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Select Books and eBooks about Art History

America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting by Philippe Bordes; Jack Hinton; Melissa Hyde; Yuriko Jackall; Joseph J. Rishel; Pierre Rosenberg In 1815, Joseph, elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, arrived in America, bringing with him his vast and exquisite collection of eighteenth-century French painting, and a new American taste for eighteenth-century French painting was born. America Collects Eighteenth-century French Painting brings together some of the best and most unusual examples of this type of art that American museums have to offer, and tells their stories on a national stage. Who were the collectors, curators, museum directors and dealers responsible for bringing eighteenth-century French painting to America? Where are the paintings now? The book considers America's very real fascination with France in the eighteenth century: a staunch ally in the Revolutionary wars, a cultural and intellectual model for Franklin, Jefferson and other Americans abroad. It also looks at the way in which the cultural ideal of eighteenth-century France has continued to endure in the American imagination.
Call Number: ND546 .A595 2017
ISBN: 9781848222342
Publication Date: 2017-07-01
The Architecture of Art History by Mark Crinson; Richard J. Williams What is the place of architecture in the history of art? Why has it been at times central to the discipline, and at other times seemingly so marginal? What is its place now? Many disciplines have a stake in the history of architecture - sociology, anthropology, human geography, to name a few. This book deals with perhaps the most influential tradition of all - art history - examining how the relation between the disciplines of art history and architectural history has waxed and waned over the last one hundred and fifty years. In this highly original study, Mark Crinson and Richard J. Williams point to a decline in the importance attributed to the role of architecture in art history over the last century - which has happened without crisis or self-reflection. The book explores the problem in relation to key art historical approaches, from formalism, to feminism, to the social history of art, and in key institutions from the Museum of Modern Art, to the journal October. Among the key thinkers explored are Banham, Baxandall, Giedion, Panofsky, Pevsner, Pollock, Riegl, Rowe, Steinberg, Wittkower and Wölfflin. The book will provoke debate on the historiography and present state of the discipline of art history, and it makes a powerful case for the reconsideration of architecture.
ISBN: 9781350020917
Publication Date: 2018-12-13
Art and Value by Dave Beech Art and Value is the first comprehensive analysis of art's political economy throughout classical, neoclassical and Marxist economics. It provides a critical-historical survey of the theories of art's economic exceptionalism, of art as a merit good, and of the theories of art's commodification, the culture industry and real subsumption. Key debates on the economics of art, from the high prices artworks fetch at auction, to the controversies over public subsidy of the arts, the 'cost disease' of artistic production, and neoliberal and post-Marxist theories of art's incorporation into capitalism, are examined in detail. Subjecting mainstream and Marxist theories of art's economics to an exacting critique, the book concludes with a new Marxist theory of art's economic exceptionalism.
ISBN: 9789004288140
Publication Date: 2015-03-27
Art History, Combined by Marilyn Stokstad Marilyn Stokstad's landmark survey has been thoroughly revised and updated with heavily reworked sections on Renaissance, Baroque and Modern art as well as a completely new design and larger and more numerous illustrations
Call Number: N5300 .S923 2008
ISBN: 9780132368544
Publication Date: 2007-02-05
Art in World History 2 Vols by Mary Hollingsworth; Giulio Carlo Argan A guide to the establishment of the library which covers materials acquisition, the organization and usage of the library's collection to provide a variety of services and the use of automation. This book aims to instruct the librarian on managing the small library effectively.
ISBN: 9781317476511
Publication Date: 2016-06-03
ArtQuake by Susie Hodge An alternative introduction to modern art, focusing on the stories of 50 key works that consciously questioned the boundaries, challenged the status quo and made shockwaves we are still feeling today.
ISBN: 9780711254763
Publication Date: 2022-01-25
Bauhaus 1919-1933 by Barry Bergdoll
Call Number: N332.G33 B42455 2009
ISBN: 9780870707582
Early modernism by Christopher Butler
Call Number: NX542 .B88 1994
ISBN: 019818252X
Fleshing Out Surfaces by Mechthild Fend Fleshing out surfaces is the first English-language book on skin and flesh tones in art. It considers flesh and skin in art theory, image making and medical discourse in seventeenth to nineteenth-century France. Describing a gradual shift between the early modern and the modern period, it argues that what artists made when imitating human nakedness was not always the same. Initially understood in terms of the body's substance, of flesh tones and body colour, it became increasingly a matter of skin, skin colour and surfaces. Each chapter is dedicated to a different notion of skin and its colour, from flesh tones via a membrane imbued with nervous energy to hermetic borderline. Looking in particular at works by Fragonard, David, Girodet, Benoist and Ingres, the focus is on portraits, as facial skin is a special arena for testing painterly skills and a site where the body and the image become equally expressive.
ISBN: 9780719087967
Publication Date: 2017-01-02
The Sick Rose by Richard Barnett The Sick Rose is a visual tour through the golden age of medical illustration. The nineteenth century experienced an explosion of epidemics such as cholera and diphtheria, driven by industrialization, urbanization and poor hygiene. In this pre-color-photography era, accurate images were relied upon to teach students and aid diagnosis. The best examples, featured here, are remarkable pieces of art that attempted to elucidate the mysteries of the body, and the successive onset of each affliction. Bizarre and captivating images, including close-up details and revealing cross-sections, make all too clear the fascinations of both doctors and artists of the time. Barnett illuminates the fears and obsessions of a society gripped by disease, yet slowly coming to understand and combat it. The age also saw the acceptance of vaccination and the germ theory, and notable diagrams that transformed public health, such as John Snow's cholera map and Florence Nightingale's pioneering histograms, are included and explained. Organized by disease, The Sick Rose ranges from little-known ailments now all but forgotten to the epidemics that shaped the modern age. It is a fascinating Wunderkammer of a book that will enthrall artists, students, designers, scientists and the incurably curious everywhere.
Call Number: R836 .B37 2014 - New Book Shelf
ISBN: 9781938922404
Publication Date: 2014-05-31
Ten thousand years of pottery by Emmanuel Cooper
Call Number: NK3780 .C663 2000
ISBN: 0812235541
What Great Paintings Say. 100 Masterpieces in Detail by Rainer & Rose-Marie Hagen This important addition to our understanding of art history's masterworks puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to uncover their most small and subtle elements and all they reveal about a bygone time, place, and culture. Guiding our eye to the minutiae of subject and symbolism, authors Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen allow even the most familiar of pictures to come alive anew through their intricacies and intrigues. Is the bride pregnant? Why does the man wear a beret? How does the shadow of war hang over a scene of dancing? Along the way, we travel from Ancient Egypt through to modern Europe, from the Renaissance to the Roaring Twenties. We meet Greek heroes and poor German poets and roam from cathedrals to cabaret bars, from the Garden of Eden to a Garden Bench in rural France. As we pick apart each painting and then reassemble it like a giant jigsaw puzzle, these celebrated canvases captivate not only in their sheer wealth of details but also in the witness they bear to the fashions and trends, people and politics, loves and lifestyles of their time. About the series Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe!
Call Number: ND1143 .H35 2019 - New Book Shelf
ISBN: 9783836559263
Publication Date: 2016-03-02

Select Books and eBooks about Art and Design Techniques

The Art of Spray Paint by Lori Zimmer A comprehensive guide of the world of spray paint that includes the process of each art form, as well as tricks of the trade from artists around the world.
ISBN: 9781631591464
Publication Date: 2017-01-01
But Is It Art? by Cynthia Freeland
ISBN: 9780192853677
Publication Date: 2002-04-04
Compelling visuality by Claire Farago
ISBN: 0816641153
Drawing: the enactive evolution of the practitioner by Patricia Cain
ISBN: 9781841503950
Modern Watercolor by Kristin Van Leuven
ISBN: 9781633223561
Publication Date: 2017-09-19
Monotype by Julia Ayres Now in paperback! The art of monotype has experienced a surge of popularity in recent years, and artists working in other mediums will enjoy exploring the creative potential this process offers them. A brief history of monotype is followed by a comprehensive chapter on materials. The step-by-step instructions are accompanied by some of the finest examples of monotype being done today.
Call Number: NE2242 .A95 2001
ISBN: 0823031284
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Scientific examination of art: modern techniques in conservation and analysis
ISBN: 0309096251