Art History category: 15294 books
How to Sleep
The Art, Biology and Culture of Unconsciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Sleep is quite a popular activity, indeed most humans spend around a third of their lives asleep. However, cultural, political, or aesthetic thought tends to remain concerned with the interpretation and actions of those who are awake. How to Sleep argues instead that sleep is a complex vital phenomena...
Visible Empire
Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collections of specimens, they dedicated an overwhelming...
Art World City
The Creative Economy of Artists and Urban Life in Dakar
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Art World City focuses on contemporary art and artists in the city of Dakar, a famously thriving art metropolis in the West African nation of Senegal. Joanna Grabski illuminates how artists earn their livelihoods from the city’s resources, possibilities, and connections. She examines how and why...
by Ernesto Ballesteros Arranz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2015
eBook Interactivo. En el siglo XVI, habitualmente conocido como "cinquecento", se prolonga este genio artístico italiano que alcanza cotas poco conocidas en Europa y, a nuestro juicio, en el mundo entero. Apoyándose sobre los descubrimientos del siglo anterior, aparecen ahora los grandes...
by James B. Tschen-Emmons
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Artifacts from Ancient Rome is a unique social history that explores major aspects of daily life in a long-ago era via images of physical objects and historical information about these items. This book also affords "hands-on training" on how to approach primary sources.
The author—a...
War & Art WWI – USA in ITALY
Destruction and protection of Italian Cultural Heritage during World War I
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
War and Art: USA in Italy è la seconda tappa di un progetto di ricerca iniziato con War & Art: The Preservation of Italian Treasures. Questo secondo volume sottolinea l'importanza dell'ingresso degli Stati Uniti nella Prima Guerra Mondiale da diverse prospettive. La mostra fotografica, ora esposta...
by Linda Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European art, and the social, economic, philosophical, and political debates that helped shape them.
Covers both artistic developments and critical approaches...
Asking the Audience
Participatory Art in 1980s New York
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The 1980s was a critical decade in shaping today’s art production. While newly visible work concerned with power and identity hinted at a shift toward multiculturalism, the ‘80s were also a time of social conservatism that resulted in substantial changes in arts funding. In Asking the Audience, Adair...
All the Colors of Life
From the History and Mystery of Color! and Secrets of the Spectrum
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
There have been many qualities obtained over the years, including work and positions of leadership in several nonprofit organizations. Also a deep interest in color and design, ranging from the ownership in two art shops that bridged the gap between art gallery and a craft shop, with quality and variety....
Making Wise History
In Union with the Holy Trinity
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
The poet is given the gift of speech, the gift of never ending words. These words flow for as long as we will to let Poetry unveil herself. What words do I speak? What words will I give birth to? Will me words become flesh? Will my words heal? Will my words stand? Will they make wise history?
Woman's Eye, Woman's Hand
Making Art and Architecture in Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
With independence, India experienced a dramatic social rupture but also a recuperation of political autonomy and a new sense of optimism that promised opportunities. The country became a crucible for experimentation in modern and utopian architecture with new buildings, cities and museums giving public...
Inside an Ancient Assyrian Palace
Looking at Austen Henry Layard's Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
One of the best-known images of the ancient Near East is an intriguing nineteenth-century color lithograph reconstructing the throne room of an Assyrian palace. Executed shortly after the archaeological rediscovery of Assyria, a land theretofore known only from the Bible, it was published by the most...
Colonized through Art
American Indian Schools and Art Education, 1889-1915
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Colonized through Art explores how the federal government used art education for American Indian children as an instrument for the “colonization of consciousness,” hoping to instill the values and ideals of Western society while simultaneously maintaining a political, social, economic, and racial...
The Bone Gatherers
The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
The bone gatherers found in the annals and legends of the early Roman Catholic Church were women who collected the bodies of martyred saints to give them a proper burial. They have come down to us as deeply resonant symbols of grief: from the women who anointed Jesus's crucified body in the gospels...