Art History category: 15294 books
Weaving in the Peruvian Highlands
Dreaming Patterns, Weaving Memories
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
A richly illustrated look at Andean weaving, which embodies the living history and culture of the Peruvian highlands, this guide extensively catalogs many of the intricate patterns found in traditional Peruvian textiles. Exploring the personal histories of the Quechua people who sustain this...
by A. Victor Coonin
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Michelangelo’s David is the world’s most famous statue, a universal symbol of Florence and of Italy. Hailed as the epitome of Renaissance art, the David has inspired contemporary artists from Warhol to Banksy and has been reproduced in life-size copies all over the globe. Why does a 500-year-old...
Graphic Culture
Illustration and Artistic Enterprise in Paris, 1830-1848
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Nineteenth-century Paris is often celebrated as the capital of modernity. However, this story is about cultural producers who were among the first to popularize and profit from that idea. Graphic Culture investigates the graphic artists and publishers who positioned themselves as connoisseurs of Parisian...
Avedon
Something Personal
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
An intimate biography of Richard Avedon, the legendary fashion and portrait photographer who “helped define America’s image of style, beauty and culture” (The New York Times), by his longtime collaborator and business partner Norma Stevens and award-winning author Steven M. L. Aronson.
Richard...
by Jean Lahor
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Art Nouveau gives a name to the decorative and architectural style developed in the 1880s and 1890s in the West. Born in reaction to the Industrial Revolution and to the creative vacuum it left behind, Art Nouveau was at the heart of a “renaissance” in the decorative arts. The primary objective...
Defiant Spirits
The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Beginning in 1912, Defiant Spirits traces the artistic development of Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley, over a dozen years in Canadian history. Working...
by Christopher Frayling
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Craftsmanship has again become fashionable in high places, just as it did in the last few recessions.
The concept of craftsmanship has never been as relevant and timely as it is today. Assailed on all sides by – among many other tendencies - flexible working, short-termism, portfolio careers,...
Titian
(Grove Art Essentials)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Tiziano Vecellio, or Titian, the Italian painter, draughtsman and printmaker, was not only immensely successful in his lifetime but since his death has always been considered the greatest painter of the Venetian school. Equally pre-eminent in all the branches of painting practised in the 16th century...
Paolo Uccello, le premier des surréalistes ?
De l’obsession de la perspective à la tentation fantastique
Language: French
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Décryptez l’art de Paolo Uccello en moins d’une heure !Si son originalité l’a longtemps écarté des grands artistes de son temps, Paolo Uccello suscite depuis le XXe siècle un regain d’intérêt, grâce à sa redécouverte par les avant-gardes. Les mouvements futuriste et surréaliste ont...
Camille Pissarro, le patriarche de l'impressionnisme
Des paysages ruraux aux scènes urbaines
Language: French
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Décryptez l’art de Camille Pissarro en moins d’une heure !
« Ce fut un père pour moi. C’était un homme à consulter et quelque chose comme le bon Dieu. » Ces paroles de Paul Cézanne à propos de Camille Pissarro résument bien la place de ce dernier dans le monde artistique de la...
Thomas Hart Benton
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Born in Missouri at the end of the nineteenth century, Thomas Hart Benton would become the most notorious and celebrated painter America had ever seen. The first artist to make the cover of Time, he was a true original: an heir to both the rollicking populism of his father's political family and the...
American Faces
A Cultural History of Portraiture and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Portraits. We know what they are, but why do we make them? Americans have been celebrating themselves in portraits since the arrival of the first itinerant portrait painters to the colonies. They created images to commemorate loved ones, glorify the famous, establish our national myths, and honor...
The American Leonardo
A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
In 1919 a returning World War I veteran named Harry Hahn and his French bride attempted to sell what they thought was a painting by Leonardo Da Vinci in New York. Renowned art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen declared the picture-La Belle Ferronnière-a fake without ever seeing the canvas. The Hahns sued...
The Park Avenue Cubists
Gallatin, Morris, Frelinghuysen and Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This title was first published in 2002. The Park Avenue Cubists explores the work of a group of American artists committed to the belief that American abstraction could make a unique contribution to the evolution of the visual experiments begun by the European Modernists. All were inspired by the...