Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - General

From the Middle Ages to the present, master draftsmen have used the technique of metalpoint to create some of the most beautiful and technically accomplished drawings in the history of art. Drawing in Silver and Gold examines the history of this evocative medium, in which a metal stylus is used on a specially prepared surface to create lines of astonishing delicacy.

This beautifully illustrated book examines the practice of metalpoint over six centuries, in the work of artists ranging from Leonardo, Durer, and Rembrandt to Otto Dix and Jasper Johns. A team of...

Charting over 45 years of feminist debate on the significance of gender in the making and understanding of art, the long-anticipated new edition of Feminism-Art-Theory has been extensively updated and reworked.

• Completely revised, retaining only one-third of the texts of the earlier edition, with all other material being new inclusions
• Brings together 88 revealing texts from North America, Europe and Australasia, juxtaposing writings from artists and activists with those of academics
• Embraces a broad range of threads and perspectives, from...

Charting over 45 years of feminist debate on the significance of gender in the making and understanding of art, the long-anticipated new edition of Feminism-Art-Theory has been extensively updated and reworked.

• Completely revised, retaining only one-third of the texts of the earlier edition, with all other material being new inclusions
• Brings together 88 revealing texts from North America, Europe and Australasia, juxtaposing writings from artists and activists with those of academics
• Embraces a broad range of threads and perspectives, from...

Spatestens seit seiner Wiederentdeckung 1911/12 spielte El Greco eine bedeutende Rolle fur die deutsche Malerei der Moderne. Bezug nehmend auf die Ausstellung "El Greco und die Moderne" (2012 Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf), untersuchen internationale Experten im vorliegenden Band das Geflecht aus personlichen und politischen Beziehungen, aus Ereignissen, Interessen und Topoi, das die Rezeptionsgeschichte El Grecos in der Moderne bestimmte.

Despite the recent global turn in contemporary art, ethnic arts remain on the fringes of mainstream gallery, museum and biennial exhibitions. Encounters Beyond the Gallery challenges the terms of their exclusion, looking to relational art, Deleuze-Guattarean aesthetics and notions of perception, as well as anthropological theory for ways to create connections between seemingly disparate worlds. Embracing a unique and experimental format, the book imagines encounters between the art works and art worlds of Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tamil women, the Shipibo-Conibo of Eastern Peru and a fictional...

Contrary to critics who have called it the "undecade," the 1970s were a time of risky, innovative art--and nowhere more so than in Britain, where the forces of feminism and labor politics merged in a radical new aesthetic. In Art Labor, Sex Politics Siona Wilson investigates the charged relationship of sex and labor politics as it played out in the making of feminist art in 1970s Britain. Her sustained exploration of works of experimental film, installation, performance, and photography maps the intersection of feminist and leftist projects in the artistic practices of this heady...