Art History category: 15294 books
A Players Almanac
An Anecdotal History
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
The Players is a private social club founded in 1888 by Edwin Booth, the greatest and most celebrated American actor of his time. Membership today continues to be composed of actors and artists from the stage but now from the kindred professions of film and television, the fine and plastic arts, theatre...
Dream Catchers
Legend, Lore and Artifacts
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
An investigation into the symbol of Native heritage. In Ojibwe (or Chippewa in the United States) culture a dream catcher is a hand-crafted willow hoop with woven netting that is decorated with sacred and personal items such as feathers and beads. The Native American tradition of making dream...
The DIY Movement in Art, Music and Publishing
Subjugated Knowledges
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book considers the history of Do It Yourself art, music and publishing, demonstrating how DIY strategies have transitioned from being marginal, to emergent, to embedded. Through secondary research, observation and 30 original interviews, each chapter analyses one of 15 creative cities (San Francisco,...
Playing to the Gallery
Helping Contemporary Art in Its Struggle to Be Understood
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Grayson Perry’s book will overturn everything you thought you knew about “art”
Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he’s called this book Playing to the Gallery and not...
by Tish Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Providing scientifically accurate, detailed, and accessible information to students and general readers, this book presents the history of vaccination; describes the administration, manufacturing, and regulation of vaccines in the United States; and explains the most recent scientific findings about...
Rome
An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Spanning the entire history of the city of Rome from Iron Age village to modern metropolis, this is the first book to take the long view of the Eternal City as an urban organism. Three thousand years old and counting, Rome has thrived almost from the start on self-reference, supplementing the everyday...
A Stitch in Time
The Needlework of Aging Women in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Drawing from 167 examples of decorative needlework — primarily samplers and quilts from 114 collections across the United States — made by individual women aged forty years and over between 1820 and 1860, this exquisitely illustrated book explores how women experienced social and cultural...
Legends of the Plumed Serpent
Biography of a Mexican God
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Meticulously pieced together from personal experiences that come with years of travel, an extensive knowledge of the historic and scholarly works, and a deep appreciation of Latin American art and culture—both ancient and modern—critically-acclaimed biographer Neil Baldwin has created...
by Amy Freund
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France challenges widely held assumptions about both the genre of portraiture and the political and cultural role of images in France at the beginning of the nineteenth century. After 1789, portraiture came to dominate French visual culture because it addressed...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance art, and the links between Renaissance art and contemporary art and theory. This is the first discussion of its kind, involving not only questions within Renaissance scholarship,...
Stealing the Mystic Lamb
The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece is on any art historian's list of the ten most important paintings ever made. Often referred to by the subject of its central panel, The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, it represents the fulcrum between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It is also the most frequently...
The Cave Painters
Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
The Cave Painters is a vivid introduction to the spectacular cave paintings of France and Spain—the individuals who rediscovered them, theories about their origins, their splendor and mystery.
Gregory Curtis makes us see the astonishing sophistication and power of the paintings and tells...
Vietnam War Helicopter Art
U.S. Army Rotor Aircraft
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Hundreds of unique color photos showing how soldiers decorated their helicopters during the Vietnam War.
by James Jackson Jarves
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
First published in 1876, when many considered Japanese art a mere curiosity, A Glimpse at the Art of Japan presents Jarves remarkable examination of the problems of Japanese aesthetics, offering a penetrating analysis of the historical, religious, and social influences on the development of art in...