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Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performanceby Judith Rugg; Michèle Sedgwick
Intellect 2007; US$ 10.00Explores developments in electronic art, art/science collaboration, nongallery spaces, and 'virtual' fields. This volume examines issues surrounding the curation of art and performance exhibitions. It covers original theories and expanded concepts of curating contemporary art. more...
The Bauhaus Groupby Nicholas Fox Weber
Knopf Publishing Group 2009; US$ 23.99Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own stories and described life at the Bauhaus with their fellow artists and teachers, Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, as well these figures’ lesser-known wives and girlfriends. In this extraordinary group biography, Weber brilliantly brings to life the Bauhaus geniuses and the community of the pioneering art school in Germany’s Weimar and Dessau in the 1920s and early 1930s. Here are: Walter... more...
Art For Dummiesby Thomas Hoving; Andrew Wyeth
John Wiley & Sons 2011; US$ 24.99If you've always wanted to find out more about art but felt intimidated by the overeducated art world, then you've found the answer. Art For Dummies is the book that will have you and everyone you know clamoring outside the doors of your local museum. Thomas Hoving, former director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, is credited with revolutionizing the Met, doubling its size during his tenure, and bringing art to the masses. Let him bring art to you as well. In Art For Dummies , Thomas Hoving provides a how-to guide to the art world. First, he guides you through an introduction to art appreciation, pointing out the details that you've always noticed but have never been able to explain. Next, Hoving takes you on a ride through art... more...
Van Goghby Steven Naifeh; Gregory White Smith
Profile 2011; US$ 47.98Vincent van Gogh created some of the best loved - and most expensive - works of art ever made, from the early The Potato Eaters to his late masterpieces Sunflowers and The Starry Night. He had worked as an art dealer, a missionary and as a teacher in England, and only in his late twenties did he begin a life that would be fundamental in shaping modern art. But when he died in Auvers-sur-Oise in 1890 at the age of thirty-seven he was largely unknown. Written with the unique cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum, Pulitzer-winning authors Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith recreate his extraordinary life - and the inside of his troubled mind - like never before. Drawing for the first time on all of his (and his family's) extensive letters, which... more...
Learning to Teach Design and Technology in the Secondaryby Gwyneth Owen-Jackson
RoutledgeFalmer 2000; US$ 44.95Aims to help student teachers in their task of learning and developing their professional practice. Includes useful advice on teaching skills, class management and health and safety. more...
Site-Specific Artby Nick Kaye
Routledge 2000; US$ 43.95Site-Specific Art is the first major study of site-specific theatre and performance in North America and Europe since the 1950s. This volume is an astonishing addition to the debates around experimental performance and its documentation. more...
Erotic Ambiguitiesby Helen McDonald
Routledge 2000; US$ 39.95Across photography, fashion, painting and performance art, Helen McDonald shows how feminist artists have employed the idea of ambiguity to counter negative images of women and to dismantle the elusive classical ideal enshrined in the nude. more...
From Mycenae to Constantinopleby Richard A. Tomlinson
Routledge 1992; US$ 41.95An account of the architecture of a selection of ancient cities not merely from the historical point of view, but as an expression of the social organisation, and political systems employed by those who lived in them. more...
Six Months at the White Houseby Francis Bicknell Carpenter
Digital Scanning, Inc. 2000; US$ 4.95Written in a spirit of enthusiasm and affection, Six Months at the White House is a simple, matter-of-fact record of daily experience and observation, fragmentary but true, in all essential particulars of life in the White House as observed by Carpenter from February to August, 1864. more...
Crooked Trailsby Frederic Remington
Digital Scanning, Inc. 2001; US$ 4.95Born in 1861, Frederic Remington grew to become considered as one of the most important painters and premier illustrators of his time. Formally trained at the Yale School of Art and at the Art Students? League, he headed West due to health reasons. Although he was primarily an illustrator, working for many magazines such as Harper?s Weekly and Outing, he also painted over three thousand paintings. Crooked Trails is one of a number of books in which Remington wrote stories of the West and includes dozens of his illustrations. more...