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Sub-Categories of The Arts: General & Reference
The Arts: General & Reference
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The Architecture of Nothingness: An Explanation of the Objective Basis of...
Frank Lyons (Director, Humane Architecture, UK)
Theory of art; History of Art & Design Styles; Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; Theory of architecture; History of architecture
Hardback
It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones can make us feel insecure, depressed... [more]
The Artists Who Will Change the World
Omar Kholeif (King's College London/FACT, Liverpool, UK))
The Arts: General & Reference; History of Art & Design Styles; Other graphic art forms; Politics & government
Hardback
The essential guide for any art aficionado keen to put their finger on the pulse of tomorrow's art. [more]
Creating Stylized Characters
3dtotal Publishing
Theory of art; Electronic, holographic & video art; Human figures depicted in art; Handicrafts, decorative arts & crafts
Paperback
Learn how to create vibrant character designs with the step-by-step guidance of professional artists from the illustration... [more]
New Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America
Mariola V. Alvarez (Temple University), Ana M. Franco
Theory of art; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -
Hardback
This edited volume examines the history of abstract art across Latin America after 1945. This form of art grew in popularity... [more]
The Uncertain Image
Ulrik Ekman (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Daniela Agostinho (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (Aarhus University, Denmark), Kristin Veel (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
The Arts: General & Reference; Photography & photographs; Media studies
Hardback
Citizens of networked societies are almost incessantly accompanied by ecologies of images. These ecologies of still and moving... [more]
Parables
Torin M Finser
The Arts: General & Reference; Education; Open learning, home learning, distance education; Teaching of a specific subject
Paperback
Torin Finser writes that parables involve looking down (or out) to find an often-overlooked object, and then looking up... [more]
The Archaeology of Art: Materials, Practices, Affects
Andrew Meirion Jones, Andrew Cochrane
Theory of art; Archaeological theory; Anthropology
Paperback
How can archaeologists interpret ancient art and images if they do not treat them as symbols or signifiers of identity?<br... [more]
Multimodality and Aesthetics
Elise Seip Tonnessen, Frida Forsgren
The Arts: General & Reference; Art styles not defined by date; linguistics; Literary studies: general
Hardback
This volume explores the relationship between aesthetics and traditional multimodal communication to show how all semiotic... [more]
Digital Art, Aesthetic Creation: The Birth of a Medium
Paul Crowther (Alma Mater Europaea - Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis)
The Arts: General & Reference; Art & design styles: from c 1960; Photography & photographs; Philosophy: aesthetics; Computing: general
Hardback
Is art created with computers really art? This book answers `yes.' Computers can generate visual art with unique aesthetic... [more]
Arts and Business: Building a Common Ground for Understanding Society
Elena Raviola, Peter Zackariasson
The Arts: General & Reference; Research & development management
Paperback
Arts and Business aims at bringing arts and business scholars together in a dialogue about a number of key topics that today... [more]
Installation Art and the Practices of Archivalism
David Houston Jones (University of Exeter UK)
Theory of art; Installation art
Paperback
On the leading edge of trauma and archival studies, this timely book engages with the recent growth in visual projects that... [more]
Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing
Asbjorn Gronstad (University of Bergen, Norway), Henrik Gustafsson (University of Tromso, Norway), Oyvind Vagnes (University of Bergen, Norway)
Theory of art; Media studies
Paperback
The first book of its kind, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing engages broadly with the often too neglected yet... [more]
Hugh Lane: The Art Market and the Art Museum, 1893-1915
Morna O'Neill
Art: financial aspects
Hardback
This book charts a geography of the art market and the art museum in the early 20th century through the legacy of one influential... [more]
Why Art Museums?: The Unfinished Work of Alexander Dorner
Sarah Ganz Blythe (Director of Education, RISD), Andrew Martinez (Archivist)
The Arts: General & Reference; Museums & museology
Hardback
Alexander Dorner's radical ideas about the purpose of museums and art, examined through his tenure as Director of the RISD... [more]
Photography and the Art Market
Juliet Hacking
Art: financial aspects; Photography & photographs
Hardback
An essential guide to the state of the market for art photography today. [more]
Visual Communication for Social Work Practice: Power, Culture, Analysis...
Sonia M. Tascon (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.)
Theory of art; Social work
Hardback
How are we to understand how the dominance of visual images and representations in late modernity affects Social Work practice,... [more]
The Story of Scottish Design
Philip Long, Joanna Norman
The Arts: General & Reference; Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; Architecture
Hardback
The first major survey of Scottish design history from 1500 to present day. [more]
Cultural Mobility in the Interwar Avant-Garde Art Network: Poland, Belgium...
Michal Wenderski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)
The Arts: General & Reference; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; History: theory & methods; Social & cultural history
Hardback
This book explores the issue of cultural mobility within the interwar network of the European avant-garde, focusing on selected... [more]
Photography and Ontology: Unsettling Images
Donna West Brett (The University of Sydney, Australia), Natalya Lusty (University of Sydney, Australia)
Theory of art; History of Art & Design Styles; Photography & photographs; Philosophy: aesthetics
Hardback
This edited collection explores the complex ways in which photography is used and interpreted: as a record of evidence, as... [more]
Adrian Piper: A Reader
Cornelia Butler, David Platzker
The Arts: General & Reference; History of Art & Design Styles; Social & political philosophy; Politics & government
Paperback
Published in conjunction with MoMA's retrospective exhibition and in collaboration with the artist, this scholarly volume... [more]
Materializing Gender in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Jennifer G. Germann, Heidi A. Strobel
The Arts: General & Reference; History of Art & Design Styles; Museums & museology; History; European history
Paperback
Art history has enriched the study of material culture as a scholarly field. This interdisciplinary volume enhances this literature... [more]
Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse
Kjetil Fallan
The Arts: General & Reference; Theory of art; History of Art & Design Styles; Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; European history
Paperback
Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse is an intellectual history of design and its role in configuring the... [more]
Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy
Diana Bullen Presciutti
The Arts: General & Reference; European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Health & Self-Help
Paperback
The social problem of infant abandonment captured the public's imagination in Italy during the fifteenth century, a critical... [more]
: In Modernity's Wake (1989): The Ameurunculus Letters
Michael Phillipson
Theory of art; Philosophy: aesthetics; Sociology
Paperback
First published in 1988, this book attempts to tackle the problem of how to write about art, culture, and the issues of postmodernism... [more]
: Painting, Language and Modernity (1985)
Michael Phillipson
Theory of art; Philosophy: aesthetics; Sociology
Paperback
First published in 1985, this book draws together the author's artistic with analytical practices which had been developed... [more]
