Art Architecture category: 42682 books
Art School
(Propositions for the 21st Century)
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Leading international artists and art educators consider the challenges of art education in today's dramatically changed art world.
The last explosive change in art education came nearly a century ago, when the German Bauhaus was formed. Today, dramatic changes in the art world—its increasing...
Chaos, Territory, Art
Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008
Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory...
The Vatican Art Deck
100 Masterpieces
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This one-of-a-kind array of 100 art masterpieces, quality printed on handsome card stock, brings together the finest works from the magnificent spiritual and artistic collection of the Vatican.
The Vatican is one of the most popular destinations in the world, with more than 5 million visitors...
Folk Art Fusion
Learn to paint colorful contemporary folk art in acrylic
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
**Folk art still influences everyday art in some surprising ways. *****Folk Art Fusion ***shows you how to blend classic subjects with new techniques to create a lovely work of art that is completely unique.
Folk Art Fusion explores the colorful combination of art styles and present them...
by Pamela Sachant, Peggy Blood, Jeffery LeMieux
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a deep insight and comprehension of the world of Art. Contents: What is Art? The Structure of Art Significance of Materials Used in Art Describing Art - Formal Analysis, Types, and Styles of Art Meaning in Art - Socio-Cultural Contexts, Symbolism,...
Art in Crisis
The Lost Center
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The history of art from the early nineteenth century on- ward is commonly viewed as a succession of conflicts between innovatory and established styles that culminated in the formalism and aesthetic autonomy of high modernism. In Art and Crisis, first published in 1948, Hans Sedlmayr argues that the...
Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson
Rediscovering the Founding Fathers of American Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Yes, they make rather an odd couple-but, truly, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and Fiske Kimball (1888-1955) are the Johnson and Boswell of the story of American architecture. If not for Dr. Fiske Kimball, we might never have known that Thomas Jefferson was an architect. Though he was hailed as a brilliant...
by Gregory Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
'London Deco: Introduction' is an essential introductory volume for the London Deco series of ebooks by Gregory Edwards, and published by Hidden City Publishing. In 'London Deco: Introduction' there are attempts to answer the questions: “Why is London not Regarded as an Art Deco...
Gunnar Asplund's Gothenburg
The Transformation of Public Architecture in Interwar Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
In the west coast port city of Gothenburg, Sweden, the architect Gunnar Asplund built a modest extension to an old courthouse on the main square (1934–36). Judged today to be one of the finest works of modern architecture, the courthouse extension was immediately the object of a negative newspaper...
Helen Chadwick
Constructing Identities Between Art and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Shifting from early institutional and architectural critique to personal, poetic installations, photography projects and sculptures, British artist Helen Chadwick (1953-1996) produced a wide-ranging body of work in an assortment of media. In this book, Stephen Walker looks beyond the apparent variety...
William Woodward
American Impressionist
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
William Woodward (1859-1939) was a force in New Orleans and the art world, and his legacy endures. In this first compilation of examples of Woodward's work spanning his career, essayists offer unique perspectives on the artist and his art.
Woodward was a graduate of the Rhode Island School...
Thinking About Art
A Thematic Guide to Art History
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Thinking about Art explores some of the greatest works of art and architecture in the world through the prism of themes, instead of chronology, to offer intriguing juxtapositions of art and history.
The book ranges across time and topics, from the Parthenon to the present day and from patronage...
by Victoria Charles
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Spanish architect and designer Antoni Gaudí (18521926) was an important and influential figure in the history of modern Spanish art. The use of colour, wide-ranging materials and introduction of organic forms into his constructions were an innovation in the realm of architecture. In his journal Gaudí...
Democratic Art
The New Deal's Influence on American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Throughout the Great Recession American artists and public art endowments have had to fight for government support to keep themselves afloat. It wasn’t always this way. At its height in 1935, the New Deal devoted $27 million—roughly $461 million today—to supporting tens of thousands of needy...