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by Gannit Ankori
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Turmoil and violence have defined the lives of Palestinian people over the last few decades, yet in the midst of the chaos artists live and thrive, creating little-seen work that is a powerful response to their situation. Gannit Ankori's Palestinian Art is the first in-depth English-language assessment...
Art Therapy with Children on the Autistic Spectrum
Beyond Words
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2001
Recent research has shown that art therapy can be particularly effective for children with autism and related communication disorders. The extensive range of symptoms experienced by autistic people makes them extremely individual in presentation, so any treatment used must be tailored to a range of...
by François LAURENT, Fabrice MIDAL
Language: French
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: December 18, 2014
À la fin du XIXe siècle, avec Baudelaire et Rimbaud, Cézanne et Monet, une étonnante révolution de nos représentations et de notre manière de penser s'est opérée. Plus d'un siècle plus tard, l'art moderne reste souvent une énigme dont l'unité de sens et la portée restent mal comprises....
Folk Art Fusion: Americana
Learn to draw and paint charming American folk art with a colorful, modern twist
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Fans of Charles Wysocki, Mary Engelbreit, Grandma Moses, and folk art in general will fall in love with Folk Art Fusion: Americana.
Featuring projects that instruct artists of all skill levels how to draw and paint subjects including quaint homes, pretty patterns, colorful gardens, picturesque...
The Art of Contact
Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The proem to Herodotus's history of the Greek-Persian wars relates the long-standing conflict between Europe and Asia from the points of view of the Greeks' chief antagonists, the Persians and Phoenicians. However humorous or fantastical these accounts may be, their stories, as voiced by a Greek,...
Colonized through Art
American Indian Schools and Art Education, 1889-1915
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Colonized through Art explores how the federal government used art education for American Indian children as an instrument for the “colonization of consciousness,” hoping to instill the values and ideals of Western society while simultaneously maintaining a political, social, economic, and racial...
Perspectives On Western Art, Vol.1
Source Documents And Readings From The Ancient Near East Through The Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 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...
Collecting and Care of Fine Art
An Introduction to Purchasing, Investing, Evaluating, Restoring, and More
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
For novices and experienced collectors alike, Collecting and Care of Fine Art is a thorough examination of the intricacies of the art market. Written by a professional art dealer, this book covers all phases of buying, selling, and caring for works of art, from auctions and insurance to restorations...
by Rachel Branham
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Inviting readers to examine schools and teaching with a critical lens, this visually and conceptually captivating graphic novel advocates for arts education in schools. At the center of this work is the author’s memoir as a young high school art teacher in the public school system. Through engaging...
by Lenka Tucek
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2003
Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Art - Painting, grade: 1 (A), Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (Faculty of Arts), course: Course: South African Archaeology and Ethno-history (SA 301), 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: One aspect of the wealth of material...
The Architecture of Art History
A Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
What is the place of architecture in the history of art? Why has it been at times central to the discipline, and at other times seemingly so marginal? What is its place now?
Many disciplines have a stake in the history of architecture – sociology, anthropology, human geography, to name a...
by Marsha Meskimmon
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination explores the role of art in conceiving and reconfiguring the political, ethical and social landscape of our time. Understanding art as a vital form of articulation, Meskimmon argues that artworks do more than simply reflect and represent the processes...
Art and Architecture in the Islamic Tradition
Aesthetics, Politics and Desire in Early Islam
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
What is 'art' in the sense of the Islamic tradition? Mohammed Hamdouni Alami argues that Islamic art has historically been excluded from Western notions of art; that the Western aesthetic tradition's preoccupation with the human body has meant that Islamic and Western art being perceived as inherently...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Rock art is one of the most visible and geographically widespread of cultural expressions, and it spans much of the period of our species' existence. Rock art also provides rare and often unique insights into the minds and visually creative capacities of our ancestors and how selected rock outcrops...