General Art category: 18772 books
Christ to Coke
How Image Becomes Icon
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Image, branding, and logos are obsessions of our age. Iconic images dominate the media. Christ to Coke is the first book to look at all the main types of visual icons. It does so via eleven supreme and mega-famous examples, both historical and contemporary, to see how they arose and how they continue...
The Art of Understanding Art
A new perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Have we completely missed the point of the modern western revolution in the arts? Hugh Moss thinks so, and here he presents a refreshingly original and thought-provoking new approach to understanding art. It not only makes sense of western art over the past century or more, but applies equally to...
The Dream Colony
A Life in Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Art Forum's Best of the Year List
A panoramic look at art in America in the second half of the twentieth century, through the eyes of the visionary curator who helped shape it.
An innovative, iconoclastic curator of contemporary art, Walter Hopps founded his first gallery in L.A. at...
Unnatural Wonders
Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Arthur C. Danto's essays not only critique bodies of work but reflect upon art's conceptual evolution as well, drawing for the reader a kind of "philosophical map" indicating how art and the criteria for judging it has changed over the twentieth century. In Unnatural Wonders the renowned...
Strike Art
Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The collision of activism and contemporary art, from the Seattle protests to Occupy and beyond
The collision of activism and contemporary art, from the Seattle protests to Occupy and beyond What is the relation of art to the practice of radical politics today? Strike Art explores this question...
The Accidental Masterpiece
On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
A New York Times bestseller—a dazzling and inspirational survey of how art can be found and appreciated in everyday life
Michael Kimmelman, the prominent New York Times writer and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, is known as a deep and graceful writer across the disciplines...
by New Museum
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
For over a decade, Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education has served as the guide to multicultural art education, connecting everyday experience, social critique, and creative expression with classroom learning. The much-anticipated Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education continues...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
"Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's Fountain. But questions about the categories of "art" and "art history" acquired increased urgency during the 1970s, when new developments in critical theory and...
Digital Art History
A Subject in Transition. Computers and the History of Art Series, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
This book looks at the transformation that Art and Art history is undergoing through engagement with the digital revolution. Since its initiation in 1985, CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) has set out to promote interaction between the rapidly developing new Information Technology and the study...
Balinese Art
Paintings and Drawings of Bali 1800 - 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
Balinese Art is the first comprehensive survey of Balinese painting from its origins in the traditional Balinese village to its present position at the forefront of the high-priced Asian art scene.
Balinese art has been popular and widely collected around the world for many decades. In fact,...
by Biljana Arandelovic
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This book provides insight into the significant area of public art and memorials in Berlin. Through diverse selected examples, grouped according to their basic character and significance, the most important art projects produced in the period since World War II are presented and discussed. Both as...
by Ottilie Godfrey
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
This stylish introduction to vintage fashion showcases the key designs and styles of the main vintage eras of the 20th century. It will be an inspiration to vintage enthusiasts and general readers alike, including iconic designs, trends and styles from each decade. It also includes commentary on the...
Leaving Art
Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974–2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Since the 1970s, the performance and conceptual artist Suzanne Lacy has explored women’s lives and experiences, as well as race, ethnicity, aging, economic disparities, and violence, through her pioneering community-based art. Combining aesthetics and politics, and often collaborating with other...
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...