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Author : Gillian Wolfe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Oxford First Book of Art written by Gillian Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gillian Wolfe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195215564
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Oxford First Book of Art written by Gillian Wolfe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling introduction to the mesmerizing beauty of art from around the world and through the ages, with art activities for every theme. 45+ color illustrations.
Author : Malcolm Andrews
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192842336
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Landscape and Western Art written by Malcolm Andrews and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores many issues raised by the range of ideas and images of the natural world in Western art since the Renaissance. The whole concept of landscape is examined as a representation of the relationship between the human and natural worlds. Featured artists include Claude, Freidrich, Turner, Cole and Ruisdael, and many different forms of landscape art are addressed, such as land art, painting, photography, garden design, panorama and cartography.
Author : Elizabeth Prettejohn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191516511
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Beauty and Art written by Elizabeth Prettejohn and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we mean when we call a work of art `beautiful`? How have artists responded to changing notions of the beautiful? Which works of art have been called beautiful, and why? Fundamental and intriguing questions to artists and art lovers, but ones that are all too often ignored in discussions of art today. Prettejohn argues that we simply cannot afford to ignore these questions. Charting over two hundred years of western art, she illuminates the vital relationship between our changing notions of beauty and specific works of art, from the works of Kauffman to Whistler, Ingres to Rossetti, Cézanne to Jackson Pollock, and concludes with a challenging question for the future: why should we care about beauty in the twenty-first century?
Author : Matthew Craske
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192842466
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Art in Europe, 1700-1830 written by Matthew Craske and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses eighteenth and nineteenth century European art
Author : Evelyn S. Welch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Art and Society in Italy, 1350-1500 written by Evelyn S. Welch and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the 'Black Death' in the mid-fourteenth century and the French invasions at the end of the fifteenth, artists such as Masaccio, Donatello, Fra Angelico, and Leonardo, working in the kingdoms, princedoms, and republics of the Italian peninsula, created some of the most influential andexciting works in a variety of artistic fields. Yet the traditional story of the Renaissance has been dramatically revised in the light of new scholarship, and new issues have greatly enriched our understanding of the period. Emphasis has been placed on recreating the experience of contemporary Italians - the patrons who commissioned the works,the members of the public who viewed them, and the artists who produced them. In this book Evelyn Welch presents a fresh picture of the Italian Renaissance. Giving equal weight to the Italian regions outside Florence, she discusses a wide range of works, from paintings to coins, and from sculptures to tapestries, examines the issues of materials, workshop practises, andartist-patron relationships, and explores the ways in which visual imagery related to contemporary sexual, social and political behaviour.
Author : Gillian Wolfe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780613454216
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (542 download)
Download or read book Oxford First Book of Art written by Gillian Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 2001-05-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By presenting a variety of images from around the world and through the ages, encourages children to ask questions about art's contents and creators, and offers art-related activities that demonstrate various themes and concepts.
Author : Robin Cormack
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191084476
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Byzantine Art written by Robin Cormack and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representations reflecting and promoting this society and its values in icons, illuminated manuscripts, and mosaics and wallpaintings placed in domed churches and public buildings. This complete introduction to the whole period and range of Byzantine art combines immense breadth with interesting historical detail. Robin Cormack overturns the myth that Byzantine art remained constant from the inauguration of Constantinople, its artistic centre, in the year 330 until the fall of the city to the Ottomans in 1453. He shows how the many political and religious upheavals of this period produced a wide range of styles and developments in art. This updated, colour edition includes new discoveries, a revised bibliography, and, in a new epilogue, a rethinking of Byzantine Art for the present day.
Author : David Hopkins
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191037095
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book After Modern Art 1945-2000 written by David Hopkins and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-09-14 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2000, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the relationship between American and European art, and challenges previously held views about the origins of some of the most innovative ideas in art of this time. Major artists such as Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, Yves Klein, Andy Warhol, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, and Damien Hirst are all discussed, as is the art world of the last fifty years. Important trends are also covered including Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Postmodernism, and the art of the nineties.
Author : Craig Clunas
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192842077
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Art in China written by Craig Clunas and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China can boast a history of art lasting 5,000 years and embracing a huge diversity of images and objects - jade tablets, painted silk handscrolls and fans, ink and lacquer painting, porcelain-ware, sculptures, and calligraphy. They range in scale from the vast 'terracotta army' with its 7,000or so life-size figures, to the exquisitely delicate writing of fourth-century masters such as Wang Xizhin and his teacher, 'Lady Wei'. But this rich tradition has not, until now, been fully appreciated in the West where scholars have focused their attention on sculpture, downplaying art more highlyprized by the Chinese themselves such as calligraphy. Art in China marks a breakthrough in the study of the subject. Drawing on recent innovative scholarship and on newly-accessible studies in China itself Craig Clunas surveys the full spectrum of the visual arts in China. He ranges from the Neolithic period to the art scene of the 1980s and 1990s,examining art in a variety of contexts as it has been designed for tombs, commissioned by rulers, displayed in temples, created for the men and women of the educated ilite, and bought and sold in the marketplace. Many of the objects illustrated in this book have previously been known only to a fewspecialists, and will be totally new to a general audience.
Author : Adrienne L. Kaeppler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191539996
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia written by Adrienne L. Kaeppler and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface. Comprising thousands of islands and hundreds of cultural groups, Polynesia and Micronesia cover a large part of this vast ocean, from the dramatic mountains of Hawaii to the small, flat coral islands of Kiribati. Including both traditional and contemporary arts, this book introduces the rich artistic traditions of these two regions, traditions that have had a considerable impact on western art in the twentieth century through the influence of artists such as Gauguin. Instead of looking at Polynesia and Micronesia separately, the book focuses on the artistic types, styles, and concepts that they share, placing each in its wider cultural context. From the textiles of Tonga to the canoes of Tahiti, Adrienne Kaeppler looks at religious and sacred rituals and objects, carving, architecture, tattooing, personal ornaments, basket-making, clothing, textiles, fashion, the oral arts, dance, music and musical instruments - even canoe-construction - to provide the ultimate introduction to the rich and vibrant artistic cultures of the Polynesian and Micronesian islands.
Author : John Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192763396
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (633 download)
Download or read book My First Oxford Book of Poems written by John Foster and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A children's collection of poetry by English poets.
Author : Christopher Breward
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191587737
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Fashion written by Christopher Breward and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-04-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively survey of 150 years of fashion covers everything from Haute Couture to the High Street, and developing fabric technology from silk to fleece. From Coco Chanel to Armani and Alexander McQueen, Breward explores fashion as a cultural phenomenon. Breward examines the glamorous world of Vogue and advertising, the relationship between fashion and film, and fashion as a business, and goes beyond the surface to consider our interaction with fashion. How have our ideas about hygiene and comfort influenced the direction of style? How does our dress create our identity and status? Details of dandies, flappers, and punks are contained within a clear overview of the period which will make you look at your clothes in a different light.
Author : Erika Doss
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191587745
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-Century American Art written by Erika Doss and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-04-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, and Laurie Anderson are just some of the major American artists of the twentieth century. From the 1893 Chicago World's Fair to the 2000 Whitney Biennial, a rapid succession of art movements and different styles reflected the extreme changes in American culture and society, as well as America's position within the international art world. This exciting new look at twentieth century American art explores the relationships between American art, museums, and audiences in the century that came to be called the 'American century'. Extending beyond New York, it covers the emergence of Feminist art in Los Angeles in the 1970s; the Black art movement; the expansion of galleries and art schools; and the highly political public controversies surrounding arts funding. All the key movements are fully discussed, including early American Modernism, the New Negro movement, Regionalism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Neo-Expressionism.
Author : Sharon F. Patton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192842138
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (421 download)
Download or read book African-American Art written by Sharon F. Patton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses African American folk art, decorative art, photography, and fine arts.
Author : Rebecca Treays
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199106981
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Oxford First Book of Children of the World written by Rebecca Treays and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om livet for børn rundt omkring i verden. Afsnit om familier, hjem, landsbyer, storbyer, landbrug, i skole m.m. Meget kort beskrivelse af de 24 lande, der omtales. Med forslag til aktiviteter
Author : Emma Bennett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1906860858
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Art Book written by Emma Bennett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colourful showcase of one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Inspired by Oxford's unique architecture and historic university, over 50 artists have produced a unique collection of contemporary images illustrating all aspects of the city and surrounding area. Oxford is both a thriving city and a byword for one of the world's best universities. Its ancient buildings are the wonder of the world, still used and inhabited by an energetic and passionate student community. From tightly-packed Cornmarket street catering for the shoppers of the busy city to Oxford's lush riverside walks that provide an asylum from the bustle of everyday life, to traditional St Giles's Fair and May Day that attract visitors from across Oxfordshire and beyond, this book represents them all, including: - Quirky hidden gems such as The Eagle and Child (the pub frequented by J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis) and the many cafes of the Covered Market - Innovative representations of classic tourist sites: the Bodleian Library, the Radcliffe Camera, the Sheldonian Theatre, Christ Church College, Magdalen College and many more... - The Mini Car Plant and Cowley Road transformed into artworks There is so much to wonder at in this lovely book. Its enthusiasm reveals a passion for both contemporary art and the lovely city of Oxford. It will renew memories and inspire visits and revisits to all its haunts.
