Art History category: 15294 books
Postwar Italian Art History Today
Untying 'the Knot'
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Postwar Italian Art History Today brings fresh critical consideration to the parameters and impact of Italian art and visual culture studies of the past several decades. Taking its cue from the thirty-year anniversary of curator Germano Celant's landmark exhibition at PS1 in New York – The Knot...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Exploring the history of art in China from its earliest incarnations to the present day, this comprehensive volume includes two dozen newly-commissioned essays spanning the theories, genres, and media central to Chinese art and theory throughout its history.
Provides an exceptional collection...
Authentically African
Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Together, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and the Institut des Musées Nationaux du Zaire (IMNZ) in the Congo have defined and marketed Congolese art and culture. In Authentically African, Sarah Van Beurden traces the relationship between the possession, definition, and display...
The Art of Feminism
Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857-2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2018
Feminist art and the fight for equality
Art and feminism: Once again, women are on the march. And since its inception in the 19th century, the women's movement has harnessed the power of images to transmit messages of social change and equality to the world.
A comprehensive international survey...
Bloomsbury Scientists
Science and Art in the Wake of Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Bloomsbury Scientists is the story of the network of scientists and artists living in a square mile of London before and after the First World War. This inspired group of men and women viewed creativity and freedom as the driving force behind nature, and each strove to understand this in their own...
by Giles Winterborne
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
If you wanted to enjoy yourself back in 1968, and were so inclined, you might possibly think about going to Art College, perhaps in London, and spending your summer holidays wandering around the great galleries of Europe including the Louvre, the Prado and the Vatican, as well as visiting the Parthenon,...
Cinema by Design
Art Nouveau, Modernism, and Film History
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Art Nouveau thrived from the late 1890s through the First World War. The international design movement reveled in curvilinear forms and both playful and macabre visions and had a deep impact on cinematic art direction, costuming, gender representation, genre, and theme. Though historians have long...
The Seductions of Darwin
Art, Evolution, Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the biological sciences influence one another, and what we gain in applying scientific methods to the interpretation of artwork. In this insightful book, Matthew Rampley addresses these...
by James A. Burgess
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Art Collecting for Beginners: A Quick Start Guide to Art Design, Buying Paintings and Collecting Art Work and Art Auctions
Buying and collecting art intelligently can be done by anyone. That's right, anyone. You do not need to have experience in collecting art, previous knowledge...
by Giles Winterborne
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
If you wanted to enjoy yourself back in 1968, and were so inclined, you might possibly think about going to Art College, perhaps in London, and spending your summer holidays wandering around the great galleries of Europe including the Louvre, the Prado and the Vatican, as well as visiting the Parthenon,...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Pablo Picasso is known today for his intriguing art work. How did he come up with an art style that is unique to him? This art history book will trace Pablo Picasso’s evolution to becoming the artist that we know today. Be prepared to dive deep into art. Grab a copy of this book today!
Creating the Future
Art and Los Angeles in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Conceived as a challenge to long-standing conventional wisdom, Creating the Future is a work of social history/cultural criticism that examines the premise that the progress of art in Los Angeles ceased during the 1970s—after the decline of the Ferus Gallery, the scattering of its stable of artists...
Out of Sight
The Los Angeles Art Scene of the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
A social and cultural history of Los Angeles and its emerging art scene in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s
The history of modern art typically begins in Paris and ends in New York. Los Angeles was out of sight and out of mind, viewed as the apotheosis of popular culture, not a center for serious art.
Out...
Social History of Art, Volume 2
Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2005
First published in 1951 Arnold Hauser's commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details social and historical movements and sketches the...