General Art category: 18772 books
M/E/A/N/I/N/G
An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory, and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2000
M/E/A/N/I/N/G brings together essays and commentary by over a hundred artists, critics, and poets, culled from the art magazine of the same name. The editors—artists Susan Bee and Mira Schor—have selected the liveliest and most provocative pieces from the maverick magazine that bucked commercial...
The Complete Book of Drawing Fantasy Art
How to draw amazing characters and scenes
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This action-packed volume brings together a whole range of fantasy art projects, from the nearly human to the downright monstrous. Steve Beaumont's two successful fantasy art titles, How to Draw Fantasy Art and How to Draw Fantasy Worlds, are brought together into one bumper volume. Projects range from...
by John Nici
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
In a world filled with great museums and great paintings, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is the reigning queen. Her portrait rules over a carefully designed salon, one that was made especially for her in a museum that may seem intended for no other purpose than to showcase her virtues. What has made...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of American Folk Art web site.
This is the first comprehensive, scholarly study of a most fascinating aspect of American history and culture. Generously illustrated with both black and white and full-color photos, this...
Social History of Art, Volume 2
Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2005
First published in 1951 Arnold Hauser's commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details social and historical movements and sketches the...
Social History of Art, Volume 4
Naturalism, Impressionism, The Film Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details social and historical movements and sketches the...
by Julian Bell
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Julian Bell’s incisive, fully updated study of modern art and the nature of painting, which daringly tries to explain it
“Yes, but is it art?” This lucid book by Julian Bell, himself a painter, confronts the uncertainty many people feel about art today and challenges generally accepted...
Social History of Art, Volume 1
From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details social and historical movements and sketches the...
Educating Artists for the Future
Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In Educating Artists for the Future, some of the world’s most innovative thinkers in higher education in art and design offer fresh directions for educating artists for a rapidly evolving post-digital future. Their creative redefinition of art at the interdisciplinary interface where scientific...
by Gertrude Grace Sill
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Explore one of the richest and most rewarding aspects of Western art with this comprehensive easy-to-use, portable guide to Christian symbols.
Organized like a primer, with hundreds of entries in 50 categories—from A for Angels to Z for Zodiac—this handy pocket reference enables you to...
Looking Closer 4
Critical Writings on Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
The most stimulating installment yet in the acclaimed Looking Closer series! This enthralling collection of essays assembles some of the most intriguing critical commentary published in professional and general interest design magazines from 1997 to 2000. Over thirty contributors, including Rick Poynor,...
Social History of Art, Volume 3
Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details social and historical movements and sketches the...
Yaxchilan
The Design of a Maya Ceremonial City
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
As archaeologists peel away the jungle covering that has both obscured and preserved the ancient Maya cities of Mexico and Central America, other scholars have only a limited time to study and understand the sites before the jungle, weather, and human encroachment efface them again, perhaps forever....
by Sarah S. Vati
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
Activism in Art is a group on the website for art collectors and artists fineartamerica.com, and also a rather fertile topic, especially now that the economic crisis leads artists (and people in general) to review their beliefs, their principles, their role in society, and, in brief, what really matters...