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Objects/Histories eBook Series

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  • Empires of Vision

    A Reader

    Edited by Martin Jay, Sumathi Ramaswamy ...
    Series series Objects/Histories
    Empires of Vision brings together pieces by some of the most influential scholars working at the intersection of visual culture studies and the history of European imperialism. The essays and excerpts focus on the paintings, maps, geographical surveys, postcards, photographs, and other media that comprise the visual milieu of colonization, struggles for decolonization, and the lingering effects of ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • Michelangelo's Mountain

    The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara

    by Eric Scigliano ...
    Discover the fascinating, crucial, and often dangerous relationship between Michelangelo and the stone quarries of Carrara in this clear-eyed and well-researched exploration that “recounts the artist's large life and lasting works with care and reverence” (Booklist).No artist looms so large in Western consciousness and culture as Michelangelo Buonarroti, the most celebrated sculptor of all time. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Inspiring Writing in Art and Design

    Taking a Line for a Write

    by Pat Francis ...
    When art and design students are asked for statements to accompany their work, reflective journals, or critiques, reviews and essays, they often freeze up because they have to put their thoughts in writing. Although these students are comfortable expressing themselves visually, they lack confidence working with words. Inspiring Writing in Art and Design is a practical aid for those students who ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Peasant Scenes and Landscapes

    The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market

    by Larry Silver ...
    Modern viewers take for granted the pictorial conventions present in easel paintings and engraved prints of such subjects as landscapes or peasants. These generic subjects and their representational conventions, however, have their own origins and early histories. In sixteenth-century Antwerp, painting and the emerging new medium of engraving began to depart from traditional visual culture, which ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Stories of Art

    by James Elkins ...
    Stories of Art is James Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks from which we were all taught. As he demonstrates so persuasively, there can never be one story of art. Cultures have their own stories - about themselves, about other cultures - and to hear them all is one way to hear the multiple stories that art ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • John Singer Sargent and His Muse

    Painting Love and Loss

    by Daniel Williman, Karen Corsano ...
    This sensitive and compelling biography sheds new light on John Singer Sargent’s art through an intimate history of his family. Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman focus especially on his niece and muse, Rose-Marie Ormond, telling her story for the first time. In a score of paintings created between 1906 and 1912, John Singer Sargent documented the idyllic teenage summers of Rose-Marie and his own ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Jewish Life in Poland

    The Art of Moshe Rynecki (1881-1943)

    by Moshe Rynecki Mrynecki ...
    Moshe Rynecki used his paintbrush and palette to document and chronicle the life of his community-Jewish people of Warsaw, Poland. Some artists, however, do more than simply document the subjects that they see and watch-they use the canvas to reveal something new-to show us that which we did not see at first, that which we might not consider if we had observed the subject ourselves. While some ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Installation Art and the Practices of Archivalism

    by David Houston Jones ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    On the leading edge of trauma and archival studies, this timely book engages with the recent growth in visual projects that respond to the archive, focusing in particular on installation art. It traces a line of argument from practitioners who explicitly depict the archive (Samuel Beckett, Christian Boltanski, Art & Language, Walid Raad) to those whose materials and practices are archival ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Spectacular Death

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and (Un)representability

    An interdisciplinary collection of essays on the medical and social articulation of death, this anthology considers to what extent a subject as elusive as death can be examined. Though it touches us all, we can perceive it only in life – with the predictable result that we treat it either as a clinical or social problem to be managed or as a phenomenon to be studied quantitatively. This volume ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Art History for Filmmakers

    The Art of Visual Storytelling

    by Dr Gillian McIver ...
    Series series Required Reading Range
    Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche to describe visual things. But there is another way of looking at film, and that is through its relationship with the visual arts – mainly painting, the oldest of the art forms.Art History for Filmmakers is an inspiring guide to how images from ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • 149 Paintings You Really Should See in Europe — Russia, Poland, and the Czech Republic

    by Julian Porter ...
    This chapter from Julian Porter’s essential companion to all the major European museums and galleries discusses some of the greatest paintings to be found in the museums and galleries of Russia, Poland, and the Czech Republic. His passion for art began with the seven years he spent as a student tour guide in Europe. In this segment he visits St. Petersburg, Krakow, and Prague and discusses works ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Love with Freedom

    The True Story of a Remarkable Woman

    by Steven E. Aavang ...
    Based upon her own words, this is the story of a unique individual whose deep love for her native country was overshadowed only by her compelling love for freedom. Born with a pedigree of royalty reaching back to the Byzantine Empire, and riches comparable to the American Rockerfellers, this princess seemed destined to a life of pampered luxury and perhaps a noble charity. Life, however, doesn’t ... Read more

    $2.99 USD