The Best Art You've Never Seen
Title | The Best Art You've Never Seen PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Spalding |
Publisher | Rough Guides UK |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2010-10-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 140538655X |
Across the globe there are scores of beautiful and unusual works of art that are largely unseen or fail to receive the critical acclaim they deserve. The Best Art You've Never Seen is your essential companion to this hidden world of artistic treasures. Travelling from Peru to Papua New Guinea, The Best Art You've Never Seen restores to view 101 wonderful treasures - uncovering neglected artistic wonders from off-beat corners of the world to store rooms in the world's great museums. Written by art expert and former museum director Julian Spalding, The Best Art You've Never Seen takes you into a world of beautiful and arresting artefacts and reveals their amazing stories. It unveils a surprising and unfamiliar alternative canon of works to offer a fresh and controversial take on the world of art.
Art Nouveau: The Essential Reference
Title | Art Nouveau: The Essential Reference PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Belanger Grafton |
Publisher | Courier Dover Publications |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2015-10-21 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 0486799832 |
Full-color and black-and-white works by virtually every key artist of the Art Nouveau movement, including Mucha, Seguy, Beardsley, and Verneuil. Includes material from rare books, portfolios, and major periodicals, plus bibliographies and artist biographies.
World Art
Title | World Art PDF eBook |
Author | Mike O'Mahony |
Publisher | JG Press |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2007-05-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781572154780 |
"The definitive reference for art lovers of any level of knowledge and understanding. Packed with paintings by popular and essential artists from all over the world, this comprehensive new book is organized by era to reveal the development of art over time."--p. [4] of cover.
What Art Is Like, In Constant Reference to the Alice Books
Title | What Art Is Like, In Constant Reference to the Alice Books PDF eBook |
Author | Miguel Tamen |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2012-10-30 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0674067959 |
This comic, serious inquiry into the nature of art takes its technical vocabulary from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. It is ridiculous to think of poems, paintings, or films as distinct from other things in the world, including people. Talking about art should be contiguous with talking about other relevant matters.
World Art
Title | World Art PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780681137769 |
"The definitive reference for art lovers of any level of knowledge and understanding. Packed with paintings by popular and essential artists from all over the world, this comprehensive new book is organized by era to reveal the development of art over time."--Page 4 of cover.
Frames of Reference
Title | Frames of Reference PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Marquardt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 383 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780072829488 |
Seven Days in the Art World
Title | Seven Days in the Art World PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Thornton |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2008-11-17 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0393071057 |
A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art. The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series of beautifully paced narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel Art Fair, the eccentricities of Artforum magazine, the competition behind an important art prize, life in a notorious art-school seminar, and the wonderland of the Venice Biennale. She reveals the new dynamics of creativity, taste, status, money, and the search for meaning in life. A judicious and juicy account of the institutions that have the power to shape art history, based on hundreds of interviews with high-profile players, Thornton's entertaining ethnography will change the way you look at contemporary culture.