Contemporary Painting (World of Art)

How global contemporary art reanimates the past as a resource for the present, combating modern art's legacy of Eurocentrism.If European modernism ...

Brimming with some of the brightest stars in the contemporary art world, this is a far-reaching exploration of the very best landscape painting now.

Presents the work of 17 contemporary painters whose works reflect a singular approach that is peculiarly of our time: they are a-temporal, a term c...

Reducere. DescriptionFor any child who loves art, it would be the gift of a lifetime to be able to study with a great contemporary artist. This delightful st...

The definitive catalogue to a world-class collection of Chinese contemporary art, which includes painting, photography, sculpture, installation and...

In the twenty-first century, photography has come of age as a contemporary art form. Almost two centuries after photographic technology was first i...

This engrossing memoir brings to vivid life the behind-the-scenes struggles of Marcia Tucker, the first woman to be hired as a curator at the Whitn...

Reducere. - An extraordinary book for artists, galleries and art lovers representing artists from all around the world. - 400 Creative and vivid artworks, fr...

Reducere. Even during the artist's lifetime, contemporary art lovers considered Rembrandt van Rijn to be an exceptional artist. In this revelatory sequel to ...

Reducere. Art of the Non-Western World: Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas gives students the tools to better understand and appreciate the arts in a gl...

Painting is about responding to the world around you, engaging with light and form, feeling the moment as well as placing lines of colour on a canv...

This is the first book to survey the work of painter and printmaker Tom Hammick (b.1963). It sets Hammick's art within the context of contemporary ...

Description-A new take on perception and preconceptions about the unclothed body and how, through art, the naked becomes the nude Unframing the Nud...

Reducere. How contemporary artists draw the human figure in an affordable, up-to-date and well-illustrated survey, covering an eclectic range of drawing styl...

Reducere. Behind the glass windows of a storefront-turned-apartment, an art handler at a contemporary art museum sits among dead birds awaiting the return of...

Reducere. Charles Moore's brilliant blueprint reveals the inner workings of the sophisticated moiety that make up the Black artists in the contemporary art w...

DescriptionLearn to draw and paint more than 100 of your favorite everyday items Step-by-step projects and creative inspiration make it fun and eas...

DescriptionModern art can be confusing and intimidating--even ugly and blasphemous. And yet curator and art critic Daniel A. Siedell finds somethin...

Reducere. DescriptionThe 21st century has seen a sea change in perceptions of public art. No longer limited to alleys and the shadows of overpasses, a new ge...

Reducere. What is craft? How is it different from fine art or design? In A Theory of Craft, Howard Risatti examines these issues by comparing handmade cerami...

Revised and redesigned for the first time since 2001, this standard introduction to visual art in the postwar era examines the movements, trends, a...

DescriptionA concise survey of Marsden Hartley's daring innovations in American painting, with reflections on his work by contemporary artistsA def...

For a contemporary artist of serious aesthetic purpose, David Hockney enjoys immense, perhaps unequaled public visibility: the shock of dyed blond ...

One very special work of art--a Chaim Soutine painting--will connect the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart, in this enthral...

Reducere. - The first monograph on the work of the pioneering art collective- A must for anyone with an interest in contemporary art and design, street art, ...

DescriptionDisrupted Realism is the first book to survey the works of contemporary painters who are challenging and reshaping the tradition of Real...

An exploration of the role that dreaming, psychedelic experiences, and mystical visions play in visionary art - Includes discussions with 18 well-k...

Create stunning botanical and animal watercolor paintings in a fresh, contemporary style with the expert guidance of award-winning artist Harriet d...

Reducere. Wayne Thiebaud: 1958-1968 examines Thiebaud's ongoing impact on contemporary art through in-depth analysis of the paintings and drawings made at th...

This beginner's guide to drawing in graphite pencil uses step-by-step exercises to teach fundamental methods for rendering all aspects of the natur...

The original Buddhist coloring book. Whether you color for relaxation, stress relief, or part of your devotional practice, enjoy exquisite line dra...

Artist Clay Cahill retreats to her hometown of Pine Cone, Georgia, when she's betrayed by a woman she thought cared and the pressure of the New Yor...

Reducere. How photography served as both source and foil for the birth of impressionismFrom the first announcement in 1839 of the daguerreotype process at a ...

DescriptionFrom bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been dera...

Neverlasting Miracles is an exquisite career retrospective, presenting the best works of artist Todd Schorr. One of the leading figures in the worl...