Art History category: 15294 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This edited collection explores how graphic art and in particular Japanese manga represent Japanese history.
The articles explore the representation of history in manga from disciplines that include such diverse fields as literary studies, politics, history, cultural studies, linguistics, narratology,...
by Tony Green
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
This book hopes it will pose some critical questions of method for the study of the arts. These essays reveal a Nicolas Poussin that has rarely been noticed before. Is that because he has been so honoured as a great classical master – serious painter of serious histories and neo-stoic philosopher...
Projected Art History
Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Biopics on artists influence the popular perception of artists' lives and work. Projected Art History highlights the narrative structure and images created in the film genre of biopics, in which an artist's life is being dramatized and embodied by an actor. Concentrating on the two case studies, Basquiat...
Art History for Filmmakers
The Art of Visual Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche to describe visual things. But there is another way of looking at film, and that is through its relationship with the visual arts – mainly painting,...
A People?s Art History of the United States
250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Most people outside of the art world view art as something that is foreign to their experiences and everyday lives. A People’s Art History of the United States places art history squarely in the roughandtumble of politics, social struggles, and the fight for justice from the colonial era through...
by Erwin Rosenthal
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Erwin Rosenthal’s Contemporary Art in the Light of History, originally published in 1971, is a small masterpiece of writing on the art of the twentieth century. A scholar of medieval art by training and a prominent antiquarian bookseller, Rosenthal, who died in l981, was equally entranced by modern...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Fifty Key Texts in Art History is an anthology of critical commentaries selected from the classical period to the late modern. It explores some of the central and emerging themes, issues and debates within Art History as an increasingly expansive and globalised discipline. It features an international...
Perspectives On Western Art
Source Documents And Readings From The Renaissance To The 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This anthology of readings related to Western art history explains specific works of art illustrated in Janson's History of Art and De la Croix and Tansey's Gardner's Art Through the Ages in terms of the ideas, beliefs, and concerns of the people and cultures who created the art. It brings a new understanding...
Rethinking Australia’s Art History
The Challenge of Aboriginal Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
This book aims to redefine Australia’s earliest art history by chronicling for the first time the birth of the category "Aboriginal art," tracing the term’s use through published literature in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Susan Lowish reveals how the...
Arts of Japan
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Arts of Japan is a classic and informative text that explores the rich cultural heritage and history of Japanese Art.
This art history text examines the various influences that have shaped the course of Japanese art history in the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, and handicrafts....
Classical Art
A Life History from Antiquity to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious, richly illustrated...
Art History as Cultural History
Warburg's Projects
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book focuses on Aby Warburg (1866-1929), one of the legendary figures of twentieth century cultural history. His collection, which is now housed in the Warburg Institute of the University of London bears witness to his idiosyncratic approach to a psychology of symbolism, and explores the Nachleben...
Perspectives On Western Art, Vol.1
Source Documents And Readings From The Ancient Near East Through The Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This anthology of readings related to Western art history explains specific works of art illustrated in Janson's History of Art and De la Croix and Tansey's Gardner's Art Through the Ages in terms of the ideas, beliefs, and concerns of the people and cultures who created the art. It brings a new understanding...
Celtic Art in Europe
Making Connections
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
The ancient Celtic world evokes debate, discussion, romanticism and mythicism. On the one hand it represents a specialist area of archaeological interest, on the other, it has a wide general appeal. The Celtic world is accessible through archaeology, history, linguistics and art history. Of these...