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Ai Weiwei: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
Ai Weiwei's recent exhibition Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, is a powerful reflection on the global refugee crisis.
Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene
Contributes to the growing literature on artistic responses to global climate change and its consequences.
The Art Book
The Art Book explores more than 100 different movements, periods, and works throughout history, including ancient Assyrian sculpture and contemporary Japanese multimedia works.
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art
This work reexamines enduring concepts about American national culture by exploring how one group of artists, those of Latin American descent and heritage, express their relationship to American art, history, and culture.
The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love
A comprehensive guide for both emerging and mid-career artists to pursue a career in the visual arts.
Symbols and Allegories in Art
From antiquity, when the gods and goddesses were commonly featured in works of art, through to the twentieth century, when Surrealists drew on archetypes from the unconscious, artists have embedded symbols in their works.
Nature's Nation: America's Art and Environment
This look at artworks across genres and media reveals important new discoveries about creative encounters with environmental history and politics through materials, techniques, subjects, and ideas.
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists
This work explores the artistic achievements of Native women and establishes their rightful place in the art world. It includes works of art from antiquity to the present, made in a variety of media from textiles and beadwork to video and digital arts.
Gauguin - Portraits
The first in-depth investigation of Gauguin's portraits, revealing how the artist expanded the possibilities of the genre in new and exciting ways.
Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the events that followed marked a significant moment when artists were able to publicly reassess their histories and to question the opposition between East and West that defined the Cold War era.
Art of China : Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Featuring one hundred works of Chinese art in various media spanning antiquity to the present day, this volume provides a fascinating look into the breadth and diversity of Chinese artistic experience and material culture.
Nefertiti's Face: The Creation of an Icon
Nefertiti remains one of the most famous and enigmatic women who ever lived. In Nefertiti's Face, Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley tells the story of the bust, from its origins in a busy workshop of the late Bronze Age to its rediscovery and controversial removal to Europe in 1912 and its present status as one of the world's most treasured artifacts.
Beyond the Face: New Perspectives on Portraiture
Examining a wide range of topics, from early caricature and political vandalism of portraits to contemporary selfies and performance art, this book challenges our traditional assumptions about portraiture and offers a resource for teaching art history, subjectivity, and the construction of identity.
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
The spellbinding story of Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, one of the most emblematic portraits of its time; of the beautiful, seductive Viennese Jewish salon hostess who sat for it; the notorious artist who painted it; the now vanished turn-of-the-century Vienna that shaped it; and the strange twisted fate that befell it
Land and Environmental Art
The definitive survey not only of Land Art but also of contemporary environmental art, featuring photographs of site-specific works in locations around the world, is essential reading for both art enthusiasts and anyone concerned with the environment.
Congo Masks: Masterpieces from Central Africa
This splendid illustrated exploration of masks and masking ceremonies from the Democratic Republic of the Congo presents more than 130 outstanding wooden masks dating from the 18th to the 20th century.
Street Art
This book examines how street art evolved from its origins in the 1970s New York graffiti scene to embrace many new materials, styles, and techniques. The once marginal art form has graduated into art galleries and the art market, while also heavily influencing design, fashion, advertising, and visual culture.
Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence was one of the best-known African American artists of the twentieth century. “Painting Harlem Modern” highlights Lawrence's heroic efforts to meet his many challenges while remaining true to his humanist values and artistic vision
Sacred Spaces: The Awe-Inspiring Architecture of Churches and Cathedrals
Sacred Spaces showcases breathtaking photographs of extraordinary churches and cathedrals, revealing original, illuminating views of icons, such as la Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, while also shedding light on lesser-known sites, such as Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.
How to Read Islamic Calligraphy
An accessible introduction to the quintessential art form of the Islamic world, this book explores the preeminence of the written word as a means of creative expression throughout the Islamic world.
A History of Art History
Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history.