Featuring illustrators from four continents, The Art of Architectural Illustration assembles the best artists in the field in one beautiful, four-color book. Four prominent artists are showcased in essays, sharing the tips, techniques, and approaches that have brought them success. Hand-rendered watercolor and ink drawings for projects both built and unbuilt appear on these pages, side by side with computer-assisted illustration from the cutting-edge of technology. The dramatic imagery of this 2...
Heros Et Dieux de L'Antiquete (Tout L'Art)
by Irene Aghion and Varios
The Social Impact of Arts Programmes (The social impact of the arts: Working paper, #2)
by Sanjiv Lingayah and etc.
Against Ambience diagnoses - in order to cure - the art world's recent turn toward ambience. Over the course of three short months - June to September, 2013 - the four most prestigious museums in New York indulged the ambience of sound and light: James Turrell at the Guggenheim, Soundings at MoMA, Robert Irwin at the Whitney, and Janet Cardiff at the Met. In addition, two notable shows at smaller galleries indicate that this is not simply a major-donor movement. Collectively, these shows...
Judaica at the Smithsonian (Smithsonian Contributions to History & Technology S., v. 52)
by Grace Cohen Grossman
Support Structures
by Celine Condorelli, Bart De Baere, Mark Cousins, Wouter Davidts, and Jean-claude Lebensztejn
Affect in Artistic Creativity (Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis Book)
by Jussi Saarinen
Why do painters paint? Obviously, there are numerous possible reasons. They paint to create images for others' enjoyment, to solve visual problems, to convey ideas, and to contribute to a rich artistic tradition. This book argues that there is yet another, crucially important but often overlooked reason. Painters paint to feel. They paint because it enables them to experience special feelings, such as being absorbed in creative play and connected to something vitally significant. Painting ma...
Abu Ghraib Und Die Folgen (Kultur Und Soziale Praxis)
by Werner Binder
What Art Is Like, In Constant Reference to the Alice Books
by Miguel Tamen
This comic, serious inquiry into the nature of art takes its technical vocabulary from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. It is ridiculous to think of poems, paintings, or films as distinct from other things in the world, including people. Talking about art should be contiguous with talking about other relevant matters.
Jean Desmarets, later Sieur de Saint-Sorlin, was a late Renaissance `universal man': first Chancellor and founder-member of the Academie-francaise, last jester of the French royal court and star performer in ballets, novelist, playwright, poet, architect, inventor, and mystic. He was also the first man to publicize the notion of `a century of Louis XIV'. Hugh Gaston Hall's book examines that notion by looking afresh at Desmarets' vigorous career and relating the `century of Louis XIV' to its or...
Sacred Art - A Hollow Bone for Spirit: Where Art Meets Shamanism tells the story of sacred art across cultures, continents and historical periods and makes a plea for sacred art to once again take its rightful place in our perception. Making sacred art means stepping outside the realm of ego-led consciousness to become a hollow bone for spirit so art becomes a mystery school process. When we connect to Divine forces greater than ourselves, creative blocks do not exist and healing occurs naturall...
The work of the influential Jesuit theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988) has become a common point of reference in discussing the relationship of theology and the arts. However, the full significance of his theological aesthetics for both the emerging field of theology and the arts, as well as for interdisciplinary conversation with contemporary art and theory, remains to be unfolded. This book explores the ways in which Balthasar's theo-aesthetics, when taken together with his theologic...
Feminist motherhood is a surprisingly unexplored subject. In fact, feminism and motherhood have been often thought of as incompatible. Profound, provocative, and innovative, Feminist Art and the Maternal is the first work to critically examine the dilemmas and promises of representing feminist motherhood in contemporary art and visual culture. Andrea Liss skillfully incorporates theory with passionate personal reflections on the maternal, and in doing so she advances a fresh and necessary pers...