Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - General

Often regarded as merely the creator of sentimental images of mothers and children or an expatriate heavily influenced by Impressionism, Mary Cassatt is not typically regarded as an artist of radical convictions. In "Eve's Daughter/Modern Woman," Sally Webster reevaluates these dismissals with a historical, aesthetic, and symbolist analysis of Cassatt's unique venture into the male-dominated realm of large-scale mural painting, "Modern Woman."Commissioned for the Woman's Building at Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, "Modern Woman" also stood as a personal and professional...

Michael Dailey has been making landscape paintings for more than 40 years. During that time he has been balancing line and color to produce paintings about the nuances of space, light, and atmosphere that comprise our memories of time and place. We value Dailey's paintings not because they provide a literal description of a landscape, but because they offer us a chance to revisit and savor part of our past.

Born and educated in Iowa, Michael Dailey moved to Seattle in 1963 to teach painting and drawing at the University of Washington. He is regarded as an influential...

Danish artist Marco Evaristti is a risk-taker who likes to place himself and the viewer in extremely dangerous real-life situations as part of his artwork. His art calls into question political methods and claims, taking up themes such as territorial power, pollution, possessiveness, and judgments over life and death.

TransArts is a novel approach in the art education system: the separation of the theory and practice of art while maintaining all the differences is seen as arbitrary and even obsolete. TransArts teaches the common and distinctive features of theory and practice and takes account of the fact that different artistic disciplines are mutually dependent and reinforcing but are also in competition with one another.

Disziplinare Grenzen uberschreitend zielt der Band darauf ab, die Visualisierung Mohammeds in der westlichen Welt vis-a-vis mit dessen Darstellung im Islam zu untersuchen. Dabei wird das Material weder geographischen oder sprachlichen Spharen zugeordnet noch werden Textquellen isoliert von bildlichen Darstellungen betrachtet. Die Beitrage eroffnen vielmehr einen thematischen und theoretischen Dialog uber die Frage, wie der Prophet in verschiedenen kulturellen Traditionen, in Europa und Amerika und in der Welt des Islam, vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart, vergegenwartigt wurde.

What is "art"? Why have human societies through all time and around the globe created those objects we call works of art? Is there any way of defining art that can encompass everything from Paleolithic objects to the virtual images created by the latest computer technology? Questions such as these have preoccupied Esther Pasztory since the beginning of her scholarly career. In this authoritative volume, she distills four decades of research and reflection to propose a pathbreaking new way of understanding what art is and why human beings create it that can be applied to all cultures...

Before the Museums Came: A Social History of the Fine Arts in the Twin Cities gives an engaging portrayal of the fine arts scene of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota in the United States, spanning from the appearance of the earliest artists in 1835 to the opening of the first permanent museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 1915.

Readers will learn about the institutions and organizations that were created in support of the fine arts, the early art exhibitions and events, and the collectors, dealers and artists whose efforts made all of that come to fruition. The text -...