Art category: 43213 books
The Little Monet
A Fun and Cultural Moment for the Whole Family!
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Discover Monet's life, art, home and garden as you read, draw and playWelcome to Monet’s home at Giverny. Discover the big, lush flower garden. Stroll along the garden paths. Learn the flowers’ name. Dress up in a Japanese kimono. Paint beach scenes with Monet. Go swimming in the River Seine on a...
Mi Familia Calaca / My Skeleton Family
A Mexican Folk Art Family in English and Spanish
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Welcome to the family! It's just like yours: father, mother, sister, brother, abuelita, gato, even a great-great grandmother. Well, but there's something just a little bit different about this particular family. Maybe it's those clothes they wear . . . just a little bit fashion backward. And the colors!...
by Vincent van Gogh, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
One of the most celebrated artists of Western art, the Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh created masterpieces that are now famous for their striking colour, emphatic brushwork and contoured forms. Although the artist died in obscurity, his artworks would go on to change the course of modern art,...
by Venice Kichura
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Pen and ink is one of the most enjoyable art forms. Although pen marks are permanent, you can usually work around your mistakes. This eBook article, of about 6,000 words, explores the various techniques of pen and ink, as well as shows how this art medium can be combined with color. Besides noting...
Art Models 7
Dynamic Figures for the Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Artists in search of figures in intense action—flying through the air, punching, kicking, and crouching—will find more than 100 poses of male and female models in 28 categories of dynamic movement in the latest addition to the Art Models series. Informed by diverse sources such as baroque art,...
by J. M. W. Turner, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Renowned as ‘the painter of light’, the English Romanticist landscape painter J. M. W. Turner is now regarded as the artist that elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting, as well as raising the reputation of watercolour landscape painting. Delphi’s Masters of Art...
Chasing Aphrodite
The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
A “thrilling, well-researched” account of years of scandal at the prestigious Getty Museum (Ulrich Boser, author of The Gardner Heist).
In recent years, several of America’s leading art museums have voluntarily given up their finest pieces of classical art to the governments of Italy...
by Amy Whitaker
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2009
If you've ever considered going to an art museum and then thought, errr, I'll do something else ... If you've ever arrived at one and left a little glazed and confused ... If you've ever thought, I might read an eight-page article about art museums but not a whole book ... Then this is your story. Museum...
Air Guitar
Essays on Art and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
The 23 essays (or "love songs") that make up the now classic volume Air Guitar trawl a "vast, invisible underground empire" of pleasure, through record stores, honky-tonks, art galleries, jazz clubs, cocktail lounges, surf shops and hot-rod stores, as restlessly on the move as...
by Sondra S. Segundo
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2013
Learn how to draw a simple NW Coast Native wolf from Haida artist Sondra Simone Segundo. Examples of Sondra's most popular hand painted tribal shoe art are featured throughout the book. Be on the look out for more NW COAST NATIVE FORMLINE ART MADE EASY books/art curriculum. Let's Draw Whale, Eagle, Raven, Hummingbird, Frog and more!
Chibi Art Class
A Complete Course in Drawing Chibi Cuties and Beasties - Includes 19 step-by-step tutorials!
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
In Chibi Art Class, renowned anime artist Yoaihime teaches you the art of chibi, step by adorable step.
Anime artist Yoaihime has captivated a huge audience with her adorable chibi drawings, and now she's ready to share her secrets with you! Chibi is Japanese slang for "short,"...
Civilizing Rituals
Inside Public Art Museums
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2005
Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community.
Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private...
1971
A Year in the Life of Color
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
In this book, art historian Darby English explores the year 1971, when two exhibitions opened that brought modernist painting and sculpture into the burning heart of United States cultural politics: Contemporary Black Artists in America, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and The DeLuxe Show,...
The Orpheus Clock
The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
“An extraordinary piece of history...a fresh and lively read” (The Christian Science Monitor)—the passionate, gripping, true story of one man’s single-minded quest to reclaim his family’s art collection, stolen by the Nazis in World War II.
Simon Goodman’s grandparents came from...