Art History category: 15294 books
by Boris Groys
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The leading art theorist takes on art in the age of the Internet
In the early twentieth century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit. The notion of works of art as sacred objects was decried and subsequently they would be understood merely...
Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity
Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced Victorian culture. Through Victorian art, opera, and novels, Simon Goldhill examines how sexuality and desire, the politics...
Landscapes of Power
Selected Papers from the XV Oxford University Byzantine Society International Graduate Conference
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
This volume contains selected papers from the XV International Graduate Conference, highlighting the latest scholarship from a new generation of Late Antique and Byzantine scholars from around the world. The theme of the conference explored the interaction between power and the natural and human environments...
God's Paintbrush
Prophetic Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
I have always enjoyed art. I began painting and drawing at a young age. I never dreamed that God could take this love of painting and turn it into a ministry. Prophetic art is simply communication with God through art. It is my form of worship. Several years ago God brought women into my life that would...
by Klaus H. Carl
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This book offers our young readers an enjoyable approach to the history of art by transforming five masterpieces into fun puzzles. Top 5 Masterpieces Vol. 1 provides parents and teachers with a wonderful way to develop children’s imaginations and grow their awareness of great art from an early age.
by James Elkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art "a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life," but does that mean that contemporary art is spiritual? What might it mean to say that the art you make expresses your spiritual belief?
On...
Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso's & Husain's Paintings (Part - 2)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, #2
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso's and Husain's Paintings (Part - 2). Creative Activity & Forms and Colors in Paintings.The e-books Part 1 to Part 5 the outcome of the Ph. D Thesis, also serve the purpose of academic study for art scholars and art researchers all over the worldIn the...
by Carlos Javier Taranilla de la Varga
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Descubra el primer gran estilo artístico europeo, desde los ostrogodos y Carlomagno hasta su propagación por Europa a través del Camino de Santiago. Adéntrese en el recóndito mundo del arco de medio punto y la bóveda de cañón y en el simbolismo de las imágenes, protagonistas de un estilo...
The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials
Spectacles of Critique, Theory and Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rearranged and redefined, opening itself to the world and its contradictions. They are sites of a seemingly peaceful cohabitation between the elitist and...
Ahasuerus at the Easel
Jewish Art and Jewish Artists in Central and Eastern European Modernism at the Turn of the Last Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
This survey asks a seemingly simple question: Is there an affinity between the emergence of modern art and various Avant-Garde movements such as Russian Suprematism and Polish or Hungarian Constructivism around about the turn of the last century and the process of Jewish assimilation in the Habsburg...
Travels with Leni
Juvenile Erotic Fantasy in 20th Century German Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Scientific Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Art - History of Art, Hong Kong Baptist Universitiy (Department of Government and International Studies ), language: English, abstract: This essay is a revised and expanded version of a lecture-seminar for students of the Hong Kong Baptist University...
Culture and Consensus (Routledge Revivals)
England, Art and Politics since 1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Culture and Consensus, first published in 1995 and a revised edition in 1997, explores the history of the relationship between politics and the arts in Britain since 1940, and shows how the search for a secure sense of English identity has been reflected in official and unofficial attitudes to the...
by D.W. Harding
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
More wide ranging, both geographically and chronologically, than any previous study, this well-illustrated book offers a new definition of Celtic art.
Tempering the much-adopted art-historical approach, D.W. Harding argues for a broader definition of Celtic art and views it within a much wider...
Saints, Signs, and Symbols
The Symbolic Language of Christian Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
This thoroughly updated and comprehensive new edition enhances the well-loved and often-used earlier work as a guide to symbolism in Christian liturgical art, architecture, manuscripts, stained glass, and more. The new book is more heavily pictorial in an effort to provide an even stronger resource...