6,134円 This is the essential student’s guide to Design – its practice, its theory and its history. Drawing from a wide range of international examples, respected design writer Catherine McDermott explores key topics including: international design – from Europe to Africa design history – from Art Nouve...

299円 42 works of John Ruskin English art critic of the Victorian era (1819-1900) This ebook presents a collection of 42 works of John Ruskin. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - A Joy For Ever - Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the...

1,126円 Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of ...

2,177円 **“A manifesto of sorts for anyone who makes art [and] cares for it.” ーZadie Smith “The best book I know of for talented but unacknowledged creators. . . . A masterpiece.” ーMargaret Atwood “No one who is invested in any kind of art . . . can read The Gift and remain unchanged.” ーDavid Foster W...

4,091円 Art and technology have been converging rapidly in the past few years; an important example of this convergence is the alliance of neuroscience with aesthetics, which has produced the new field of neuroaesthetics. Irving Massey examines this alliance, in large part to allay the fears of artists a...

10,943円 The study of technical treatises in Indian art has increasingly attracted much interest. This work puts forward a critical re-examination of the key Indian concepts of painting described in the Sanskrit treatises, called citrasutras. In an in-depth and systematic analysis of the texts on the theo...

4,091円 A study of a major piece of modern Mayan religious art.

2,388円 “If good design tells the truth,” writes Robert Grudin in this path-breaking book on esthetics and authority, “poor design  tells a lie,  a lie usually related . . . to the  getting or  abusing of power.”From the ornate cathedrals of Renaissance Europe to the much-maligned Ford Edsel of the late ...

9,119円 In an age where art history’s questions are now expected to receive answers, Richard Shiff presents a challenging alternative. In this essential new addition to James Elkins’s series Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts, Richard Shiff embraces doubt as a critical tool and as...

661円 From the black and white pages of a Belgian Catholic newspaper in the late 1920s to the virtual world of a 3D CGI Hollywood movie in 2011, the young adventurous reporter Tintin has come a long way. When Georges Remi, under his nom de plume Hergé, sent the crudely drawn hero on his maiden voyage ...

2,801円 The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. T...

3,418円 In The Science of Culture and the Phenomenology of Styles, Renato Barilli examines the history of artistic style in relation to scientific discovery. Applying an innovative analysis, he illustrates the subtle, yet intrinsic, connection between paradigm shifts in the sciences and in the arts. Bari...