Art category: 43213 books
No Innocent Bystanders
Performance Art and Audience
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
At a moment when performance art and performance generally are at the center of the international art world, Frazer Ward offers us insightful readings of major performance pieces by the likes of Acconci, Burden, Abramovic, and Hsieh, and confronts the twisting and troubled relationship that performance...
Aesthetics of Discomfort
Conversations on Disquieting Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Through a series of provocative conversations, Frederick Luis Aldama and Herbert Lindenberger, who have written widely on literature, film, music, and art, locate a place for the discomforting and the often painfully unpleasant within aesthetics. The conversational format allows them to travel informally...
Paris Without End
On French Art Since World War I
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
“[A] tour de force . . . As one critic’s demonstration of what he considers the best in art and the best way to write about it, this book sets a high standard” (Roberta Smith).
This brilliant blend of history, biography, and criticism explores the seminal figures of twentieth-century French...
Creating Art at the Speed of Life
30 Days of Mixed-Media Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
In this inspirational volume, artist and author Pam Carriker offers uninhibited mixed-media play while encouraging you to look at your work with a newly evaluative eye and determine what works for you. Create your own art journal while using a variety of mixed-media techniques and explore seven important...
A Brief History of Working with New Media Art
Inteviews with Artists
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
This book of interviews tracks the work of artists in the field of new media art in order to consider the massive changes and developments over a relatively short period of time. They are also a celebration of the ten years that the online resource for curators of new media art, CRUMB, has been publishing...
Inner Hero Creative Art Journal
Mixed Media Messages to Silence Your Inner Critic
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Dear Inner Critic, meet your inner heroes!
As a creative person, you are familiar with the critic--that nagging presence in your head that is always trying to point out your shortcomings. But there is hope: Your inner heroes are also always with you at your worktable. Through the creation of...
The Art of Expressive Collage
Techniques for Creating with Paper and Glue
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
What story will your art express?
There's a dialogue waiting to happen on your worktable. The Art of Expressive Collage will teach you to listen to what paper and glue, ink and paint have to tell you. From the fear of messing up to the excitement of letting things flow, you'll come to see the...
by Dorothy James
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Thinking about creating your own art at home? Don't want to purchase art pieces that don't connect with who you are as a person and what you want your home to look like?
Dorothy James points out some of the best ways to create beautiful art on a budget.
It does not get easier than this!
Collage Couture
Techniques for Creating Fashionable Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Play dress-up with your art!
Collage has never been so fashionable! In Collage Couture you'll learn how to sketch fashion figures, create stylish dresses from patterned paper and apply a variety of textured backgrounds to your collage pieces. With styles ranging from cute to elegant and sweet...
Portable Borders
Performance Art and Politics on the U.S. Frontera since 1984
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
After World War II, the concept of borders became unsettled, especially after the rise of subaltern and multicultural studies in the 1980s. Art at the U.S.-Mexico border came to a turning point at the beginning of that decade with the election of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Beginning with a political...
The Art of iPhone Photography
Creating Great Photos and Art on Your iPhone
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The Art of iPhone Photography explores how 45 of today's best iPhonegraphers from around the world conceived, composed, and created some of their finest and best-known pieces-all in their own words. Through an understanding of the artists' visions, creative decisions, and techniques, beginning through...
The Recording Machine
Art and Fact during the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
A revealing look at the irrevocable change in art during the 1960s and its relationship to the modern culture of fact This refreshing and erudite book offers a new understanding of the transformation of photography and the visual arts around 1968. Author Joshua Shannon reveals an oddly stringent realism...
Civic Aesthetics
Militarism, Israeli Art and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Awarded an Honourable Mention by the Association for Israeli Studies.
Exploring the politics of the image in the context of Israeli militarized visual culture, Civic Aesthetics examines both the omnipresence of militarism in Israeli culture and society and the way in which this omnipresence...
by Edward Fry, Francesco Bonami, Alexandra Munroe
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The Guggenheim Reader Series: Modern Asian Art is the second installment in an ongoing series collecting out-of-print and hard-to-find essays from past Guggenheim publications and lectures to illuminate focused topics in art history. Much like last fall’s Russia reader, Modern Asian Art examines five...