Art History category: 15294 books
by Narim Bender
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Thomas Gainsborough (1727 – 1788) was an English portrait and landscape artist, the most versatile English painter of the 18th century. He was the most inventive and original, always prepared to experiment with new ideas and techniques. Gainsborough alone among the great portrait painters of the...
The Supermodel and the Brillo Box
Back Stories and Peculiar Economics from the World of Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Acquiring contemporary art is about passion and lust, but it is also about branding, about the back story that comes with the art, about the relationship of money and status, and, sometimes, about celebrity. The Supermodel and the Brillo Box follows Don Thompson's 2008 bestseller The $12 Million Stuffed...
Women of the Underground: Art
Cultural Innovators Speak for Themselves
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
“It is not about provocation, reaction or even invocation, it is about transformation: mentally and physically.”—Marina Abramovic, artist
“Art is subjective, and if one sees something in an image, that projection is a reflection of the spectator, who sees what he or she wants to see,...
Tom Thomson
Journal of My Last Spring
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Tom Thomson, as the famous Canadian landscape artist, gave Canada its most enduring icons, The Jack Pine and The West Wind. But Tom Thomson, as a private man, remains an enigma. Little is known about the man and even less is known about his personal thoughts, feelings and struggles with his art and...
Posted to Canada
The Watercolours of George Russell Dartnell, 1835-1844
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 1987
Posted to Canada examines, for the first time, the immense body of work created by George Dartnell, a British army surgeon stationed in Canada from 1835 to 1844. Dartnell, an accomplished and popular surgeon, sketched more than 150 scenes of a pristine Canada of dense forests, clear lakes and rough-edged...
by Diego Velázquez, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The leading figure of the Spanish Golden Age, Diego Velázquez is universally acknowledged as one of the world’s greatest artists. Celebrated for his naturalistic style and remarkable power of observation in depicting both the living model and still life, Velázquez produced artworks that have helped...
Art and Revolution
Ernst Neizvestny, Endurance, and the Role of the Artist
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
In this prescient and beautifully written book, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger examines the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, a Russian sculptor whose exclusion from the ranks of officially approved Soviet artists left him laboring in enforced obscurity to realize his monumental and very...
Art and the Politics of Visibility
Contesting the Global, Local and the In-Between
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In an era of unprecedented global mobility, artists face unique challenges. How does cultural context affect the interpretation of art? What makes artists' work transnational or national in character, and how will their visibility be impacted by either label? Art and the Politics of Visibility questions...
by Raphael Sanzio, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Celebrated for his clarity of form, ease of composition and the sublime beauty of his ‘Madonnas’, Raphael is the epitome of the High Renaissance genius. In spite of his untimely death, he left behind a large body of work that would have a monumental influence on the course of art in the ensuing...
Pottery of the Southwest
Ancient Art and Modern Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Native American pottery of the U.S. southwest has long been considered collectible and today can fetch many thousands of dollars per piece. Authors, collectors, and dealers Carol and Allen Hayes provide readers with a concise overview of the pottery of the southwest, from its origins in the Bastketmaker...
by Claude Lorrain, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Revered by artists and collectors since the seventeenth century, Claude Lorrain was a master of landscape painting, raising the reputation of the art form to new heights. His paintings present idealised views of nature, governed by Classical concepts and fuelled by the inspiration of the Roman Campagna....
by Paul Klee
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
"Creative Confession" brings together three short critical texts written by Paul Klee, one of the most distinctive artists of the early twentieth century. Reflective and often lyrical, the essays exemplify Klee's artistic thinking and his relationship with the creative process.Entitled "Graphic...
by Thomas Sergeant Perry
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011
This is a brief illustrated primer on Greek Portrait paintings. The discussion revolves around portraits found in ancient burial sites.
by Sandra Forty
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel—sometimes called Peasant Bruegel—was the first great artist to paint scenes of ordinary peasant life and show the common man and woman as they went about their daily tasks and amusements. He is credited with bringing a humanizing spirit to painting— something...