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Children's Book of Art
Dorling Kindersley 2009; US$ 24.99This engaging guide takes children on an international tour of the world's greatest art, from the first daubs of paint in prehistoric caves to today?s performance art. It includes all of the important art movements, from Renaissance to Rococo, as well as the great painters from all these eras. However, the approach is to look at art as an international... more...
Muqarnas, 26
BRILL 2009; US$ 83.00"Muqarnas" 26 contains articles on a variety of topics that span and transcend the geographic and temporal boundaries that have traditionally defined the history of Islamic art and architecture. more...
Encyclopedia of Native American Artists
Greenwood Publishing Group 2008; US$ 74.95Students and art lovers will enjoy reading about the approximately 70 Native American artists presented here, many for the first time in a reference book. more...
Grenzen der Katharsis in den modernen Künsten
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 126.00Whereas Aristotle had limited the evocation of fear and sympathy strictly to the cathartic effect of tragedy, a dissolution can be observed of the boundaries of concepts of catharsis following on from Bernays, Freud and Nietzsche, as the possibilities and limits of catharsis as an emotional abreaction are redrawn. What led to the break with the Aristotelian... more...
Neo-avant-garde in Nederland
Amsterdam University Press 2010; US$ 67.75In 1955 werd het tijdschrift "Museumjournaal" opgericht in een poging het algmene publiek te winnen voor de twintigste-eeuwse kunst. Binnen tien jaar groeide het blad uit tot dé informatiebron voor eigentijdse avant-gardekunst in ons land. Rogier Schumacher analyseert deze groei. Hij toont aan dat de belangrijkste auteurs in het tijdschrift... more...
Objects as History in Twentieth-Century German Art
University of California Press 2010; US$ 55.00This book provides a stimulating overview of twentieth-century German art, focusing on some of the period's key works by Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Hannah Höch, Willi Baumeister, Arno Breker, Joseph Beuys, and Gerhard Richter. In Peter Chametzky's innovative approach, these works become representatives rather than representations of twentieth-century... more...
Drawing on Art
University of Minnesota Press 2010; US$ 75.00How Duchamp and his collaborators creatively challenged the meaning of art and authorship more...
Cultural Contact and the Making of European Art since the Age of Exploration
The University of North Carolina Press 2010; US$ 29.95Art historians have long been accustomed to thinking about art and artists in terms of national traditions. This volume takes a different approach, suggesting instead that a history of art based on national divisions often obscures the processes of cultural appropriation and global exchange that shaped the visual arts of Europe in fundamental ways... more...
Confessions of a Curator
Dundurn 1996; US$ 29.99In this witty and compelling defence of the art field itself, Joan Murray, one of the country's most outspoken art historians, discusses the great figures of Canadian art and the rise of our national are in institutions such as the Art Gallery of Ontario. more...
The Sensory World of Italian Renaissance Art
Reaktion Books 2010; US$ 27.00In The Sensory World of Italian Renaissance Art, François Quiviger explores the ways in which the senses began to take on a new significance in the art of the sixteenth century. more...









