Outsider Art: Art Brut and its Affinities (World of Art) - Colin Rhodes

Outsider Art: Art Brut and its Affinities (World of Art) - Colin Rhodes

An updated and substantially revised edition of this comprehensive introduction to outsider art, distinguished by its wider international scope and inclusion of global developments since 2000. Outsider Art is the work produced outside the mainstream of modern art by self-taught, untrained

Outsider Art: Visionary Worlds and Trauma (Wojcik Daniel)(Pevná vazba)

Outsider art has exploded onto the international art scene, gaining widespread attention for its startling originality and visual power. As an expression of raw creativity, outsider art remains associated with self-taught visionaries, psychiatric patients, trance mediums, eccentric outcasts, and

Art & Archaeology of the Roman World (Fullerton Mark D.)(Pevná vazba)

A new history of Roman art and archaeology, from its very beginnings in Etruscan art to the adoption of

collections du Art et marges musee - Collection Strates(Pevná vazba)

Located in the heart of Brussels, the Art et Margins Museum, an outsider art museum, questions art and its borders. Text in English, French, and

Art of Jazz: A Visual History - Alyn Shipton, John Edward Hasse

The Art of Jazz explores how the expressionism and spontaneity of jazz spilled onto its album art, posters, and promotional photography, and even inspired standalone works of fine art. Everyone knows jazz is on the cutting edge of music, but how much do you know about its influence in the visual

Theatre: Art Brut - The Collection(Paperback)

The theatre is the central theme of this fourth volume in our series titled 'Art Brut - The Collection', published to coincide with the fourth Art Brut

Outsider Art - From the Margins to the Marketplace (MacLagan David)(Paperback / softback)

The term outsider art has been used to describe work produced exterior to the mainstream of modern art by certain self-taught visionaries, spiritualists, eccentrics, recluses, psychiatric patients, criminals, and others beyond the perceived margins of society. Yet the idea of such a raw, untaught

Deep Affinities: Art and Science (Palmedo Philip F.)(Pevná vazba)

In this thought-provoking book, Philip F. Palmedo, a former physicist who now writes on art, reveals how the two defining enterprises of humankind--art and science--are rooted in certain common instincts, which we might call aesthetic: an appreciation of symmetry, balance, and rhythm; the drive to

Surrounded by Art: The Julius Baer Art Collection (Staubli Barbara)(Pevná vazba)

A survey of Swiss bank Julius Baer's corporate art collection, highlighting its origins and development over the past four decades and featuring artistic positions of thirty-five contemporary Swiss

Mod Art (Anderson Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Examining and illustrating the art scene surrounding the birth of modernism and its simultaneous rise among the burgeoning working class Mod scene of the Sixties, Paul Anderson's Mod Art is the definitive work on the visual culture of Mod. With interviews from key artists, scene members and a rich

Installation Art: Between Image and Stage (Ring Petersen Anne)(Paperback)

Despite its large and growing popularity--to say nothing of its near-ubiquity in the world's art scenes and international exhibitions of contemporary art--installation art remains a form whose artistic vocabulary and conceptual basis have rarely been subjected to thorough critical examination

Drum Solos: The Art of Phrasing (Bailey Colin)(Paperback)

American Art and Architecture (Lewis Michael J.)(Paperback)

This new survey provides a complete history of American art and architecture from its seventeenth-century colonial beginnings to the latest installation and video work. Structured chronologically, the book defines the characteristics of the different periods and highlights the consistent forms,

Byzantine Art (Cormack Robin)(Paperback)

The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representations reflecting and promoting this society and its values in icons, illuminated manuscripts, and mosaics and wallpaintings placed in domed churches and

Lionel Messi and the Art of Living (West Andy)(Pevná vazba)

Lionel Messi and the Art of Living is a bold and insightful examination of a world-famous sporting hero's career from an entirely new perspective, providing a context extending far beyond the soccer field. The idea that sports stars are role models is a clich , but it is also true in a way that is

Pop Art: Create Your Own Striking Wall Art (Bhler Thomas)(Paperback)

Pop Art is eye-catching, bold, recognisable and, best of all, its easy to reproduce making it fantastic for beginners. Thomas B hler explains all the fundamentals including materials, tools and the basic techniques as well as everything you need to know about this fashionable art form. The book is

A Short Book about Art (Arnold Dana)(Paperback)

Art is often obscured behind alienating and nonsensical jargon. Introducing art in its international context, this accessible book explores core issues about how art is made, interpreted, and displayed, without any of the unnecessary terminology. Divided into themes, 'A Short Book About Art'

Body Art (Thomas Nicholas)(Paperback)

This informed and accessible book explores the wide-ranging history of body art, from its expression of tribal affinities and cultural identity to its role in theatricality, criminality, and beautifying the body, as well as its influence on contemporary artists.Seven thematic chapters explore the

A History of Art History (Wood Christopher S.)(Paperback)

An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicaments In this authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher S. Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly

The Nazarenes: Romantic Avant-Garde and the Art of the Concept (Grewe Cordula)(Pevná vazba)

Traces the Nazarene 'art of the concept' from its Romantic inception to its academic transformation in the 1830s. Arguing that the Nazarenes, despite their revivalist agenda, were a quintessentially modern movement, the book provides a revisionist understanding of modernity in nineteenth-century

Art of the Middle East (Eigner Saeb)(Pevná vazba)

The definitive guide to modern and contemporary art of the Middle East and Arab world since 1945. Includes more than 500 colour illustrations, a guide to Arabic script and biographies of the 200-plus featured

Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light (Shlain Leonard)(Paperback)

Art interprets the visible world. Physics charts its unseen workings. The two realms seem completely opposed. But consider that both strive to reveal truths for which there are no words--with physicists using the language of mathematics and artists using visual images. In Art & Physics, Leonard

Rogues' Gallery - A History of Art and its Dealers (Hook Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Sotheby's art expert exposes five centuries of history, scandals, big wins and horrifying losses in the international art

Art in a Disrupted World: Poland 1939-1949 (Pietrasik Agata)(Paperback)

With Art in a Disrupted World, art historian Agata Pietrasik presents a study of artistic practices that emerged in Poland during and after World War II. Pietrasik highlights examples of artworks by a number of Polish-born artists that were created in concentration camps and ghettos, in exile, and