General Art category: 18772 books
Regency Women's Dress
Techniques and Patterns 1800-1830
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
The distinctive style of the Regency period is a source of endless fascination for fashion academics and historians, living historians, re-enactors and costume designers for stage and screen. Author and fashion historian Cassidy Percoco has delved into little-known museum hoards to create a stunning...
Cross-Cultural Issues in Art
Frames for Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Cross-Cultural Issues in Art provides an engaging introduction to aesthetic concepts, expanding the discussion beyond the usual Western theorists and Western examples.
Steven Leuthold discusses both contemporary and historical issues and examples, incorporating a range of detailed case studies...
Contemporary Chinese Art
A Critical History
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Since the confirmation of Deng Xiaoping’s policy of Opening and Reform in 1978, the People’s Republic of China has undergone a liberalization of culture that has led to the production of numerous forms of avant-garde, experimental, and museum-based art. With a fast-growing international market...
Art Rethought
The Social Practices of Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Human beings engage works of the arts in many different ways: they sing songs while working, they kiss icons, they create and dedicate memorials. Yet almost all philosophers of art of the modern period have ignored this variety and focused entirely on just one mode of engagement, namely, disinterested...
Design Methodology
Theoretical Fundamentals
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
This book is addressed to students and teachers in design degrees and researchers interested in logical thinking of design. Just like any other discipline, design must accredit its rational fundamentals to refer the conditions of knowledge that determine it as a specific object of study. Methodology...
Thai Art
Currencies of the Contemporary
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
The interplay of the local and the global in contemporary Thai art, as artists strive for international recognition and a new meaning of the national.
Since the 1990s, Thai contemporary art has achieved international recognition, circulating globally by way of biennials, museums, and commercial...
Art for a New Understanding
Native Voices, 1950s to Now
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Art for a New Understanding, an exhibition from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art that opened in October 2018, seeks to radically expand and reposition the narrative of American art since 1950 by charting a history of the development of contemporary Indigenous art from the United States and Canada,...
by Wiktor Kostrzewski
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
"I have six main goals in mind as I'm writing this. Goal number one is to enable you to enjoy art more. This is the biggest, and by far the hardest thing to do. If anything in this course stops you from enjoying art more in the end, let me know so I can fix it. Goal number two is to let you discover...
by David Carrier
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Boldly developing the central traditions of American modernist abstraction, Lawrence Carroll's paintings engage with a fundamental issue of aesthetic theory, the nature of the medium of painting, in highly original, frequently extraordinarily successful ways. Aesthetic Theory, Abstract Art, and Lawrence...
by Paul Wood
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Western Art and the Wider World explores the evolving relationship between the Western canon of art, as it has developed since the Renaissance, and the art and culture of the Islamic world, the Far East, Australasia, Africa and the Americas.
Explores the origins, influences, and evolving relationship...
Art Studio: Faces & Features
More than 50 projects and techniques for drawing and painting heads, faces, and features in pencil, acrylic, watercolor, and more!
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Art Studio: Faces & Features introduces beginning artists and art enthusiasts to the art of drawing and painting heads, faces, and expressions using a variety of mediums.
Drawing and painting heads, faces, and expressions can be an intimidating prospect for a beginning artist. Art Studio:...
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...
by Harpal Sodhi
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s & Husain’s Paintings
By: Dr. Harpal Sodhi
The book, “Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s and Husain’s Paintings”, is a projection of master minds in the field of art. It reveals about the creative works of art that are not just show pieces to...
by Christopher A. Le Dantec
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
An exploration of design considerations in the design of technologies that support local collective action.
Contemporary computing technologies have thoroughly embedded themselves in every aspect of modern life—conducting commerce, maintaining and extending our networks of friends, and mobilizing...