Digital technology has revolutionized the way we produce and experience art today. Not only have traditional forms of art such as printing, painting, photography, and sculpture been transformed by dig
Outsider Art is work produced outside the mainstream of modern art by self-taught, untrained visionaries, spiritualists, eccentric recluses, folk artists, psychiatric patients, criminals, and others b
This wide-ranging survey has established itself as the best singlevolumeintroduction to Andean art and architecture, and is anessential guide to pre-Columbian Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia forthe general
The seventeenth century has always been considered the golden agethe grand siecleof French culture. The reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV witnessed an unprecedented flowering of literature and philos
The African diaspora―a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism―generated a wide array of artistic achievements in the past century, from blues to reggae, from the painti
Digital technology has revolutionized the way we produce and experience art today. Not only have traditional forms of art such as printing, painting, photography, and sculpture been transformed by dig
Expanded and revised in its sixth edition, The Art of Mesoamerica surveys the artistic achievements of the high pre-Hispanic civilizations of Central America―Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec, and Azte
The aesthetic of our contemporary environment, including everything from housing estates to furniture and newspapers, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919, the
"For admirers of Asian and American art or visitors to the Smithsonian museums, this beautifully illustrated book offers an enticing taste of the Galleries' rich and diverse holdings - a curator-led t
The interaction of words and images and the visual communicationof ideas are an essential part of daily life, and these concepts are atthe heart of graphic design.With over 200 new and updated entries
In this lively and up-to-date analysis, David Parkinson traces theevolution of the moving image from the earliest shadow shows tothe digital filmmaking of the twenty-first century. Covering the keyele
Acting, direction, stagecraft, theatre architecture and design,the extraordinary evolution of dramatic literature―here is anall-embracing and richly illustrated history, worldwide in scopeand ranging
In this introduction to the history of women's involvement in the visual arts, Chadwick (art, San Francisco State University) surveys art by women from the Middle Ages through the present, looking at
A reprint of a clear, well-illustrated account of the life and career of Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723), a remarkably talented architect whose projects ranged from serving on the commission to rebui
