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Michelangelo by Anthony Hughes
Category: No Category | Series: Art & Ideas S. | Reading Level: very good
This text gives an account of the life and work of Michelangelo (1475-1564), one of the great artists of the Renaissance, setting his achievement within the context of the changing artistic, political and social circumstances in Italy in the 16th century.
Monet by Carla Rachman
Category: No Category | Series: Art and Ideas Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the quintessential Impressionist, whose ability to catch the fleeting effect of light and air on canvas have made his paintings admired the world over. But while a Monet picture of waterlilies, poppyfileds or poplar trees is easily identifiable, how and why his art developed ...Show more
Neoclassicism by David Irwin
Category: No Category | Series: Art & Ideas S.
The period of Neoclassicism in the visual arts was an age of Classical revival, drawing directly on antiquity itself. At a time when archaeologists were making fresh dicoveries and The Grand Tour of ancient sites in the Mediateranian was in vogue, Neoclassicism flourished and spread in all directions as ...Show more
Piero Della Francesca by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
Category: No Category | Series: Art & Ideas S.
Piero della Francesca (c.1413-92) is one of the most intriguing artists of the early Italian Renaissance, known not only for the balance of his compositions and the emotional coolness of his style, but also for his outstanding talent as a mathematician. Taking advantage of documentary evidence that has ...Show more
Pop Art by Bradford R. Collins
Category: No Category | Series: Art Ideas
Pop art is one of the most recognisable, and recent artistic movements in art history. 'Pop Art' explores the most important works and artists of this explosive movement, and reminds us of its impact on the world today, and argues for its status as an ongoing movement. Leading academic, Bradford R. Coll ...Show more
Rembrandt by Mariet Westerman
Category: No Category | Series: Art & Ideas S.
A survey of the life and times of Rembrandt van Rijn, one of the most famous and well-loved artists. From his precocious early work in his native Leyden to his emotional late work and his immense artistic influence, Rembrandt's life is traced within the context of the Netherlands in the 17th century, t ...Show more
Romanticism by David Blayney Brown
Category: No Category | Series: Art & Ideas S.
A fresh approach to Romanticism, one of the most compelling and revolutionary artistic movements. The author takes a thematic approach to this period, relating it to the concurrent, more stylistic movements of Neoclassicism and Gothic Revival, and discussing its relationship with politics.
Rubens by Kristin Lohse Belkin
Category: No Category | Series: Art & Ideas S.
An account of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) which encompasses the full range of the artist's work and sets it within the historical and religious context of northern Europe in the early 17th century.
Tate: the Photographer's Ideas Book by Lorna Yabsley
Category: Photography | Series: The\Art Ideas Bks.
Let your creativity run wild and breathe new life into your photography.Bored of bokeh? Fed up with f-stops? Then it's time to refresh your creativity with a lively exploration of photography at the cutting edge. There's always a new angle with which to shoot your subject, a different light to capture, ...Show more
The Art of Colonial Latin America by Gauvin Alexander Bailey
Category: No Category | Series: Art & Ideas S. | Reading Level: very good
A lively account of the interaction between European and indigenous artist that took place during more than 300 years of Spanish and Portuguese colonial influence in Latin America (c. 1492-1820). The book offers a fascinating insight into viceregal, missionary and civic architecture, as well as painting ...Show more
The Collage Ideas Book by Alannah Moore
Category: Craft | Series: The\Art Ideas Bks.
Collage allows your creativity to run riot. It lets you juxtapose disparate elements, styles and media against each other and create something entirely novel, bizarre, arresting, beautiful, ironic or unsettling. Old and new can be fused together; digital and handproduced can be combined. What you can cr ...Show more
The Gothic Revival by Chris Brooks
Category: No Category | Series: Art & Ideas S.
At the height of the Victorian period, a craze for Gothic style swept England and spread far beyond. Gothic architecture, associated with the social and cultural ideals of the Middle Ages, was seen as a means of remaking the modern world. In this exposition, Chris Brooks unravels the layers of meaning t ...Show more