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Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Art in Britain 1660-1815 presents the first social history of British art from the period known as the long 18th century, and offers a fresh and challenging look at the major developments in painting, drawing, and printmaking that took place during this period. It describes how an embryonic London art world metamorphosed into a flourishing community of native and immigrant practitioners, whose efforts ultimately led to the rise of a British School...
63) Timelines of art
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Updated edition, American edition.
Language
English
Description
Timelines of Art provides detailed analysis of the works of key artists, showing details of their technique--such as Leonardo's use of light and shade. It tells the story of avant-garde works like Manet's Le Daejeuner sur l'herbe (Lunch on the Grass), which scandalized society, and it traces how certain artists, genres or movements informed the works of others--showing how the Impressionists were inspired by Gustave Courbet, for example, or how Van...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The Black Arts Movement (BAM) encompassed a group of artists, musicians, novelists, and playwrights whose work combined innovative approaches to literature, film, music, visual arts, and theatre. With a heightened consciousness of black agency and autonomy--along with the radical politics of the civil rights movement, the Black Muslims, and the Black Panthers--these figures represented a collective effort to defy the status quo of American life and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This book aims to restore and recreate the life, work, and milieu of certain Jews who became arbiters of taste. Exploring how, against the odds, outsiders on the margins of European high culture, suddenly became the Old Masters' new masters and the modernists' champions"--
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Food has always been an important source of knowledge about culture and society. Art and Appetite takes a fascinating new look at depictions of food in American art, demonstrating that the artists' representations of edibles offer thoughtful reflection on the cultural, political, economic, and social moments in which they were created. Using food as an emblem, artists were able to both celebrate and critique their society, expressing ideas relating...
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"History of Illustration covers image-making and print history from around the world, spanning from the ancient to the postmodern. Compiled by an international team of illustration historians, practitioners, and educators, this exploration of the topic presents nearly 900 color images to survey and critically analyze the communicative aspects of sacred, editorial, literary, fashion, medical, advertising, children's book, sequential, and other kinds...
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