General Art category: 18772 books
by Andrew Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
What is the work of art? How does art work as art? Andrew Benjamin contends that the only way to address these questions is by developing a radically new materialist philosophy of art, and by rethinking the history of art from within that perspective.
A materialist philosophy of art starts...
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...
Artistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
This volume examines the motives behind rejections of beauty often found within contemporary art practice, where much critically acclaimed art is deliberately ugly and alienating. It reflects on the nature and value of beauty, asking whether beauty still has a future in art and what role it can play...
by Jane Portal
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
Nuclear bombs and geopolitical controversy are often the first things associated with North Korea and its volatile leader Kim Jong-II. Yet behind the secretive curtain of this isolated nation also lies a little-known and slowly expanding world of art.
Art Under Control in North Korea is the...
Art and the Market
Roger Fry on Commerce in Art, Selected Writings, Edited with an Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Roger Fry, a core member of the Bloomsbury Group, was involved with all aspects of the art market as artist, critic, curator, historian, journalist, advisor to collectors, and gallery operator. He is especially remembered as the person who introduced postimpressionist art to Britain.
Reprinted...
An Anthropology of Contemporary Art
Practices, Markets, and Collectors
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Drawing on the exciting developments that have occurred in the anthropology of art over the last twenty years, this study uses ethnographic methods to explore shifts in the art market and global contemporary art. Recognizing that the huge diversity of global phenomena requires research on the ground,...
Stealing History
Art Theft, Looting, and Other Crimes Against our Cultural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
When compared to terrorism, drugs and violent crimes that occupy the news today art is not considered as important. But, as it turns out, art and cultural crime is currently ranked as the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world. What exactly is art crime? Why does art matter? And what is law...
by Gregory Votolato
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
From oar-powered quinqueremes, to steam-powered freighters, to luxury ocean liners such as the Titanic,to aircraft carriers like the Abraham Lincoln,ships have played an integral role in trade, transportation, and war throughout history. Today, ships remain the largest and most expensive moving objects...
Norman Bel Geddes
American Design Visionary
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Norman Bel Geddes has long been considered the 'founder' of American industrial design. During his long career he worked on everything from theatre design, world fairs and cars to houses and product and packaging design.
Nicolas P. Maffei's magisterial biography draws on original material from...
Seven Easy and Cheap Methods for Preparing, Tanning, Dressing, Scenting and Renovating all Wool and Fur Peltries
Also all Fine Leather as Adapted to the Manufacture of Robes, Mats, Caps, Gloves, Mitts, Overshoes
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This vintage book contains a guide to the various methods employed in preparing, tanning, dressing, scenting, and renovating wool and fur pelts, as well as fine leather. With simple instructions and a wealth of timeless information, this volume is highly recommended for novice leather workers and...
by Gary P. Bagnall
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Law as Art presents a radical new legal theory, the Law as Art Hypothesis, which conceives law, not as a system of rules, but as a distinctive kind of art work. Law is differentiated as art by the Law as Compound Artistic Type Hypothesis, which uses the heuristic metaphor of the Operatic Music Drama,...
by Martin Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics
Art has always been part of history. But we often think of it as outside history. When we look at a painting by Raphael, Rembrandt or Rubens it speaks to us directly, but it's also an historical document, part of a living world. Renowned art...
The Artist's Guide to Public Art
How to Find and Win Commissions (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
“What artists don’t know—but need to know.” —Jack Becker, Public Art Review
A Comprehensive Guide to the Complex World of Public Art
Learn how to find, apply for, compete for, and win a public art commission. First-hand interviews with experienced public artists and arts administrators...
Contemporary Iranian Art
From the Street to the Studio
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
In the first comprehensive look at Iranian art and visual culture since the 1979 revolution, Talinn Grigor investigates the official art sponsored by the Islamic Republic, the culture of avant-garde art created in the studio and its display in galleries and museums, and the art of the Iranian diaspora...