Art History category: 15294 books
The Nazi Perpetrator
Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Who was responsible for the crimes of the Nazis? Party leaders and members? Rank-and-file soldiers and bureaucrats? Ordinary Germans? This question looms over German disputes about the past like few others. It also looms over the art and architecture of postwar Germany in ways that have been surprisingly...
Vermeer's Family Secrets
Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest Dutch painters and for some the single greatest painter of all, produced a remarkably small corpus of work. In Vermeer's Family Secrets, Benjamin Binstock revolutionizes how we think about Vermeer's work and life. Vermeer, The Sphinx of Delft, is famously a mystery...
The Finger
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
FROM THE AUTHOR OF A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SMILE, A COMPLETE INDEX OF THE DIGIT
In this collision between art and science, history and pop culture, the acclaimed art historian Angus Trumble examines the finger from every possible angle. His inquiries into its representation in art take us from...
by Steven Bigham
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Heroes of the Icon is a book about people, events and ideas related to the phenomenon called the Orthodox icon. 1) The first of the chapters deals with the three decisive points in history which form the foundation on which the icon stands. It concerns not only the moments in history but also the...
The Egyptian Revival
Ancient Egypt as the Inspiration for Design Motifs in the West
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
In this beautifully illustrated and closely argued book, a completely updated and much expanded third edition of his magisterial survey, Curl describes in lively and stimulating prose the numerous revivals of the Egyptian style from Antiquity to the present day. Drawing on a wealth of sources, his...
When the Machine Made Art
The Troubled History of Computer Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Considering how culturally indispensable digital technology is today, it is ironic that computer-generated art was attacked when it burst onto the scene in the early 1960s. In fact, no other twentieth-century art form has elicited such a negative and hostile response. When the Machine Made Art examines...
by Spatio Temprey
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Dada was probably the most perplexing, astonishing and revolutionary art movement in world art history. How does one account for a work such as Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ 1917, a porcelain urinal just as if taken from a men’s toilet, tipped sideways, inscribed with the fictional artist’s...
From Revolt to Riches
Culture and History of the Low Countries, 15001700
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
This collection investigates the culture and history of the Low Countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from both international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The period was one of extraordinary upheaval and change, as the combined impact of Renaissance, Reformation and Revolt resulted...
History of a Shiver
The Sublime Impudence of Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
An abrupt break in the prevailing modes of artistic expression, for many, marks the advent of modernism in the early twentieth century, but revisionary attempts to pin down a precise moment of its emergence remain disputed. History of a Shiver proffers a different approach, tracing the first inkling...
by Som Prakash Verma
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
This book presents the Persian Baburnama, a key primary source andthe earliest record of Babur’s memoirs. The authoritative translation uses paintings from the original work and draws on contemporary texts of the period to delve into the history of the legendary Mughal ruler. It provides a fresh...
Art History and Its Institutions
The Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Art History and Its Institutions focuses on the institutional discourses that shaped and continue to shape the field from its foundations in the nineteenth century. From museums and universities to law courts, labour organizations and photography studios, contributors examine a range of institutions,...
Kingdom of Beauty
Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Kingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s was central to the complex process by which Japan became both a modern nation and an imperial world power. Kim...
Race-ing Art History
Critical Readings in Race and Art History
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Public Art in Canada
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Arguably, public art is experienced daily by more people than most offerings in galleries, yet our notion of what constitutes public art is surprisingly limited. Public Art in Canada broadens the critical discussion by exploring public art's varied means of engaging with public space and the public...