General Art category: 18772 books
by Lisa Florman
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
This book examines the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, who is widely regarded as one of the first artists to produce non-representational paintings. Crucial to an understanding of Kandinsky's intentions is On the Spiritual in Art, the celebrated essay he published in 1911. Where most scholars...
Gods in the Bazaar
The Economies of Indian Calendar Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2007
Gods in the Bazaar is a fascinating account of the printed images known in India as “calendar art” or “bazaar art,” the color-saturated, mass-produced pictures often used on calendars and in advertisements, featuring deities and other religious themes as well as nationalist leaders, alluring...
by Eric Mantle
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Eric Mantle presents the basics of classical theory in a clear and concise manner for all beginning drawing and painting students. His book features diagrams that illustrate every concept. Students will see the complexities of color theory and understand how to create the illusion of volume and...
Art on Skin
Tattoos, Style, and the Human Canvas
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
A celebration of all things tattoo, this visually appealing wealth of tattoo knowledge will have you running for the nearest tattoo artist. The twenty-first century has seen a boom in tattooing, with millions of American’s-23 percent of them-boasting ink on their body. This popular pastime is not...
by Wassily Kandinsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
"I had the impression that here painting itself comes to the foreground; I wondered if it would not be possible to go further in this direction."Thus did the young Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) react to his first viewing of Monet's Haystack, included in an 1895 Moscow exhibit of...
by Harold Speed
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Much of the learning to practice as well as to appreciate art is concerned with understanding the basic principles. One of these principles is what Harold Speed calls "dither," the freedom that allows realism and the artistic vision to play against each other. Very important to any artist...
Zen Doodle
Tons of Tangles
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Bring on the doodles!
Zen doodle, that is! In Zen Doodle: Tons of Tangles, you'll find gorgeous images of the best doodle art from around the world. This collection of drawings and painted canvases from dozens of contributors features thousands of tangle patterns and doodle designs to inspire you...
The Awakening Artist
Madness and Spiritual Awakening in Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
The Awakening Artist: Madness and Spiritual Awakening in Art is an art theory book that explores the collision of human madness and spiritual awakening in art. It examines a condition of insanity that can be seen in most art movements throughout art history and contrasts that insanity with revelations...
by Richard Pooler
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Conceptual art in the Western world is in crisis. That is the view of many people who are disillusioned with what they regard as its attention-seeking antics, where artists themselves have proudly proclaimed 'the death of art'. Why has art been on this road to destruction, and how did it get there?...
Women Making Art
History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Women have been making art for centuries, yet their work has been seen as secondary or has gone unrecognized altogether. Women Making Art asks why this is so, and what it would take for us to realize the extent of women's extraordinary contribution to the arts.
Marsha Meskimmon mobilizes contemporary...
Systems We Have Loved
Conceptual Art, Affect, and the Antihumanist Turn
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
By the early 1960s, theorists like Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, Foucault, and Barthes had created a world ruled by signifying structures and pictured through the grids of language, information, and systems. Artists soon followed, turning to language and its related forms to devise a new, conceptual approach...
by Roni Grén
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This book examines the importance of the animal in modern art theory, using classic texts of modern aesthetics and texts written by modern artists to explore the influence of the human-animal relationship on nineteenth and twentieth century artists and art theorists. The book is unique due to its...
For Creative Geographies
Geography, Visual Arts and the Making of Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book provides the first sustained critical exploration, and celebration, of the relationship between Geography and the contemporary Visual Arts. With the growth of research in the Geohumanities and the Spatial Humanities, there is an imperative to extend and deepen considerations of the form...
The Enchantment of Poetry
A Collection of Drawings and Writings Celebrating the Amazing Fine Art of Kordis
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
The Enchantment of Poetry marks an intriguing collaboration between an artist and a poet. Dr Georgios D. Kordis, a professor, theologian, and important artist of his time, created the fine art drawings. A renowned, world-class iconographer in the Byzantine tradition, Kordis has introduced surrealistic...