Art History category: 15294 books
by James Hall
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
"A Companion volume to James Hall’s perennial seller Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art. which deals with the subject matter of Christian and Western art, the present volume includes the art of Egypt, the ancient Near East, Christian and classical Europe, India and the Far East. Flail...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
This collection examines key aesthetic avant-garde art movements of the twentieth century and their relationships with revolutionary politics. The contributors distinguish aesthetic avant-gardes —whose artists aim to transform society and the ways of sensing the world through political means—from...
Constructing the Memory of War in Visual Culture since 1914
The Eye on War
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
This collection provides a transnational, interdisciplinary perspective on artistic responses to war from 1914 to the present, analysing a broad selection of the rich, complex body of work which has emerged in response to conflicts since the Great War. Many of the creators examined here embody the...
by Maria Peitcheva
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2016
John Ottis Adams was an American impressionist painter and member of the Hoosier Group of Indiana painters.
He spent his youth in Franklin, Shelbyville, and Martinsville, Indiana and attended Wabash College for two years.
Adams studied art at the South Kensington School of Art in London for two years....
Gold
Nature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Gleaming and perfect, gold has beguiled humankind for many millennia, attracting treasure hunters, adorning the living and the dead, and symbolizing wealth, power, divinity, and eternity. This book offers a lively, critical look at the cultural history of this most regal metal, examining its importance...
Art for People's Sake
Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
In the 1960s and early 1970s, Chicago witnessed a remarkable flourishing of visual arts associated with the Black Arts Movement. From the painting of murals as a way to reclaim public space and the establishment of independent community art centers to the work of the AFRICOBRA collective and Black...
The Afterlife of Images
Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
In 1739 China’s emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Those images made their way to Europe, where they were interpreted as indicative of the ill health and medical backwardness of...
The First Book of Fashion
The Book of Clothes of Matthaeus and Veit Konrad Schwarz of Augsburg
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This captivating book reproduces arguably the most extraordinary primary source documents in fashion history. Providing a revealing window onto the Renaissance, they chronicle how style-conscious accountant Matthäus Schwarz and his son Veit Konrad experienced life through clothes, and climbed the...
by Paul Crowther
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2019
Meaning in the visual arts centers onhow the physical work makes its content or presence visible. The art objectis fundamental. Indeed, the different object forms of each visual medium allows our experience of space-time, and our relations to other people, to be aesthetically embodied in unique ways....
Forgetting Lot's Wife
On Destructive Spectatorship
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot’s Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history...
A Dance of Assassins
Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the 1880s. While Lusinga participated in the east African slave trade,...
Moi, Auguste, empereur de Rome (Paris-2014)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Le bimillénaire de la mort d’Auguste (63 av. J.-C.-14 apr. J.-C.) a été l’occasion d’une manifestation franco-italienne à la mesure du personnage célébré. Les musées du Capitole, avec son ancien directeur, Eugenio La Rocca, et son successeur, Claudio Parisi Presicce, se sont associés...
Art paléochrétien
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Partez à la découverte de l'art paléochrétien avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Que signifie l'expression d'« art chrétien » ? Consacrée par l'usage, elle est historiquement fausse. En effet, la définition d'un « art chrétien » repose sur l'idée d'une séparation entre les domaines...
Ordres en architecture (Les Grands Articles)
(Les Grands Articles d'Universalis)
Language: French
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Il n'est guère d'autre domaine de l'art occidental où l'héritage grec se soit pérennisé autant qu'en architecture : les ordres progressivement mis au point par les Grecs se sont transmis – tour à tour enrichis, mêlés, simplifiés, abâtardis, puis apurés et combinés de nouveau – jusqu'au seuil du XXe siècle.