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Erotische Kunst
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95Als man Picasso an seinem Lebensabend einmal nach dem Unterschied zwischen Kunst und Erotik fragte, antwortete er nachdenklich: ?Aber - es gibt keinen Unterschied.? Wie andere vor der Erotik, so warnte er vor der Kunst: ?Kunst ist niemals keusch, man müsste sie von allen unschuldigen Ignoranten fern halten. Leute, die nicht genügend auf sie vorbereitet... more...
Landscapes
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95Although considered a minor genre for a long time, the art of landscape has risen above its forebears - religious and historic painting - to become a genre of its own. Giorgione in Italy, the Brueghels of the Flemish School, Claude Lorrain and Poussain of the French School, the Dutch landscape painters and Turner and Constable of England are just a... more...
Set the Action! Creating Backgrounds for Compelling Storytelling in Animation, Comics, and Games
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 29.95Create the Gotham for your Batman, the African savannah for your Simba, or the bustling newsroom for your Clark Kent. Background, setting, environment.whatever you call it, it is the silent character in the visual story, and a dynamic and compelling setting can define and hone the action and drama of your story. If you're in the habit of creating... more...
Mobile Screens
Amsterdam University Press 2012; US$ 35.00Mobile Screens captures the ways in which we engage with screens as interfaces with spatial, temporal, and haptic experiences. more...
The New Art History: A Critical Introduction
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 36.95The New Art History provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental changes which have occurred in both the institutions and practice of art history over the last thirty years. Jonathan Harris examines and accounts for the new approaches to the study of art which have been grouped loosely under the term 'the new art history'. He distinguishes... more...
Key Writers on Art: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 29.95Key Writers on Art: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century offers a unique and authoritative guide to theories of art from Ancient Greece to the end of the Victorian era, written by an international panel of expert contributors. Arranged chronologically to provide an historical framework, the 43 entries analyze the ideas of key philosophers, historians,... more...
Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 29.95Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century offers a unique and authoritative guide to modern responses to art. Featuring 48 essays on the most important twentieth century writers and thinkers and written by an international panel of expert contributors, it introduces readers to key approaches and analytical tools used in the study of contemporary... more...
A Companion to Art Theory
Wiley 2008; US$ 218.95The Companion provides an accessible critical survey of Western visual art theory from sources in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance thought through to contemporary writings. more...
Videogames and Art
Intellect 2007; US$ 10.00Videogame art is developing as an area of burgeoning interest, departing from embryonic roots into a flourishing division of scholarly study. The collection provides both an overview of the field, positioning it within a social and commercial context with reference to other forms of digital and pictorial art, and to the mainstream videogames industry. more...









