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Abstract Art by Stephanie Straine
Category: Sale Book | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
While it is considered by many artists to be a pure and simplistic form of expression, abstract art is also often thought of as vague or exceedingly theoretical. This new installment in the Art Essentials series demystifies the concept and history of abstraction, taking the reader on a journey that span ...Show more
Contemporary Art by Natalie Rudd
Category: Art | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
A plain speaking, jargon-free account of contemporary art that identifies key themes and approaches, providing the reader with a clear understanding of the contexts in which art is being made today. Since the 1960s contemporary art has overturned the accepted historical categorizations of what constitu ...Show more
How to Understand Art by Janetta Rebold Benton
Category: Art | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
The visual arts enrich our lives in so many ways, presenting beauty, emotion, and ideas--but sometimes looking at art is confusing and challenging. This new volume in the Art Essentials series, How to Understand Art, sets out to enhance the viewer's experience by breaking down the elements of art to pro ...Show more
Impressionism by Ralph Skea
Category: Art | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
It is often forgotten just how provocative and unsettling impressionist canvases seemed when they were first exhibited in 1874. Critics, professional artists, and gallery visitors alike were shocked to encounter the unorthodox paintings on display, with their seemingly unfinished surfaces and lack of an ...Show more
Key Moments in Art by Lee Cheshire
Category: Art | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
Art lovers can list history's most important art objects, but what many don't know are the dramatic, funny, and sometimes bizarre stories behind these most famous works. Spanning the last 500 years of art history, this book revisits fifty momentous events that changed the course of art--days when now wo ...Show more
Looking at Pictures by Susan Woodford
Category: Art | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
Beautifully illustrated with some of the world's greatest pictures, from cave paintings and Roman mosaics to Picasso and Damien Hirst, this affordable guide explains the art of looking at and understanding pictures, equipping the reader with the vision and tools to approach any museum picture with confi ...Show more
Modern Art - Art Essentials by Amy Dempsey
Category: Art | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
The first in a new series of essential introductions to art, Modern Art guides the reader through individual movements from Impressionism to Conceptual Art, situated within five broader chronological eras. Starting with Impressionism in 1860, art historian Amy Dempsey explains the essentials of Modernis ...Show more
Photography by David Bate
Category: Photography | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
Photography has a complex relationship to art. This volume uses an innovative framework to help readers appreciate photography as its own modern art form. In his unique and insightful approach, professor of photography David Bate presents iconic photographs in chronological order alongside significant p ...Show more
Pop Art - Art Essentials by Flavia Frigeri
Category: Art | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
Pop Art refers to a post-war movement connecting art with popular culture. Billboard signs, comic books, and movie stars were just some of the subjects chosen by pop artists, such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Claes Oldenburg, to name a few, to illustrate the contemporary world ...Show more
Street Art - Art Essentials by Simon Armstrong; Anon; Makoto Azuma
Category: Art | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
A comprehensive history and interpretation of the street art movement, featuring all of the key practitioners in a colorful combination of sharp images and insightful commentary. Street art is a phenomenon and subculture movement that reaches from the darkest urban backstreets to the most glamorous inte ...Show more
Surrealism - Art Essentials by Amy Dempsey
Category: Art | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
Surrealism was launched as a literary and artistic movement by French poet Andre Breton in 1924, and by the time of his death in 1966 it had become one of the most popular and recognizable art movements of the twentieth century. Contrary to common belief, surrealism was created in contrast to the chaos ...Show more
The History of Western Art by Janetta Rebold Benton
Category: Art | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
A concise, reader-friendly illustrated survey of western art and architecture from prehistory to the present day.Acknowledging how architecture, painting, sculpture and the decorative arts reflect the culture and society of their time, this latest addition to the Art Essentials series invites the reader ...Show more