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by Paul Gauguin, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin is now recognised for his experimental use of colour and synthetist style, seeking to achieve a “primitive” expression of spiritual and emotional states in his work. Gauguin is particularly well known for his creative relationship with Vincent van Gogh as well...
by John Nici
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
In a world filled with great museums and great paintings, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is the reigning queen. Her portrait rules over a carefully designed salon, one that was made especially for her in a museum that may seem intended for no other purpose than to showcase her virtues. What has made...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of American Folk Art web site.
This is the first comprehensive, scholarly study of a most fascinating aspect of American history and culture. Generously illustrated with both black and white and full-color photos, this...
Art Space Tokyo
An intimate guide to the Tokyo art world
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
A guide to Tokyo via its art spaces!
Art Space Tokyo introduces you to twelve of the best museum and galleries in the city. In doing so, the book also introduces you to ten Tokyo neighborhoods, unveiling the best restaurants, cafes and walks in each.
Art Space Tokyo is the only companion you'll need to explore Tokyo like a native.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series, and the seminars on which they are based, brings together a range of scholars who are not always directly familiar with one another’s work. The outcome of each of these convergences is an extensive and “unpredictable conversation”...
The Rise and Fall of American Art, 1940s–1980s
A Geopolitics of Western Art Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In The Rise and Fall of American Art, 1940s-1980s, Catherine Dossin challenges the now-mythic perception of New York as the undisputed center of the art world between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall, a position of power that brought the city prestige, money, and historical...
Witness to Phenomenon
Group ZERO and the Development of New Media in Postwar European Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Witness of Phenomenon articulates a fresh examination of the German Group Zero-Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Günter Uecker-and other new tendency artists, who rejected painting and introduced new art media in postwar Europe. Group ZERO evolved into a network across Europe- Amsterdam, Milan, Paris,...
by Terry Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists, critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today’s multifaceted definition, Terry Smith brilliantly shows that an historical approach offers the best answer to the...
The Hearing Eye
Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2009
The widespread presence of jazz and blues in African American visual art has long been overlooked. The Hearing Eye makes the case for recognizing the music's importance, both as formal template and as explicit subject matter. Moving on from the use of iconic musical figures and motifs in Harlem Renaissance...
Sharpie Art Workshop
Techniques and Ideas for Transforming Your World
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Bold and sharp, brilliant and vivid, Sharpie markers can be found in art, office, and stationery supply stores, drugstores, mass-market and crafts chains - almost anywhere writing utensils are sold. Sharpies can be used on virtually any surface, from the traditional (paper and canvas) to the unexpected...
The Taste of Art
Cooking, Food, and Counterculture in Contemporary Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The Taste of Art offers a sample of scholarly essays that examine the role of food in Western contemporary art practices. The contributors are scholars from a range of disciplines, including art history, philosophy, film studies, and history. As a whole, the volume illustrates how artists engage with...
American Art Deco
An Illustrated Survey
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
One of the most popular forms of twentieth-century design, the Art Deco style dominated the decorative arts in the 1920s and '30s. Championed by progressive architects and inspired by such diverse influences as the industrial age and Native American art, it became a form of artistic self-expression...
Art and Mourning
The role of creativity in healing trauma and loss
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Art and Mourning explores the relationship between creativity and the work of self-mourning in the lives of 20th century artists and thinkers. The role of artistic and creative endeavours is well-known within psychoanalytic circles in helping to heal in the face of personal loss, trauma, and mourning.
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by Donatello, Peter Russell
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2017
The greatest sculptor of the Italian Renaissance, Donatello produced both marble and bronze masterpieces. His revolutionary statues were lauded for their incredible realism, while he also developed his very own form of shallow bas-relief, known as ‘schiacciato’. Donatello possessed an extensive...