General Art category: 18772 books
by Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
A symbol of modernity, the Viennese Secession was defined by the rebellion of twenty artists who were against the conservative Vienna Künstlerhaus' oppressive influence over the city, the epoch, and the whole Austro-Hungarian Empire. Influenced by Art Nouveau, this movement (created in 1897 by Gustav...
Art khmer
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Partez à la découverte de l'art khmer avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Par essence, l'art khmer est celui du Cambodge, mais l'expression est plus spécialement utilisée pour l'art d'une période, longue de quelque huit siècles, s'étendant de la fin du VIe siècle ou du début du VIIe...
Light for a Cold Land
Lawren Harris's Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1993
Lawren Stewart Harris’ artistic career began in the first decade of our century. Well known for the nationalist-inspired landscapes that he painted between 1908 and 1932, Harris turned resolutely in 1934 to the painting of abstractions. He continued to create works that reflected his own modernist...
by Michael Snow, Louise Dompierre
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Writing, for Michael Snow, is as much a form of “art-making” as the broad range of visual art activities for which he is renowned, including the “Walking Woman” series and the film Wavelength. Conversely, many of the texts included in this anthology are as significant visually as they are...
Art
Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Artists and Their Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Art introduces readers to 100 of the world's most important artists and their paintings, from the 13th century to the modern era. Works by artists including Caravaggio, Vermeer, van Gogh and Warhol are reproduced in superb high quality, arranged chronologically and set in their historical context...
Between the Black Box and the White Cube
Expanded Cinema and Postwar Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Today, the moving image is ubiquitous in global contemporary art. The first book to tell the story of the postwar expanded cinema that inspired this omnipresence, Between the Black Box and the White Cube travels back to the 1950s and 1960s, when the rise of television caused movie theaters to lose...
All About Process
The Theory and Discourse of Modern Artistic Labor
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic process itself. In this volume, Kim Grant analyzes this idea and traces its historical roots, showing how changing concepts of artistic process have played...
by Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
In art history, the term ‘Romanesque art’ distinguishes the period between the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 12th century. This era showed a great diversity of regional schools each with their own unique style. In architecture as well as in sculpture, Romanesque art is marked by raw...
The Greening of Art
Shifting Positions Between Art and Nature Since 1965
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
The Greening of Art describes the shifts in position between art and nature which took place during the past fifty years, to set out re-establishing a new relationship between art and the landscape-environment, and attempt in various ways to re-connect art with nature. From the 1960s onward, when artists...
Art Space Tokyo
An intimate guide to the Tokyo art world
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
A guide to Tokyo via its art spaces!
Art Space Tokyo introduces you to twelve of the best museum and galleries in the city. In doing so, the book also introduces you to ten Tokyo neighborhoods, unveiling the best restaurants, cafes and walks in each.
Art Space Tokyo is the only companion you'll need to explore Tokyo like a native.
The Great Chinese Art Transfer
How So Much of China's Art Came to America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This book tells the story of how and why millions of Chinese works of art got exported to collectors and institutions in the West, in particular to the United States. As China’s last dynasty was weakening and collapsing from 1860 into the early years of the twentieth century, China’s internal...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series, and the seminars on which they are based, brings together a range of scholars who are not always directly familiar with one another’s work. The outcome of each of these convergences is an extensive and “unpredictable conversation”...
Witness to Phenomenon
Group ZERO and the Development of New Media in Postwar European Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Witness of Phenomenon articulates a fresh examination of the German Group Zero-Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Günter Uecker-and other new tendency artists, who rejected painting and introduced new art media in postwar Europe. Group ZERO evolved into a network across Europe- Amsterdam, Milan, Paris,...
The View From The Studio Door
How Artists Find Their Way In An Uncertain World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
In the perennial best-seller Art & Fear, Ted Orland (with David Bayles) examined the obstacles that artists encounter each time they enter their studio and stand before a new blank canvas. Now, in The View From The Studio Door, Orland turns his attention to broader issues that stand to either side...