Art History category: 15294 books
by Andreas Broeckmann
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
An investigation of artists' engagement with technical systems, tracing art historical lineages that connect works of different periods.
“Machine art” is neither a movement nor a genre, but encompasses diverse ways in which artists engage with technical systems. In this book, Andreas Broeckmann...
Design and Visual Culture from the Bauhaus to Contemporary Art
Optical Deconstructions
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
This book complements the more textually-based Bauhaus scholarship with a practice-oriented and creative interpretive method, which makes it possible to consider Bauhaus-related works in an unconventional light. Edit Toth argues that focusing on the functionalist approach of the Bauhaus has hindered...
by Eric Shanes
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) is best known for his unique and striking style with an extraordinary repertoire reaching out across film, painting, photography, and sculpture. Whilst his name may be most commonly associated with Surrealism, Dalí consummately displayed mastery over such broad genres as...
by Nicola Suthor
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Roughness is the sensual quality most often associated with Rembrandt's idiosyncratic style. It best defines the specific structure of his painterly textures, which subtly capture and engage the imagination of the beholder. Rembrandt's Roughness examines how the artist's unconventional technique pushed...
William Woodward
American Impressionist
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
William Woodward (1859-1939) was a force in New Orleans and the art world, and his legacy endures. In this first compilation of examples of Woodward's work spanning his career, essayists offer unique perspectives on the artist and his art.
Woodward was a graduate of the Rhode Island School...
The Lost Pre-Raphaelite
The Secret Life and Loves of Robert Bateman
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
1.These will be driven by reviews and by readers of the book.
2.There will be a certain specific interest in New Haven, where, quite by chance, the key painting in the story (‘The Pool of Bethesda by Robert Bateman) was bought by the British Art Center in the 1960s and where it is one of...
The Catskills
Its History and How It Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The Catskills (“Cat Creek” in Dutch), America’s original frontier, northwest of New York City, with its seven hundred thousand acres of forest land preserve and its five counties—Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, Ulster, Schoharie; America’s first great vacationland; the subject of the nineteenth-century...
The Guardian of Mercy
How an Extraordinary Painting by Caravaggio Changed an Ordinary Life Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
A captivating study of Renaissance art imitating the life of the artist in “a rich tapestry that intricately weaves the story of an iconic painter” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Now celebrated as one of the great painters of the Renaissance, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio fled Rome in 1606...
The Artist's Guide to Public Art
How to Find and Win Commissions
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Public art commissions--how to find them, how to get them.
* First-hand advice from experienced public artists
* Written by an artist for artists
* Includes expert information on public art law
Learn how to find, apply for, compete for, and win a public art commission. First-hand interviews...
Everything is Happening
Journey into a Painting
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Michael Jacobs was haunted by Vel�zquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate significance of the painting by following the trails of associations from each individual character in the...
The Art of Conversion
Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, Cecile...
The Art of Professing in Bourbon Mexico
Crowned-Nun Portraits and Reform in the Convent
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In the eighteenth century, New Spaniards (colonial Mexicans) so lauded their nuns that they developed a local tradition of visually opulent portraits, called monjas coronadas or “crowned nuns,” that picture their subjects in regal trappings at the moment of their religious profession and in death....
by Wassily Kandinsky, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Wassily Kandinsky was an influential Russian painter and art theorist, now celebrated as one of the pioneers of pure abstraction in modern painting. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of the world’s greatest...
Aisthesis
Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Composed in a series of scenes, Aisthesis–Rancière’s definitive statement on the aesthetic–takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York in 1941. Along the way, we view the Belvedere Torso with Winckelmann, accompany Hegel to the museum and Mallarmé to the Folies-Bergère, attend a lecture...