Collections category: 673 books

Museums are at the heart of the nation's cultural life, bastions of Britishness in almost every major city and town. Together they detail myriad aspects of our heritage: from lawnmowers to cuckoo clocks, pencils to chairs, there seems to be no end to the subject matter deemed worthy of collection...

Activism in Art is a group on the website for art collectors and artists fineartamerica.com, and also a rather fertile topic, especially now that the economic crisis leads artists (and people in general) to review their beliefs, their principles, their role in society, and, in brief, what really matters...

A History of Japanese Art offers readers a comprehensive view of Japanese art through Japanese eyes—a view that is the most revealing of all perspectives. At the same time, it provides readers with a guide to the places in Japan where the best and most representative creations of Japanese art are to be seen.

Solo of a Dying Day is the art catalogue of James Bryron Love and Nicla Rossini's permanent solo exhibition in Sarasvati Gallery.This special edition for our permanent artists features a fusion of visual arts and poetry from these two exceptional artists and writers.

Towradgi Beach and Other Impressions is an art catalogue presenting Pamela Meredith's solo exhibition in Sarasvati Gallery. The book presents the work by the artist (watercolors and oil paintings), which are introduced by a short art critique.

Sarasvati Gallery, in partnership with MinaGrey, presents the catalogue of artist Sonal Raje's solo exhibition in Sarasvati (September 4th - October 4th 2012).This eBook catalogue features the artwork of the artist, with a short bio and a brief critique of her art.

Land has profound significance for South Africans. Inscribed on their home soil and seared into popular memory are tales of fierce clashes over rights to ownership, of victory, heroic deeds and the anguish of loss. A turbulent past has given rise to contrasting concepts of territory, and a complex...

Remesas: flujos simbólicos/movilidades de capital. 13 artistas peruanos en el exterior, busca acercarse al trabajo de un grupo de artistas peruanos que viven y producen fuera del Perú y que nos invita a reflexionar sobre la migración de peruanos al exterior y las remesas, ese flujo de dinero enviado...

Catálogo de obra de Ramírez Jurado, quien echa mano de los colores brillantes y de las texturas para representar su percepción sobre la naturaleza.

El perodo de la historia de Mxico conocido como la Intervencin Francesa y Segundo Imperio Mexicano, es una etapa apasionada y apasionante. La suspensin de los pagos de la deuda externa del pas en 1861, por el Gobierno del Presidente Benito Jurez, va a servir de pretexto para que Francia enve a Mxico...

Monets gift was to show the world a different way of seeing and interpreting everything around us. He brought his canvases to life with dabs and swoops of color put together to give an impression of the scene. He is the ultimate Impressionist: not only did one of his paintings inspire the label “Impressionist”...

Di madre in madre (from mother to mother) is a multimedia research project, aimed at the revitalization of the matriarchy myth considering the effect that it can still produce, with a strong impact in achieving awareness of the cultural and gender roots in women's and today's mothers. It proposes...

Swirling with gargoyles, devils, dragons, griffins, and other images that haunt both dreams and nightmares, this otherworldly assortment features more than 100 decorations from a rare nineteenth-century volume. Decorations include:Cartouches in the style of Louis XIII; stone balustrades; arabesques;...

This edited collection traces the impact of monographic exhibitions on the discipline of art history from the first examples in the late eighteenth century through the present. Roughly falling into three genres (retrospectives of living artists, retrospectives of recently deceased artists, and monographic...