Art category: 43213 books
by Delphi Classics, Peter Russell
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
This stunning eBook is a concise illustrated guide, evaluating the masterpieces that have changed the course of art as we know it. Whether an art novice or a cultivated connoisseur, this eBook offers you an intriguing overview of the world’s most famous and iconic artworks. Illustrated with over...
by Martin Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics
Art has always been part of history. But we often think of it as outside history. When we look at a painting by Raphael, Rembrandt or Rubens it speaks to us directly, but it's also an historical document, part of a living world. Renowned art...
The Art of Understanding Art
A new perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Have we completely missed the point of the modern western revolution in the arts? Hugh Moss thinks so, and here he presents a refreshingly original and thought-provoking new approach to understanding art. It not only makes sense of western art over the past century or more, but applies equally to...
The Dream Colony
A Life in Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Art Forum's Best of the Year List
A panoramic look at art in America in the second half of the twentieth century, through the eyes of the visionary curator who helped shape it.
An innovative, iconoclastic curator of contemporary art, Walter Hopps founded his first gallery in L.A. at...
Unnatural Wonders
Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Arthur C. Danto's essays not only critique bodies of work but reflect upon art's conceptual evolution as well, drawing for the reader a kind of "philosophical map" indicating how art and the criteria for judging it has changed over the twentieth century. In Unnatural Wonders the renowned...
Rogues' Gallery
The Rise (and Occasional Fall) of Art Dealers, the Hidden Players in the History of Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Here for the first time is the history of art dealers, those extraordinary men and woman who, over centuries (and almost entirely out of the public eye), built their profession on a singular skill: identifying the intangible but infinitely desirable qualities that characterize the greatest works of...
Strike Art
Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The collision of activism and contemporary art, from the Seattle protests to Occupy and beyond
The collision of activism and contemporary art, from the Seattle protests to Occupy and beyond What is the relation of art to the practice of radical politics today? Strike Art explores this question...
The Accidental Masterpiece
On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
A New York Times bestseller—a dazzling and inspirational survey of how art can be found and appreciated in everyday life
Michael Kimmelman, the prominent New York Times writer and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, is known as a deep and graceful writer across the disciplines...
by New Museum
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
For over a decade, Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education has served as the guide to multicultural art education, connecting everyday experience, social critique, and creative expression with classroom learning. The much-anticipated Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education continues...
by David Cottington
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2005
As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary...
by Jim Arndt, Mary Emmerling
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Emmerling and Arndt team up for their fifth book celebrating the art of things people love to collect. Here they bring us fabulous belt buckles from vintage collectibles, trophy buckles, beaded and bejeweled varieties, ranger sets, and classy contemporary designs, all celebrating the fascination with...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
"Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's Fountain. But questions about the categories of "art" and "art history" acquired increased urgency during the 1970s, when new developments in critical theory and...
Digital Art History
A Subject in Transition. Computers and the History of Art Series, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
This book looks at the transformation that Art and Art history is undergoing through engagement with the digital revolution. Since its initiation in 1985, CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) has set out to promote interaction between the rapidly developing new Information Technology and the study...
Balinese Art
Paintings and Drawings of Bali 1800 - 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
Balinese Art is the first comprehensive survey of Balinese painting from its origins in the traditional Balinese village to its present position at the forefront of the high-priced Asian art scene.
Balinese art has been popular and widely collected around the world for many decades. In fact,...