General Art category: 18772 books
by Joachim Stark
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Master's Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Art - Sculpture / Plastics, grade: distinction, The Open University (Department of Art History), language: English, abstract: This research project wants to assess to what extent Louise Bourgeois is employing Surrealist practices in her work. Another...
Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis
Perspectives from Analyst-Artists
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists collects personal reflections by therapists who are also professional artists. It explores the relationship between art and analysis through accounts by practitioners who identify themselves as dual-profession artists and analysts....
Art in Crisis
The Lost Center
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The history of art from the early nineteenth century on- ward is commonly viewed as a succession of conflicts between innovatory and established styles that culminated in the formalism and aesthetic autonomy of high modernism. In Art and Crisis, first published in 1948, Hans Sedlmayr argues that the...
Thinking Through Art
Reflections on Art as Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Focusing on a unique arena, Thinking Through Art takes an innovative look at artists’ experiences of undertaking doctorates and asks: If the making of art is not simply the formulation of an object but is also the formation of complex ideas then what effect does academic enquiry have on art practice?
Using...
Art and the Church: A Fractious Embrace
Ecclesiastical Encounters with Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
A vibrant critical exchange between contemporary art and Christianity is being increasingly prompted by an expanding programme of art installations and commissions for ecclesiastical spaces. Rather than 'religious art' reflecting Christian ideology, current practices frequently initiate projects that...
Art before the Law
Aesthetics and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Ever since Plato expelled the poets from his ideal state, the ethics of art has had to confront philosophy’s denial of art’s morality. In Art before the Law, Ruth Ronen proposes a new outlook on the ethics of art by arguing that art insists on this tradition of denial, affirming its singular ethics...
The Greatest Art Form
Video Games and the Evolution of Artistic Expression
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
During the last half century, and for only the second time in over two thousand years, technology has given way to a new groundbreaking and limitless form of artistic expression: the video game. While our society is barely beginning to digest this new medium and redefine our understanding of artistic...
by William J Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Michael R. Gottfredson and Travish Hirschi’s 1990 A General Theory of Crime is a classic text that helped reshape the discipline of criminology. It is also a testament to the powers of clear reasoning and interpretation.
In critical thinking terms, reasoning is all about presenting a solid...
Excellent Art Auction Guide
This Ultimate Guide Will Let You Learn The Different Art Auctions Ideas Which Include Art Auctions Online, Grotesques, Vintage Photography Auctions, Amsterdam Auctions And A Whole Lot More!
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
It is truly a wonderful thing when you consider how much we gain from our appreciation of art, what volumes it speaks about our own culture, and among cultures that make up the world besides our own. It is highly fashionable to understand something of what art is, how it tries to reinterpret...
Critical Fabulations
Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself.
In Critical Fabulations, Daniela Rosner proposes redefining design as investigative and activist, personal and culturally situated, responsive and responsible....
Handbook of Research on Trends in Product Design and Development
Technological and Organizational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2010
Product design and development (PDD) is an area of increasing importance to industrial competitiveness. In a global market, the competitive advantage of companies lies not only in mastering existing processes and methodologies, but also on their ability to pursue different directions, providing increased...
Collecting and Conserving Net Art
Moving beyond Conventional Methods
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Collecting and Conserving Net Art explores the qualities and characteristics of net art and its influence on conservation practices. By addressing and answering some of the challenges facing net art and providing an exploration of its intersection with conservation, the book casts a new light on net...
by Iain Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Originally published in 2011, Iain Robertson's A New Art from Emerging Markets introduced and examined three types of emerging markets for contemporary art: the very recently established, the maturing and the mature. This fully revised second edition not only updates the reader on this rapidly evolving...
Art and Pluralism
Lawrence Alloway's Cultural Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Lawrence Alloway (1926-1990) was one of the most influential and widely respected (as well as prolific) art writers of the post-war years. His many books, catalogue essays and reviews manifest the changing paradigms of art away from the formal values of modernism towards the inclusiveness of the visual...