Art History category: 15294 books
by Maria Peitcheva
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Jacques-Louis David (1748 – 1825) was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the pre-eminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, heightened...
by Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Language: French
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Terme entré dans l’usage courant au cours de la première moitié du XIXe siècle, l’art roman distingue, en histoire de l’art, la période qui s’étend entre le début du XIe siècle jusqu’à la fin du XIIe siècle. Révélant une grande diversité d’écoles régionales, chacune démontrant...
The Woman Suffrage Statue
A History of Adelaide Johnson's Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony at the United States Capitol
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Relegated to the Crypt of the Capitol building for 76 years, the Portrait Monument has stood in the Rotunda since 1997. Often referred to as the Suffrage Statue, it memorializes pioneering feminists Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and is the sole sculptural representation...
Remote Avant-Garde
Aboriginal Art under Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle models new and emergent desert Aboriginal aesthetics as an art of survival. Since 2007, Australian government policy has targeted "remote" Australian Aboriginal communities as at crisis level of delinquency and dysfunction. Biddle asks how emergent...
by Donald Wigal
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Opium, once used for ritual purposes, is a substance which dulls pain and offers access to an artificial world, and has long been idealized by artists and markets. Baudelaire, Picasso, and Dickens were all inspired to create by the blue clouds of smoke. Known as either a sacred drug or the worst of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
A Companion to Modern Art presents a series of original essays by international and interdisciplinary authors who offer a comprehensive overview of the origins and evolution of artistic works, movements, approaches, influences, and legacies of Modern Art.
Presents a contemporary debate and dialogue...
by Ann Lee Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Art illuminates important artists, styles, and movements of the past 70 years. Beginning with the immediate post-World War II period, it encompasses earlier 20th century masters, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti, Joan...
Henry Ossawa Tanner
Art, Faith, Race, and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Over the last forty years, renewed interest in the career of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937) has vaulted him into expanding scholarly discourse on American art. Consequently, he has emerged as the most studied and recognized representative of African American art during the nineteenth century. In...
Northwest Coast Indian Art
An Analysis of Form, 50th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
The 50th anniversary edition of this classic work on the art of Northwest Coast Indians now offers color illustrations for a new generation of readers along with reflections from contemporary Northwest Coast artists about the impact of this book.
The masterworks of Northwest Coast Native artists...
G.M.V. – Is There Any Ghislain Mollet-Viéville ?
Information ou fiction ?
Language: French
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Entre documentaire et livre d’artiste, ce livre tisse différentes histoires de l’art, des années 70 à nos jours : minimales, conceptuelles, relationnelles et contractuelles. Ainsi se côtoient les œuvres d’artistes comme Joseph Kosuth, Philippe Thomas, Gilles Mahé, Sol LeWitt, Claude Rutault…...
L'Art et l'illusion d'Ernst Hans Gombrich
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Ancien directeur et professeur de l’Institut Warburg, Ernst Gombrich (1909-2001) se présente avec insistance dans L’Art et l’illusion comme un disciple d’Ernst Kris, historien d’art et psychanalyste ayant mené avec...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1997
Socialist Realism without Shores offers an international perspective on the aesthetics of socialist realism—an aesthetic that, contrary to expectations, survived the death of its originators and the demise of its original domain. This expanded edition of a special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly...
The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise
Phenomenology and Speculation
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise: Phenomenology and Speculation covers issues central to contemporary continental philosophy (desire, expectations, excess, rupture, transcendence, immanence, surprise). The proposed term desire||surprise captures the phenomenological-speculative character of the...
by Steven Bigham
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Pour apprécier l'icône orthodoxe, il faut comprendre plusieurs éléments à la fois : l'histoire, la théologie, l'objet d'art, les artistes. D'abord, l'histoire : l'iconographie s'est développée à travers de longs siècles, atteignant de nobles cimes,...