Art History category: 15294 books
REMEX
Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
REMEX presents the first comprehensive examination of artistic responses and contributions to an era defined by the North American Free Trade Agreement (1994–2008). Marshaling over a decade’s worth of archival research, interviews, and participant observation in Mexico City and the Mexico–US...
by Katie Robinson Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Before Abstract Expressionism of New York City was canonized as American postwar modernism, the United States was filled with localized manifestations of modern art. One such place where considerable modernist activity occurred was Texas, where artists absorbed and interpreted the latest, most radical...
Against Immediacy
Video Art and Media Populism
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Against Immediacy is a history of early video art considered in relation to television in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It examines how artists questioned the ways in which “the people” were ideologically figured by the commercial mass media. During this time, artists and organizations...
Marxism and the History of Art
From William Morris to the New Left
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
'No other book has ever attempted this ambitious project with such care and intelligence. ... Important, timely, and provocative.'Professor Barbara McCloskey, University of Pittsburgh
'[This] could be a defining text.' Professor Paul Jaskot, De Paul University Chicago
This unique book...
Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods
The arts of reinvention
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
The city of Kyoto has undergone radical shifts in its significance as a political and cultural center, as a hub of the national bureaucracy, as a symbolic and religious center, and as a site for the production and display of art. However, the field of Japanese history and culture lacks a book that...
A Whakapapa of Tradition
One Hundred Years of Ngato Porou Carving, 1830-1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
From the emergence of the chapel and the wharenui in the nineteenth century to the rejuvenation of carving by Apirana Ngata in the 1920s, Maori carving went through a rapid evolution from 1830 to 1930. Focusing on thirty meeting houses, Ngarino Ellis tells the story of Ngati Porou carving and a profound...
Feminism And Art History
Questioning The Litany
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
A long-needed corrective and alternative view of Western art history, these seventeen essays by respected scholars are arranged chronologically and cover every major period from the ancient Egyptian to the present. While several of the essays deal with major women artists, the book is essentially...
China in Australasia
Cultural Diplomacy and Chinese Arts since the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Drawing on expertise in art history, exhibition studies and cultural studies as well as politics and international relations, China in Australasia presents significant new perspectives on the role of art in the cultural diplomacy of the People’s Republic of China.
The book tells the forgotten...
Art, Awakening, and Modernity in the Middle East
The Arab Nude
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This edited scholarly volume offers a perspective on the history of the genre of the nude in the Middle East and includes contributions written by scholars from several disciplines (art history, history, anthropology). Each chapter provides a distinct perspective on the early days of the fine arts...
Mexican Costumbrismo
Race, Society, and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The years following Mexican independence in 1821 were critical to the development of social, racial, and national identities. The visual arts played a decisive role in this process of self-definition. Mexican Costumbrismo reorients current understanding of this key period in the history of Mexican...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The ancient civilization of the Mesopotamia may have been long gone but it was never forgotten. Its influence in art and religion can still be seen today. If you take a look at the contents of this book, you will realize that the life in Mesopotamia is somewhat similar to some aspects of your life today. Secure a copy today!
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
What is Baroque art? This book will provide more than just the definition. It will also include a brief historical background and some examples, too, to ensure the full understanding of this art style. There is much to learn from art as it reflects the life, culture and traditions of the people. Secure a copy today!
The Lost Painting
The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
**Told with consummate skill by the writer of the bestselling, award-winning A Civil Action, The Lost Painting is a remarkable synthesis of history and detective story. **
An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
An innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture...