History & Criticism

charcoal Is The Quintessential Favorite For Sketching. It's An Infinitely Expressive Medium With Its Own Language, One That Comprises Textures, Lines, Str...

"What is it I hope for from this book? To inspire a quiet revolution in the whole way we look at health and care for the dying, and the whole way we look a...

Colquhoun, an eminent scholar in the field of architecture, offers here a new account of international modernism that explores the complex motivations beh...

A collection of TOP SECRET instructions for creating home made versions of popular toy store items including: Gooey Gunk, Funny Putty, Sidewalk Chalk, Creep...

Detailed plates from the Bible: the Creation scenes, Adam and Eve, horrifying visions of the Flood, the battle sequences with their monumental crowds, depic...

The Relationship Between Artists And Their Patrons Has Always Been A Complex And Fascinating One. In The Case Of The Habsburg Rules Of The Sixteenth And Sev...

How "drowned town" literature, road movies, energy landscape photography, and "death train" narratives represent the brutality of industrial infrastructures...

This ICON title will be of special interest to anyone fascinated by early space travel and technology, those who simply want to wax nostalgic about a bygone...

Design History has become a complex and wide-ranging discipline. It now examines artefacts from conception to development, production, mediation, and consum...

Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light is the definitive biography of the Master of Suspense and the most widely recognized film director of all ti...

Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, wi...

1. The State And Estate Of Nature. The Landscape Garden ; The Outdoor Conversation Piece ; Gainsborough's Rustic Landscapes -- 2. The Picturesque Decade. Th...

«La imagen de Notre-Dame en llamas me dejó aturdido y profundamente afectado. Me encontraba al borde de las lágrimas. Algo de un valor incalculable estab...

[by] Thomas E. Mails. Bibliography: P. 601-606.Categories: Arts & Photography History & CriticismCriticism

A critical examination of the human condition and artistic responsibility through the eyes of Ai Weiwei.\Internationally renowned for his multimedia work as...

Stop curating! And think what curating is all about. This book starts from this simple premise: thinking the activity of curating. To do that, it distinguis...

This 1982 book, now recognised as a classic, has done perhaps more than any other single work to change the face of art criticism in the twentieth century. ...

Museum Exhibition is the only textbook of its kind to consider exhibition development using both theory and practice in an integrated approach. This compreh...

In Iconology, W. J. T. Mitchell asked what images are, how they differ from words, and why these questions have been such a source of contention for centur...

Few American artists are as enduringly popular as Frederic Remington (1861-1909). His bronzes and paintings of the American West have become iconic images,...

Since the publication of Treehouses of the World, the community of treehouse builders has grown tremendously, and many more innovative treehouses have been ...

Art Deco Revisited / Bevis Hillier -- Art Deco : A Total Style? -- Strictly Modern : The 1925 Paris Exposition And The State Of European Decoration -- Us De...

the Story Of Art, One Of The Most Famous And Popular Books On Art Ever Written, Has Been A World Bestseller For Over Half A Century. Attracted By The Simpl...

This affordable oversize paperback provides an unusual glimpse into the painter's life, and particularly his relationship with model Sue Lewin, with an unus...

Ideas that sell: today's most effective and original ads The world's sharpest creative minds are in high demand in the advertising world, because making eff...

V. 1. 1900-1944 -- V. 2. 1945 To The Present. Hal Foster ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 690-694) And Index. Includes Web Resources.Ca...

did You Ever Wish You Could Go To A Really Good Art School And Learn How To Paint In Oil? Or Perhaps You Have Painted For Years And Are Still Struggling Wit...

In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored...

"...quite probably, the best general instructions on furniture decoration that exist." - Booklist Painting and Decorating Furniture is the definitive bo...

The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century charts the developments in Canadian art from the late-nineteenth century to the present with new essays by ...

"This beautifully illustrated book. . . . [is] Both an ethnographic study and an homage to a culture." -Los Angeles Times "Text and pictures combine to giv...

This book illustrates and describes the most important and famous masterpieces of Greek art. Using the guidebook approach to conveying information in an eas...

Stéphane Yerasimos. Translation Of Constantinople : De Byzance à Istanbul. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Arts & Photograph...

The definitive biography of a fascinating and paradoxical figure, one of the most influential artists of his--or any--age To this day, mention the name...

What Is Art History? Why, How And Where Did It Originate, And How Have Its Aims And Methods Changed Over Time? This Work Is A Guide To Understanding Art His...

Added to this new edition are more than 40 concise discussions of cultural developments paralleling movements in art, from ancient Greek times through our o...

An art critic discusses the works of modern artists, paying special attention to Rodin, Picasso, and Jasper Johns.Categories: Arts & Photography History...

Hu Chui was born in 1952 into a scholarly family in Shanghai, China and has had a keen interest in photography since childhood. In 1969, he was sent to the...

Jazz Impresario George Wein And His Wife Joyce Have Established An Outstanding Art Collection That Represents An Excellent Survey Of The Accomplishments Of ...

Through tremendous grit and research, Malcolm D. Gutter has been forming a remarkable porcelain collection over several decades, primarily on a professor’...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and f...

Almost 400 color images treat readers to dazzling holiday visions that leading designers have realized in their own homes—scenes usually reserved for fami...

Heath Robinson (1872–1944) is Britain’s “Gadget King”—master of the art of creating madcap contraptions that made use of ropes, weights, and pulle...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the pu...

The Italian Sculptor Known As Donatello Helped To Forge A New Kind Of Art—one That Came To Define The Renaissance. His Work Was Progressive, Challenging, ...

The First World War -- Born In Battle -- The Face Of Armageddon -- The Second World War -- The Second Crusade -- The Art Of Total War. Dean F. Oliver, Laura...

Malcolm Budd. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 173-212).Categories: Arts & Photography History & CriticismCriticism

The 20th century was a time of great change, particularly in the arts, but seldom explored were the female poets of that time. Robert Hass and Paul Ebenkamp...