Art History category: 15294 books
The Faustian Bargain
The Art World in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2000
Nazi art looting has been the subject of enormous international attention in recent years, and the topic of two history bestsellers, Hector Feliciano's The Lost Museum and Lynn Nicholas's The Rape of Europa. But such books leave us wondering: What made thoughtful, educated, artistic men and women...
Social History of Art, Volume 4
Naturalism, Impressionism, The Film Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers 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...
Social History of Art, Volume 1
From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers 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...
by Jennifer Barrett, Jacqueline Millner
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This unique book proposes a re-reading of the relationship between artists and the contemporary museum. In Australia in particular, the museum has played a significant role in the colonial project and this has generally been considered as the predominant mode of artists' engagement with such institutions...
Performativity in the Gallery
Staging Interactive Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This book coincides with an increase in the programming of live art elements in many galleries and museums. Traditional art history has, however, been wary of live art’s interdisciplinarity and its tendency to encourage increased formal and conceptual risk taking. Time-based performances have challenged...
Social History of Art, Volume 3
Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers 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...
Native American Art in the Twentieth Century
Makers, Meanings, Histories
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
This illuminating and provocative book is the first anthology devoted to Twentieth Century Native American and First Nation art. Native American Art brings together anthropologists, art historians, curators, critics and distinguished Native artists to discuss pottery, painitng, sculpture, printmaking,...
American Colonial Women and Their Art
A Chronological Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Less celebrated than their male counterparts, women have been vital contributors to the arts. Works by women of the colonial era represent treasured accomplishments of American culture and still impress us today, centuries after their creation. The breadth of creative expression is as impressive as...
Women Art Critics in Nineteenth-Century France
Vanishing Acts
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Over the past years, studies have begun not only to identify the factors that impeded the full participation of women artists in French cultural life, such as women’s limited access to professional art education, but also to bring to light the considerable artistic accomplishments of women occluded...
by Giles Winterborne
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 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 Giles Winterborne
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 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,...
Art, Passion & Power
The Story of the Royal Collection
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
"Hall’s consummate history is not just the story of the evolution of one of the world’s great collections… The book is also a through-the-keyhole insight into the shifting tastes, good or bad, of 1,000 years of monarchs."
- The Times
The Royal Collection is the last great collection...
Industry and Intelligence
Contemporary Art Since 1820
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The history of modern art is often told through aesthetic breakthroughs that sync well with cultural and political change. From Courbet to Picasso, from Malevich to Warhol, it is accepted that art tracks the disruptions of industrialization, fascism, revolution, and war. Yet filtering the history...
When Writing Met Art
From Symbol to Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Denise Schmandt-Besserat opened a major new chapter in the history of literacy when she demonstrated that the cuneiform script invented in the ancient Near East in the late fourth millennium BC—the world's oldest known system of writing—derived from an archaic counting device. Her discovery, which...