Art History category: 15294 books
Paris and the Cliché of History
The City and Photographs, 1860-1970
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
This book turns a compelling new lens on thinking about the history of Paris and photography. The invention of photography changed how history could be written. But the now commonplace assumptions--that photographs capture fragments of lost time or present emotional gateways to the past--that structure...
by Steve Rowley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Dealing in Aboriginal Dot Painting- Find out why this form of indigenous art is taking the art world by storm and giving amazing financial rewards to those who are investing their money wisely – A step by step guide to the most collectable, most valuable Aboriginal artists – Highly recommended...
by Jessica Findley
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Nicolas Poussin was the French painter of the classical Baroque style. His work is characterized by clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. Until the 20th century he remained a major inspiration for such classically oriented artists as Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres...
by Bruce Cole
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
This up-to-date, well-illustrated, and thoughtful introduction to the life and works of one of the giants of Western Painting also surveys the golden age of Venetian Painting from Giovanni Bellini to Veronese and its place in the history of Western art. Bruce Cole, Distinguished Professor of Fine...
Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus
Towards an Epistemology of Vision for Italian Renaissance Art and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti’s text On Painting (1435), along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas Cusanus - particularly his Vision of God (1450) - this study reveals a shared epistemology of vision. And, the author argues, it is one that reflects a more deeply Christian Neoplatonic...
Paul Klee, un artiste majeur du Bauhaus
« L’art ne reproduit pas le visible, il rend visible »
Language: French
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Décryptez l’art de Paul Klee en moins d’une heure ! Membre actif du Bauhaus, Paul Klee marque profondément le début du XXe siècle en prenant part à l’avènement de l'art abstrait. Avec plus de 9 000 œuvres à son catalogue, l'artiste surprend le monde entier par son travail qui révèle...
by Caron Caswell Lazar
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Grounded in the maintenance of balance and the pursuit of peace, the Cherokee Nation has always had a difficult task. In The Cherokee accompany these Principle People on their quest – from the first 1,000 years of harmony preceding conflict with DeSoto in 1540 to the present-day resurgence of tribal...
Will Bradley's Graphic Art
New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Will Bradley (1868–1962) was among the first American artists to realize the immense possibilities creative design held for the business world. Experimenting with typefaces, decorative illustrations, layouts, and print, he produced posters, advertisements, book designs, and magazine covers that...
The Life Portraits of Henry Clay
A Re-Examination
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This work of research is an attempt to harness the extensive collection of images of one of antebellum Americas eminent statesman. Henry Clay assisted in the legislative passage of the Missouri and California compromises, extending the territorial borders of the emergent western territories in the...
Entering the Picture
Judy Chicago, The Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
In 1970, Judy Chicago and fifteen students founded the groundbreaking Feminist Art Program (FAP) at Fresno State. Drawing upon the consciousness-raising techniques of the women's liberation movement, they created shocking new art forms depicting female experiences. Collaborative work and performance...
Eye of the Sixties
Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
In 1959, Richard Bellamy was a witty, poetry-loving beatnik on the fringe of the New York art world who was drawn to artists impatient for change. By 1965, he was representing Mark di Suvero, was the first to show Andy Warhol’s pop art, and pioneered the practice of “off-site” exhibitions and...
The Art of the Sacred
An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Art and Belief
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2006
The field of 'art and religion' is fast becoming one of the most dynamic areas of religious studies. Uniquely, The Art of the Sacred explores the relationship between religion and the visual arts - and vice versa - within Christianity and other major religious traditions. It identifies and describes...
Influences
Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light radiation held by certain natural philosophers of early...
A Hunger for Aesthetics
Enacting the Demands of Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art. Collectively, these complaints have generated an anti-aesthetic stance prevalent in the contemporary art world. Yet if we examine the motivations for these critiques,...