Art category: 43213 books
Art School
(Propositions for the 21st Century)
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Leading international artists and art educators consider the challenges of art education in today's dramatically changed art world.
The last explosive change in art education came nearly a century ago, when the German Bauhaus was formed. Today, dramatic changes in the art world—its increasing...
Art Teaching
Elementary through Middle School
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Art Teaching speaks to a new generation of art teachers in a changing society and fresh art world. Comprehensive and up-to-date, it presents fundamental theories, principles, creative approaches, and resources for art teaching in elementary through middle-school. Key sections focus on how children...
by Stephen C Norton
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
Welcome to Breaking Glass, an introduction to the art and design of stained glass. A step by step guide to the techniques, tricks and tips on how to create Stained Glass Art, ‘Breaking Glass’ includes sections on selecting glass, the tools which are required and others which are recommended. Subjects...
The Art of Buying Art
How to evaluate and buy art like a professional collector
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
'The very best book on the subject ever published'
Bernard Ewell, Personal Property Journal (the trade publication of the American Society of Appraisers)
The art world can appear impenetrable to the beginner. This classic book, in print since 1990, is an invaluable primer that will help anyone...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
The 2006 InSEA conference's general aim was to facilitate debate in global higher art education on an international and multicultural basis. With contributions from across the world, International Dialogues in Art Education reflects this aim, presenting an original volume discussing themes in higher...
The Art of Teaching Art : A Guide for Teaching and Learning the Foundations of Drawing-Based Art
A Guide for Teaching and Learning the Foundations of Drawing-Based Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2000
Often the finest artists do not make the best teachers. Many frustrated college students of art know this all too well as they suffer through unstructured classes with inexperienced teachers or graduate student instructors. In these situations it is easy to blame the teachers. But the problem is largely...
by Antoon van den Braembussche
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
In the twentieth century, avant-garde movements have pushed the concept of art far beyond its traditional boundaries. In this dynamical process of constant renewal the prestige of thinking about art as a legitimizing practice has come to the fore. So it is hardly surprising that the past decades have...
by Whitney Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Find original research and interpretive studies of the relations between homosexuality and the visual arts. Evidence for the role of homosexuality in artistic creation has often not survived, in part because the direct expression of homosexuality has often been condemned in Western societies. Gay...
by Peter Goldie, Elisabeth Schellekens
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
What is conceptual art? Is it really a kind of art in its own right? Is it clever – or too clever?
Of all the different art forms it is perhaps conceptual art which at once fascinates and infuriates the most. In this much-needed book Peter Goldie and Elisabeth Schellekens demystify conceptual...
Native American Art in the Twentieth Century
Makers, Meanings, Histories
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
This illuminating and provocative book is the first anthology devoted to Twentieth Century Native American and First Nation art. Native American Art brings together anthropologists, art historians, curators, critics and distinguished Native artists to discuss pottery, painitng, sculpture, printmaking,...
Action ART
HANDS-ON ACTIVE ART ADVENTURES
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Action Art: Hands-On Active Art Adventures is A Collection of Over 100 Active Hands-On Art Experiences for Children 2-12, Full of Adventure, Movement, and Discovery. FOR SCHOOLS • HOMESCHOOLS • MUSEUMS• LIBRARIES • CHILDCARE • HOME Shelving: ART ACTIVITIES • EDUCATION • PARENTING Over...
Master Minds:Creativity in Picasso's & Husain's Paintings. Part 3
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, #3
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s & Husain’s Paintings The book, “Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s and Husain’s Paintings”, is a projection of master minds in the field of art. It reveals about the creative works of art that are not just show pieces to adorn rich homes, museums...
The Art of Fine Art
Notes, Essays, and Guiding Lights After Fifty Years of Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
The Art of Fine Art, by artist and teacher Eo Omwake, is for anyone who wishes to increase their understanding of Fine Art Painting. It is for advanced arti sts already working and for beginners. It is also for those contemplating making art for the first time and for art appreciators who would like...
Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Part treatise, part critique, part call to action, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice is a journey into the uncanny realities revealed to us in the great works of art of the past and present.
Received opinion holds that art is culturally-determined and relative. We are told that whether...