Art category: 43213 books
Art Lab for Kids: Express Yourself
52 Creative Adventures to Find Your Voice Through Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media, and Sculpture
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Art Lab for Kids, Express Yourself is a fun collection of art activities that encourage children to create freely, using their own thoughts and experiences as a guide.
One of the most important gifts we can give children is to nurture their creativity and allow them to express themselves...
Modernism versus Traditionalism
Art in Paris, 1888-1889
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Modernism vs. Traditionalism: Art in Paris 1888-1889 considers questions surrounding artistic developments at the end of the nineteenth century in Paris. Students will debate principles of artistic design in the context of the revolutionary changes that began shaking the French art world in 1888-1889....
Creating Divine Art
On the origin of Inspiration
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Creating Divine Art - The Origin of Inspiration The heart is the place where we experience the beauty all around us - in nature, art, or children - and also the suffering we witness every day. Our heart - being also the door to the spiritual or the wisdom of the universe and its higher inspirations –...
by Jean-Claude Moineau
Language: French
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Queeriser l’art, ce n’est pas vouloir promouvoir un art queer, si tant est que cela existe ou que cela puisse exister, et encore moins vouloir esthétiser ou « artistiser » la pensée et la pratique queer. C’est renoncer définitivement à toute ontologie comme à tout paradigme, c’est rejeter...
by Boris Arvatov
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2017
Boris Arvatov’s Art and Production is a classic of the early Soviet avant-garde. Now nearing a century since its first publication, it is a crucial intervention for those seeking to understand the social dynamic of art and revolution during the period.Derived from the internal struggles of Soviet...
Productive failure
Writing queer transnational South Asian art histories
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
This title sets out to write new transnational South Asian art histories - to make visible histories of artworks that remain marginalised within the discipline of art history. However, this is done through a deliberate 'productive failure' - specifically, by not upholding the strictly genealogical...
Sacred Art - A Hollow Bone for Spirit
Where Art Meets Shamanism
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Sacred Art - A Hollow Bone for Spirit: Where Art Meets Shamanism tells the story of sacred art across cultures, continents and historical periods and makes a plea for sacred art to once again take its rightful place in our perception. Making sacred art means stepping outside the realm of ego-led consciousness...
by Jean Ferré, Jean-Pierre Dorian
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1975
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1975
A l’époque où de nombreux livres sur l’art se paient moins cher qu’un whisky, comment parler d’une crise de la culture ? Comment parler d’une crise de l’art, alors que jamais autant de moyens — expositions, musées, revues, livres, catalogues, travaux des experts et des critiques,...
Barbara. Mehr als nur Schwarz und Weiß
Gesellschaftskritik in der Street Art
Language: German
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Street Art ist allgegenwärtig und hat sich mittlerweile fest auch im deutschen Stadtbild etabliert. Doch was ist Street Art genau und worin unterscheidet sie sich von Graffiti oder Urban Art? Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich zunächst mit der Begriffsklärung und Fragen der Abgrenzung. Im...
The Life and Art of Felrath Hines
From Dark to Light
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Felrath Hines (1913–1993), the first African American man to become a professional conservator for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, was born and raised in the segregated Midwest. Leaving their home in the South, Hines's parents migrated to Indianapolis with hopes for a better life. While...
Picasso and the Chess Player
Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and the Battle for the Soul of Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
In the fateful year of 1913, events in New York and Paris launched a great public rivalry between the two most consequential artists of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. The New York Armory Show art exhibition unveiled Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, a “sensation...
by Mary Gabriel
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2002
For four and a half decades, Etta and Claribel Cone roamed artists' studios and art galleries in Europe, building one of the largest, most important art collections in the world. At one time, these two independently wealthy Jewish women from Baltimore received offers from virtually every prominent...
Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe: The life and times of Georgia O'Keefe, in one convenient little book.
Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe: The life and times of Georgia O'Keefe, in one convenient little book.
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK
When she was 10 years old, Georgia O’Keeffe decided she was going to be an artist, and she sure did. She went on to become the most celebrated and prolific female artist of the 20th century.
Georgia O’Keeffe is known for her close up paintings of flowers as well as...
The Art of Rivalry
Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists—Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon—whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights.
Rivalry is at the heart of some...