An introductory level textbook covering a wide range of feminist approaches to women and visual culture, and combining theory and practice.
Advanced Art & Design is a handbook for critical and contextual studies at AS and A2, designed to help you use those studies to make art.
Includes histories of 16 institutions from 1850 to 1970. The volume is divided into three chronological sections, each with a helpful introduction that sets the thee frame and explains the general status of college education in the period. More than 100 illustrations enhance the fully annotated text.
Ricci's book ranges widely over Calvino's oeuvre to illustrate the accuracy of the idea articulated by Calvino himself that a visual image lies at the origin of all his narrative.
Explores the collaboration between artist and client in relation to the featuring of art in a public space. This book includes written descriptions and approximately 200 illustrations which identify artists, architects, artworks and their settings. It features the most prominent 'money for art' programs in the United States.
Is contemporary art undermining the sacred roots of human culture? Is art meant for a noble purpose, greater self-knowledge, and entry to a deeper dimension of life? This title presents practical ways serious artists can use their lives to develop greater clarity, dignity, generosity, and insight.
Heiresses to a family fortune, Etta and Claribel Cone, Jewish sisters from Baltimore, amassed a major collection of modern French artworks. Their Victorian demeanour and dress belied two free-spirited eccentrics whose bold purchases of avant-garde, sometimes erotic art shocked early 20th-century society.
A study of Renaissance Italy and the north, focusing on crosscurrents in the time of Durer, Bellini and Titian. It contains essays on subjects such as the invention of oil painting; Netherlandish music and musicians in the City of Doges; and commercial contacts and intellectual inspirations.
Biographies of artists and writers have traditionally presented an individual's lone struggle for self-expression. In this book, critics and historians, challenge these assumptions in a series of essays that focus on artist and writer couples who have shared sexual and artistic bonds.
An exploration of modern assumptions about God, social, economic, and political structures, through the analysis of contemporary cultural expression. This is combined with a study of the locations that successively became the frontiers of modernity, such as Vienna, Moscow, Paris and Berlin, as well as America.
They were known as 'Randlords', and what they did with their wealth and how they used it to try and win acceptance into the higher realms of British society is the subject of this title, with specific reference to their acquisition of famous artworks.