Art category: 43213 books
by Lane Relyea
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
A critic takes issue with the art world's romanticizing of networks and participatory projects, linking them to the values of a globalized, neoliberal economy.
Over the past twenty years, the network has come to dominate the art world, affecting not just interaction among art professionals...
Mindfulness Based Art
The SPARKS Guide for Educators and Counselors
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
In Mindfulness-Based Art: The SPARKS Guide for Educators and Counselors, art therapist Margaret Jones Callahan offers step-by-step instructions on bringing Mindfulness into the art studio, counselor’s office, or classroom. Here, you discover the basic principles of Mindfulness and find lesson plans...
Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics
Argentine Art in the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007
The 1960s were heady years in Argentina. Visual artists, curators, and critics sought to fuse art and politics; to broaden the definition of art to encompass happenings and assemblages; and, above all, to achieve international recognition for new, cutting-edge Argentine art. A bestseller in Argentina,...
Becoming Past
History in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Is there such a thing as contemporary art history? The contemporary, after all—as much as we may want to consider it otherwise—is being made history as it happens. By what means do we examine this moving target? These questions lie at the center of Jane Blocker’s Becoming Past. The important point...
by Vladimir Lukonin, Anatoly Ivanov
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Housed in the Hermitage Museum along with other institutes, libraries, and museums in Russia and the republics of the former Soviet Union are some of the most magnificent treasures of Persian Art. For the most part, many of these works have been lost, but have been catalogued and published here for...
by Ib Vindbjerg
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
'A very powerful little book that fits in a coat pocket. I am on my third reading of the book and still getting something out of it. An essential read for all art students and a great read for anyone even mildly interested in art. The book achieves its objective in helping to broaden and enrich one’s...
The Art Prophets
The Artists, Dealers, and Tastemakers Who Shook the Art World
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
In The Art Prophets, Richard Polsky introduces us to influential late twentieth-century dealers and tastemakers in the art world. These risk takers opened doors for artists, identified new movements, and resurrected art forms that had fallen into obscurity. In this distinctive tour, Polsky offers...
Art and Public History
Approaches, Opportunities, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Art and Public History: Approaches, Opportunities, and Challenges examines the relationship between art and public history, outlining opportunities, challenges, and insights drawn from recent initiatives. With a special eye towards audience engagement and challenging historical narratives, all of...
The New Art History
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
The New Art History provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental changes which have occurred in both the institutions and practice of art history over the last thirty years.
Jonathan Harris examines and accounts for the new approaches to the study of art which have been grouped...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
A comprehensive review of art in the first truly modern century
A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art contains contributions from an international panel of noted experts to offer a broad overview of both national and transnational developments, as well as new and innovative investigations of...
Art Studio: Dogs
More than 50 projects and techniques for drawing, painting, and creating 25+ breeds in oil, acrylic, pencil, and more!
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
From pencil, to paint, to mixed media, no medium is left untouched in Art Studio: Dogs, a perfect choice for artists who are just getting started.
Love art and dogs? Now you can get the best of both of worlds with Art Studio: Dogs. Created especially with beginning artists and art enthusiasts...
London Art Worlds
Mobile, Contingent, and Ephemeral Networks, 1960–1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The essays in this collection explore the extraordinarily rich networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in and around London during the 1960s and ’70s, a period that saw an explosion of new media and fresh attitudes and approaches to making and thinking about art.
The...
by Dominic Lopes
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
What is computer art? Do the concepts we usually employ to talk about art, such as ‘meaning’, ‘form’ or ‘expression’ apply to computer art?
A Philosophy of Computer Art is the first book to explore these questions. Dominic Lopes argues that computer art challenges some of the...
The Daily Book of Art
365 readings that teach, inspire & entertain
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In today's fast-paced world, creative people are as eager as ever to pursue their artistic passions, but many of them simply don't have enough time. Catering to this modern dilemma, we've concocted the perfect remedy for over-burdened artists. The Daily Book of Art includes a year's worth of brief...