Ebooks Review

The Young Leonardo: Art and Life in Fifteenth-Century Florence /by Larry J. Feinberg. Leonardo da Vinci is often presented as the "Transcendent Genius," removed from or ahead of his time. This book, however, attempts to understand him in the context of Renaissance Florence.
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New Directions in Colour Studies /by Carole P. Biggam, Dr. Carole A. Hough, Prof. Christian J. Kay and Dr. David R. Simmons. Colour studies attracts an increasingly wide range of scholars from across the academic world. Contributions to the present volume offer a broad perspective on the field, ... Read more »

Contemplating Art /by Jerrold Levinson. Contemplating Art is a compendium of writings from the last ten years by one of the leading figures in aesthetics, Jerrold Levinson. The twenty-four essays range over issues in general aesthetics and those relating to specific arts--in particular music, film, and literature. It will appea ... Read more »

Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway: Situating the Western Experience in Performing Arts /by Richard Wattenberg. Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of drama ... Read more »

Frameworks, Artworks, Place: The Space of Perception in the Modern World /by Tim Mehigan. How space - mental, emotional, visual - is implicated in our constructions of reality and our art is the focus of this set of innovative essays. For the first time art theorists and historians, visual artists, literary ... Read more »

Beyond Monopoly: Globalization and Contemporary Italian Media /by Michela Ardizzoni and Chiara Ferrari. While Italian media industries are booming, changing, and challenging audiences, the existing Anglophone literature on the subject is scarce. ... Read more »

Romantic Image /by Frank Kermode. For the past four decades Frank Kermode, critic and writer, has steadily established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. Author and editor of over forty books, his prodigious output includes some of the best literary criticism t ... Read more »

Bastard Culture!: How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production /by Mirko Tobias Schafer. New online technologies have brought with them a great promise of freedom. The computer and particularly the Internet have been represented as enabling technologies, turning consumers into users an ... Read more »

Multi-media: Video - Installation - Performance /by Nick Kaye. Multi-media charts the development of multi-media video, installation and performance in a unique dialogue between theoretical analysis and specially commissioned documentations by some of the world’s foremost artists. Nick Kaye explores the interdisciplinary his ... Read more »

Art and Its Publics: Museum Studies at the Millennium /by Andrew McClellan. This book deserves a place on the museum-studies reading list and on the bookshelf of anyone seriously interested in the cultural place of museums today. Its lucid, observant essays take an informed look at a now ubiquitous institution, ... Read more »

Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills /by Peter Galassi, Cindy Sherman. Sherman's provocative and much-discussed Untitled Film Stills series, created between 1977 and 1980, is collected for the first time in this 9.5" x 11.25" volume from MoMA, which purchased the entire set of 69 shots in 199 ... Read more »

Art of Drawing: The Complete Course (Practical Art) /by David Sanmiguel. From achieving those first professional strokes to mastering composition, lighting, and color to finishing beautiful still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, here, in one volume, is a course that covers every s ... Read more »

The Art of the Portrait (Masterpieces of European Portrait Painting 1420-1670) /by Norbert Schneider. The Art of the Portrait focuses on about a 200-year period, from the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance, during which the genre of painted portraiture flourished. For the firs ... Read more »

Theatrical Scene Painting: A Lesson Guide /by William H. Pinnell . This book is a practical guide to scene painting for students and novices, as well as a reference for intermediate scene painters who wish to refresh or supplement their basic skills. Drawing on his extensive teaching and scene-paint ... Read more »

An Introduction to Oil Painting (DK Art School) /by Ray Smith. Whether you've taken art classes or never held a brush before, An Introduction to Oil Painting will show you everything you need to know about working in this challenging -- but rewarding -- medium. Easy-to-follow projects, shown as they were created, teach th ... Read more »