Art category: 43213 books
The Pocket Universal Principles of Art
100 Key Concepts for Understanding, Analyzing, and Practicing Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
The Pocket Universal Principles of Art is a portable but still comprehensive reference for all artists, and a companion volume to Rockport Publishers' best-selling Universal Principles of Design.
This new, pocket volume of The**Pocket Universal Principles of Art provides a handy, portable,...
Art Hats in Renaissance City
Reflections & Aspirations of Four Generations of Art Personalities
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Art Hats in Renaissance City is an anthology of the personal reflections and aspirations of four generations in the new ecostructure in Singapore, from those who help formulate policies to that of the individual artists, who have helped develop and build an exciting arts and cultural scene from scratch...
by Efrat Biberman, Shirley Sharon-Zisser
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Art, Death and Lacanian Psychoanalysis examines the relationship between art and death from the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis. It takes a unique approach to the topic by making explicit reference to the death drive as manifest in theories of art and in artworks.
Freud’s treatment...
by Linda Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European art, and the social, economic, philosophical, and political debates that helped shape them.
Covers both artistic developments and critical approaches...
Asking the Audience
Participatory Art in 1980s New York
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The 1980s was a critical decade in shaping today’s art production. While newly visible work concerned with power and identity hinted at a shift toward multiculturalism, the ‘80s were also a time of social conservatism that resulted in substantial changes in arts funding. In Asking the Audience, Adair...
by Chloë N. Duckworth, Anne E. Sassin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The myriad ways in which colour and light have been adapted and applied in the art, architecture, and material culture of past societies is the focus of this interdisciplinary volume. Light and colour’s iconographic, economic, and socio-cultural implications are considered by established and emerging...
by Richard Delgado
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Art Proverbs is a written portrait of majestic, victorious truth that combines didactic nonfiction prose with a moral lesson of precept-level values. Art Proverbs follows the wisdom of our forefathers all the way through ancient history to King Solomon, ultimately reaching wisdom itself, the creator...
Socially Engaged Art after Socialism
Art and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The post-1989 period has seen artists in Central and Eastern Europe embrace socially engaged practices. Reclaiming public life from the ideologies of both communist regimes and neoliberalism, their projects have harnessed the politically subversive potential of social relations based on trust, reciprocity...
Art after Empire
From Colonialism to Globalisation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
This book explores the relationship between art and visual culture in Europe and the ‘wider world’ from the early twentieth century to the contemporary era of globalisation. Artists such as Pablo Picasso explored the art of the rest of world in ways that were increasingly challenged as Eurocentric...
The Painted Art Journal
24 Projects for Creating Your Visual Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Take a mixed-media journey to the very heart of your creativity!
The Painted Art Journal opens doors to your most personal and authentic art yet. Tell your story as only you can, through a series of guided projects that culminate in a beautiful, autobiographical art journal worthy of passing...
Open-Air Rock-Art Conservation and Management
State of the Art and Future Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
While much has been achieved in understanding and managing weather effects and erosion phenomena affecting ancient imagery within the relatively protected environments of caves and rock-shelters, the same cannot be said of rock-art panels situated in the open-air. Despite the fact that the number...
by Paul Bahn, Michel Lorblanchet
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Two of the greatest living authorities on Ice Age art delve hundreds of thousands of years into the human past to discover the earliest works of art ever made, drawing on decades of new research
Where is the world’s very first art located? When, and why, did people begin experimenting with...
How Art Works
A Psychological Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
There is no end of talk and of wondering about 'art' and 'the arts.' This book examines a number of questions about the arts (broadly defined to include all of the arts). Some of these questions come from philosophy. Examples include: · What makes something art? · Can anything be art? · Do we experience...
Looking at Art Philosophically
Aesthetic Concepts Fundamental to Being an Artist
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
The purpose of this book is to present to the reader a series of philosophical ideas that assist in understanding ones position in the world of art and some thinking on art and creativity intended to awaken the aesthetic aspects of making art. There is no intention to review historical philosophical...