Art History category: 15294 books
Joan of Arc in French Art and Culture (1700�855)
From Satire to Sanctity
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In her meticulous and wide-ranging study, Nora M. Heimann follows the metamorphosis of Joan of Arc's posthumous representation during the years in which her image ascended from relative obscurity as a minor provincial figure in the middle ages through her treatment as a figure of political satire...
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...
Prehistoric Rock Art in Britain
Sermons in Stone
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
In this latest book the prolific Stan Beckensall returns to his principal specialism, Britains prehistoric rock art. Beckensall has played a key role in recording and researching rock art, and in this book he brings this experience to bear in a detailed survey of the types of rock art, motifs and...
Feminism and Art History Now
Radical Critiques of Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Four decades of feminist art history have prompted a radical rethinking of the discipline. This volume asks how feminism's interventions and propositions are relevant to contemporary scholarship today. To what extent have developments in global politics, artworld institutions, and local cultures reshaped...
by
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
The stereotype of Zen Buddhism as a minimalistic or even immaterial meditative tradition persists in the Euro-American cultural imagination. This volume calls attention to the vast range of "stuff" in Zen by highlighting the material abundance and iconic range of the Soto, Rinzai, and Obaku sects...
The Boundaries of Art and Social Space in Rome
The Caged Bird and Other Art Forms
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
This volume focuses on four cultural phenomena in the Roman world of the late Republic - the garden, a garden painting, tapestry, and the domestic caged bird. They accept or reject a categorisation as art in varying degrees, but they show considerable overlaps in the ways in which they impinge on...
Picturing Imperial Power
Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 1999
This study of colonialism and art examines the intersection of visual culture and political power in late-eighteenth-century British painting. Focusing on paintings from British America, the West Indies, and India, Beth Fowkes Tobin investigates the role of art in creating and maintaining imperial...
by Sam DeShong Ratcliffe
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Dramatic historical events have frequently provided subject matter for artists, particularly in pre-twentieth-century Texas, where works portraying historical, often legendary, events and individuals predominated. Until now, however, these paintings of Texas history have never received the kind of study...
by Raya Yotova
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Rembrandt van Rhein is considered one of the greatest artists in the history of art and the most significant painter and etcher in Dutch art history. Rembrandt never went abroad but was significantly influenced by the work of Italian masters and Dutch artists who studied in Italy. Having achieved...
by Clara Erskine Clement
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
A History of Art for Beginners and Students ( Sculpture ) by Clara Erskine Clement. This edition contains 131 Illustrations, interactive table of contents, and beautifully formatted.
CHAPTERS INCLUDED: CHAPTER I. Ancient Sculpture CHAPTER II. Greek Sculpture CHAPTER IV. Mediæval Sculpture,...
by David Soren, Archer Martin
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2019
Classical archaeology was long equated to ancient art history. Today these fields find themselves at a major crossroads. The influence on them—from the discipline of anthropology—has increased substantially in the past 15 years, adding to the ways in which scholars can study the Roman past. The...
The Lost Battles
Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
From one of Britain’s most respected and acclaimed art historians, art critic of The Guardian—the galvanizing story of a sixteenth-century clash of titans, the two greatest minds of the Renaissance, working side by side in the same room in a fierce competition: the master Leonardo da Vinci, commissioned...
by J. M. W. Turner, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Renowned as ‘the painter of light’, the English Romanticist landscape painter J. M. W. Turner is now regarded as the artist that elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting, as well as raising the reputation of watercolour landscape painting. Delphi’s Masters of Art...
What Are You Looking At?
The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
For skeptics, art lovers, and the millions of us who visit art galleries every year—and are confused—What Are You Looking At? by former director of London’s Tate Gallery Will Gompertz is a wonderfully lively, accessible narrative history of Modern Art, from Impressionism to the present day.
What...