Art History category: 15294 books
Inexorable Modernity
Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2007
Beginning in late Edo, the Japanese faced a rapidly and irreversibly changing world in which industrialization, westernization, and internationalization was exerting pressure upon an entrenched traditional culture. The Japanese themselves felt threatened by Western powers, with their sense of superiority...
Grand Illusions
American Art and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
A vivid, engaging account of the artists and artworks that sought to make sense of America's first total war, Grand Illusions takes readers on a compelling journey through the major historical events leading up to and beyond US involvement in WWI to discover the vast and pervasive influence of the...
One and Five Ideas
On Conceptual Art and Conceptualism
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
In One and Five Ideas eminent critic, historian, and former member of the Art & Language collective Terry Smith explores the artistic, philosophical, political, and geographical dimensions of Conceptual Art and conceptualism. These four essays and a conversation with Mary Kelly—published between...
Marshall Plan Modernism
Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Focusing on artwork by Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, and Piero Manzoni, Jaleh Mansoor demonstrates and reveals how abstract painting, especially the monochrome, broke with fascist-associated futurism and functioned as an index of social transition in postwar Italy. Mansoor refuses to read the singularly...
The Origins of Monsters
Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
It has often been claimed that "monsters"--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times. The Origins of Monsters advances an alternative view. Composite figurations are intriguingly rare and isolated...
Abstraction in Reverse
The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin American Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
During the mid-twentieth century, Latin American artists working in several different cities radically altered the nature of modern art. Reimagining the relationship of art to its public, these artists granted the spectator an unprecedented role in the realization of the artwork. The first book to...
The Future of Art in a Digital Age
From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
This book develops the thesis that the transition from premodernism to postmodernism in art of the digital age represents a paradigm shift from the Hellenistic to the Hebraic roots of Western culture. Semiotic and morphological analysis of art and visual culture demonstrate the contemporary confluence...
Oriental Rugs
An Illustrated Lexicon of Motifs, Materials, and Origins
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This monumental reference work—long awaited by collectors and scholars—fills an important gap in the available literature on oriental rugs.
Lavishly illustrated with over 1000 photographs and drawings, it offers clear and precise definitions for the rug and textile terms in use across a...
Caught between the Lines
Captives, Frontiers, and National Identity in Argentine Literature and Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Caught between the Lines examines how the figure of the captive and the notion of borders have been used in Argentine literature and painting to reflect competing notions of national identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Challenging the conventional approach to the nineteenth-century...
Transformations
Art and the City
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Critically challenging the notion of cities as hegemonic spaces, Transformations: Art and the City explores interactions between the human subject and their urban surroundings through site-specific art and creative practices, tracing the ways in which Chapters include case-studies raging from corporate-...
South Asian Transnationalisms
Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
South Asian Transnationalisms explores encounters in twentieth century South Asia beyond the conventional categories of center and periphery, colonizer and colonized. Considering the cultural and political exchanges between artists and intellectuals of South Asia with counterparts in the United States,...
by Lord Kenneth Baker
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
In this fascinating book Kenneth Baker explores how the Seven Deadly Sins – Pride, Anger, Sloth, Envy, Avarice, Gluttony and Lust – have shaped history from the Greek and Roman Civilisations, through their heyday in the Middle Ages, when sinners really believed they could go to Hell for all eternity,...
by Steven Nadler
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
There is a popular and romantic myth about Rembrandt and the Jewish people. One of history's greatest artists, we are often told, had a special affinity for Judaism. With so many of Rembrandt's works devoted to stories of the Hebrew Bible, and with his apparent penchant for Jewish themes and the sympathetic...
The Reliquary Effect
Enshrining the Sacred Object
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
From skeletons to strips of cloth to little pieces of dust, reliquaries can be found in many forms, and while sometimes they may seem grotesque on their surface, they are nonetheless invested with great spiritual and memorial value. In this book, Cynthia Hahn offers the first full survey in English...