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by Darwin Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Just about any type of art you can think of you can find at art auctions. All you have to do is a little research for areas near you that are holding auctions, find out when and if they will be having one for the type of art you are interested in and go! If you are more of the type of person that...
by Katie Robinson Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Before Abstract Expressionism of New York City was canonized as American postwar modernism, the United States was filled with localized manifestations of modern art. One such place where considerable modernist activity occurred was Texas, where artists absorbed and interpreted the latest, most radical...
Kill for Peace
American Artists Against the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
The Vietnam War (1964–1975) divided American society like no other war of the twentieth century, and some of the most memorable American art and art-related activism of the last fifty years protested U.S. involvement. At a time when Pop Art, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art dominated the American art...
Against Immediacy
Video Art and Media Populism
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Against Immediacy is a history of early video art considered in relation to television in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It examines how artists questioned the ways in which “the people” were ideologically figured by the commercial mass media. During this time, artists and organizations...
by Susan Rather
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Archaism, an international artistic phenomenon from early in the twentieth century through the 1930s, receives its first sustained analysis in this book. The distinctive formal and technical conventions of archaic art, especially Greek art, particularly affected sculptors—some frankly modernist, others...
Fine Art Tips with Lori McNee
Painting Techniques and Professional Advice
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Lessons of a lifetime. 24 modern-day masters share secrets to their success.
Since 2009, thousands of artists have flocked to Lori McNee's FineArtTips.com for creative and professional advice. A social media guru as well as a professional artist, McNee has assembled a diverse and impressive...
Feminist Art Criticism
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
From the Preface:"The essays in Feminist Art Criticism are theoretical, and we selected them for several reasons. First, they show a diversity of concerns. These include spirituality, sexuality, the representation of women in art, the necessary inter-relationship of theory and action, women as...
Haunted Visions
Spiritualism and American Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Spiritualism emerged in western New York in 1848 and soon achieved a wide following due to its claim that the living could commune with the dead. In Haunted Visions: Spiritualism and American Art, Charles Colbert focuses on the ways Spiritualism imbued the making and viewing of art with religious...
Art World City
The Creative Economy of Artists and Urban Life in Dakar
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Art World City focuses on contemporary art and artists in the city of Dakar, a famously thriving art metropolis in the West African nation of Senegal. Joanna Grabski illuminates how artists earn their livelihoods from the city’s resources, possibilities, and connections. She examines how and why...
Art Themes
Choices in Art Learning and Making
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Flexible in approach and full of colorful examples, this textbook provides a basic introduction to what art is and can be in the lives of people who do not necessarily think of themselves as "artists." You will be taught about a variety of art themes, genres, materials, and processes that...
War & Art WWI – USA in ITALY
Destruction and protection of Italian Cultural Heritage during World War I
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
War and Art: USA in Italy è la seconda tappa di un progetto di ricerca iniziato con War & Art: The Preservation of Italian Treasures. Questo secondo volume sottolinea l'importanza dell'ingresso degli Stati Uniti nella Prima Guerra Mondiale da diverse prospettive. La mostra fotografica, ora esposta...
A Wealth of Thought
Franz Boas on Native American Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Although Franz Boas--one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century--is best known for his voluminous writings on cultural, physical, and linguistic anthropology, he is also recognized for breaking new ground in the study of so-called primitive art. His writings on art have major...
by Aleksandra Kaminska
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
From an Eastern nation on the global periphery to a European neoliberal democracy enmeshed in transnational networks, Poland has experienced a dramatic transformation in the last century. Polish Media Art in an Expanded Field uses the lens, and mirror, of media art to think through the politics...
Food in Art
From Prehistory to the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
From Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s painting of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II as a heap of fruits and vegetables to artists depicting lavish banquets for wealthy patrons, food and art are remarkably intertwined. In this richly illustrated book, Gillian Riley provides fresh insight into how the relationship...