Art History category: 15294 books
Entry Points
The Vera List Center Field Guide on Art and Social Justice No. 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Providing a lively snapshot of the state of art and social justice today on a global level, Entry Points accompanies the inaugural Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics, launched at The New School on the occasion of the center’s twentieth anniversary. This book captures some of the most significant...
The Internationalist Moment
South Asia, Worlds, and World Views 1917–39
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
The years between the First and Second World Wars comprise a critical moment in the history of the world. In the aftermath of the First World War and the Bolshevik Revolution, individuals and countries sought new solutions and blueprints for a world of greater stability, equality, and interdependency....
3D
History, Theory and Aesthetics of the Transplane Image
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
There is a blind spot in recent accounts of the history, theory and aesthetics of optical media: namely, the field of the three-dimensional, or trans-plane, image. It has been widely used in the 20th century for very different practices - military, scientific and medical visualization - precisely...
by Sparky Witte
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
This is the true story of the History of the Demolition of the 2 Cooper River bridges . The Grace was complete in August,1929 and the Pearman was completed in 1966. They allowed traffic to flow between Charleston, South Carolina and Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The Grace was built in 18 months,...
Memory and Desire
Painting in Britain and Ireland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This title was first published in 2002. 'Memory and Desire' is a lavishly illustrated account of the art world in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. It calls upon rich resources of contemporary diaries, letters and art criticism, as well as the analysis of works of art to answer questions...
Classicism of the Twenties
Art, Music, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of the most distinct and influential was a turn to classicism.
In Classicism of the Twenties, Theodore...
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. 2 provides parents and teachers with a wonderful way to develop children’s imaginations and grow their awareness of great art from an early age.
Toledo Cathedral
Building Histories in Medieval Castile
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedral—one of the largest, richest, and best preserved in all of Europe—is little known outside Spain. In Toledo Cathedral, Tom Nickson provides the first in-depth...
Vietnam War Helicopter Art
U.S. Army Rotor Aircraft
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Hundreds of unique color photos showing how soldiers decorated their helicopters during the Vietnam War.
The Writing on the Wall
The Work of Joane Cardinal-Schubert
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
The Writing on the Wall tells the story of artist, curator, writer and activist Dr. Joane Cardinal-Schubert, RCA. Although never claiming to be political and rejecting a feminist label, Cardinal-Schubert's work recognizes that the personal lived life of an Indigenous Canadian woman has social and...
The Folly of the Cross
The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts in Early Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The Folly of the Cross is the fourth book in Richard Viladesau's series examining the aesthetics and theology of the cross through Christian history. Previous volumes have brought the story up through the Baroque era. This new book examines the reception of the message of the cross from the European...
Rome and Religion in the Medieval World
Studies in Honor of Thomas F.X. Noble
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Rome and Religion in the Medieval World provides a panoramic and interdisciplinary exploration of Rome and religious culture. The studies build upon or engage Thomas F.X. Noble’s interest in Rome, especially his landmark contributions to the origins of the Papal States and early medieval image controversies....
Kill for Peace
American Artists Against the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
The Vietnam War (1964–1975) divided American society like no other war of the twentieth century, and some of the most memorable American art and art-related activism of the last fifty years protested U.S. involvement. At a time when Pop Art, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art dominated the American art...
The Art of Building in the Classical World
Vision, Craftsmanship, and Linear Perspective in Greek and Roman Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
This book examines the application of drawing in the design process of classical architecture, exploring how the tools and techniques of drawing developed for architecture subsequently shaped theories of vision and representations of the universe in science and philosophy. Building on recent scholarship...