Art category: 43213 books
Art in Crisis
The Lost Center
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The history of art from the early nineteenth century on- ward is commonly viewed as a succession of conflicts between innovatory and established styles that culminated in the formalism and aesthetic autonomy of high modernism. In Art and Crisis, first published in 1948, Hans Sedlmayr argues that the...
Thinking Through Art
Reflections on Art as Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Focusing on a unique arena, Thinking Through Art takes an innovative look at artists’ experiences of undertaking doctorates and asks: If the making of art is not simply the formulation of an object but is also the formation of complex ideas then what effect does academic enquiry have on art practice?
Using...
Art before the Law
Aesthetics and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Ever since Plato expelled the poets from his ideal state, the ethics of art has had to confront philosophy’s denial of art’s morality. In Art before the Law, Ruth Ronen proposes a new outlook on the ethics of art by arguing that art insists on this tradition of denial, affirming its singular ethics...
The Greatest Art Form
Video Games and the Evolution of Artistic Expression
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
During the last half century, and for only the second time in over two thousand years, technology has given way to a new groundbreaking and limitless form of artistic expression: the video game. While our society is barely beginning to digest this new medium and redefine our understanding of artistic...
Excellent Art Auction Guide
This Ultimate Guide Will Let You Learn The Different Art Auctions Ideas Which Include Art Auctions Online, Grotesques, Vintage Photography Auctions, Amsterdam Auctions And A Whole Lot More!
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
It is truly a wonderful thing when you consider how much we gain from our appreciation of art, what volumes it speaks about our own culture, and among cultures that make up the world besides our own. It is highly fashionable to understand something of what art is, how it tries to reinterpret...
Collecting and Conserving Net Art
Moving beyond Conventional Methods
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Collecting and Conserving Net Art explores the qualities and characteristics of net art and its influence on conservation practices. By addressing and answering some of the challenges facing net art and providing an exploration of its intersection with conservation, the book casts a new light on net...
by Iain Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Originally published in 2011, Iain Robertson's A New Art from Emerging Markets introduced and examined three types of emerging markets for contemporary art: the very recently established, the maturing and the mature. This fully revised second edition not only updates the reader on this rapidly evolving...
The Art of Interaction
What HCI Can Learn from Interactive Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
What can Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) learn from art? How can the HCI research agenda be advanced by looking at art research? How can we improve creativity support and the amplification of that important human capability? This book aims to answer these questions. Interactive art has become a common...
Art and Pluralism
Lawrence Alloway's Cultural Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Lawrence Alloway (1926-1990) was one of the most influential and widely respected (as well as prolific) art writers of the post-war years. His many books, catalogue essays and reviews manifest the changing paradigms of art away from the formal values of modernism towards the inclusiveness of the visual...
Art as an Investment?
A Survey of Comparative Assets
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Aimed at collectors and investors, this user-friendly guide explains art's value as an asset through comparisons with more familiar investments, including property, shares and gold. It draws on extensive research and interviews with key players in these other markets, as well as the author's own experience,...
by Pierre Jean Varet
Language: French
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Les techniques de l’art postal, par Pierre Jean Varet, fondateur du musée de l’art du collage (Artcolle). Art postal et mail art : apprendre à réaliser des enveloppes décorées, des cartes d’art et des vignettes d’artiste aussi simplement que de poster une lettre à la poste, c’est ce...
by Charlotte Horlyck
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Walk the galleries of any major contemporary art museum and you are sure to see a work by a Korean artist. Interest in modern and contemporary art from South—as well as North—Korea has grown in recent decades, and museums and individual collectors have been eager to tap into this rising market....
by Maria Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Often derided as unscientific and self-indulgent, psychoanalysis has been an invaluable resource for artists, art critics and historians throughout the twentieth century and numerous encounters between art and psychoanalysis have sparked illuminations and connections that would otherwise have remained...
Little Learning Labs: Art for Kids, abridged edition
26 Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media and More; Activities for STEAM Learners
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
**The 26 projects in Little Learning Labs: Art for Kids will get children excited about creating fine art and help them discover their personal voice and style.
*Art for Kids *is a well of inspiration for young artists interested in making their own fine art. This abridged, paperback edition...