General Art category: 18772 books
The Art of Teaching Art : A Guide for Teaching and Learning the Foundations of Drawing-Based Art
A Guide for Teaching and Learning the Foundations of Drawing-Based Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2000
Often the finest artists do not make the best teachers. Many frustrated college students of art know this all too well as they suffer through unstructured classes with inexperienced teachers or graduate student instructors. In these situations it is easy to blame the teachers. But the problem is largely...
Blown Covers
New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Françoise Mouly takes us behind the scenes at the New Yorker and reveals how the magazine creates its signature covers commenting on the most urgent political and cultural events of the day. She shows the shocking and hilarious sketches that didn’t make the cut and explains how these are essential...
Fetishes and Monuments
Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments. Focusing on the particular histories of objects,...
by Maryann D'Agincourt
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
The effects of World War II resonate through the lives of two families - one American and one European - living outside of Boston. As Jenny grows up in the shadow of her parents' dark experiences in Trieste during the war, she is pulled to the haunting art and ironic gaze of her next-door neighbor...
by Whitney Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Find original research and interpretive studies of the relations between homosexuality and the visual arts. Evidence for the role of homosexuality in artistic creation has often not survived, in part because the direct expression of homosexuality has often been condemned in Western societies. Gay...
Native American Art in the Twentieth Century
Makers, Meanings, Histories
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
This illuminating and provocative book is the first anthology devoted to Twentieth Century Native American and First Nation art. Native American Art brings together anthropologists, art historians, curators, critics and distinguished Native artists to discuss pottery, painitng, sculpture, printmaking,...
by Eric Gill
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Eric Gill's opinionated manifesto on typography argues that 'a good piece of lettering is as beautiful a thing to see as any sculpture or painted picture'. This essay explores the place of typography in culture and is also a moral treatise celebrating the role of craftsmanship in an industrial age....
by Johan Redström
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design.
Tendencies toward “academization” of traditionally practice-based fields have forced design to articulate itself as an academic discipline, in theoretical terms....
The Art of Fine Art
Notes, Essays, and Guiding Lights After Fifty Years of Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
The Art of Fine Art, by artist and teacher Eo Omwake, is for anyone who wishes to increase their understanding of Fine Art Painting. It is for advanced arti sts already working and for beginners. It is also for those contemplating making art for the first time and for art appreciators who would like...
Digital Visual Culture
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Digital creativity is boundless. Art practitioners and scholars continue to explore what technology has to offer and practice-based research is redefining their disciplines. What happens when an artist experiments with bio-scientific data and discovers something the scientists failed to notice? How...
by HowExpert
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
If you want to learn how to draw animals, then get "How to Draw Animals" by Therese Barleta (also the author of "How to Draw Faces").
In this book "How to Draw Animals", you will learn how to draw ALL types of animals in a step-by-step manner.
Do you love animals and like art activities?...
Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Part treatise, part critique, part call to action, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice is a journey into the uncanny realities revealed to us in the great works of art of the past and present.
Received opinion holds that art is culturally-determined and relative. We are told that whether...
Street Art, Public City
Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
What is street art? Who is the street artist? Why is street art a crime?
Since the late 1990s, a distinctive cultural practice has emerged in many cities: street art, involving the placement of uncommissioned artworks in public places. Sometimes regarded as a variant of graffiti, sometimes...
Saints, Signs, and Symbols
The Symbolic Language of Christian Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
This thoroughly updated and comprehensive new edition enhances the well-loved and often-used earlier work as a guide to symbolism in Christian liturgical art, architecture, manuscripts, stained glass, and more. The new book is more heavily pictorial in an effort to provide an even stronger resource...