Art History category: 15294 books
All About Process
The Theory and Discourse of Modern Artistic Labor
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic process itself. In this volume, Kim Grant analyzes this idea and traces its historical roots, showing how changing concepts of artistic process have played...
by Dennis Broe
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Cold War Expressionism is an expose of the art world after World War II where a new triumphalism and a growing conservatism on the part of the US helped bring to power a depoliticized art which went under the rubric of Abstract Expressionism and which functioned as an advertisement for American capitalism...
by Herbert R. Hartel, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This is the most thorough and detailed monograph on the artwork of Raymond Jonson. He is one of many artists of the first half of the twentieth-century who demonstrate the richness and diversity of an under-appreciated period in the history of American art. Visualizing the spiritual was one of the...
The Greening of Art
Shifting Positions Between Art and Nature Since 1965
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
The Greening of Art describes the shifts in position between art and nature which took place during the past fifty years, to set out re-establishing a new relationship between art and the landscape-environment, and attempt in various ways to re-connect art with nature. From the 1960s onward, when artists...
Art Space Tokyo
An intimate guide to the Tokyo art world
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
A guide to Tokyo via its art spaces!
Art Space Tokyo introduces you to twelve of the best museum and galleries in the city. In doing so, the book also introduces you to ten Tokyo neighborhoods, unveiling the best restaurants, cafes and walks in each.
Art Space Tokyo is the only companion you'll need to explore Tokyo like a native.
Hyecho's Journey
The World of Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
In the year 721, a young Buddhist monk named Hyecho set out from the kingdom of Silla, on the Korean peninsula, on what would become one of the most extraordinary journeys in history. Sailing first to China, Hyecho continued to what is today Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan,...
by Caron Caswell Lazar
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Amid the armed conflict and broken treaty signings of nineteenth-century America, the highly successful horse culture of the plains, the Sioux Indians clutched to their way of life. Composed of three major groups and spread over six states, the Sioux represent a community divided. Much of their traditional...
De Kooning's Bicycle
Artists and Writers in the Hamptons
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Some of the twentieth century's most important artists and writers--from Jackson Pollock to Saul Steinberg, Frank O'Hara to Jean Stafford--lived and worked on the East End of Long Island years before it assumed an alternate identity as the Hamptons. The home they made there, and its effect on their...
Thornton Dial
Thoughts on Paper
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Thornton Dial (1928-2016), one of the most important artists in the American South, came to prominence in the late 1980s and was celebrated internationally for his large construction pieces and mixed-media paintings. It was only later, in response to a reviewer's negative comment on his artistic ability,...
South of Pico
African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Named a Best Art Book of 2017 by the New York Times and Artforum
In South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism. Emphasizing...
The Rise and Fall of American Art, 1940s–1980s
A Geopolitics of Western Art Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In The Rise and Fall of American Art, 1940s-1980s, Catherine Dossin challenges the now-mythic perception of New York as the undisputed center of the art world between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall, a position of power that brought the city prestige, money, and historical...
Eighteenth-Century Women Artists
Their Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
The eighteenth century was an age when not only the aristocracy but a burgeoning middle class could enjoy a remarkable flowering of the arts. But it was a man’s world; any woman who wished to succeed as an artist had to overcome numerous obstacles. In a society in which women were required to marry,...
Shakespeare's Restless World
Portrait of an Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 100 Objects brings the world of Shakespeare and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I into focus
We feel we know Shakespeare’s characters. Think of Hamlet, trapped in indecision, or Macbeth’s merciless and ultimately self-destructive...
The Hearing Eye
Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2009
The widespread presence of jazz and blues in African American visual art has long been overlooked. The Hearing Eye makes the case for recognizing the music's importance, both as formal template and as explicit subject matter. Moving on from the use of iconic musical figures and motifs in Harlem Renaissance...