General Art category: 18772 books
by Jerry Inked
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2013
This book covers several topics including:
1. INTRODUCTION TO THE BODY ART a. An Overview of Body Art b. History of Body Art c. Various Types of Body Art 2. HENNA : A UNIQUE BODY ART a. Henna- Introduction to a New Type of Body Art b. Production- Cultivation Areas with Specific Temperate...
by Jane Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1994
Whose Art Is It? is the story of sculptor John Ahearn, a white artist in a black and Hispanic neighborhood of the South Bronx, and of the people he cast for a series of public sculptures commissioned for an intersection outside a police station. Jane Kramer, telling this story, raises one of the most...
by Christiane Paul
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Reflecting the dynamic creativity of its subject, this definitive guide spans the evolution, aesthetics, and practice of today’s digital art, combining fresh, emerging perspectives with the nuanced insights of leading theorists.
Showcases the critical and theoretical approaches in this fast-moving...
Art Systems
Brazil and the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
From currency and maps to heavily censored newspapers and television programming, Art Systems explores visual forms of critique and subversion during the height of Brazilian dictatorship, drawing sometimes surprising connections between artistic production and broader processes of social exchange during...
One and Five Ideas
On Conceptual Art and Conceptualism
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
In One and Five Ideas eminent critic, historian, and former member of the Art & Language collective Terry Smith explores the artistic, philosophical, political, and geographical dimensions of Conceptual Art and conceptualism. These four essays and a conversation with Mary Kelly—published between...
Life and Death
Art and the Body in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
For all their ubiquity, life and death have not been fully explored as integral themes in many forms of contemporary Chinese art. Life and Death addresses that lacuna. Exploring the strategies employed by a variety of Chinese artists who do engage with these timeless concerns, Silvia Fok opens a new...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Exploring the history of art in China from its earliest incarnations to the present day, this comprehensive volume includes two dozen newly-commissioned essays spanning the theories, genres, and media central to Chinese art and theory throughout its history.
Provides an exceptional collection...
Experimental Beijing
Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
During the lead-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the censorious attitude that characterized China's post-1989 official response to contemporary art gave way to a new market-driven, culture industry valuation of art. Experimental artists who once struggled against state regulation of artistic expression...
Abstraction in Reverse
The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin American Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
During the mid-twentieth century, Latin American artists working in several different cities radically altered the nature of modern art. Reimagining the relationship of art to its public, these artists granted the spectator an unprecedented role in the realization of the artwork. The first book to...
Virgin Sacrifice in Classical Art
Women, Agency, and the Trojan War
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
The Trojan War begins and ends with the sacrifice of a virgin princess. The gruesome killing of a woman must have captivated ancient people because the myth of the sacrificial virgin resonates powerfully in the arts of ancient Greece and Rome. Most scholars agree that the Greeks and Romans did not...
Amplified Art
Dynamic Techniques for High-Impact Pages
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Create art with a visual impact!
Discover how to express yourself loud and proud with the help of Amplified Art. In this fiercely fun technique book, you'll learn to create art journal pages that pop, using step-by-step instruction for adding arresting color, high contrast graphic elements...
by Francisco Capelo
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
This book tries to summarize all the things you will need – from art history to the conceptual shift, but always with a practical view, in order to be your best beginner- artist- guide.
Francisco Capelo is a 46 year old portuguese sociologist, art tutor and writer. He has written diverse...
Transformations
Art and the City
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Critically challenging the notion of cities as hegemonic spaces, Transformations: Art and the City explores interactions between the human subject and their urban surroundings through site-specific art and creative practices, tracing the ways in which Chapters include case-studies raging from corporate-...
Art's Teachings, Teaching's Art
Philosophical, Critical and Educational Musings
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
This volume examines the interface between the teachings of art and the art of teaching, and asserts the centrality of aesthetics for rethinking education. Many of the essays in this collection claim a direct connection between critical thinking, democratic dissensus, and anti-racist pedagogy with...