Art History category: 15294 books
by William Blake
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
This carefully crafted ebook: "For the Sexes: the Gates of Paradise (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Gates of Paradise, was first published in a limited run in 1793....
Reading the Wampum
Essays on Hodinöhsö:ni’ Visual Code and Epistemological Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Since the fourteenth century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called "wampum" to form intricately woven belts. These wampum belts depict significant moments in the lives of the people who make up the tribes, portraying everything from weddings to treaties. Wampum...
by Richard Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
In 1903 Alaska governor John Brady collected fifteen old totem poles for preservation at Stika National Historical Park, creating one of the most famous collections of totem poles in the world. One pole became separated, and its fate remained a mystery for nearly ninety years. This revised edition...
by Michael Tymkiw
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A new and challenging perspective on Nazi exhibition design
In one of the most comprehensive analyses ever written on the subject, Michael Tymkiw reassesses the relationship between Nazi exhibition design and modernism. While National Socialist exhibitions are widely understood as platforms...
Collision
The Contemporary Art Scene in Houston, 1972–1985
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Winner, 2019 Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book, sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)
In this expansive and vigorous survey of the Houston art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, author Pete Gershon describes the city’s emergence as a locus for the arts, fueled by a...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Photography: A Critical Introduction was the first introductory textbook to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political contexts, and is now established as one of the leading textbooks in its field. Written especially for students in higher education and...
by Clare Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Wallpaper’s spread across trades, class and gender is charted in this first full-length study of the material’s use in Britain during the long eighteenth century. It examines the types of wallpaper that were designed and produced and the interior spaces it occupied, from the country house to the...
Living Cargo
How Black Britain Performs Its Past
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Offering a wide-ranging study of contemporary literature, film, visual art, and performance by writers and artists who live and work in the United Kingdom but also maintain strong ties to postcolonial Africa and the Caribbean, Living Cargo explores how contemporary black British culture makers have engaged...
Supports in Roman Marble Sculpture
Workshop Practice and Modes of Viewing
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Figural and non-figural supports are a ubiquitous feature of Roman marble sculpture; they appear in sculptures ranging in size from miniature to colossal and of all levels of quality. At odds with modern ideas about beauty, completeness, and visual congruence, these elements, especially non-figural...
Between Art and Artifact
Archaeological Replicas and Cultural Production in Oaxaca, Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Oaxaca is internationally renowned for its marketplaces and archaeological sites where tourists can buy inexpensive folk art, including replicas of archaeological treasures. Archaeologists, art historians, and museum professionals sometimes discredit this trade in “fakes” that occasionally make...
by Katie Hornstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
From the walls of the Salon to the pages of weekly newspapers, war imagery was immensely popular in postrevolutionary France. This fascinating book studies representations of contemporary conflict in the first half of the 19th century and explores how these pictures provided citizens with an imaginative...
In the Palace of Nezahualcoyotl
Painting Manuscripts, Writing the Pre-Hispanic Past in Early Colonial Period Tetzcoco, Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Around 1542, descendants of the Aztec rulers of Mexico created accounts of the pre-Hispanic history of the city of Tetzcoco, Mexico, one of the imperial capitals of the Aztec Empire. Painted in iconic script ("picture writing"), the Codex Xolotl, the Quinatzin Map, and the Tlohtzin Map appear to retain...
Kuna Art and Shamanism
An Ethnographic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Known for their beautiful textile art, the Kuna of Panama have been scrutinized by anthropologists for decades. Perhaps surprisingly, this scrutiny has overlooked the magnificent Kuna craft of nuchukana—wooden anthropomorphic carvings—which play vital roles in curing and other Kuna rituals. Drawing...
Crafting Mexico
Intellectuals, Artisans, and the State after the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
After Mexico’s revolution of 1910–1920, intellectuals sought to forge a unified cultural nation out of the country’s diverse populace. Their efforts resulted in an “ethnicized” interpretation of Mexicanness that intentionally incorporated elements of folk and indigenous culture. In this...