUSTRALIA AT WAR - 20 Illustrations about soldiers lives at the Somme and Ypres
20 Illustrations from the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Herein are 20 illustrations made during the winters at Ypres and on the Somme by Will Dyson, even though he was wounded in their making. Dyson (1880 – 1938) the official illustrator for the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). They reflect the misery and the depression of the material conditions of these...
by Pamela Sachant, Peggy Blood, Jeffery LeMieux
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a deep insight and comprehension of the world of Art. Contents: What is Art? The Structure of Art Significance of Materials Used in Art Describing Art - Formal Analysis, Types, and Styles of Art Meaning in Art - Socio-Cultural Contexts, Symbolism,...
Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome
Between Art and Social Reality
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. In Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hölscher explores the fundamental phenomena of Greek and Roman visual culture and their...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This book addresses the critical terminologies of place and space (and their role within medieval studies) in a considered and critical manner, presenting a scholarly introduction written by the editors alongside thematic case studies that address a wide range of visual and textual material. The chapters...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
How does the visual nature of spectacle inform the citizenry, destabilize the political, challenge aesthetic convention and celebrate cultural creativity? What are the limits – aesthetic, political, social, cultural, economic – of spectacle? How do we explain the inherently exclusionary, revolutionary,...
Building Jerusalem
Art, Industry and the British Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
A lively and provocative account of the arts in Britain, Building Jerusalem suggests that even after fifty years of state planning of Britain's "leisure industries" the country is nevertheless approaching the millennium in a state of cultural confusion. Drawing on a wealth of historical...
by Paul Wood
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Western Art and the Wider World explores the evolving relationship between the Western canon of art, as it has developed since the Renaissance, and the art and culture of the Islamic world, the Far East, Australasia, Africa and the Americas.
Explores the origins, influences, and evolving relationship...