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  • Painting Culture

    The Making of an Aboriginal High Art

    par Fred R. Myers, Nicholas Thomas ...
    Collections 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. ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

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  • But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory

    An Introduction to Art Theory

    par Cynthia Freeland ...
    In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Depicting Canada’s Children

    Modifié par Loren Lerner ...
    Collections series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts. But rather than simply examine images in formal settings, the authors ... En savoir plus

    $38.39 CAD

  • The Reformation of the Image

    par Joseph Leo Koerner ...
    In The Reformation of the Image, Joseph Leo Koerner examines the images used in Protestant church services during the period of their definition by Martin Luther. Focusing on Lucas Cranach the Elder's famous altarpiece for the City Church in Wittenberg, and drawing on a mass of other Lutheran images - some of which have never been published before - he elucidates a founding moment in European ... En savoir plus

    $44.99 CAD

  • Shadows

    The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art

    par E. H. Gombrich, Neil MacGregor ...
    In this intriguing book, E.H. Gombrich, who was one of the world’s foremost art historians, traces how cast shadows have been depicted in Western art through the centuries. Gombrich discusses the way shadows were represented—or ignored—by artists from the Renaissance to the 17th century and then describes how Romantic, Impressionist, and Surrealist artists exploited the device of the cast shadow ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Memory Arts in Renaissance England

    A Critical Anthology

    Modifié par William E. Engel, Rory Loughnane, Grant Williams ...
    This is the first critical anthology of writings about memory in Renaissance England. Drawing together excerpts from more than seventy writers, poets, physicians, philosophers and preachers, and with over twenty illustrations, the anthology offers the reader a guided exploration of the arts of memory. The introduction outlines the context for the tradition of the memory arts from classical times ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD

  • Modern Art

    A Very Short Introduction

    par David Cottington ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. This book achieves all this and focuses on interrogating the idea of 'modern' ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Art Since 1989 (World of Art)

    par Kelly Grovier ...
    Collections Livre 0 - World of Art
    An extensive, accessible guide to the most groundbreaking and influential art from 1989 to the presentThe years since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 have seen the rise of a new freedom to define art—Who makes it? Where can it be found? What is its commercial value?—and, consequently, the reevaluation of art’s place in society.Kelly Grovier surveys the dynamic developments in art ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art

    par David W. Galenson ...
    From Picasso's Cubism and Duchamp's readymades to Warhol's silkscreens and Smithson's earthworks, the art of the twentieth century broke completely with earlier artistic traditions. A basic change in the market for advanced art produced a heightened demand for innovation, and young conceptual innovators – from Picasso and Duchamp to Rauschenberg and Warhol to Cindy Sherman and Damien Hirst – ... En savoir plus

    $48.99 CAD

  • When the Machine Made Art

    The Troubled History of Computer Art

    par Grant D. Taylor ...
    Collections series International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics
    Considering how culturally indispensable digital technology is today, it is ironic that computer-generated art was attacked when it burst onto the scene in the early 1960s. In fact, no other twentieth-century art form has elicited such a negative and hostile response. When the Machine Made Art examines the cultural and critical response to computer art, or what we refer to today as digital art. ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Art of Understanding Art

    A new perspective

    par Hugh Moss ...
    Have we completely missed the point of the modern western revolution in the arts? Hugh Moss thinks so, and here he presents a refreshingly original and thought-provoking new approach to understanding art. It not only makes sense of western art over the past century or more, but applies equally to the art of any culture at any time, all within one enlightening framework that, well ... works.This ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Computers and Art

    Computers and Art

    par Stuart Mealing ...
    Insightful perspectives on the use of the computer as a tool for artists. The approaches taken vary from its historical, philosophical and practical implications to the use of computer technology in art practice. The contributors include an art critic, an educator, a practicing artist and a researcher. The Editor's contribution will look at the potential for future developments in the field, ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD