Art History category: 15294 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
A comprehensive review of art in the first truly modern century
A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art contains contributions from an international panel of noted experts to offer a broad overview of both national and transnational developments, as well as new and innovative investigations of...
by Dr. Jane Coryell
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
Teaching Art History The fun Way ~ It's a Scream is a handbook for teaching art history using games, food, music, and clothing as memory aids and interest catchers. Chronologically, from pre-historic to modern times, historical highlights are dovetailed with studio work. For instance, the Renaissance...
How Folklore Shaped Modern Art
A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed relevance of what were previously considered "outsider" art practices, the emphasis...
The Global Work of Art
World's Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Global biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists’ engagement with large-scale international exhibitions has a much longer history that has influenced the present in important ways. Going back to the earliest world’s fairs in the nineteenth century, this book argues...
Virgin Sacrifice in Classical Art
Women, Agency, and the Trojan War
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
The Trojan War begins and ends with the sacrifice of a virgin princess. The gruesome killing of a woman must have captivated ancient people because the myth of the sacrificial virgin resonates powerfully in the arts of ancient Greece and Rome. Most scholars agree that the Greeks and Romans did not...
Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force
Mapping a Chicano/a Art History
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
The Royal Chicano Air Force produced major works of visual art, poetry, prose, music, and performance during the second half of the twentieth century and first decades of the twenty-first. Materializing in Sacramento, California, in 1969 and established between 1970 and 1972, the RCAF helped redefine...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Place plays a fundamental role in the structuring of the discipline of Art History. And yet, place also limits the questions art historians can ask and impairs analysis of objects and locations in the interstices of established, ossified categories. The chapters in this interdisciplinary volume investigate...
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...
Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba
Ife History, Power, and Identity, c. 1300
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
In this book, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the intersection of art, risk and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife and the striking ways that ancient Ife artworks inform society, politics, history and religion. Yoruba art offers a unique lens into one of Africa's most important...
Private Collecting, Exhibitions, and the Shaping of Art History in London
The Burlington Fine Arts Club
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
The Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemen’s club with a singular remit – to exhibit members’ art collections. Exhibitions were proposed, organized, and furnished by a group of prominent members of British society who included aristocrats, artists, bankers, politicians,...
by Thomas Nail
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
We live in an age of the mobile image. The world today is absolutely saturated with images of all kinds circulating around the world at an incredible rate. The movement of the image has never been more extraordinary than it is today. This recent kinetic revolution of the image has enormous consequences...
by Charlotte Horlyck
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Walk the galleries of any major contemporary art museum and you are sure to see a work by a Korean artist. Interest in modern and contemporary art from South—as well as North—Korea has grown in recent decades, and museums and individual collectors have been eager to tap into this rising market....
Mapping Modernisms
Art, Indigeneity, Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Mapping Modernisms brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists. Expanding the contours of modernity and its visual products, the contributors illustrate how these artists engaged with ideas of Primitivism through visual...
The Mushroom in Christian Art
The Identity of Jesus in the Development of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
In The Mushroom in Christian Art, author John A. Rush uses an artistic motif to define the nature of Christian art, establish the identity of Jesus, and expose the motive for his murder. Covering Christian art from 200 CE (common era) to the present, the author reveals that Jesus, the Teacher of Righteousness...