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Author: Iain Zaczek
Publisher:
Published: 2024-10-29
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780500298176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fresh take on the history of art, using cultural timelines to reveal little-known connections and influences between artworks and artistic movements.
Author: The Editors of Phaidon Press
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 2014-09-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780714867373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArt in Time is the first book to embed art movements within the larger context of politics and history. Global in scope and featuring an innovative present‐to‐past arrangement, the book’s accessible text looks back on the most significant art styles and movements, from the present day to antiquity. Pages of historical photographs, documents, newspaper headlines, and other ephemera evoke the times in which styles and movements arose. The book opens with The Information Age (Internet Art, Neo‐Expressionaism, Arte Povera) and closes with The Classical Age (Roman wall painting, Hellenistic Greek style), covering everything from Photorealism, Art Brut, Ukiyo‐e, and Byzantine style in between. An integrated timeline provides a linear thread throughout the book, while succinct, authoritative text illuminates key points.
Author: Dan Karlholm
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-27
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1351858971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAddressed to students of the image—both art historians and students of visual studies—this book investigates the history and nature of time in a variety of different environments and media as well as the temporal potential of objects. Essays will analyze such topics as the disparities of power that privilege certain forms of temporality above others, the nature of temporal duration in different cultures, the time of materials, the creation of pictorial narrative, and the recognition of anachrony as a form of historical interpretation.
Author: Wayne Craven
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 692
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK[This book is] for American art survey courses. [It] provides a thorough ... chronology of American art, including painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and folk art. [The author] presents art and artists within the context of their times, including insights into the intellectual, spiritual, and political environment. [He] charts the growth of a distinctly American art culture.-Back cover.
Author: Penelope J. E. Davies
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 2008-08-29
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ISBN-13: 9780205638161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elisabeth Sussman
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781597111799
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Diane Arbus: A Chronology is the closest thing possible to a contemporaneous diary by one of the most daring, influential, and controversial artists of the twentieth century. Drawn primarily from Arbus's correspondence with friends, family, and colleagues; personal notebooks; and other unpublished writings, this beautifully produced volume exposes the astonishing vision of an artist with the courage to see things as they are and the grace to permit them simply to be. The Chronology also includes exhaustively researched footnotes, and biographies of fifty-five personalities, family members, friends, and colleagues, including Marvin Israel, Lisette Model, Weegee and August Sander." -- Publisher's description.
Author: Penny Huntsman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-11-04
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1118905202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThinking about Art explores some of the greatest works of art and architecture in the world through the prism of themes, instead of chronology, to offer intriguing juxtapositions of art and history. The book ranges across time and topics, from the Parthenon to the present day and from patronage to ethnicity, to reveal art history in new and varied lights. With over 200 colour illustrations and a wealth of formal and contextual analysis, Thinking about Art is a companion guide for art lovers, students and the general reader, and is also the first A-level Art History textbook, written by a skilled and experienced teacher of art history, Penny Huntsman. The book is accompanied by a companion website at www.wiley.com/go/thinkingaboutart.
Author: Wendy Beckett
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780751301335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough more than 450 masterpieces, the author unfolds the story of 800 years of Western painting from Giotto, the Renaissance and Impressionism, to Pop Art and the present day.
Author: Barjeel Art Foundation
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783791354859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCelebrating the Barjeel Art Foundation's expansive collection, this book maps a genealogy of modern and contemporary Arab art and offers one of the most extensive presentations of modern Arab art. Based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, the Barjeel Art Foundation was established to contribute to the development of the evolving art scene in the Arab region by building a prominent, publicly accessible art collection in the UAE. Over time it has grown to become one of the most holistic collections of Arab art, fostering critical dialogue around art practices both in the region and internationally. Coinciding with a year long series of exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, this unique overview features many rarely seen works by artists across the region from North Africa to the Gulf states as well as Western Asia. Spanning a period from the turn of the twentieth century to the present day, this publication tells a striking visual story of artists who challenged notions of tradition, territory, and geography. Featuring more than 60 artists and over 100 works of art, along with essays by leading scholars, curators and artists such as, Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, Kamal Boullata, Omar Kholeif, Rasha Salti, Nada Shabout, Gilane Tawadros and Ted McDonald-Toone.
Author: Ivan Lindsay
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Published: 2014-06-02
Total Pages: 665
ISBN-13: 1906509573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author of this enthralling book aims to present a well-illustrated and documented alternative history of the Western World through graphic accounts of looting and art theft from the time of Sargon, ruler of Syria in 721 BC, to the present day. Almost all the principal players included appear on the stage of World history and many of them are known as conquerors, confiscators (the old-fashioned word for looters) and ruthless administrators of the regions they created as a result of their conquests. Featured here are emperors, kings, queens, popes, adventurers, explorers and those whose energies and expertise supported the greed and acquisitive ambitions of their masters. The different motivation of the greatest looters in history is a recurrent theme which is examined throughout.
