General Art category: 18772 books
by John Boardman
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
“One of the very best short histories of Greek Art.” — The Financial Times
John Boardman, one of the best known and acknowledged scholars of the classical Greek world, has updated his definitive survey of its arts, the most influential and widely known historic artistic tradition of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
This groundbreaking collection from scholars and artists on the legacy of Beckett in contemporary art provides readers with a unique view of this important writer for page, stage, and screen. The volume argues that Beckett is more than an influence on contemporary art—he is, in fact, a contemporary...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Technological advancements have influenced many fields of study, and the visual arts are no exception. With the development of new creative software and computer programs, artists and designers are free to create in a digital context, equipped with precision and efficiency. Analyzing Art, Culture, and...
Un art de vie
Recueil de poésies et d'aquarelles
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2016
La poésie pour comprendre l'art de la vie.Parce que la vie est un prodige qui s’apparente à l’Art, l’auteur nous entraîne à travers la mélodie de ses textes et l’éclat de ses aquarelles, à la découverte de ce cheminement incessant qu’est la vie. Au fil des pages, le lecteur se souvient...
What Is Art Education?
After Deleuze and Guattari
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
This edited book gathers seven established art educators-educator artists who address art education from the philosophical position of Deleuze and Guattari. This book raises questions as to where the future of art and its education might be heading if the focus on art was to be repositioned along...
Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity
Orthodox Theology and the Aesthetics of the Christian Image
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity presents a critical, interdisciplinary examination of contemporary theological and philosophical studies of the Christian image and redefines this within the Orthodox tradition by exploring the ontological and aesthetic implications of Orthodox ascetic and mystical...
by Jean-Claude Moineau
Language: French
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Œuvre-produit, consommation et production culturelle, marché et valeur, artiste-marque : cet essai s’intéresse aux liens complexes entre art et économie pour en révéler les enjeux et les systèmes de domination. Le théoricien de l’art Jean-Claude Moineau interroge le statut de l’artiste...
Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba
Ife History, Power, and Identity, c. 1300
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
In this book, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the intersection of art, risk and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife and the striking ways that ancient Ife artworks inform society, politics, history and religion. Yoruba art offers a unique lens into one of Africa's most important...
Repainting the Walls of Lunda
Information Colonialism and Angolan Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Repainting the Walls of Lunda chronicles the publication and dissemination of an anthropology book, Paredes Pintadas da Lunda (Painted Walls of Lunda), which was published in Portuguese in 1953. The book featured illustrations of wall murals and sand drawings of the Chokwe peoples of northeastern Angola....
Controls and Art
Inquiries at the Intersection of the Subjective and the Objective
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Dancing humanoids, robotic art installations, and music generated by mathematically precise methods are no longer science fiction; in fact they are the subject of this book. This first-of-its-kind anthology assembles technical research that makes such creations possible. In order to mechanize something...
by W. M. Flinders Petrie
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This present handbook is intended to aid in the understanding of Egyptian art, and the illustrations and descriptions are selected for that purpose only. The history of the art would require a far greater range of examples, in order to illustrate the growth and decay of each of the great periods;...
by Jessica Schwarzenbach, Paul Hackett
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Once the US was the only country in the world to offer a doctorate for studio artists, however** **the PhD in fine art disappeared after pressures established the MFA as the terminal degree for visual artists. Subsequently, the PhD in fine art emerged in the UK and is now offered by approximately...
Sacred Art
Catholic Saints and Candomble Gods in Modern Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Sacred art flourishes today in northeastern Brazil, where European and African religious traditions have intersected for centuries. Professional artists create images of both the Catholic saints and the African gods of Candomblé to meet the needs of a vast market of believers and art collectors.
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Private Collecting, Exhibitions, and the Shaping of Art History in London
The Burlington Fine Arts Club
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
The Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemen’s club with a singular remit – to exhibit members’ art collections. Exhibitions were proposed, organized, and furnished by a group of prominent members of British society who included aristocrats, artists, bankers, politicians,...