General Art category: 18772 books
Outsider Art in Texas
Lone Stars
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Texas looms large: big skies, vast plains, large cities. The Lone Star State often inspires a heightened sense of place in its citizens that rivals or surpasses that of New Yorkers. This is frequently reflected in the art of Texas—paintings of bluebonnet fields, longhorn cattle, and scenes from...
The Art of Illustrated Maps
A Complete Guide to Creative Mapmaking's History, Process and Inspiration
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
While literally hundreds of books exist on the subject of "cartographic" maps, The Art of Illustrated Maps is the first book EVER to fully explore the world of conceptual, "imaginative" mapping. Author John Roman refers to illustrated maps as "the creative nonfiction of cartography," and his book...
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...
Talking Art
The Culture of Practice and the Practice of Culture in MFA Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
In Talking Art, acclaimed ethnographer Gary Alan Fine gives us an eye-opening look at the contemporary university-based master’s-level art program. Through an in-depth analysis of the practice of the critique and other aspects of the curriculum, Fine reveals how MFA programs have shifted the goal...
The Aesthetics of Violence
Art, Fiction, Drama and Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Violence at an aesthetic remove from the spectator or reader has been a key element of narrative and visual arts since Greek antiquity. Here Robert Appelbaum explores the nature of mimesis, aggression, the effects of antagonism and victimization and the political uses of art throughout history. He...
Taking AIM!
The Business of Being an Artist Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Taking Aim! The Business of Being an Artist Today is a practical, affordable resource guide filled with invaluable advice for the emerging artist. The book is specially designed to aid visual artists in furthering
their careers through unfiltered information about the business practices and idiosyncrasies...
On Art and Painting
Vicente Carducho and Baroque Spain
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This book is a collection of fourteen essays on the Dialogues on Painting, published by the Florentine-born Spanish painter and art theorist Vicente Carducho (1568–1638) in 1633. This was the first treatise in Spanish on the art of painting, written as part of a campaign led by Carducho in collaboration...
by Henry B. Wheatley
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
The chief aim of this series of handbooks of practical art is to bring to the notice of students and anatcuss of art, as well as all Iovers of the highest excellence in workmanship, numerous examples, both ancient and modern, of the application of beautiful design to articles of every-day use and...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Art historians have long been accustomed to thinking about art and artists in terms of national traditions. This volume takes a different approach, suggesting instead that a history of art based on national divisions often obscures the processes of cultural appropriation and global exchange that shaped...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Art is a multi-faceted part of human society, and often is used for more than purely aesthetic purposes. When used as a narrative on modern society, art can actively engage citizens in cultural and pedagogical discussions. Convergence of Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Global Civic Engagement is...
Yard Art and Handmade Places
Extraordinary Expressions of Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Relatively few people in America build their own homes, but many yearn to make the places they live in more truly their own. Yard Art and Handmade Places profiles twenty homemakers who have used their yards and gardens to express their sense of individuality, to maintain connections to family and...
Ardmore. We Are Because of Others
The Story of Fée Halsted and Ardmore Ceramic Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Colourful, imaginative, vibrant, delicate and dramatic – these are just some of the hallmarks of the artworks that have garnered international accolades for Ardmore Ceramic Art in rural KwaZulu-Natal. It is here, in South Africa’s most successful ceramics studio set in the verdant Midlands, that...