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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
The “biennale culture” now determines much of the art world. Literature on the worldwide dissemination of art assumes nationalism and ethnic identity, but rarely analyzes it. At the same time there is extensive theorizing about globalization in political theory, cultural studies, postcolonial...
A People?s Art History of the United States
250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Most people outside of the art world view art as something that is foreign to their experiences and everyday lives. A People’s Art History of the United States places art history squarely in the roughandtumble of politics, social struggles, and the fight for justice from the colonial era through...
Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon
Perspectives in a Global World
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World seeks to dissect and interrogate the nature of the present-day art field, which has experienced dramatic shifts in the past 50 years.
In discussions of the canon of art history, the notion of ‘inclusiveness’, both...
Art for the Middle Classes
America's Illustrated Magazines of the 1840s
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
How did the average American learn about art in the mid-nineteenth century? With public art museums still in their infancy, and few cities and towns large enough to support art galleries or print shops, Americans relied on mass-circulated illustrated magazines. One group of magazines in particular,...
by Richard Shone, John-Paul Stonard
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
An exemplary survey that reassesses the impact of the most important books to have shaped art history through the twentieth century
Written by some of today’s leading art historians and curators, this new collection provides an invaluable road map of the field by comparing and reexamining...
Getting In!
The Ultimate Guide to Creating an Outstanding Portfolio, Earning Scholarships and Securing Your Spot at Art School
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The Definitive Guide to Creating with Passion, Getting Accepted to Art School, Earning Scholarships and Thriving as an Artist As an art educator, Nancy Crawford’s role is to help her students create authentic and meaningful works of art, get into art school, and earn scholarships to make that experience...
Art After Appropriation
Essays on Art in the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Beginning with the first comprehensive account of the discourse of appropriation that dominated the art world in the late 1970s and 1980s, Art After Appropriation suggests a matrix of inflections and refusals around the culture of taking or citation, each chapter loosely correlated with one year of...
The Art of Mistakes
Unexpected Painting Techniques and the Practice of Creative Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
You can make art and deeply appreciate the Art of Mistakes.
When it comes to mistakes, we're all experts. Really. Yet fear of making mistakes often holds us back from trying new things. Inside, you will discover how our mistakes can be powerful opportunities for new ideas that we could never...
Artwalks in New York
Delightful Discoveries of Public Art and Gardens in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2004
Completely updated, the new edition of this acclaimed guide brings us 33 tours of public art, covering the length of the island, from the Cloisters and Harlem in northern Manhattan, to Central Park and the museum mile, to Rockefeller Center and Chelsea, and all the way down to the southern tip at...
by Leona M Zastrow
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
American Indian art has a long history and a vibrant and active modern-day community, something that has long interested collectors, historians, and anthropologists. In My Tree of Life as an Appraiser of American Indian ArtMy Viewpoint, author Leona M. Zastrow offers an examination of the past and...
When the Machine Made Art
The Troubled History of Computer Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Considering how culturally indispensable digital technology is today, it is ironic that computer-generated art was attacked when it burst onto the scene in the early 1960s. In fact, no other twentieth-century art form has elicited such a negative and hostile response. When the Machine Made Art examines...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Philosophy of art is traditionally concerned with the definition, appreciation and value of art. Through a close examination of art from recent centuries, Art and Phenomenology is one of the first books to explore visual art as a mode of experiencing the world itself, showing how in the words of Merleau-Ponty...
Development of Modern Art Criticism in India after Independence
Post Independence Indian Art Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Any artistic creation, be it a painting or sculpture, initiates a reaction within us, invoking within us a desire to analyse or evaluate it. The criticism of art definitely has its presence. But the question is—in what form and of what relevance is it?
Art criticism is exclusively presented in the...
Perspectives On Western Art
Source Documents And Readings From The Renaissance To The 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This anthology of readings related to Western art history explains specific works of art illustrated in Janson's History of Art and De la Croix and Tansey's Gardner's Art Through the Ages in terms of the ideas, beliefs, and concerns of the people and cultures who created the art. It brings a new understanding...