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Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay by Christopher Benfey
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-15 | Author:Christopher Benfey [Benfey, Christopher]

10. This strange idyll was interrupted when the Asawa family was shipped by train to an internment camp in Arkansas. The children attended school at the camp, where they were ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers January 22,2016 )
Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Johnson Geraldine A
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-04-20 | Author:Johnson, Geraldine A [Johnson, Geraldine A]

In this image, the artist showcases his incredible technical skill through precisely rendered details such as his shiny, curling hair and the individual tufts discernible on his luxurious fur-trimmed collar. ...
( Category: Criticism January 10,2016 )
The Avant Garde: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Cottington David
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Cottington, David [Cottington, David]

3. Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 1919 4. Man Ray, Rayograph, 1922 Constructivism and the machine In their ...
( Category: History January 10,2016 )
I Only Read It for the Cartoons: The New Yorker's Most Brilliantly Twisted Artists by Richard Gehr
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Richard Gehr [Gehr, Richard]

Previously unpublished While visiting the magazine’s office one day, Barsotti learned that the head of the Newsday syndicate had been fired. “It was close to the holidays, and Geraghty, in ...
( Category: Biographies & History January 8,2016 )
Abstraction in Art and Nature by Nathan Cabot Hale
epub |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:Nathan Cabot Hale

Project: Here is your chance to make creative use of the grid patterns in the drawing of imaginary fish. You need pencil and paper. You can use either photographs or ...
( Category: History January 6,2016 )
Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Ferber Michael
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Ferber, Michael [Ferber, Michael]

In France, Alfred de Musset indulges in a similar nostalgia: ‘O Greece! … / / I am a citizen of your ancient ages; / My soul with the bee strays ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic January 3,2016 )
Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons by Shirane Haruo
epub |eng | 2012-03-19 | Author:Shirane, Haruo

FIGURE 21 DOLL’S FESTIVAL AND IKEBANA This “portrait of a beautiful person” (biiinga) in Chōbunsai Eishi’s series “Elegant Five Sacred Festivals” (Fūryū gosekku, ca. 1794–1795) exemplifies the ways in which ...
( Category: Asian December 28,2015 )
Art History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Arnold Dana
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-01-21 | Author:Arnold, Dana [Arnold, Dana]

A brief consideration of how collections were formed in Europe shows the ways in which art objects were historicized as a result of the activities of patrons and collectors. The ...
( Category: History December 22,2015 )
Edvard Munch: Chronology of Paintings 1905-1920 by Ankele Daniel
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-29 | Author:Ankele, Daniel [Ankele, Daniel]

( Category: Themes December 21,2015 )
Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2002-03-14 | Author:Christopher Butler [Butler, Christopher]

Indeed, it is typical of many postmodernist commentators (such as Andreas Huyssen) that they see the ‘true’ function of the avant-garde as being critical in the postmodernist sense – it ...
( Category: Humanism December 20,2015 )
How Art Made the World by Nigel Spivey
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Nigel Spivey [NIGEL SPIVEY]

64 The Natural Bridge, Virginia by F.E. Church, 1852. 65 T.H. O'Sullivan’s atmospheric photograph, taken in 1871, of Black Canyon on the Colorado River, Arizona. Church did also seek beyond ...
( Category: Criticism December 18,2015 )
Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Cottington David
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-02-23 | Author:Cottington, David [Cottington, David]

Those four years were the period in which, with Georges Braque, he fashioned the deep structure and radical vocabulary of a style of painting – christened ‘cubism’ by its critics ...
( Category: History December 16,2015 )
Lizzie Siddal by Lucinda Hawksley
epub |eng | 2005-06-04 | Author:Lucinda Hawksley [Hawksley, Lucinda]

Lonely without Lizzie, Rossetti spent New Year’s Eve 1855 with the Madox Browns; contrarily, his animosity for Emma had dissipated now that she was no longer able to spend time ...
( Category: Great Britain December 5,2015 )
The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe
epub |eng | 1975-12-04 | Author:Tom Wolfe [Wolfe, Tom]

Barnett Newman In any event, if Greenberg was right about Pollock’s status in the world of art—and Pollock wasn’t arguing—then he must also be right about the theories. So Pollock ...
( Category: History December 5,2015 )
The Orpheus Clock by Simon Goodman
epub |eng | 2015-11-29 | Author:Simon Goodman

CHAPTER 10 SEARCHING FOR DEGAS From the old negative taken by Rose Valland and found in Bernard’s boxes. My father wasn’t able to leave my brother or me much, or ...
( Category: Holocaust December 1,2015 )

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