History of art Books

When an anonymous collector approaches the Richard Museum in Washington, D.C., with a possible Modigliani portrait, art authentication expert Olivia Danford is called in. Her talents investigating pieces for museums, universities, and private collectors...

Classic Italian film poster art is renowned as being among the most accomplished, creative and dynamic of its kind. From the post-war period through to the 1980s, Italian artists consistently produced posters with sumptuously stunning designs and imagery...

Post-war cinema saw a rapid rise in the production of B-movies - low-budget genre films dealing with such subjects as horror, science fiction, juvenile delinquency and beatniks, bad girls and women in prison, bikers, gangsters, jungle terror, mondo, drug...

Da je neko zapitao tvorce Jugoslavije u Parizu... da li bi pristali na drzavu koja bi onako dozivela izdaju na velikom delu svog fronta, i u prvom okusaju jugoslovenskog patriotizma; a zatim jos i pokolj pola miliona srpske nejaci, ne verujem da bi se...

On 15th October 1924, André Breton published his now-famous Manifeste du surréalisme.Less widely known is Yvan Goll's manifesto of surrealism, the movement's very first document, published 14 days earlier on 1st October 1924.This volume explores the...

In February 2023, a small group of penguins, forced to leave Antarctica due to the changing climate, found themselves a new home in the nooks and crannies of an old stone wall by the banks of the River Kelvin in the West End of Glasgow,...

This is an in-depth study of the sacred origin and nature of royalty and monarchic regimes across ages and world cultures, written by an internationally acclaimed French authority on symbolism and religious studies.

Includes articles first published in The Journal of William Morris Studies and new pieces written for this book. Subjects include promotion of craft skills and meaningful work, division of labour, education, environment, art and architecture and the...

RICHARD LONG: POCKET GUIDE by WILLIAM MALPASThe central fact and act of Richard Long's art is walking. His work is founded on the art of walking, the act of walking, the actuality of walking, and on walking as art, as act, as experience. His walks become...

This is a chronological account of the cultural history of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 2022, examining Cuban revolutionary culture and the control of it by the state. It is a cultural history guidebook about one of the most significant historical...

Sacha Hayes O'Grady has been writing poetry all his life, and is the descendent of Irish writer and historian Standish Hayes O'Grady. It is in these poems that the poet seeks to explore the complexities of life and love, the truth of words, and the...

All full color paintings in this 122 page book are by Canadian artist Stephen Holmes. They have been sized to fit the page for the best viewing advantage to the reader.Stephen Holmes has been painting for over 70 years and, to coin a phrase, he has...

Discover the creative world of welding with Barbie The Welder as she shares how to turn everyday silverware into unique animal sculptures.Perfect for DIY enthusiasts and aspiring artist, this fun and inspiring guide shows you how to transform ordinary...

This volume explores works from Latin American literary and visual culture that question what it means to be human and how the nonhuman world helps define personhood. In doing so, it provides new perspectives on how the region challenges and adds to...

The Insubordination of Photography is the first book to analyze how various collectives, organizations, and independent media used photography to expose and protest the crimes of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's regime. Featuring never-before-seen...

What do exotic area rugs, handcrafted steel-string guitars, and fiddling have in common today? Many contemporary tradition bearers embrace complexity in form and content. They construct objects and performances that draw on the past and evoke nostalgia...

Through an examination of such diverse visual images as prints, drawings, panels, sculptures, minor arts, and frescoes, this book, a significant contribution to research in art history, sermon studies, gender studies, and theology, examines the...

This book synthesizes the work of a distinguished international group of scholars. It takes a broad view of architecture, to include cities, routes and ritual topographies, as well as specific buildings and shrines, and considers how these were...

Wassily Kandinsky, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock and Joseph Beuys were the leading artists of their generations to recognize the rich possibilities that animism and shamanism offered. While each of these artists' connection with shamanism has been written...

This title was first published in 2000. Fashioning Identities analyses some of the different ways in which identities were fashioned in and with art during the Renaissance, taken as meaning the period c.1300-1600.

The first English-language monograph on Il Fronte Nuovo delle Arti, this study explores the rise and fall of this postwar Italian artists' group as a representative instance of the tensions facing Italian painting during the transition out of two decades...

This book argues that we need to include the decorative in the study of sculpture, in order to present a more accurate account of the practice of sculpture in this period. Drawing on new archival sources, sculptors and objects, this is the first...

Exploring various ways in which a range of twentieth-century European artists and writers challenged the boundary between visual and linguistic expression in the content, production and physical form of books, these essays challenge the roles played by...

The commemorative tradition in early American art is considered for the first time in Sally Webster's study of public monuments and the construction of an American patronymic tradition. Until now, no attempt has been made to create a coherent early...

This book constitutes the first art-historical attempt to theorize the idiosyncratic character of German Gothic sculpture and trace the high and late medieval notions of the 'living statue' and the simulacrum in religious, lay and travel literature. In...

First published in 2001. Making Culture Visible provides a fresh focus on the history of nineteenth-century photography. The narrative moves from a close focus on several selected events between 1847 and 1900, beginning with six industrial fairs of the...

Looking for a unique and captivating coloring book that combines science fiction and fantasy themes with stunning grayscale portraits of Black women? Look no further than this one-of-a-kind coloring book, which features intricate, AI-generated...

In dit boek verken je de fascinerende relatie tussen wiskunde en kunst door de ogen van de beroemde Nederlandse kunstenaar M.C. Escher. Bekend om zijn intrigerende werken die oneindigheid, symmetrie en geometrische patronen verbeelden, biedt Escher een...

Utagawa Hiroshige's two Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, 1852 and 1858 are both a copy act and in themselves innovative artistic endeavors.Katsushika Hokusai published his famous series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji in 1830-1832 and it influenced...

Plongez-vous dans l'histoire riche et mystérieuse des geishas avec notre dernier livre : "L'histoire des geishas au Japon - Une excursion à travers l'histoire culturelle du Japon". Ce livre offre un aperçu approfondi et complet du monde des geishas et...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Kunst - Kunstgeschichte, Note: 1,0, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Magdalenenaltar in der Pfarrkirche Tiefenbronn von Lukas Moser stellt ein Hauptwerk der deutschen...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Kunst - Kunstgeschichte, Note: 1,7, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Besucht man die Gemäldegallerie in Berlin findet man dort eine der umfassendstenSammlungen...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Kunst - Kunstgeschichte, Note: 1,0, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Kunstgeschichtliches Institut), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Gleich zu Beginn des Films „Un Chien Andalou" von 1928 von Luis Buñel und...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Kunst - Kunstgeschichte, Note: Sehr gut, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (Kunstgeschichte), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Laufe der postmodernen Frauenbewegung wurden (auch) im Wissenschaftsbetrieb...

The book maps a richly innovative Spanish-American imaginary emerging across multidirectional transatlantic and Pan-American axes of influence in Modernist to contemporary poetry and art. The diverse sites of intercultural dialogue include García Lorca's...

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An insider recommends the most unmissable museums, galleries and art fairs in SwitzerlandSwitzerland is one of the leading destinations for modern and contemporary art. Swiss Art's insider recommendations take you to the best. From masterpieces to...

این کتاب گزارشی است از آرمان سازمان جشن هنر شیراز از برگزاری یک جشنوارهٔ هنری بین المللی در ایران در فضائی جستجوگر و آزاد، و معرفی مسئولین و مدیران سازمان و برنامه های موسیقی، رقص، نمایش و سینما از آسیا، آفریقا، اروپا و آمریکا که هر تابستان از سال ۱۳۴۶...

A COMMENTARY OF THE LIFE OF SAMUEL THOMAS GILL, RENOWNED FOR HIS VIBRANT WATERCOLOUR PAINTINGS OF COLONIAL AUSTRALIA...The creator of thousands of watercolours, S.T. Gill was one of the most prolific of all Australian artists. Through Gill's images we...

In the same way that Italian post-war film poster art set new standards of innovation, so the Italian lobby card, or fotobusta, would also become renowned for pushing the boundaries of promotional design. Classic Italian lobby cards from the unfettered...

Focusing on transculturality, this edited volume explores how the role of translation and the idea of (un)translatability in the transformative complementation of different civilizations facilitates the transcultural connection between Chinese and other...

As the first volume of a two-volume set that examines the interaction between social transformation and visual culture in contemporary China, this book explores the visual construction of popular culture, avant-garde art, and grassroots media culture.

This edited volume highlights contributions which investigate transmedialisation: the ways that the traditional forms of predominantly oral cultures (poetry, song and story) can be transformed by the uses of hybrid forms and new digital technologies.

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the religious and artistic story behind The Light of the World by Holman Hunt.

Chinese civilization is about 5,000 years old. The roots of Chinese culture are as old as Chinese civilization. The ancient culture has tremendously evolved over the long period. Much of what we see in China today can be traced back to the ancient...

Chinese civilization is about 5,000 years old. The roots of Chinese culture are as old as Chinese civilization. The ancient culture has tremendously evolved over the long period. Much of what we see in China today can be traced back to the ancient...