Art category: 43213 books
Black Box
Decoding the Art Work of Martin Gantman
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
In her foreword to the book, Black Box: Decoding the Art Work of Martin Gantman, the noted art historian and artist, Dr. Lise Patt, writes the following:
Martin Gantman grew his artistic bones during the last throes of modernism, when art’s autonomy had already been undermined and...
The Art of the Con
The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Art scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from the business of authentication and forgery, and with good reason. Art scams are increasingly convincing and involve incredible sums of money. The cons perpetrated...
The Art of Transition
Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2001
The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what...
Pictures and Tears
A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
Art Does art leave you cold? And is that what it's supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to tears? Hemingway was reduced to tears in the midst of a drinking bout when a painting by James Thurber caught his eye. And what's bad about that? In Pictures and Tears, art historian James Elkins...
by Wassily Kandinsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. Written by the famous nonobjective painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), it explains Kandinsky's own theory of painting and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics offers a thorough examination of the complex relationship between art and politics, and the many forms and approaches the engagement between them can take.
The contributors - a diverse assembly of artists, activists, scholars from around the world...
The Stakes of Exposure
Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
How would artistic practice contribute to political change in post–World War II Japan? How could artists negotiate the imbalanced global dynamics of the art world and also maintain a sense of aesthetic and political authenticity? While the contemporary art world has recently come to embrace some of...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Pablo Picasso is known today for his intriguing art work. How did he come up with an art style that is unique to him? This art history book will trace Pablo Picasso’s evolution to becoming the artist that we know today. Be prepared to dive deep into art. Grab a copy of this book today!
Out of Sight
The Los Angeles Art Scene of the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
A social and cultural history of Los Angeles and its emerging art scene in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s
The history of modern art typically begins in Paris and ends in New York. Los Angeles was out of sight and out of mind, viewed as the apotheosis of popular culture, not a center for serious art.
Out...
Since '45
America and the Making of Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Since ’45 details the collision of American history and modern art. Since World War II, New York has been the indisputable center of the art world, and as Katy Siegel shows, it has had a profound influence on the preoccupations that contemporary art would come to have. Tracing art history over...
West of Center
Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
In the heady and hallucinogenic days of the 1960s and ’70s, a diverse range of artists and creative individuals based in the American West—from the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains and the Southwest—broke the barriers between art and lifestyle and embraced the new, hybrid sensibilities of the...
by Dorothea Eimert
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The 20th century was a revolutionary period in art history. In the span of a few short years, Modernism exploded into being, disrupting centuries of classical figurative tradition to create something entirely new. This astoundingly thorough survey of art's modern era showcases all of the key artistic...
Pop Art
A Colourful History
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Pop Art by the BBC's Alastair Sooke - an essential but snappy new guide to our favourite art movement
Pop Art is the most important 20th-century art movement. It brought Modernism to the masses, making art sexy and fun with coke cans and comics. Today, in our age of selfies and social networking,...
Critical Shift
Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
American Civil War–era art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that have become fundamental to our modern periodization of the art of the nineteenth century. In Critical Shift, Karen Georgi rereads many of their well-known...