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Sub-Categories of The Arts: General & Reference
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National Gallery Technical Bulletin: Volume 38
Paul Ackroyd, Nelly von Aderkas, Rachel Billinge, Jill Dunkerton
Conservation, restoration & care of artworks; Painting & paintings
Paperback
Features contributions by curators, scientists, and conservators, on materials and techniques of painting, and the scientific... [more]
New Directions in Mobile Media and Performance
Camille C. Baker (University for the Creative Arts Epsom, UK)
The Arts: General & Reference; Art Forms
Hardback
New Directions in Mobile Media and Performance explores various performative projects and forms of expression that have emerged... [more]
Artistic Approaches to Cultural Mapping: Activating Imaginaries and Means...
Nancy Duxbury, W.F. Garrett-Petts, Alys Longley
The Arts: General & Reference; Cultural studies; Sociology; Human geography; Cartography, map-making & projections
Hardback
Making space for imagination can shift research and community planning from a reflective stance to a future forming orientation... [more]
On Discomfort: Moments in a Modern History of Architectural Culture
Andrew Leach, David Ellison
The Arts: General & Reference; Theory of architecture; Sociology; Human geography; Urban & municipal planning
Paperback
Examining discomfort's physical, emotional, conceptual, psychological and aesthetic dimensions, the contributors to this volume... [more]
Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing and Representing the City
Konstantinos Avramidis, Myrto Tsilimpounidi
The Arts: General & Reference; Theory of art; Popular culture; Sociology; Human geography
Paperback
Graffiti and street art images are ubiquitous, and they enjoy a very special place in collective imaginary due to their ambiguous... [more]
The Artist's Guide to Selling Work
Annabelle Ruston
Art: financial aspects
Paperback
This best-selling guide provides all the advice artists and craftspeople need to sell their work in today's competitive market.... [more]
Four Metaphors of Modernism: From Der Sturm to the Societe Anonyme
Jenny Anger
Theory of art; Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960
Paperback
Herwath Walden's Der Sturm--the journal, gallery, performance venue, press, theater, bookstore, and art school in Berlin (1910-1932)--has... [more]
The DIY Movement in Art, Music and Publishing: Subjugated Knowledges
Sarah Lowndes (Glasgow School of Art, UK)
The Arts: General & Reference; Popular culture; Media studies; Sociology
Paperback
This book considers the history of Do It Yourself art, music and publishing, demonstrating how DIY strategies have transitioned... [more]
The Uses of Excess in Visual and Material Culture, 1600-2010
Julia Skelly
The Arts: General & Reference; Theory of art; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Agriculture & related industries
Paperback
Although the idea of excess has often been used to degrade, many of the essays in this collection demonstrate how it has also... [more]
Michael Baxandall, Vision and the Work of Words
Peter Mack, Robert Williams
The Arts: General & Reference; Historiography
Paperback
'The most important art historian of his generation' is how some scholars have described the late Michael Baxandall (1933-2007),... [more]
Rural Modernity, Everyday Life and Visual Culture
Rosemary Shirley
The Arts: General & Reference; History; Social & cultural history; Human geography; Gardens (descriptions, history etc)
Paperback
Through the lens of the everyday, this book explores 'the countryside' as an inhabited and practised realm with lived rhythms... [more]
Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context: From Consumerism to...
Ileana Baird, Christina Ionescu
The Arts: General & Reference; Literature: history & criticism; Literary theory; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
Paperback
Exploring Enlightenment attitudes toward things and their relation to human subjects, this collection offers a geographically... [more]
Sculpting Simulacra in Medieval Germany, 1250-1380
Assaf Pinkus
The Arts: General & Reference; Art styles not defined by date; Medieval history
Paperback
This book constitutes the first art-historical attempt to theorize the idiosyncratic character of German Gothic sculpture... [more]
British Art in the Nuclear Age
Catherine Jolivette
The Arts: General & Reference; Theory of art; Military history; Social & political philosophy; History of science
Paperback
Rooted in the study of objects, this book addresses the role of art and visual culture in discourses surrounding nuclear science... [more]
Cuckoldry, Impotence and Adultery in Europe (15th-17th century)
Sara F. Matthews-Grieco
The Arts: General & Reference; Theatre Studies; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700
Paperback
In Renaissance and early modern Europe, various constellations of phenomena-ranging from sex scandals to legal debates to... [more]
The Organic School of the Russian Avant-Garde: Nature's Creative Principles...
Isabel Wunsche (Jacobs University Bremen)
Theory of art; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; History of science; Regional geography
Paperback
The artists of the Organic School of the Russian avant-garde found inspiration as well as a model for artistic growth in the... [more]
William Hunter's World: The Art and Science of Eighteenth-Century Collecting...
E. Geoffrey Hancock, Nick Pearce, Mungo Campbell
The Arts: General & Reference; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Social & cultural history; History of science; Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides
Paperback
Despite William Hunter's stature as one of the most important collectors and men of science of the eighteenth century, and... [more]
Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism
Sandra Zalman
The Arts: General & Reference; Theory of art; History of Art & Design Styles; Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides
Paperback
Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism argues that Surrealism worked as a powerful agitator to disrupt... [more]
The Painted Closet of Lady Anne Bacon Drury
H.L. Meakin
The Arts: General & Reference; Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; History
Paperback
Lady Anne Bacon Drury (1572-1624) devised dozens of panels comprised of pictures and Latin mottoes for the walls of her closet... [more]
Sculptors and Design Reform in France, 1848 to 1895: Sculpture and the Decorative...
Claire Jones
The Arts: General & Reference; Art styles not defined by date; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides
Paperback
Challenging perceptions of sculpture and the autonomous artist, this book begins with a critique of the Rodin scholarship,... [more]
Textiles, Fashion, and Design Reform in Austria-Hungary Before the First...
Rebecca Houze
The Arts: General & Reference; Theory of art; History of Art & Design Styles; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Regional geography
Paperback
Filling a critical gap in Vienna 1900 studies, this book offers a new reading of fin-de-siecle culture in the Austro-Hungarian... [more]
Zen Paintings in Edo Japan (1600-1868): Playfulness and Freedom in the Artwork...
Galit Aviman
The Arts: General & Reference; Art styles not defined by date; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Religion: general; Society & culture: general
Paperback
This book explores the playfulness and free-spirited attitude reflected in the artwork of two prominent Japanese Zen monk-painters:... [more]
Stitching the World: Embroidered Maps and Women's Geographical Education...
Judith A. Tyner
The Arts: General & Reference; History; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Human geography
Paperback
From the late eighteenth century until about 1840, schoolgirls in the British Isles and the United States created embroidered... [more]
Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior
Erin J. Campbell
The Arts: General & Reference; History of Art & Design Styles; History of architecture
Paperback
Though portraits of old women mediate cultural preoccupations just as effectively as those of younger women, the scant published... [more]
Remote Performances in Nature and Architecture
Bruce Gilchrist, Jo Joelson
The Arts: General & Reference; Architecture; Human geography; Gardens (descriptions, history etc)
Paperback
Outlandia is an off-grid artists' fieldstation, a treehouse imagined by artists London Fieldworks (Bruce Gilchrist & Jo Joelson)... [more]
