Art category: 43213 books
The Artful Parent
Simple Ways to Fill Your Family's Life with Art and Creativity--Includes over 60 Art Projects for Children Ages 1 to 8
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Bring out your children’s creativity and imagination with more than 60 kids’ art activities from the creator of www.ArtfulParent.com. Art making is a wonderfully fun way for young children to tap into their imagination, deepen their creativity, and explore new materials, all while strengthening...
Art & Language International
Conceptual Art between Art Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
In Art & Language International Robert Bailey reconstructs the history of the conceptual art collective Art & Language, situating it in a geographical context to rethink its implications for the broader histories of contemporary art. Focusing on its international collaborations with dozens...
Lovis Corinth
Paintings
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
Lovis Corinth, whose real name is Franz Heinrich Louis Corinth, was a German painter and printmaker, one of the most important representatives of German Impressionism and Expressionism. Corinth's oeuvre includes more than 100 paintings and several books and essays on painting. Today Corinth is regarded...
An Anthropology of Contemporary Art
Practices, Markets, and Collectors
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Drawing on the exciting developments that have occurred in the anthropology of art over the last twenty years, this study uses ethnographic methods to explore shifts in the art market and global contemporary art. Recognizing that the huge diversity of global phenomena requires research on the ground,...
by Adam Geczy, Jacqueline Millner
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Nominated for the 2016 Art in Literature: Mary Lynn Kotz Award, Library of Virginia
Owing to digitization, globalization and mass culture, what is deemed 'desirable' and 'of the moment' in art has increasingly followed the patterns of fashion. While in the past artistic styles were always inflected...
by Liam Dee
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Offering a negative definition of art in relation to the concept of culture, this book establishes the concept of ‘art/culture’ to describe the unity of these two fields around named-labour, idealised creative subjectivity and surplus signification. Contending a conceptual and social reality of...
Dialogue
Writings in art history
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Ian Burn has been one of Australia's most important artists since the mid-1960s. He was involved in the development of the Conceptual Art movement and in the activities of the Art & Language group, working first in London and then New York between 1965 and 1977. His work is found in art museums...
Folk Art Fusion
Learn to paint colorful contemporary folk art in acrylic
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
**Folk art still influences everyday art in some surprising ways. *****Folk Art Fusion ***shows you how to blend classic subjects with new techniques to create a lovely work of art that is completely unique.
Folk Art Fusion explores the colorful combination of art styles and present them...
Contemporary Iranian Art
From the Street to the Studio
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
In the first comprehensive look at Iranian art and visual culture since the 1979 revolution, Talinn Grigor investigates the official art sponsored by the Islamic Republic, the culture of avant-garde art created in the studio and its display in galleries and museums, and the art of the Iranian diaspora...
Art Crime and its Prevention
A Handbook for Collectors and Art Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Art Crime and Its Prevention is the definitive handbook on art crime for art-world professionals of all kinds – from the museum, auction house or art-insurance employee to the contemporary gallerist, dealer, art-market student or collector. Written by a range of international experts, the book's...
by Pamela Sachant, Peggy Blood, Jeffery LeMieux
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a deep insight and comprehension of the world of Art. Contents: What is Art? The Structure of Art Significance of Materials Used in Art Describing Art - Formal Analysis, Types, and Styles of Art Meaning in Art - Socio-Cultural Contexts, Symbolism,...
by Guy Wann
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
This Book shows the steps needed to increase your chances in having your Art included in a Juried Art ShowAs an artist, do you find it difficult to get people to take you and your work seriously? No matter what you try, your work just isn't getting noticed like you would want it to. Well,...
Art for a New Understanding
Native Voices, 1950s to Now
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Art for a New Understanding, an exhibition from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art that opened in October 2018, seeks to radically expand and reposition the narrative of American art since 1950 by charting a history of the development of contemporary Indigenous art from the United States and Canada,...
Studio Art Therapy
Cultivating the Artist Identity in the Art Therapist
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Arguing that the profession of art therapy has its roots in the studio environment, Catherine Moon proposes that it is now time to reclaim these roots, and make art once again central to art therapy. She suggests that there has been a tendency for art therapy not merely to interact with and be enriched...