Art History category: 15294 books
Gods in the Bazaar
The Economies of Indian Calendar Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2007
Gods in the Bazaar is a fascinating account of the printed images known in India as “calendar art” or “bazaar art,” the color-saturated, mass-produced pictures often used on calendars and in advertisements, featuring deities and other religious themes as well as nationalist leaders, alluring...
by Richard Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
My aim has been little more than to disengage the leading lines in the history of five most important and most confused centuries, and to mark the influences which most asserted themselves, and which seem to have most governed the results as we see them in subsequent history. In this summary view...
by Wassily Kandinsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
"I had the impression that here painting itself comes to the foreground; I wondered if it would not be possible to go further in this direction."Thus did the young Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) react to his first viewing of Monet's Haystack, included in an 1895 Moscow exhibit of...
Zen Doodle
Tons of Tangles
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Bring on the doodles!
Zen doodle, that is! In Zen Doodle: Tons of Tangles, you'll find gorgeous images of the best doodle art from around the world. This collection of drawings and painted canvases from dozens of contributors features thousands of tangle patterns and doodle designs to inspire you...
Brushstroke and Emergence
Courbet, Impressionism, Picasso
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
No pictorial device in nineteenth-century French painting more clearly represented the free-ranging self than the loose brushstroke. From the romantics through the impressionists and post-impressionists, the brushstroke bespoke autonomous artistic individuality and freedom from convention.
Yet...
by Richard Pooler
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Conceptual art in the Western world is in crisis. That is the view of many people who are disillusioned with what they regard as its attention-seeking antics, where artists themselves have proudly proclaimed 'the death of art'. Why has art been on this road to destruction, and how did it get there?...
Systems We Have Loved
Conceptual Art, Affect, and the Antihumanist Turn
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
By the early 1960s, theorists like Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, Foucault, and Barthes had created a world ruled by signifying structures and pictured through the grids of language, information, and systems. Artists soon followed, turning to language and its related forms to devise a new, conceptual approach...
For Creative Geographies
Geography, Visual Arts and the Making of Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book provides the first sustained critical exploration, and celebration, of the relationship between Geography and the contemporary Visual Arts. With the growth of research in the Geohumanities and the Spatial Humanities, there is an imperative to extend and deepen considerations of the form...
The Enchantment of Poetry
A Collection of Drawings and Writings Celebrating the Amazing Fine Art of Kordis
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
The Enchantment of Poetry marks an intriguing collaboration between an artist and a poet. Dr Georgios D. Kordis, a professor, theologian, and important artist of his time, created the fine art drawings. A renowned, world-class iconographer in the Byzantine tradition, Kordis has introduced surrealistic...
by Justice Koolhaas
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Justice Koolhaas’s Essays on Modern Art are reproduced alongside at least one of each artist’s works that she owned. Unusually, these works were discards; even more unusually, she obtained them on condition that each artist signed a statement disowning them as artworks.Her theory work, a refusenikism...
by A. Clutton-Brock
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This collection of brief but insightful essays, though always returning to the author’s central conviction that the quality of artistic endeavour depends not on individuals of genius but on the attitude of the public towards art itself, examines a wide variety of unique but related issues: the relationship...
by Angélica Jimena Afanador-Pujol
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The Relación de Michoacán (1539–1541) is one of the earliest surviving illustrated manuscripts from colonial Mexico. Commissioned by the Spanish viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, the Relación was produced by a Franciscan friar together with indigenous noble informants and anonymous native artists who...
Eyewitnessing
The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2006
Eyewitnessing evaluates the place of images among other kinds of historical evidence. By reviewing the many varieties of images by region, period and medium, and looking at the pragmatic uses of images (e.g. the Bayeux Tapestry, an engraving of a printing press, a reconstruction of a building), Peter...
Money, Trains, and Guillotines
Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
During the 1960s a group of young artists in Japan challenged official forms of politics and daily life through interventionist art practices. William Marotti situates this phenomenon in the historical and political contexts of Japan after the Second World War and the international activism of the...