General Art category: 18772 books
Color, Facture, Art and Design
Artistic Technique and the Precisions of Human Perception
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Color, Facture, Art and Design seeks to understand art and design from the aspect of materials, construction and the senses. It contends that this element is omitted from art and design theory as a product of the division of labour and alienation as it operates within the realms of theory and art history.It...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Key Writers on Art: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century offers a unique and authoritative guide to theories of art from Ancient Greece to the end of the Victorian era, written by an international panel of expert contributors. Arranged chronologically to provide an historical framework, the 43...
by Arthur D. Efland
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Arthur Efland puts current debate and concerns in a well-researched historical perspective. He examines the institutional settings of art education throughout Western history, the social forces that have shaped it, and the evolution and impact of alternate streams of influence on present practice.*A...
Kill for Peace
American Artists Against the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
The Vietnam War (1964–1975) divided American society like no other war of the twentieth century, and some of the most memorable American art and art-related activism of the last fifty years protested U.S. involvement. At a time when Pop Art, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art dominated the American art...
Fine Art Tips with Lori McNee
Painting Techniques and Professional Advice
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Lessons of a lifetime. 24 modern-day masters share secrets to their success.
Since 2009, thousands of artists have flocked to Lori McNee's FineArtTips.com for creative and professional advice. A social media guru as well as a professional artist, McNee has assembled a diverse and impressive...
Art Themes
Choices in Art Learning and Making
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Flexible in approach and full of colorful examples, this textbook provides a basic introduction to what art is and can be in the lives of people who do not necessarily think of themselves as "artists." You will be taught about a variety of art themes, genres, materials, and processes that...
Folk Art Fusion: Americana
Learn to draw and paint charming American folk art with a colorful, modern twist
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Fans of Charles Wysocki, Mary Engelbreit, Grandma Moses, and folk art in general will fall in love with Folk Art Fusion: Americana.
Featuring projects that instruct artists of all skill levels how to draw and paint subjects including quaint homes, pretty patterns, colorful gardens, picturesque...
Colonized through Art
American Indian Schools and Art Education, 1889-1915
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Colonized through Art explores how the federal government used art education for American Indian children as an instrument for the “colonization of consciousness,” hoping to instill the values and ideals of Western society while simultaneously maintaining a political, social, economic, and racial...
by Lenka Tucek
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2003
Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Art - Painting, grade: 1 (A), Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (Faculty of Arts), course: Course: South African Archaeology and Ethno-history (SA 301), 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: One aspect of the wealth of material...
Open-Air Rock-Art Conservation and Management
State of the Art and Future Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
While much has been achieved in understanding and managing weather effects and erosion phenomena affecting ancient imagery within the relatively protected environments of caves and rock-shelters, the same cannot be said of rock-art panels situated in the open-air. Despite the fact that the number...
Leonardo Da Vinci (His Art & Mind)
"Illustrated with Eight Reproductions in Colour"
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Leonardo Da Vinci, the many-sided genius of the Italian Renaissance, was born, as his name implies, at the little town of Vinci, which is about six miles from Empoli and twenty miles west of Florence. Vinci is still very inaccessible, and the only means of conveyance is the cart of a general carrier...
Celtic Art in Europe
Making Connections
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
The ancient Celtic world evokes debate, discussion, romanticism and mythicism. On the one hand it represents a specialist area of archaeological interest, on the other, it has a wide general appeal. The Celtic world is accessible through archaeology, history, linguistics and art history. Of these...
POP
How Graphic Design Shapes Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Pop culture is often maligned as fleeting, but history shows that sometimes what is pop in one culture has time-honored resonance in later ones. This book is an attempt to show that pop culture, especially as seen through the lenses of design, illustration, satiric and political art (and other things),...
Bad New Days
Art, Criticism, Emergency
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
One of the world’s leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practice
Bad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency instilled...