Art History category: 15294 books
by Pierre Jean Varet
Language: French
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Du collage et des collagistes à l’aube du vingt et unième siècle, de Pierre Jean Varet, fondateur du musée de l’art du collage (musée Artcolle). Cela fait presque un siècle que Picasso et Braque inventèrent " les papiers collés " dans le cubisme dît analytique. Non qu'ils aient...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Life on Earth would not exist without the brilliant objects we see in it; we would not be here without the light and heat of the Sun, and the rhythmic, tidal, biologically-vital, influences of the Moon. From earliest recorded history and in all societies the stars and planets, indeed the entire sky,...
Spaces and Places for Art
Making Art Institutions in Western Canada, 1912-1990
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
When the Edmonton Museum of Arts opened in 1924 it was only the second art gallery in Canada west of Toronto. Spaces and Places for Art tells the story of the financial and ideological struggles that community groups and artist societies in booming frontier cities and towns faced in establishing spaces...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In 1992 W. J. T. Mitchell argued for a "pictorial turn" in the humanities, registering a renewed interest in and prevalence of pictures and images in what had been understood as an age of simulation, or an increasingly extensive and diverse visual culture. However, in what is often characterized...
by René Huyghe, Marc-Alain Descamps, Jacques Donnars
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1990
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1990
Que peut apporter une vision transpersonnelle de l’art ? Ceux qui ont eu une expérience non ordinaire de conscience cherchent souvent à la communiquer par l’art. La Beauté est la splendeur de l’Être et l’éclair fulgurant de la perfection. L’art transpersonnel révèle l’invisible...
by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1883. 255 illustrations. This volume (the first of two) covers: General Character of Egyptian Civilization, Principles and General Characteristics of Egyptian Architecture, Sepulchral Architecture, and Sacred Architecture of Egypt.
Becoming Michelangelo
Apprenticing to the Master, and Discovering the Artist through His Drawings
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Michelangelo’s developing genius is revealed as never before by the man who became Michelangelo’s last apprentice—
an American artist and art historian whose family helped carve Mount Rushmore.
Many believe Michelangelo's talent was miraculous and untrained, the product of “divine” genius—a...
The Life and Art of Felrath Hines
From Dark to Light
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Felrath Hines (1913–1993), the first African American man to become a professional conservator for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, was born and raised in the segregated Midwest. Leaving their home in the South, Hines's parents migrated to Indianapolis with hopes for a better life. While...
Titian
And the End of the Venetian Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Titian is best known for paintings that embodied the tradition of the Venetian Renaissance—but how Venetian was the artist himself? In this study, Tom Nichols probes the tensions between the individualism of Titian’s work and the conservative mores of the city, showing how his art undermined the...
by Mary Gabriel
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2002
For four and a half decades, Etta and Claribel Cone roamed artists' studios and art galleries in Europe, building one of the largest, most important art collections in the world. At one time, these two independently wealthy Jewish women from Baltimore received offers from virtually every prominent...
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
Illustrated - Biographies of the Greatest Artists of Renaissance, Including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Titian, Giotto, Raphael, Brunelleschi & Donatello
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", "some of...
My Love Affair with Modern Art
Behind the Scenes with a Legendary Curator
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
A memoir of the twentieth-century art world, from the famed Art Institute of Chicago curator, critic, and historian.
Katharine Kuh made it her personal mission to bring modern art to the people of America. In 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression, she opened Chicago’s first commercial...
Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe: The life and times of Georgia O'Keefe, in one convenient little book.
Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe: The life and times of Georgia O'Keefe, in one convenient little book.
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK
When she was 10 years old, Georgia O’Keeffe decided she was going to be an artist, and she sure did. She went on to become the most celebrated and prolific female artist of the 20th century.
Georgia O’Keeffe is known for her close up paintings of flowers as well as...
by John Zarobell
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Art and the Global Economy analyzes major changes in the global art world that have emerged in the last twenty years including structural shifts in the global art market; the proliferation of international art fairs, biennials and blockbuster exhibitions; and the internationalization of the scope...