Art History category: 15294 books
by Clara Erskine Clement
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
A History of Art for Beginners and Students ( Painting ) by Clara Erskine Clement. This edition contains 87 Illustrations, interactive table of contents, and beautifully formatted.
CHAPTERS INCLUDED: CHAPTER I. Ancient Painting, from the Earliest Times to the Christian Era. CHAPTER II. Mediæval...
Visual Shock
A History of Art Controversies in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s obsession with public memorials and the changing role of art and museums in our society....
The Orpheus Clock
The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
“An extraordinary piece of history...a fresh and lively read” (The Christian Science Monitor)—the passionate, gripping, true story of one man’s single-minded quest to reclaim his family’s art collection, stolen by the Nazis in World War II.
Simon Goodman’s grandparents came from...
Harold Mortimer Lamb
The Art Lover
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Harold Mortimer-Lamb’s name is in the index of almost every book written on the history of Canadian art, yet his place in that world has never been clear. Photographer, writer, painter, promoter—he was a man of many parts and the ideal patron and friend to some of Canada's most famous artists,...
After Modern Art
1945-2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2015, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the relationship between American and European art, and...
Broad Strokes
15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 female artists from around...
Leonardo Da Vinci's Treatise of Painting
The Story of The World's Greatest Treatise on Painting - Its Origins, History, Content, And Influence.
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book traces the story of the world's greatest treatise on painting - Leonardo Da Vinci's "Treatise of Painting". It combines an extensive body of literature about the Treatise with original research to offer a unique perspective on: • Its origins, and history of how it survived...
by Tatyana Fedulova
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Baroque is 10th chapter of the series containing:- Ancient Egypt- Ancient Mesopotamia- Cretan-Mycenaean- Ancient Greece- Ancient Rome- Byzantine architecture- Romanesque- Gothic architecture- The Renaissance- Baroque- Rococo- Classicism- Eclecticism- Modern- FunctionalismBrief guide to the...
by Tatyana Fedulova
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Gothic Architecture is an 8th chapter of the series containing:- Ancient Egypt- Ancient Mesopotamia- Cretan-Mycenaean- Ancient Greece- Ancient Rome- Byzantine architecture- Romanesque- Gothic architecture- The Renaissance- Baroque- Rococo- Classicism- Eclecticism- Modern- FunctionalismBrief...
The Truth Is Always Grey
A History of Modernist Painting
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Changing how we look at and think about the color grey
Why did many of the twentieth century’s best-known abstract painters often choose grey, frequently considered a noncolor and devoid of meaning? Frances Guerin argues that painters (including Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Agnes Martin, Brice...
The Munich Art Hoard
Hitler's Dealer and His Secret Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
In February 2012, in a Munich flat belonging to the elderly recluse, Cornelius Gurlitt, German customs authorities seized an astonishing hoard of more than 1,400 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures. When Hildebrand Gurlitt's trove became public in November 2013, it caused a worldwide media...
The Guggenheims
A Family History
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A portrait of a great American dynasty and its legacy in business, technology, the arts, and philanthropy
Meyer Guggenheim, a Swiss immigrant, founded a great American business dynasty. At their peak in the early twentieth century, the Guggenheims were reckoned among America's wealthiest, and...
Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Giotto, Masaccio, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
An instant success upon its publication in the mid-sixteenth century, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists remains one of the principal resources for study of the art and artists of the Italian Renaissance. Nothing of the scope and magnitude of this work had ever been conceived; the first complete...
Leonardo
A Biographical Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
This compelling novel takes the reader into the tumultuous period of the Renaissance and the origins of Leonardo da Vinci, the bastard child of a notary. Of da Vinci, the eminent art historian Kenneth Clark wrote, “no more complex and mysterious character ever existed than this Hamlet of art history.”...