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Learn about the various Art movements through history and their respective styles. |
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Expressionism (Taschen Basic Art)
During the first two decades of the 20th century, many artists famously experimented with nonrepresentational expression. Taking cues from ideas hinted as by artists such as El Greco, Goya, Van Gogh, and Munch, Expressionists sought to transform reality rather than depict it in any sort of literal |
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On Divers Arts
Earliest (12th century) treatise on arts written by practicing artist. Pigments, glass blowing, stained glass, gold and silver work, more. 34 illustrations. |
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The Rock Art of Arizona: Art for Life's Sake
With an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 sites spread throughout its canyons, mountains and deserts, the Grand Canyon state of Arizona constitutes one of the premier rock art theaters in the world. Consisting primarily of engraved images (petroglyphs) on sandstone and basalt, but also offering paintings |
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Essential Art Deco
The glamour, vibrancy, and high style of the Art Deco age comes to life in this handsome companion to the "Art Deco 19101939" exhibition, on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and soon to travel through North America. From the birth of the skyscraper to streamlining and futuristic |
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Art of the Middle Ages, 2nd Edition
Describes the times in which the art was created as well as the issues of patronage, function, and ultimately, the public’s reception of the art as it was produced. Providing a magnificent overview of medieval painting, sculpture, and architecture–in Italy, Byzantium, Germany, and France from |
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Street Art: The Graffiti Revolution
Over the last decade, street art—art made in public spaces including graffiti, stickers, stencil art, and wheat-pasting— has become one of the most popular and hotly discussed areas of art practice on the contemporary scene. Developing out of the graffiti-writing tradition of the 1980s through |
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History of Modern Art (Trade Version) (4th Edition)
History of Modern Art has long been recognized as the authoritative, encyclopedic history of painting, photography, sculpture, and architecture from the mid-19th century, when modern art emerged, to the present day. Revising author Marla F. Prather's contributions to the new Fourth Edition |
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Dolls of the Art Deco Era 1910-1940: Collect, Restore, Create and Play
Rediscover old sentimental favorite dolls from the art deco era with respected dollmaker Susanna Oroyan. Here are flappers and vamps, co-eds and clowns, bed dolls, even accessories-more than a dozen in all-that are easy to make and embellish. Next, Oroyan offers a comprehensive history of dolls and |
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European Art of the Fourteenth Century (Art Through the Centuries)
Fourteenth-century Europe was ravaged by famine, war, and, most devastatingly, the Black Plague. These widespread crises inspired a mystical religiosity, which emphasized both ecstatic joy and extreme suffering, producing emotionally charged and often graphic depictions of the Crucifixion and the |
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Arts and Literature In The Middle Ages (Medieval World)
Ages 7 to 14 years. During the Middle Ages in Western Europe, many people made their living by creating art for the Catholic Church and entertaining nobles and townspeople with music, acrobatic, juggling, and plays. Kings, nobles, and wealthy merchants paid for religious works of art and literature |
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Raw Creation: Outsider Art & Beyond
For many years what has become known as "outsider" art - the art produced by visionaries, spiritualists, recluses, the "mad" and the socially marginalized - was scorned and ridiculed, yet this type of art presents images of great immediacy and power, arising outside accepted art circles. These works |
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