Art History category: 15294 books
by M. B. Synge
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Great Englishwomen is a collection of biographies of some of the greatest women in England’s history. Women who were leaders of their country in troubled times, women who were reformers in prison conditions, and those who sought improvement in the education and living conditions of the poor. Some...
Deep Classics
Rethinking Classical Reception
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classical past presents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek to know it. 'Deep Classics' is the study of these obstacles and, in particular, of the way in which the contemplation of the classical past resembles – and has even provided a model for...
The French in London
From William the Conqueror to Charles de Gaulle
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2016
Ever since 1066 there has been a substantial French presence in London. It is now said to be the sixth most populous French city and this book illustrates, explains, and exposes how this came about over more than a 1000 years.
Full of individual stories and overlooked details covering a common history, from William the Conqueror to Charles de Gaulle.
Imperial Illusions
Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best artists of the imperial painting academy, including a number of European missionary painters, used Western...
The Utopian Globalists
Artists of Worldwide Revolution, 1919 - 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
An innovative history and critical account mapping the ways artists and their works have engaged with, and offered commentary on, modern spectacle in both capitalist and socialist modernism over the past ninety years.
Focuses on artists whose work expresses the concept of revolutionary social...
by Frithjof Schuon
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
This edition of renowned philosopher Frithjof Schuon’s writings on the subject of art, selected and edited by his wife Catherine Schuon, contains over 270 photographs-200 color and 70 black and white. Keith Critchlow writes, “This beautiful book … has the broadest coverage of any of the books on...
Presidential Campaign Posters
Two Hundred Years of Election Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Here are 100 ready-to-frame political campaign posters from the annals of American history! The candidates range from Andrew Jackson (“Defender of Beauty and Booty”) and William Henry Harrison (“Have Some Hard Cider!”) to Richard Nixon (“He’s the One!”), Barack Obama (“Hope”), and...
by E. Dean Kolbas
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Kolbas stakes out new territory in assessing the war over literary canon formation, a subject that contemporary polemicists have devoted much ink to. Throughout this succinct manuscript, Kolbas ranges through the sociology and politics of culture, aesthetic theory, and literary theory to develop his...
1997
The Future that Never Happened
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Provides an in-depth account of crucial events, ranging from the death of Diana to the Steven Lawrence inquest, as well as looking beyond politics to consider the role of music, art and popular culture
Highly topical, not only in coinciding with the 20th anniversary of that year, but also...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
A collection of pivotal ideas about beauty from throughout history, with an introduction and critical headnotes.
This collection of writings on beauty includes selections from twenty key philosophers and theoreticians spanning two millennia:
Plato • Aristotle • Vitruvius • Alberti...
High culture and tall chimneys
Art institutions and urban society in Lancashire, 1780-1914
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
This new study examines how nineteenth-century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre. By the end of the century almost every major town possessed an art gallery, while Lancashire art schools and artists were recognised at home and abroad. The book documents the...
The One and the Many
Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Collaborative and collective art practices have proliferated around the world over the past fifteen years. In The One and the Many, Grant H. Kester provides an overview of the broader continuum of collaborative art, ranging from the work of artists and groups widely celebrated in the mainstream art...
Bauhaus Weaving Theory
From Feminine Craft to Mode of Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The Bauhaus school in Germany has long been understood through the writings of its founding director, Walter Gropius, and well-known artists who taught there such as Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy. Far less recognized are texts by women in the school’s weaving workshop. In Bauhaus Weaving...
by Klaus H. Carl
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Ever since the ancient greeks sculpted the first kouros, children have been a source of inspiration for some of the world’s greatest artists. Whether portraits of their own children, friends, and family members, or a nostalgic psychological portrayal of the artist’s own youth, depictions of children...