Art History category: 15294 books
by Émile Michel
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) has long been considered one of the greatest artists in European history. His paintings have launched imitations and homages, including best-selling novels, a recent TV series, and even a handful of popular films. Now, for the first time, this lovely text by Émile Michel...
Capital
New York, Capital of the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith’s thousand-page homage to New York City
Here is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an unparalleled and original homage to the city, composed entirely of quotations. Drawn from a huge array of sources—histories, memoirs, newspaper...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provide, at the 500th anniversary of his birth, a comprehensive assessment of the current state of scholarship on this important-and still controversial-artist...
by Eugène Delacroix, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The leader of the French Romantic school of art, Eugène Delacroix was influential in the development of both Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting, producing historical and contemporary masterpieces that would change the course of art. Delphi Classics’ Masters of Art Series presents the...
by Martin Edmond
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
This is the record of the author's powerful and moving search for the artist Philip Clairmont which mingles elements of biography and art history with a personal quest. It is an unusual and brilliant piece of writing by the author of The Autobiography of My Father, which transcends categorization.
Where Is My Home?
The Art and Life of the Russian-Jewish Sculptor Mark Antokolskii, 1843-1902
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Where Is My Home?: The Art and Life of the Russian-Jewish Sculptor Mark Antokolskii, 1843–1902 is the first full-length study in English of the art and life of Mark Antokolskii, the widely recognized Russian and European sculptor of the late 19th century. An originator of novel trends in sculpture...
by Grigori Sternin, Jelena Kirillina
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Ilya Repin was the most gifted of the group known in Russia as “The Itinerants”. When only twelve years old, he joined Ivan Bounakov’s studio to learn the icon-painter’s craft. Religious representations always remained of great importance for him. From 1864 to 1873 Repin studied at the Academy...
Art and Theory After Socialism
Art and Theory After Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Contemporary visual culture, art, theory and criticism shifted after the end of the Cold War, so that cultural production in both the East and the West underwent radical new challenges. Art and Theory After Socialism considers the new critical insights that are produced in the collisions of art theory...
by Edward Jackson Lowell
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Clothing, A Historical Consideration traces the history of clothing in the western world from the Greeks to the high fashions of the late 19th century. A good brief survey of the subject.
Piero Della Francesca, le peintre mathématicien
La rencontre du réalisme flamand et de la rigueur toscane
Language: French
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Décryptez l’art de Piero Della Francesca en moins d’une heure !Acteur majeur du Quattrocento italien, Piero Della Francesca est un artiste aux multiples talents. Peintre érudit et passionné de géométrie, il n’a de cesse, toute sa vie durant, de chercher à concilier les mathématiques et l’art,...
From Greenwich Village to Taos
Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan's
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award
They all came to Taos: Georgia O'Keefe, D. H. Lawrence, Carl Van Vechten, and other expatriates of New York City. Fleeing urban ugliness, they moved west between 1917 and 1929 to join the community that art patron Mabel Dodge created in her Taos salon and to draw...
Made in Venice: A Travel Guide to Murano Glass, Carnival Masks, Gondolas, Lace, Paper, & More
Laura Morelli's Authentic Arts
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
If you're traveling to Venice, Italy, you want to go home with a special souvenir: a piece of Murano glass, a work of Burano lace, a carnival mask, or one of the city's famous luxury fabrics. But selecting which mask or which goblet to buy can be an intimidating experience. How do you know if you're...
Of Arms and Artists
The American Revolution through Painters' Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A vibrant and original perspective on the American Revolution through the stories of the five great artists whose paintings animated the new American republic.
The images accompanying the founding of the United States--of honored Founders, dramatic battle scenes, and seminal moments--gave visual...
by Titian, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The most prominent exponent of Venetian art, Titian was equally adept with portraits and landscapes, as well as mythological and religious subjects. His celebrated use of colour would exercise a profound influence on future generations of Western art. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the...