This study sheds light on an as yet unstudied aspect of the Museum of Modern Arts (MoMA) preeminent role in establishing the definition of the problematic term Latin American art in the United States....Daugiau...
This edited volume foregrounds new and vital scholarship shaping Scandinavian art historical research on the representations of the natural world....Daugiau...
Focusing on the period between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the late twentieth century, this edited volume examines the histories of objects, museums, exhibitions, and collections in Portugal or outside Portugal but representing Portu...Daugiau...
First published in 1928, Colour in Art and Daily Life presents a series of fascinating essays analysing and expounding the beauty of colours, their relationship to one another and to line, surface and form....Daugiau...
The Architecture of Exhibitions embarks on a comprehensive exploration of creativity and design innovation within exhibition spaces. It describes the fundamental principles of exhibition design, tracing the origins of creativity and considering its...Daugiau...
Women, Fertility and Maternal Art in Renaissance Florence examines maternity-centered art to reveal womens crucial function in saving Florence from a depopulation catastrophe. It appeals to both students and scholars in field of Art History, Renaiss...Daugiau...
Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums questions why private collectors donate their collection, or parts of it, to museums and examines what the implications of this gifting process might be....Daugiau...
This unique book is the only fully interdisciplinary and comprehensive study of the Australian desert and its pivotal role in the cultural history of Australia....Daugiau...
First Published in 1990, Moscow Graffiti is a unique and unprecedented look at the graffiti that began to appear for the first time on the walls of Moscow and other Soviet cities in the late 1970s. Fully illustrated with over eighty drawings and pho...Daugiau...
Drawing on history, art history, literary criticism and theory, gender studies, theology and psychoanalysis, this interdisciplinary study analyzes the cultural significance of the Shrine of our Lady of Walsingham, through the Middle Ages to the pres...Daugiau...
This book traces the history of the Annunciation, exploring the deep and lasting impact of the event on the Western imagination. Waller explores the Annunciation from its appearance in Lukes Gospel, to its rise to prominence in religious doctrine an...Daugiau...
This book explores the multiple resonances and representations of the Arma Christi, the instruments of the Passion, in medieval and early modern culture. From the weapons used to torment and sacrifice the body of Christ sprang a reliquary tradition...Daugiau...
This book traces an evolution of equine and equestrian art in the United States over the last two centuries to counter conventional understandings of subjects that are deeply enmeshed in the traditions of elite English and European culture....Daugiau...
This study examines theories of postmodern visuality and representation and identifies concepts that resonate with Orthodox theology and iconography....Daugiau...
This book covers state-of-the-art AI technologies for art creation, understanding, and evaluation. Each chapter providing an entry point for readers, presenting SOTA AI technologies for art creation and understanding and covering the fascinating com...Daugiau...
This book offers arts-based solutions to the threats to democracies around the world and features chapter authors who are artists, activists, curators, and teachers applying creative and cultural practices in deliberate efforts to build democratic w...Daugiau...
Written with the digital beginner in mind this book will teach you all of the necessary information to begin working in ZBrush to create magnificent works of digital artwork! Through this book ZBrush will empower you to be the digital artist you alw...Daugiau...
This book outlines the life and intellectual thought of the English surrealist artist and psychoanalyst, Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971). It gathers her published and unpublished writings, providing an in-depth study of the importance of surrealism...Daugiau...
Drawing on examples of art and artists from the classical period to the 1980s, The Female Nude paints a devastating picture of the depiction of the female body and remains as fresh and invigorating as it was since its first publication. This Routled...Daugiau...
The original research in this book analyzes the artistic activity of Santi Gucci (1533-c. 1600), a Florentine sculptor active in Poland in the second half of the sixteenth century, and his workshop....Daugiau...
This text explores how art education can address the needs of older adults as learners, makers, and teachers of art in formal and informal settings. It combines perspectives of educators, professors, therapists, and artists on what is meant by creat...Daugiau...
This scholarly collection is a continuation of a lecture series highlighting the essential nature of biography to the history of art education....Daugiau...
In this book, Mario Hernandez paints a precise picture that portrays the redevelopment, evolution, and ensuing gentrification of the Brooklyn neighborhood over recent decades...Daugiau...
Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles is a novel examination of Los Angeles-based socially engaged art (SEA) practitioners equitable placekeeping efforts....Daugiau...
Revealing the connections between the veneration of national landscape and eighteenth-century English vocal music, this study restores English musics connections with the picturesque. This book explores this gap, and shows how secular song, the glee...Daugiau...
This graphic sketchbook is a primer for sparking imagination and creativity in landscape architecture and urban design drawing. Each chapter provides easy-to-follow instructions on a wide variety of techniques for field sketching and plein-air paint...Daugiau...
This book explores the ways Robert Smithsons art revealed and defamiliarized the constructs of rational reality in order to allow radically speculative alternatives to emerge....Daugiau...
Thirty years after the debut of her photo-portraits, this book chronicles the early career of Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat. In its first twenty years, Neshats work weaved viewers into complex readings of women and power in Iran. Yet her ima...Daugiau...
This book examines three exhibitions of contemporary art held at the Vienna Künstlerhaus during the period of National Socialist rule and shows how each attempted to culturally erase elements anathema to Nazi ideology: the City, the Jewess and fin-d...Daugiau...
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Dürers depictions of human diversity, focusing particularly on his depictions of non-European figures....Daugiau...
This book explores the relationships between empire, natural history and gender in the production of geographical knowledge and its translation between colonial Burma and Britain. Focusing on the work of the plant collector, botanical illustrator an...Daugiau...
Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (1950-53), this book shows the dynamic role art, specifically sculpture, played in constructing both Italian and American culture after t...Daugiau...
This book employs a new approach to the art of sixteenth-century Europe by incorporating rhetoric and theory to enable a reinterpretation of the origin of Mannerism as being grounded in sixteenth-century spirituality....Daugiau...
This book represents the first attempt to study an ancient network of pilgrimage sites, known as Shakti Pithas, dedicated to the Hindu goddess Sati in an art historical and political context. During the nineteenth century these sites were re-imagine...Daugiau...
Robert Seymour and Nineteenth Century Print Culture is the first book length study of the original illustrator of Dickenss Pickwick Papers....Daugiau...
Rendering Tips for the Costume Designer: Simple Steps for Better Drawing and Painting is a guide for students and costume designers who want to improve their drawing, painting, and rendering skills....Daugiau...
This study about the British artist Roy Ascott, one of the first cybernetic artists, with a career spanning seven decades to date. The book focuses on his early career, exploring the evolution of his early interests in communication in the context o...Daugiau...
This book is an interdisciplinary collection of twenty-four essays which critically examine contemporary exhibitions and artistic practices that focus on conceptual and creative aspects of access....Daugiau...
