General Art category: 18772 books
Art and Agency
An Anthropological Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 1998
Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions of others. He argues that existing anthropological and aesthetic theories take an overwhelmingly passive point of view,...
The Art of the Roman Empire
AD 100-450
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the role of the visual arts, the great diversity...
by Marian Liebmann, Nancy Slater
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Art therapy enables the client and therapist to explore issues that may ordinarily be difficult to articulate in words; one such issue is the complexity of gender, which can be a subject of therapy in a range of ways. Gender identity is at the heart of our self-understanding. The contributors to this...
by Justice Koolhaas
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Justice Koolhaas’s Essays on Modern Art are reproduced alongside at least one of each artist’s works that she owned. Unusually, these works were discards; even more unusually, she obtained them on condition that each artist signed a statement disowning them as artworks.Her theory work, a refusenikism...
Endless Andness
The Politics of Abstraction According to Ann Veronica Janssens
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
In Endless Andness, Mieke Bal pioneers a new understanding of the political potential of abstract art which does not passively yield its meaning to the viewer but creates it anew - an art perceived not only through the retina but experienced viscerally. In this book, the third of her companion volumes...
by A. Clutton-Brock
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This collection of brief but insightful essays, though always returning to the author’s central conviction that the quality of artistic endeavour depends not on individuals of genius but on the attitude of the public towards art itself, examines a wide variety of unique but related issues: the relationship...
Views of Albion
The Reception of British Art and Design in Central Europe, 18901918
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Views of Albion is the first comprehensive study of the reception of British art and design in Central Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. The author proposes a new map of European Art Nouveau, where direct contacts between peripheral cultures were more significant than the influence of Paris....
Money, Trains, and Guillotines
Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
During the 1960s a group of young artists in Japan challenged official forms of politics and daily life through interventionist art practices. William Marotti situates this phenomenon in the historical and political contexts of Japan after the Second World War and the international activism of the...
Making Sense
Art Practice and Transformative Therapeutics
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Making Sense utilises art practice as a pro-active way of thinking that helps us to make sense of the world. It does this by developing an applied understanding of how we can use art as a method of healing and as a critical method of research. Drawing from poststructuralist philosophy, psychoanalysis,...
by Hans Maes
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably dispute about taste? What is the relation between aesthetic and moral evaluations? How to interpret a work of art? Can we learn anything from literature, film or opera? What is sentimentality? What...
American Colonial Women and Their Art
A Chronological Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Less celebrated than their male counterparts, women have been vital contributors to the arts. Works by women of the colonial era represent treasured accomplishments of American culture and still impress us today, centuries after their creation. The breadth of creative expression is as impressive as...
by Leroy Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Zendoodle has inspired creative minds, fostered stress and anxiety relief, and produced copious amounts of beautiful, unique works of art; and it's all done with a pencil, a pen, and some 3 ½ inch squares of paper.Inspired by the teachings of Japanese Zen Buddhism, Zendoodle is one part art method,...
The Expert versus the Object
Judging Fakes and False Attributions in the Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
The authenticity of visual art has always commanded the attention of experts, dealers, collectors, and the art-minded public. Is it "real" or "original" is a way of asking what am I buying? What do I own? What am I looking at? And today more sophisticated questions are being asked:...
The Artful Species
Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature. Our humanoid forerunners displayed aesthetic sensibilities hundreds of thousands of years ago and the art standing of prehistoric cave paintings is virtually uncontested....