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Documenting the Image eBook Series

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  • Art History Through the Camera's Lens

    by Helene E. Roberts ...
    Series series Documenting the Image
    Photography of art has served as a basis for the reconstruction of works of art and as a vehicle for the dissemination and reinterpretation of art. This book provides the first definitive treatment of the subject, with essays from noted authorities in the fields of art history, architecture, and photography. The essays explore the many meanings of photography as documentation for the art historian ... Read more

    $136.03 CAD

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  • The Da Vinci Deception

    by Thomas Swan ...
    Series series The Inspector Jack Oxby Novels
    Celebrated thriller writer Thomas Swan introduces Scotland Yard Inspector Jack Oxby in The Da Vinci Deception—an exhilarating thriller set in the art world. Racing from London to New York to Lake Como, Inspector Oxby is on the hunt for an art forger whose daring attempts to counterfeit the great Leonardo da Vinci have the art world astounded. For fans of the UK television series Lovejoy, the art ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Colour

    by Rudolf Steiner ...
    Translated by J. Salter, P. Wehrle ...
    Building on the achievements of Goethe in his Theory of Colour, Rudolf Steiner shows how colour affects us in many areas of life, including our health, our sense of well-being, and our feelings. Distinguishing between 'image' and 'lustre' colours, he lays the foundation, based on his spiritual-scientific research, for a practical technique of working with colour that leads to a new direction in ... Read more

    $9.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Painting Culture

    The Making of an Aboriginal High Art

    by Fred R. Myers, Nicholas Thomas ...
    Series series Objects/Histories
    Painting Culture tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic "dot" paintings of central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art, eagerly sought by upscale galleries and collectors. Since the early 1970s, Fred R. Myers has studied—often as a participant-observer—the Pintupi, one of several Aboriginal groups who paint the famous acrylic works. ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • The A to Z of Animation and Cartoons

    by Nichola Dobson ...
    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    Animation was once a relatively simple matter, using fairly primitive means to produce rather short films of subjects that were generally comedic and often quite childish. However, things have changed, and they continue changing at a maddening pace. One new technique after another has made it easier, faster, and above all cheaper to produce the material, which has taken on an increasing variety of ... Read more

    $62.29 CAD

  • To Hell With Culture

    by Herbert Read ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Herbert Read was a maverick character in the cultural life of the twentieth century. A radical leader of the avant garde in the 1930s, and an anarchist revolutionary during the war years, by the time of his death in 1968 he had become a key figure at the heart of the British cultural establishment. To Hell with Culture offers readers an ideal overview of the ideas that marked out this seminal and ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

  • The Avant Garde

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Cottington ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    'The avant-garde' is perhaps the most important and influential concept in the history of modern culture. For over a hundred years it has governed critical and historical assessment of the quality and significance of an artist or a work of art, in any medium-if these have been judged to be 'avant-garde', then they have been worthy of consideration. If not, then by and large they have not, and ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • History as Art, Art as History

    Contemporary Art and Social Studies Education

    by Dipti Desai, Jessica Hamlin, Rachel Mattson ...
    Series series Teaching/Learning Social Justice
    History as Art, Art as History pioneers methods for using contemporary works of art in the social studies and art classroom to enhance an understanding of visual culture and history. The fully-illustrated interdisciplinary teaching toolkit provides an invaluable pedagogical resource—complete with theoretical background and practical suggestions for teaching U.S. history topics through close ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia

    by Iftikhar Dadi ...
    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    This pioneering work traces the emergence of the modern and contemporary art of Muslim South Asia in relation to transnational modernism and in light of the region's intellectual, cultural, and political developments.Art historian Iftikhar Dadi here explores the art and writings of major artists, men and women, ranging from the late colonial period to the era of independence and beyond. He looks ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • 30 Millennia of Painting

    by Klaus Carl H., Joseph Manca, Megan McShane ...
    From the cave paintings of Lascaux, to the Madonnas of the Renaissance Italians, from the revolutionary Impressionists to the provocative canvases of the Pop Art movement—30 Millennia of Painting reunites the essential works of pictorial art, spanning the history of art from prehistory to the present. Featuring a thousand internationally recognizable paintings, these cultural treasures are ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Routledge History of Italian Americans

    Edited by William Connell, Stanislao Pugliese ...
    Series series Routledge Histories
    The Routledge History of Italian Americans weaves a narrative of the trials and triumphs of one of the nation’s largest ethnic groups. This history, comprising original essays by leading scholars and critics, addresses themes that include the Columbian legacy, immigration, the labor movement, discrimination, anarchism, Fascism, World War II patriotism, assimilation, gender identity and popular ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Picture Titles

    How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names

    by Ruth Bernard Yeazell ...
    How the practice of titling paintings has shaped their reception throughout modern historyA picture's title is often our first guide to understanding the image. Yet paintings didn’t always have titles, and many canvases acquired their names from curators, dealers, and printmakers—not the artists. Taking an original, historical look at how Western paintings were named, Picture Titles shows how the ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD