Art History category: 15294 books
The Vienna School of Art History
Empire and the Politics of Scholarship, 1847–1918
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Matthew Rampley’s The Vienna School of Art History is the first book in over seventy-five years to study in depth and in context the practices of art history from 1847, the year the first teaching position in the discipline was created, to 1918, the collapse of Austria-Hungary. It traces the emergence...
Becoming Past
History in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Is there such a thing as contemporary art history? The contemporary, after all—as much as we may want to consider it otherwise—is being made history as it happens. By what means do we examine this moving target? These questions lie at the center of Jane Blocker’s Becoming Past. The important point...
Art and Public History
Approaches, Opportunities, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Art and Public History: Approaches, Opportunities, and Challenges examines the relationship between art and public history, outlining opportunities, challenges, and insights drawn from recent initiatives. With a special eye towards audience engagement and challenging historical narratives, all of...
The New Art History
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
The New Art History provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental changes which have occurred in both the institutions and practice of art history over the last thirty years.
Jonathan Harris examines and accounts for the new approaches to the study of art which have been grouped...
Making Art History
A Changing Discipline and its Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Making Art History is a collection of essays by contemporary scholars on the practice and theory of art history as it responds to institutions as diverse as art galleries and museums, publishing houses and universities, school boards and professional organizations, political parties and multinational...
Monuments, Objects, Histories
Institutions of Art in Colonial and Post-Colonial India
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2004
Art history as it is largely practiced in Asia as well as in the West is a western invention. In India, works of art-sculptures, monuments, paintings-were first viewed under colonial rule as archaeological antiquities, later as architectural relics, and by the mid-20th century as works of art within...
The Art of Contact
Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The proem to Herodotus's history of the Greek-Persian wars relates the long-standing conflict between Europe and Asia from the points of view of the Greeks' chief antagonists, the Persians and Phoenicians. However humorous or fantastical these accounts may be, their stories, as voiced by a Greek,...
Digital Art History
A Subject in Transition. Computers and the History of Art Series, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
This book looks at the transformation that Art and Art history is undergoing through engagement with the digital revolution. Since its initiation in 1985, CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) has set out to promote interaction between the rapidly developing new Information Technology and the study...
by James Elkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Stories of Art is James Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks from which we were all taught. As he demonstrates so persuasively, there can never be one story of art. Cultures have their own stories - about themselves,...
by Jonathan Harris
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2006
Art History: The Key Concepts is a systematic, reliable and accessible reference guide to the disciplines of art history and visual culture. Containing entries on over 200 terms integral to the historical and theoretical study of art, design and culture in general, it is an indispensable source of...
Modern Art And Modernism
A Critical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Modern Art and Modernism offers firsthand material for the study of issues central to the development of modern art, its theory, and criticism. The history of modern art is not simply a history of works of art, it is also a history of ideas interpretations. The works of critics and theorists have...
Productive failure
Writing queer transnational South Asian art histories
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
This title sets out to write new transnational South Asian art histories - to make visible histories of artworks that remain marginalised within the discipline of art history. However, this is done through a deliberate 'productive failure' - specifically, by not upholding the strictly genealogical...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The ancient Romans sure knew their art well. This art history book will enlighten child learners on the significance of art in ancient civilizations. You see, what makes history are not just names, dates and events. Color combinations and art techniques also make their mark. If you look closely at how art is made in each era and culture, you will notice distinct differences. Study this book today!
Provenance
How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
A tautly paced investigation of one the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries-many of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections today
Provenance is the extraordinary narrative of one of the most far-reaching and elaborate deceptions...