Art History category: 15294 books
by Giorgio Vasari
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Giorgio Vasari's biographical collection "The Lives of the Artists" is one of the most frequently cited art history books since the 16th century. It is also the first comprehensive book on art history ever created. In the work, Vasari brings together facts, knowledge, and sometimes gossip...
by Giorgio Vasari
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Giorgio Vasari's biographical collection "The Lives of the Artists" is one of the most frequently cited art history books since the 16th century. It is also the first comprehensive book on art history ever created. In the work, Vasari brings together facts, knowledge, and sometimes gossip...
The Birth of Western Painting (Routledge Revivals)
A History of Colour, Form and Iconography
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
First published in 1930, this book deals with Byzantine art, not as an isolated province, but as one intimately connected with the subsequent history of European painting. After a summary of the whole question in its relation to modern art, the second chapter opens with a novel analysis of the iconoclast...
Soft is Fast
Simone Forti in the 1960s and After
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
An innovative analysis of Simone Forti's interdisciplinary art, viewing her influential 1960s “dance constructions” as negotiating the aesthetic strategies of John Cage and Anna Halprin.
Simone Forti's art developed within the overlapping circles of New York City's advanced visual art,...
Seeing Differently
A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Seeing Differently offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture, from early modern beliefs that art is an expression of an individual, the painted image a "world picture" expressing a comprehensive and coherent...
Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon
Perspectives in a Global World
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World seeks to dissect and interrogate the nature of the present-day art field, which has experienced dramatic shifts in the past 50 years.
In discussions of the canon of art history, the notion of ‘inclusiveness’, both...
Art for the Middle Classes
America's Illustrated Magazines of the 1840s
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
How did the average American learn about art in the mid-nineteenth century? With public art museums still in their infancy, and few cities and towns large enough to support art galleries or print shops, Americans relied on mass-circulated illustrated magazines. One group of magazines in particular,...
by Colin Platt
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
A sweeping, beautifully written history of artistic patronage from 1000 to the present day by a Wolfson Prize-winning historian. ‘Marks of Opulence’ is a magisterial survey of European art and artistic patronage from 1000 until the birth of modernism. Tracing the history from the discovery of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This is the third volume in The Art Seminar, James Elkin's series of conversations on art and visual studies.
Is Art History Global? stages an international conversation among art historians and critics on the subject of the practice and responsibility of global thinking within the discipline....
The Frame in Classical Art
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
The frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to view framing devices as supplementary 'ornaments'. Likewise, classical archaeologists have often treated them as tools for taxonomic analysis. This book not only argues for...
Art
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Art has existed for as long as humankind, but defining it is notoriously difficult. In this whirlwind tour spanning from prehistory up to the present day and beyond, Laurie Schneider Adams explores how art and our views on it have evolved. Delving into fascinating issues such as why some artworks...
by Leona M Zastrow
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
American Indian art has a long history and a vibrant and active modern-day community, something that has long interested collectors, historians, and anthropologists. In My Tree of Life as an Appraiser of American Indian ArtMy Viewpoint, author Leona M. Zastrow offers an examination of the past and...
Imagining Resistance
Visual Culture and Activism in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada offers two separate but interconnected strategies for reading alternative culture in Canada from the 1940s through to the present: first, a history of radical artistic practice in Canada and, second, a collection of eleven essays that focus...
Sprezzatura
Concealing the Effort of Art from Aristotle to Duchamp
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The essence of art is to conceal art. A dancer or musician does not only need to perform with ability. There should also be a lack of visible effort that gives an impression of naturalness. To disguise technique and feign ease is to heighten beauty. To express this notion, Italian has a word with...