The second e-book volume of MAKE ART 2023 gathers artworks from contemporary international artists who have joined the Italian project of the Virtual Online Art Gallery "Make Art Gallery" from which the collection takes its name. Make Art Volume Two will provide you with a new window into the world of contemporary art, showcasing a curated and exclusive selection of unique and personal works that explore a range of styles and techniques. You will discover pieces from both emerging and established artists worldwide, enriching your present and future art collection. In this edition - the artists COLLECTION 1: Martina Lattanzi, Sabrina Toppino, Maria Rosaria Cozza - MRC, · Alessandro Corpora, Helen Bradbury, Juan Sacristán, Jan Kostabi, Pridhi Arora. COLLECTION 2: Kiro, Chia-Yen Ho, Dino Puglisi, Siyabonga “Kisanii Fundii” Vilakazi, Cristiano Cavedon, Marcello Santacroce, Silvano Annibali, Antonio Maragnani.

This Second e-book of AbstrArt gathers abstract artworks or with abstract themes created by contemporary international artists who have joined the Italian art gallery project, Make Art Gallery. AbstrArt volume two will offer you a new vision into the world of contemporary abstract art, presenting a selection of unique and personal works that explore various styles and techniques. Divided into 3 author collections, the ebook will showcase the following artists: Collection 1: Sylvie Berton - Florentina Maria Popescu - Bogdan Maximovici - Christine Rechnitzer - Claudia Cabboi - Jan Kostabi - El viajero del Faro - Zsolt Nagy - Mattia Branchesi - Snezhanka Spasova Nikolova Collection 2 Abril Tormos - Antonio Maragnani - Claudia Habringer - Cristiana Giacchetti - HectH - Siyabonga “Kisanii Fundii” Vilakazi - Laura Rota - Chia-Yen Ho - Sandra Ida Faggiano Collection 3 Dino Puglisi - Ezio Curletto - Lila KB - Nadia Aldea - Nikolay Vlahov - Patrícia Abreu - Silvano Annibali - Tesolee - Kiro Art Director: Stefano Fiore Rome/Italy www.makeartgallery.com

Art and the Challenge of Markets Volumes 1 & 2 examine the politics of art and culture in light of the profound changes that have taken place in the world order since the 1980s and 1990s. The contributors explore how in these two decades, the neoliberal or market-based model of capitalism started to spread from the economic realm to other areas of society. As a result, many aspects of contemporary Western societies increasingly function in the same way as the private enterprise sector under traditional market capitalism. This second volume analyses the relationships of art with contemporary capitalist economies and instrumentalist cultural policies, and examines several varieties of capitalist-critical and alternative art forms that exist in today’s art worlds. It also addresses the vexed issues of art controversies and censorship. The chapters cover issues such as the culturalization of the economy, aesthetics and anti-aesthetics, the societal benefits of works of art, art's responsibility to society, "artivism", activist arts as protest and capitalism-critical works, and controversies over nudity in art, as well as considering the marketisation of emerging visual arts worlds in East Asia. The book ends with the a concluding chapter suggesting that even in today's marketized and commercialized environments, art will find a way. Both volumes provide students and scholars across a range of disciplines with an incisive, comparative overview of the politics of art and culture and national, international and transnational art worlds in contemporary capitalism.

The meaning of art has not been determined till date. The word art is such a broad and dynamic concept that despite thousands of definitions of various scholars touch on only one particular aspect of art but when the consciousness awakened, that form of energy gives form to the joy arising inside the mind of the artist. This book ( Art and Artists- vol 2 ) is a small part of the blissful energy of some such artists. Hopefully it will give a comprehensiveness to the thinking by erasing the boundaries of selfishness, family, region, religion, language and caste etc. formed in the mind of every person and will satisfy the aesthetic appetite of art lovers and artists.

First systematic, inclusive study of the impact of the high civilizations of Asia on the development of modern Western civilization.