Monographic Exhibitions and the History of Art, Paperback - ***

This edited collection traces the impact of monographic exhibitions on the discipline of art history from the first examples in the late eighteenth...

This new history of over 5, 000 years of African art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions that ha...

A Brief Illustrated History of Art charts the history of art all the way from Prehistoric art through Classical art, through the Renaissance, to Cu...

This comprehensive examination of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous so...

Reducere. DescriptionThe pragmatism of Charles Peirce and William James and John Dewey exists as it moved, absorbing and absorbed. Conclusions remain provisi...

Reducere. Philip Hook takes the lid off the world of art dealing to reveal the brilliance, cunning, greed, and daring of its practitioners. In a richly anecd...

Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, and Laurie Anderson are just some of the major American artists of the twentieth c...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

'Place in garden, lawn, to beautify landscape.'When Don Featherstone's plastic pink flamingos were first advertised in the 1957 Sears catalogue, th...

Examines the aesthetic triumphs and failures of Lawrence's major works through a literary device that the author coins ""the constitutive symbol""....

Reducere. DescriptionThe phrase 'art therapy' was first coined in 1942, but Susan Hogan's study begins in the latter part of the eighteenth century, when the...

In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lew...

DescriptionThe powerful pencils of Ed McGuinness spectacularly combine all the energy of classic comic book artwork with 21st century flair - estab...

How the history of art begins with the myth of the barbarian invasion-the romantic fragmentation of classical eternity.

DescriptionArthur Adams' incredibly detailed rendering has established him as a fan-favorite artist in Marvel's pantheon of talent. From LONGSHOT t...

Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigAuthor(s): David TehIllustration(s): 150 colourNumber of pages: 288Collection: Afterall Exhibition ...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Kelly GrovierIllustration(s): 200 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dime...

Reducere. When God died, art was born. With Christ's crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension, the human imagination began to be remade. In Bezalel's Body: T...

Proposing a history of exhibitions sourced from a wide corpus reaching beyond the framework of art institutions.This volume gathers and expands upo...

Learn even more about art through the ages in this humorous and informative graphic novel sequel. Two kids and their grandpa continue their adventu...

DescriptionGiorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a man of many talents--a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar--but he is best known for Live...

This introduction to the work of the 16th-century master portraitist Hans Holbein reveals the impressive and surprising scope of his career.Publish...

Discover the life and work of Frida Kahlo in this introduction to the iconic Mexican artist.Illustrations: 55 Illustrations, color

Celebrate the life and work of Peter Paul Rubens with this informative introduction to the Flemish artist.Illustrations: 55 Illustrations, color

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Turner makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation.

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Leonardo da Vinci makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of apprecia...

Discover the dramatic life and work of Amedeo Modigliani, a pioneer of modern figurative painting.Illustrations: 55 Illustrations, color

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Rembrandt makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation.

Discover the motifs, masterpieces, and driving forces behind the artist Pablo Picasso.

An elegant introduction to Egon Schiele's career, this book untangles the mysteries and misunderstandings behind his genius.

Work of art My feelings for you are a breathless moment in time. This tingly sensation I get, since the first time we met. These feelings I have ye...

Reducere. This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to re...

Get a glimpse into the life and work of painter, sculptor, and printmaker Edgar Degas, who is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism.Publ...

Learn about Henri Matisse, one of 20th century's most beloved artists, and his artistic legacy.Publisher: PrestelAuthor(s): Eckhard HollmannIllustr...

" A] tart, funny, lurid little bomb of a book. It's all p.c., of course, but not at all predictable, and a lot of righteous information gets disper...

"Yes, that is the Christ. This is how my spiritual eye perceived him in Palestine." --Rudolf Steiner (speaking of his sculpture, The Representative...

* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art.

Reducere. Donald Kuspit argues here that art is over because it has lost its aesthetic import. Art has been replaced by "postart, " a term invented by Alan K...

Reducere. Modern perspectives on art and politics in Shanghai in 2000Here, contributions by Jane DeBevoise, Lee Weng Choy, Mia Yu, Hou Hanru, Wu Hung and Ai ...

Get to know the master figurative painter Lucian Freud who depicted humanity with a poet's gaze and a perfectionist's eye for detail. Lucian Freud ...

"First published in French as Le Pouvoir de l'art (c) Editions Saint-Simon, 2018"--T.p. verso.

Elkins's intimate history of art demonstrates persuasively that there can never be one story of art. The story of art is the story of different cul...

Explore the vibrant work of the artist Marc Chagall in this lively introduction and discover how his unique narrative style embraced Jewish culture...

Reducere. Rethinking exhibition practices and histories in China and Southeast Asia.This book is the result of various ongoing assembly platforms linked toge...

An updated edition of a classic volume in the World of Art series.

The Whitney Museum is building itself a new home in downtown Manhattan's Meatpacking District. Due to open on May 1st, 2015, the project will subst...