Art category: 43213 books
by David Carrier
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Boldly developing the central traditions of American modernist abstraction, Lawrence Carroll's paintings engage with a fundamental issue of aesthetic theory, the nature of the medium of painting, in highly original, frequently extraordinarily successful ways. Aesthetic Theory, Abstract Art, and Lawrence...
by Paul Wood
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Western Art and the Wider World explores the evolving relationship between the Western canon of art, as it has developed since the Renaissance, and the art and culture of the Islamic world, the Far East, Australasia, Africa and the Americas.
Explores the origins, influences, and evolving relationship...
Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis
Perspectives from Analyst-Artists
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists collects personal reflections by therapists who are also professional artists. It explores the relationship between art and analysis through accounts by practitioners who identify themselves as dual-profession artists and analysts....
The Road to Parnassus: Artist Strategies in Contemporary Art
Rise and Success of Glasgow Artist Douglas Gordon and of the wider YBA generation
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
How can one become a successful artist? Where should one start a career in the art world? What are useful strategies to achieve recognition in the art system? Such questions hoard in students' minds ever since entering art school and they probably chase every kind of art professional who is at an...
Art and the Church: A Fractious Embrace
Ecclesiastical Encounters with Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
A vibrant critical exchange between contemporary art and Christianity is being increasingly prompted by an expanding programme of art installations and commissions for ecclesiastical spaces. Rather than 'religious art' reflecting Christian ideology, current practices frequently initiate projects that...
Science and Art
The Painted Surface
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Science and art are increasingly interconnected in the activities of the study and conservation of works of art. Science plays a key role in cultural heritage, from developing new analytical techniques for studying the art, to investigating new ways of preserving the materials for the future. For...
Make Your Own Pixel Art
Create Graphics for Games, Animations, and More!
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Make Your Own Pixel Art is a complete, illustrated introduction to the creation of pixel art aimed at beginners just starting out right through to the experienced pixel artist wanting to enhance their skills.
Hand anyone a pencil and paper and they can start drawing, but it's just as easy to...
Hans Holbein the Younger
Paintings and Drawings
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Hans Holbein the Younger was German painter, draftsman, and designer who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, renowned for the precise rendering of his drawings and the compelling realism of his portraits. Holbein was one of the greatest portraitists and most exquisite draftsmen of all time. It...
by Pierre Jean Varet
Language: French
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Du collage et des collagistes à l’aube du vingt et unième siècle, de Pierre Jean Varet, fondateur du musée de l’art du collage (musée Artcolle). Cela fait presque un siècle que Picasso et Braque inventèrent " les papiers collés " dans le cubisme dît analytique. Non qu'ils aient...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2016
Art theory has great prominence since bygone era. Many people are fond of art and in fact artists are taking the art form to portray their views on any particular situation, trend, or a topic. The art theory was refined in the twentieth century by adding many other art forms. This visual language...
New Art Literacy Explained
Art and Technology Lectures for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
I am very pleased to introduce New Art Literacy Explained - Art and Technology Lectures for the 21st Century, the new art and technology textbook recommended for K8-12 and above art classes. It is a 21st century guide that will take the reader smoothly into today’s world of art and technology....
Rags or Riches?
An Amateur's Journey Into The Art World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The book is designed for any person interested in reading the story of an amateur art investor and the challenges he had to face over thirty years in art auctions and art deals worldwide. The secrets of auctions and the art trade are discussed and highlighted in unique, true stories that happened to...
Naïve and professional views of art and non-art
eye-vision-mind-neuroaesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
How do we differentiate art from non-art pictures, and particularly, how do contemporary naïve people look at pairs of art and similarly looking snapshots, where the analysis of their eye movement recordings could reveal a difference in neuro-aesthetic perception between artful picture and snapshot?...
Nothing If Not Critical
Essays on Art and Artists
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists, good, bad, past and present.
As art critic for Time magazine, internationally acclaimed...