The Arts: General Issues Books

"Elephant"--a quarterly magazine from the makers of "Frame"--focuses its keen eye on art and visual culture.Lately, creative individuals have been protesting against the corporate nature of things, often taking the initiative and setting up new independent ventures. "Elephant" looks at how it's done...

"Elephant"--a quarterly magazine from the makers of "Frame"--focuses its keen eye on art and visual culture.Lately, creative individuals have been protesting against the corporate nature of things, often taking the initiative and setting up new independent ventures. "Elephant" looks at how it's done...

Each year art and antiques worth many billions of pounds are sold at auction. These auctions consist of numerous, intense episodes of social interaction through which the price of goods rapidly escalates until sold on the strike of a hammer. In this book, Christian Heath examines the fine details of...

John James Audubon is arguably America 's most widely recognized and collected artist. His Birds of America has been reproduced often, beginning with the double elephant folio printed by Havill in England, followed by a much smaller Octavo edition printed in Philadelphia and sold by subscription. Af...

From the earliest cave paintings through to the internet and street art, this inspiring book chronicles the 100 most influential ideas that have shaped the world of art. Arranged in broadly chronological order, it provides a unique and compelling take on the history of art. The book shows how devel...

The largest exhibition catalogue to date of Steve McQueen's work will provide a detailed insight into his complex and unusual oeuvre. Installations, photographs and film from every period of his artistic career will be shown. Steve McQueen's early works are characterised by an experimental approach ...

The "Art of the Dead" showcases the vibrant, charismatic poster art that emerged from the streets of San Francisco in 1964 and 1966. It traces the cultural, political, and historical influences of posters as art back to Japanese wood blocks through Bell Epoque, on to the Beatniks, the Free Speech Mo...

Involved in expressionism, cubism and surrealism, Picasso is the outstanding painter during the first half of the 20th century. Innumerable publications to his person have appeared. In contrast to them this short guide delivers an overview of life and work of the controversial genius in not so many ...

On June 6, 1944, Ugo Giannini landed on Omaha Beach at H+70 minutes as one of a platoon of military police assigned to the 29th Division. Ugo's team was to control the incoming traffic. There were thirty-four men in his platoon; they were decimated in the first ten minutes. Six men got to the beach....

A richly illustrated and extremely enjoyable reference book on the historical evolution of the nude. From the Paleolithic "great mothers" to the Greek athletes, from the Venus of Urbino by Titian to Leonardo's Vitruvian Man, from the Odalisque by Boucher to those by Ingres, to the Amazons of Helmut ...

His whole life long the surrealistic painter Dali is obsessed to come to terms with three key moments of his childhood in Spain: 1. the fear that in his parents eyes he is only a rebirth of the dead first son, 2. The shocking effect that the pictures of venereal diseases discovered in his father's l...

A Kiss Before You Go is a profound and personal autobiographical work, a collection of Danny's illustrated journal pages chronicling his journey to recovery after the loss of his wife in a tragic accident. This heartfelt tale pairs beautiful illustrations with intimate, contemplative text.Author Bio...

From the Potomac to the Gulf, artists were creating in the South even before it was recognized as a region. The South has contributed to America's cultural heritage with works as diverse as Benjamin Henry Latrobe's architectural plans for the nation's Capitol, the wares of the Newcomb Pottery, and R...

From the Potomac to the Gulf, artists were creating in the South even before it was recognized as a region. The South has contributed to America's cultural heritage with works as diverse as Benjamin Henry Latrobe's architectural plans for the nation's Capitol, the wares of the Newcomb Pottery, and R...

Frida Kahlo called herself "Daughter of the Mexican Revolution." At the age of 18 she had a terrible traffic accident with the result of great pains for the remaining 28 years of her life. She created round about 70 self-portraits. She did painting when she felt sick and had to lay in bed. When she ...

In 1994 two important paintings by J.M.W. Turner--then valued at twenty-four million pounds--were stolen from a German public gallery while on loan from Tate Britain. In this vivid, personal account, Sandy Nairne who was then Director of Programmes at the Tate and became centrally involved in the pu...

J "NeonDragon" Peffer is a master at making mythological creatures. Throughout her artistic career, she's created hundreds of beasts, fairies, dragons and more - all with colors so rich and details so sharp, you'd almost swear she drew them from life."DragonArt(TM) Ultimate Gallery" represents the v...

This new volume in the series of Handbooks in International Art Business published in association with Sotheby's Institute of Art offers a timely guide to corporate collecting, examining the history, nature and importance of corporate collecting and the different reasons for starting and maintaining...

This book is an exciting pan-European art detective scenario investigating four Netherlandish paintings from the 16th century.

How and why do people 'frame' animals so pervasively, and what are the ramifications are of this habit? For animals, being put into a cultural frame (a film, a website, a pornographic tableau, an advertisement, a cave drawing, a zoo) means being taken out of their natural contexts, leaving them some...

How and why do people 'frame' animals so pervasively, and what are the ramifications are of this habit? For animals, being put into a cultural frame (a film, a website, a pornographic tableau, an advertisement, a cave drawing, a zoo) means being taken out of their natural contexts, leaving them some...

With more than 100 different spreads to envision, design, and draw, "Fill in the Blank" lets you create everything from new products (cars, shoes, vegetables) to new works of architecture (houses, skyscrapers, and cityscapes), from new works of art (statues, masterpieces) to new graphics (posters, b...

This festschrift is being published in honor of John Walford, a distinguished professor at Wheaton College, and makes a critical contribution to the field of art history. A reader covering everything from sixth-century icons to contemporary art, this compilation investigates art history from a Chris...

The volume brings together researchers and practitioners from the UK, Catalonia, Europe and the US to explore groundbreaking countercultural artists and movements and their relationship to a particular environment, Barcelona, setting them alongside more commercialised, global images of the city and ...

Even as actresses become increasingly marginalized by Hollywood, French cinema is witnessing an explosion of female talent--a Golden Age unlike anything the world has seen since the days of Stanwyck, Hepburn, Davis, and Garbo. In France, the joy of acting is alive and well. Scores of French actresse...

An innovative study of the thought and writings of Jean-Francois Lyotard in relation to contemporary art and in particular performance art.

Frontiers of Pleasure calls into question a number of influential modern notions regarding aesthetics by going back to the very beginnings of aesthetic thought in Greece and raising critical issues regarding conceptions of how one responds to the beautiful. Despite a recent rebirth of interest in ae...

To see the great art galleries, stately homes and museums up and down Britain today is to witness the rich story of the British as art collectors, a narrative that mirrors the history of the country. In this remarkable new book, James Stourton and Charles Sebag-Montefiore present a comprehensive sur...

"Explores a significant but overlooked aspect of early twentieth-century modernism, one that focuses on surface appearance rather than interiority or psychological depth. Looks at the writers Wyndham Lewis and Mina Loy, the artists Balthus and Hans Bellmer, and the fashion designer Coco Chanel"--Pro...

In 1834, Lord Melbourne spoke the words that epitomized the British government's attitude towards its own involvement in the arts: "God help the minister that meddles with Art." One hundred years later, however, with the onset of World War II, that attitude changed dramatically when "cultural policy...

"Art and Artists: Poems "is a sumptuous collection of visions in verse--the work of centuries of poets who have used their own art form to illuminate art created by others. A wide variety of visual art forms have inspired great poetry, from painting, sculpture, and photography to tapestry, folk art,...

Published to widespread media attention, Stealing Rembrandts is a glimpse into the criminal world of international art theft, which exceeds $6 billion a year. Art security expert Anthony M. Amore and award-winning investigative reporter Tom Mashberg reveal the actors behind the major Rembrandt heist...

The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation, the common matrix for the diverse nations and territories of the circum-Caribbean. This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration of the plantation, in terms of its physical layout and the social relation...

In many anthologies of art, sculpture is given short shrift in relation to other media, if it is treated at all. "Modern Sculpture Reader" aims to rectify this situation by presenting a collection of important texts that have defined sculpture's radically changing status and role since the end of th...